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Readers weren't confused by the overly precise graphs, we were confused by the entire premise of the macroeconomic Monte Carlo article.

And they weren't angered because of misconstrued intent, but because it was stated that anyone who supports basic income "borders on innumeracy", and the claim was backed up by a toy simulation that addressed roughly none of the potential effects of that policy.

The article also attempted to reduce the concept of policy debate into a STEMlord "show me the code or you're wrong" absurdity.

Obviously though, the author has learned his lesson. His lines weren't squiggly enough.
If you are white your son is mixed-race not black. Why does the notion of whiteness exclude any racial mixture when black does? Why should whiteness be exclusive?

If the writer is serious about racism a good start should be to admit that your son is also white then you could write an article entitled "What I learned about stop and frisk from watching my white son" and a generation later your white grandson by his black mother of course. That would get white people to take notice.
Thanks. Strangely HN's Submit form didn't catch this as a duplicate posting. Perhaps the other submissions point to different video urls?
I don't mean to be flippant, but so what, if 1024, 2048, etc... were inspired on Threes?

None of those games are exact copies, and even the Three's designers admit these others are "inferior" versions. Are they arguing that you can't make derivative works? If they are, then like I said, I don't support that argument because I do believe that derivative works provide value and should be protected.

But to be honest, I don't think that's the main gist. When reading the article the main point that came across was one of annoyance that the original work was not receiving as much attention as the derivative works. As if the world cared who came first, or that coming first actually provided some intrinsic benefit (as opposed to a situational or contextual benefit).
...and the guy who accidentally logged in to Facebook without Tor, once.
Possibly if you're deaf you'd find sleeping with a mask somewhat unwise?

Or possibly not, maybe somebody can say for sure, but it strikes me as reasonable.
Funny, I don't see any of these people on the list donating explicitly to Prop 8 PACs or the like. While I would find that pretty hypocritical, I can't fault them simply for donating to politicians who had many policy stances, one of which was an opposition to same sex marriage.

Is the complaint here simply that these people failed to be single-issue voters?
I can’t judge (not being exactly a developer) but I was repeatedly told in the last weeks that anything above five years of experience was not meaningful. I’m not sure I was too happy about that. More importantly I have worked with people with three years on the job that are juniors, and with people whose three years of experience let them run circles around my stories.

My point is: being cocky is always bad. There isn’t any real standards otherwise, but… you need to be aware that using absolutes makes you redeemable to a lot of things.
Maybe he's from a previous marriage?
You say 'faster', danielweber says 'efficiency', I guess I've just never heard such ridiculous things said about UDP. I've only seen it suggested to avoid lag from the forced-in-order delivery.

And there are scenarios where you want to reimplement TCP, after thoroughly understanding TCP. TCP assumes that all packet loss is congestion and needs slowing. This can lead to very poor behavior, especially when it exponentially backs off. With a real-time connection it's better to never stop sending data entirely, backing off less and shutting down entirely if it can't get enough bandwidth.
That would be especially compelling if they integrated backups as well. You get your laptop back, including all the data from the last full-disk backup.

Of course, security. Perhaps encrypt the drives by default, then backup snapshots of the encrypted data? Then you get the benefit of the backup without the privacy hole.
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It gets better.
-Your password should not contain “real” words (and definitely not more than one real word in immediate proximity, like “whitecat” or “angrybird”), and should contain capital letters, numbers and symbols. The best passwords of all look like total nonsense

I think this is a bad advice. You only need long password that are not feasible for a brute force attack and not trivial (personal data). If you have a password you can't remember you are going to write it somewhere and that can be a security issue
I stopped reading the instant I saw the word "unicorn". No, just no.
Wow, no. Your views on race are far from universally accepted and to me are highly offensive.
Wow. I much prefer algebra, and it never even occurred to me to eat corn in a spiral.

On the other hand, I'm a Lisp guy, and I use vim.
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I love this use case. This is also why I always make wireframes in black and white, and also keep them chunky. This automatically lets the viewer know that it's not a final mockup, and that they should comment on the high level UX rather than nitpicking on pixels.
Thanks for being open about your moderation and intent. Folks need to understand that the alternative is not to have Homestar Runner stay on the Hacker News front page (that was never in the cards), but to go back to silent moderation. This is an improvement.
From what has been shown in the previews, I think it's very likely that in W8.2, Metro apps will:

1. be able to be "restored" from fullscreen to become regular windows, and

2. obey a preference in the Control Panel to always start them as windows rather than fullscreen.

I expect people will forget almost all of their objections to W8 after that.
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I don't think that's accurate. My understanding is that Levison was confronted with a pen/trap (metadata-only) order for mail related to the Snowden account, refused it, and was then subjected to an escalating series of demands once the DOJ had "lost faith" in his cooperation.

Orin Kerr, who is one of Andrew Aurenheimer's attorneys in his appeal of felony CFAA charges, has a good starting point for what happened in the case, here:

http://www.volokh.com/2013/11/14/thoughts-doj-brief-lavabits...
The point is, people may not know that you don't mind. Seeing someone's face makes it easier to "read" someone and manage the timing of their interrupt. Not the case with IMs, doors and cubes. This is one reason why the bar for "frequent communication" plummets in closed plan offices.

As for not wanting to be observed.. of course you don't. It's not in your self interest. But it is in the interest of team productivity to promote tacit learning. Let other people more readily learn how to do what you do, your tips & tricks, the little things not written down and formally taught.
Nah, most people have a sense of humor, but few people are comedians. Lots of people can read, few are good writers.

I cannot think of a single Internet April Fool's joke that is funnier than the bottom-tier amateur comedians I know at the local club.

This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, though. Comedy is hard. A team of developers and project managers that try it once a year are...well... you know the expression "Keep you day job"? I think that sums it up.
Doubtful, but don't the PS4 controllers connect using Bluetooth?
I think to the author it boils down to: "when people see my son walking down the street, they would describe him as a black person." For example, with Barack Obama or Halle Berry, it's unlikely that anyone would pass them on the street and say, "Oh look at that white guy/lady."
Or instead you could put a warning removing liability and stating that it is not a guaranteed protection and standard emergency protocols should still be performed. This is a helpful tool, not a be all end all guarantee of protection.
Fullscreen apps work great on a Macbook, and you only need to know two simple trackpad gestures: three fingers side to side, and three fingers up. And yes, you can break out of it by mashing ESC.

It's an interface clearly designed for a multi-touch trackpad, and it's a joy to use. It makes a 13" laptop screen feel a lot less cramped. Contrast to Win8 which is an overcomplicated mess, filled with interface decisions that are suboptimal for a mouse or trackpad interface.
Likely Coinbase customers expected Coinbase to keep their real name secure from potential thieves. But they thought wrongly.
It is if it's at the detriment of overall team productivity.

Typically the more senior you get, the more important it is for you to allocate time to help others. A place I used to work at codified this. You had to have X percent helping-others time and X grew as you rose in the ranks. That's precisely because of the important of team vs. individual productivity.
I'll admit to having a similar strategy for mechanical drawings. I once discovered by accident that if I drew a pencil sketch, the machinist would understand that I wasn't asking for super precision, and I'd get a satisfactory part quickly. Or they would call me and ask: "Can I make it this way instead" or even "what are you really trying to do?"
This has been awesome. Thanks! I was kinda disappointed that I didn't need to get to Death Mountain after getting the 8 pieces. A 1-pixel Ganon would be cool!
Nah, spam is different and much worse. Fortunately, it's also easy to identify, and thus (double no-jinx!) it's largely a solved problem on HN.

Apology not accepted because not necessary :)
Looks like somebody made a mistake with the pricing and made r3 instances the same price in all regions. This makes them a lot cheaper in regions where prices of other instances are higher:

Eg Pricing in US.East:

r3.xlarge 4 Cores 30.5G RAM $0.350/h
m3.xlarge 4 cores 15G RAM $0.280/h

Pricing in Tokyo:

r3.xlarge 4 Cores 30.5G RAM $0.350/h
m3.xlarge 4 cores 15G RAM $0.405/h

It'll probably be fixed soon though..
This article doesn't explain why he refused what they called

> The order, issued under the Stored Communications Act, required Lavabit to turn over to the F.B.I. retrospective information about one account, widely presumed to be that of Snowden.
Thanks. I speak russian and that actually seams to be true (regardless the newspaper, I just didn't know that he sold his part a long time ago already). In fact I hoped that stating that "it was long time coming" can be confirmed by related non-01.04-dated posts. But that selling stocks, etc. — yeah, it doesn't sound like a joke anymore.
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When you say "I have a better solution", then it's very easy to believe that you mean it to be taken in the context of the original essay. In this case, the essay's author is located in the US, talking about credit card payments in the US. HN is also based in the US, and I am a US citizen, so the larger context is also US based.

Since you didn't mean it that way, perhaps you could mention that you're switching contexts?

In any case, according to my limited understanding, the UK regulatory landscape changed with the Financial Services Authority (FSA) Payment Services Regulations 2009.

The relevant rule is at http://www.fca.org.uk/static/fca/documents/fsa-psd-approach-... :

> If the payment service provider can show that the payer has acted fraudulently, or
has intentionally, or with gross negligence, not complied with their obligations
regarding the security of the payment instrument, the payer will be liable for all
losses. To avoid doubt, it is not sufficient for the payment service provider to assert
that the customer ‘must have’ divulged the personalised security features of the
payment instrument, and to effectively require the customer to prove that he did not.
The burden of proof lies with the payment service provider and if a claim that a
transaction is unauthorised is rejected, the rejection must be supported by sufficient
evidence to prove that the customer is guilty of fraud, gross negligence or intentional
breach and the reason for the rejection must be explained to the customer.

Has it changed since then? According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_and_PIN it hasn't.
Typical Americans.
You have a growing problem with police corruption in your country and you can only talk about race relations. Cops who do the things described in the article are breaking the law in other ways when you aren't watching. Recent events in New Mexico are a case in point.

You should be thankful that corrupt cops are racist because they can't help giving themselves away by mistreating blacks. Until you folks break up the corrupt police brotherhood and take back control of law enforcement, things will only get worse.

Fix the root problem and minority males will cease to have problems like this.
Thanks! I should note HN is not a big source for us but due to the time lag involved with weekly publication (about 50% is e-mailed in), a lot of stuff ends up on HN more quickly.

That said, I see at least one item a week that hits HN an hour or two after us, and occasionally stuff that even hits HN months after we covered it ;-) So it's swings and roundabouts.
Consider businesses with a run rate of between 2-10MM USD as a group, first in the US and then in, say, Denmark or (to make it even simpler) Ireland.

Does the Danish or Ireland cohort tend to operate without the advice of tax accountants? My impression is that they do in fact tend to retain tax advisors.

The argument that the US tax system is particularly onerous is, I think, compelling only if you can demonstrate that it creates a de facto requirement for outside advisors that doesn't exist in other locales.

Otherwise, the complexity of the system (which is not what I was talking about) isn't much of an issue.

I have some experience with tax advisors, obviously, and they are not one of my big business expenditures. :)
Mathematicians are also taught to think this way, as is everyone else. Humans don't think in terms of numbers.
So why did he refuse the targeted request first? His reasons given later applied to his refusal to bulk data collection not to the targeted one.
Use a tablet, not a laptop. ;P
I like this - it reminds me of advice when creating an early stage prototype: the higher the fidelity of the prototype, the more chance that your audience will think it is a final (hence set-in-stone) product.
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counterpoint http://xkcd.com/1064/

And I think you're missing the point of the post...
If I can be honest — and maybe that’s me not being used to American-grade fertilizer, but…

That response sounds exactly like the problem. I believe that anything else than:

“Indeed. We f*cked up. I’ve e-mailed you with short answers. Detailed coming soon.

Anyone with a similar issue, please let us know how we can recognize your e-mail.”

would be inappropriate. No one not invited cares about a meeting. Starting by “Great point … absolutely right … doesn’t make people feel great … trying to come up with a better way” and other unnecessary precautions around completely obvious points makes you sound like a politician on SNL. There is no ‘trying to come up with better ways’ to a personal e-mail: there is starting to do it, realising you don’t have the man-power to do it, confessing that you are late on the task. It’s either more important than what you are working on or not, but that shouldn’t take ten lines to figure out.

I love you -- that’s why I tell you how you can be a better version of yourself.
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These sorts of problems are so common is can get depressing. Clearly they have never even tried to use the data they are generating - just dump it and forget it.
It appears that this debate is also considered outside the voting booth. Ie most of the actual popular votes that have been held were deemed unconstitutional. So the judicial elders are settling this issue by decree.
I'm thinking of the typical car vs the typical computer.

>> New cars typically lose about 20% of their value the moment they’re driven off the lot, and about 65% after five years.

MBPs are one of the few computers that hold their value the best. But after 5 years, you're looking at a depreciation rate of 75%+ (going from $2000+ in 2009 to only $500 in 2014).

But we're looking at the _best_ computer that holds its value the best. No one gives a damn about a refurbished Dell Inspiron from 2010.

www.sears.com/dell-refurbished-dell-latitude-e6400-14inch-notebook-intel/

You're looking at ~90% depreciation for the more typical laptop, and maybe 70% if you focus only on Macbooks. With Cars, you're looking at 65% typical depreciation, with only ~45% if you focus on Camrys or Corolas.

A 2009 Camry will run you ~12k today, only 45% depreciation.
Odd, worked OK on my Nexus 4. But it seems the parallax is reversed when the phone is in portrait move - when I tilt the phone to look behind the lighthouse, the background moves the wrong way. It moves the opposite way when in landscape mode. Somewhat disconcerting.
Hand draw them using something like Paper by 53 on an iPad, or even in Paint...then they have the right essence of looking hand drawn (?messy) and people don't ask the question. And tbh, probably take less time as well.
I really thought it was an April fools joke...
> Married couples get tax benefits as an incentive to get married and have kids.

Married couples in the US most get tax benefits to the extent to which they have a significant imbalance in income, and it seems to be a lot more connected to the idea of traditional division of labor (one partner working in the trade economy while the other provides in-home support for that partner) than children, per se.

They are tax benefits that directly subsidize children, but they aren't conditioned on marriage.

> I find it weird that this argument has so far been completely ignored by either side in the pro/anti-gay marriage discussion (at least as far as I've seen).

The idea that the civil benefits of marriage are inherently tied to the purpose of promoting reproduction are rather central arguments in the anti-same-sex-marriage camp; this was, in fact, the main argument for Prop. 8's constitutionality offered by its proponents.
That's the frustrating part about this issue...it's basically all semantics. The simple solution would have been to remove all recognition of marriage by the government and replace it with the concept of civil unions between any two consenting adults. There shouldn't even be a requirement of a romantic relationship...why should the fact that two people have sex or live together have any bearing on how they file their tax returns, how medical decisions are made or how property is disposed of? Hell, there's plenty of married people who are separated and no longer having sex or live together and yet they enjoy the legal perks of marriage.

Once you limit the government's role to recognizing a contract, albeit one that's common and standardized, between two adults, marriage becomes the domain of the church. If your church wants to deny marriage to homosexuals, the first amendment gives them the right to do that.
Simple is not the same as non-obvious, so no, it's not the term used in patent law. Something is obvious if a non-inventive person skilled in the art _would_ have performed it through routine steps (at least here, some of the mosaics I see coming from the US are batshit insane and no sane person would have used them to come to same result the examiners is claiming - that said, this is a practice that is in favour of the public, it requires the applicant to reduce the scope of the claims further which leads to smaller monopolies).
I'm not always going to be spending all day, every day posting things like this. I'm going to do it until you're all good and sick of it, and then go back to being mostly silent—but easily accessible.

What's clear is that the community has been starved for answers at our end. It really was a classical starvation problem (algorithmically I mean): the resource stream couldn't come close to keeping up. One reason—the main reason—we're changing HN is to fix that. And we're going to err on the side of verbosity and metaness for a while until we can all relax.
ASICs by their very nature can attack any known problem.

For the problem of randomly accessing gigabytes of data, ASICs can't beat commodity DRAM. That's why there's so much research into memory-hard PoWs like Momentum, Dagger, and Cuckoo Cycle.
Yeah I agree with you really. It just seemed odd to throw the irrelevant detail in about 'its probably all those straight guys causing the problem', sounded like a slam. Sorry if I misinterpreted your intent.
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Give it a year and the Apache Software Foundation's sites will be switching to nginx.
GitHub is having problem? April's Fool joke?
github is having problem? April's Fool joke?
Here's the comments from last time this article was posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4368858

(I'm not saying it shouldn't be posted again, I just thought people might want to see the prior discussion)