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This regulation is all very good, as it limits the
extent to which one's credit history can harm one's
prospects at financial progress

Credit history can both help and hurt you. Imagine some people are Q and some are R, and Q-people are more likely to default on a loan than R-people. If we prohibit taking Q-vs-R status into account in making loans this is good for the Q-people because they'll get lower rates, but it hurts the R-people who will get charged higher rates.

Looking at your example of someone who made decisions in their 20s that left them with lots of debt, declared bankruptcy in their 30s, and now is trying to take out loans in their 40s. Do you think that they're more likely to default on these loans than someone who didn't go through that process in their 20s and 30s? If you do, then this is a Q-vs-R thing and one group is being helped but only by mixing them in with another group that's then hurt. (Or if you don't think they're more likely to default then they shouldn't be charged more for loans. And if they are charged more for loans, you/someone could go into business loaning to these people and make a bunch of money.)

Some examples are a lot harder than others, though. Say one race, as a group, tends to default a lot more. There are probably lots of reasons for this, with poverty being a big one, but say even after you take into account the rest of the data you can collect (income, age, years at job, profession) race still has lots of explanatory power for predicting whether someone will default. Should you be able to take this into account? This is another Q-vs-R thing, but it's not based on "poor financial decisions" or in fact anything within that individual's control.

On balance this regulation may well be beneficial, but we also need to acknowledge it has costs. (One thing in favor of regulation: the costs tend to fall on richer people and the benefits on poorer people, so because of the diminishing marginal value of money it could be worth it even if the benefits were smaller than the costs in absolute terms.)
I think the biggest way in which it could change video games is that many people who don't like video games on a screen seem to like it when it has VR-style visual immersion. I've never tried VR, but from people having tried the Rift it seems like video games become much less abstract and have easier suspension of disbelief.
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What I'd really love to see is debug support for scripts loaded asynchronously with jQuery's $.getScript. Afaik none of the major browsers support this yet.
Why is everyone saying this is funny? I don't get it.
If you charged twice as much, and half your clients quit, you would make just as much and work half as much.
They wouldn't really have anything to hold ransom. Router's usually have hardware reset switches in the back too. Not saying it's not possible, but little to gain by holding it randsom. If they hacked the router, they'd be doing the kind of things they WON'T inform you about, like man in the middle attacks stealing everything from all your user/passwords to credit/bank/personal info.
It was behind my router. My quick scan on log from 2011 shows i had no such problem, until recent months when they started to attack on Synology and turning them into Bitcoin miner.
> machine printed is pretty solid

You mean OCR in general or ocradJS? I tried cropping a picture down in the later and I can't get it to come even close: http://imgur.com/cesg0IE
Eddie Hartman at LegalZoom did. Adam Hahn (my co-founder and CTO) is nearing the end of his first year and should. We have a tradition of doing Bar Exam questions at lunch and so he's got a lot of practice!
It's not really the NSA's jurisdiction to handle crimes like this. You're better off contacting the FBI, however it's probably wayyyy down on their list of stuff to worry about.
Agreed entirely, save for that I develop my game on Windows via Boot Camp (and, when lazy, VMWare Fusion to mount the partition). An ARM Mac means I go to Linux and Windows full-time and, probably, decide not to give a damn about a Mac port.

Fortunately, because I really like OS X, I think it's vanishingly unlikely that Apple is this stupid.
Yeah, that's what I did eventually.
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And going the opposite direction, I'm not sure the loss of the hackintosh people would be a net gain or loss overall.
True. The NYT editorial standards have always been downright bullheaded, even with trademarks ("I.B.M.") where they have no authority to contradict anyone else's usage.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8129051

We try whenever we can—or rather I try, since the other moderators aren't public. But I can't do it everywhere.
How are you supposed to exit the REPL? I end up with empty braces in the file.

~ ❯❯❯ derulo hello
Entering Derulo interactive JSON builder.
prompt: key: foo
prompt: value: bar
prompt: key: %
~ ❯❯❯ cat hello.json
{}%
MIT had $100M to define new tools, new content, and new directions for education, leveraging all the advantages of current technology.

They chose an alternative: record some lectures, and put a slew of course syllabi and homework assignments online. There's nothing necessary bad about what they did, except that it was completely uninspired and non-transformative. From a school that has had such a critical role in pushing the frontiers of technology, it was a disappointment.

A research professor lecturing to a large room of students is an effective way to teach to a room full of students (well, somewhat effective, as many research professors are terrible lecturers). Is it the most effective way to convey concepts in a digital medium? Of course not. It's just a minimal effort, cost-effective approach.
Not a lot of specifics on how the author wants to improve the system. Spending $100 million per course is unrealistic and it's not clear what benefit you get from that. Higher resolution 3d graphics?
They do have a Cyber Most Wanted list: http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber
You're interpreting "their lawyers won't allow them to say X" to mean "they don't actually believe X", "they can't substantiate X", or "X isn't true". Except with medical advertising, at least in the US, there's very strong restrictions on what medical claims you're allowed to make for your product.
Well, the reset switch usually causes the bootloader to reformat the volatile partition of the flash.

But there's nothing to stop an attacker from rewriting the "write protected" areas like e.g. a firmware update does.

Consider that many routers these days come with NAS or MediaServer functionality... and thus are a valid target for hackers.

Furthermore, they are often directly connected to the Internet, and there have been numerous remote-root exploits for cheap chinese knock-offs as well as for highly praised manufacturers like AVM.
http://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/11138/Synology.html
Jason Derulo is a successful pop musician right now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Derulo

The wordplay is Jason -> JSON.
For a moment after reading "a study of 150,000 historical figures that shows cities have long acted as cultural magnets" I was wondering if 'historical figures' referred to people or the actual data. In this case, it's both!
I think I may have lucked out, my advisor was absolutely awesome. But, he only has 2-3 doctoral students at a time. I know in large programs, some advisors end up taking on far more than that.
And the reason for those restrictions is to protect consumers. If there was evidence that fish oil pills improved health, RB would have paid for the medical research already.
Yes, using Gulp. Do you have a release script which does the final build on deployment? How does that work exactly? Don't you need to have a specific markup just for production then?
I remember another tool like this, for 8-bit/lofi sound fx.

http://www.superflashbros.net/as3sfxr/

Given the title they might be related?
Whisper, the secret sharing app, sharing anonymized data with Gawker
Really, there aren't that many ways to gain access. Two primary and likely methods:

1) Weak passcode.
2) Security exploit in DSM.

The fixes are easy; better passcode, and turn off remote access to the device until whatever flaw(s) can be patched.
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You can't. Your skill set is ultimately a commodity, the price of which is governed by the market.

To go further you'll need to learn a new skill that is in shorter supply and/or greater demand.

Or start selling a product not tied to your hourly labor input.
As a first response, stop the port forwarding on your router.

Then wait for more info from Synology. I generally don't connect mine to the internet (inbound). I don't like the risks involved.
so they hold your router hostage. then what? you buy another one. whatever.
So there were no open ports being forwarded to the Synology NAS?
You do realize that the NSA and it's ilk are military organizations, right? We're (supposed to be) a nation of laws with due process: it's extremely worrisome to a free and open society to have the military go after criminals. That should be handled by law enforcement and the judicial system.

You know what would actually be useful though, since we're talking about taxpayers reaping benefits from the government? How about a non-military government agency that does computer security research, but instead of hoarding all the exploits, they share them with the public through well-financed and organized open source projects?
Going the opposite direction, I grew up in a (the?) state that auto-stamps "pass" on the exam if you graduated from an in-state school. Not a figure of speech, you're auto-admitted if you have an in-state accredited law degree.
I checked this out and in-office trained would be layers tend to fail a lot: "61 percent of the 39,313 examinees from California- and ABA-approved law schools passed the bar. In contrast, just 26 percent of the 39 law readers who took the bar exam made the grade. (Of the 10 who passed, only 2 were first-time takers.)"

It does not seem to be easy method at all.

[1] https://www.callawyer.com/Clstory.cfm?eid=916106
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When writing a comment, to get to a new line you have to press return twice. I always forget this and end up editing my comment. What is the reason for this behaviour?

FF29 on Win7 btw.
I think a good example of this is Saints Row 2, like the death of carlos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of6IIRjUhO8
It's all about the residual income my friend (in addition to the great advice you've already received about upping your prices, although I get that saying it versus doing it are two different things).

When we create a website and/or webapp for a client we always charge 10% of the total cost of the build per annum for the hosting (if required), support and maintenance of that site. This means that each time we complete a project, we're topping up our residual income ad infinitum. This baseline of income is essential to my sanity, as it means we're not 100% reliant on project work to make money.

Happy to share more info, oh and props for growing your contracting gig to 100k - that's no small feat so don't be too hard on yourself.
The name was originally inspired by scala-react (https://github.com/ingoem/scala-react). In terms of the API, that's where I was starting from, but I made a couple of changes along the way.

Rx (in particular the C++ implementation) is actually still something I have to look into. I've been watching Erik Meijer's videos, so I know about Rx in general, but I'm not familiar enough with it yet to understand if and where there are any fundamental differences (besides the API and features). Once I've worked that out, I'll probably add a FAQ section to the documentation.
Didn't know that while designing YML ;-) But it's very similar: http://fdik.org/yml
Usually these types of machines have a web interface so that you can connect to your backups remotely. Once you plug it into a router or a home network it sits there waiting for someone to log-in. And as the saying goes, anything that’s connected to the Internet will eventually be hacked. Either it was misconfigured or there is an exploit in the wild.
This has not been my experience, even with Java.
Posts like this are not allowed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. The whoishiring account posts them at the beginning of each month, and everyone is welcome to participate.
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I think you site is just mock piece for GiveForward. Sort of shill but smart way.

Why not mention in direct and bold words that GiveForward is going to charge money to donors ?

Free ads is good thing but there goes hidden agenda of making money from people's emotion stress.

Also why someone should go to giveforward if there are many other alternatives charging less commission.

Amount of people encashing on people's stress, emotions are increasing dramatically which is not a good thing.
It's quite possible that ARM Macs will run Windows. Windows RT already runs on ARM, and Microsoft seems to be moving in the direction of embracing alternative platforms (see how they push Azure for iOS). They'd sell more Windows licenses and gain more users, and at worst they'd lose some Surface sales.

Whether Apple would allow it is a different question.
I find it rather strange that the author asks for open mindedness but seemingly dismisses the whole idea of the cut scene narrative. On the other hand he praises the generated, "natural" narrative of Dwarf Fortress, Brogue and Journey. One of his remarks about Journey is rather interesting:

> When you find another player, there are visual cues that underscore their presence and introduction. When you communicate with them through singing and body language, all sorts of imagery forms in your mind about the other player’s personality (that’s character development!)

The character development part is a very important part of a narrative, and is in its way, only possible because of other, real players. His other two examples, Brogue and Dwarf Fortress, have huge short comings in this regard. A true, emotionally deep and complex character development and interactions between those characters is only possible if the other characters are played by humans, the characters are predefined or if there would be a sophisticated AI. The first variant is used in Journey, the second is used in "cut scene" type games and the latter is currently not technically possible. So when the author claims:

> At least silent films are excused by their technical limitations – no comparable excuse exists for games.

I take that with a grain of salt. Dwarf Fortress, Brogue and Journey are great examples of how to expand the narrative experience and where games could be heading to in the future. But in my opinion, they are an addition to, rather than a replacement for cut scene narrative games.
Ok, so I'm getting downvoted but why? If there's an easy way to deal with cookies in Firefox then please enlighten me.
That's a rather dramatic overstatement - it only affects sites which set Vary:cookie and when the user has disabled caching. That ticket is a repeated cycle of people reporting problems which don't reproduce, including the very latest ones.
> 2. How much does it cost to record a class, create a couple of self-grading exercises, reuse old powerpoints and PDFS, and then throw the whole bundle up online

From the article, "We have spent about $40 million over 10 years."

(I removed the part where I got confused by MITx and MITx.org, thanks keithwinstein for clearing that up!)
I talked to a graduate college dean about this at a conference we both attended. His assessment is that graduate faculty have abdicated much of their advising responsibilities to the “process”: course work and comps. He wants to see more pure research, zero-coursework PhD programs.

At that same conference, another professor mentioned that she was currently advising 18 students.
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What does the Mill have to do with either the article or the original comment? The Mill (while cool) is completely different and incomparable. What makes more sense is comparing an x64 to an ARM chip.
It is not self learned prior test. If you or I wanted to pass the bar, no way we could do it with just a few months of self study. It is years before that made them able to pass the bar with just a two months of learning.

Theoretically, school could organize two months of sychronized revising and cramming, but I think that self revising is more effective at that age and skills level.
Ok I'm confused. Are you ShitLord (shit+lord)? Then having multiple personas does not seem particularly useful in keeping your own privacy. Let's say you are really MikeSoap - then no matter how much ShitLord or opendias are well played personas - anything you say as them is ignored when it comes to working out what Mike's preferences and political opinions are.

If you aren't any of those accounts, in other words if you only come online as personas, then, why bother at all? You are not expressing yourself and it all seems a bit of a waste.

And even if you are really ShitLord then this is the age of clever fraud detection - I will lay money that your personas follow your timezones, that one persona never comments on the same thread within $SPEEDHUMANTYPING seconds of the other, or any other "tells" that we humans are really bad at hiding.

I understand that Only psychopaths or mentally badly ill people can maintain deeply convincing acts over long periods - that was my point - not that you are a psychopath.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=children+of+silicon+valley#!/story...
How easy is foundation repair?
The problem with most MOOCs is that they've taken the part of school that sucks—lectures and homework—and put it online. Inspiration and community are the best parts of school, and they are nowhere to be found.
First you have to prove that prohibition is increasing consumption by high schoolers, then you have to prove that any change in graduation rates are tied to that consumption.

And for all the worrying over the so-called damage due by ending this prohibition, there should be an assessment of damaged caused by the prohibition. Then compare the two.
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it takes a minimum of seven years post secondary education to qualify as a lawyer in the us, and then you need to take the bar exam. contrast this with the uk system, where you either take an llb (perfect equivalent of a jd) as an undergraduate or a one year conversion course if you have an unrelated degree, and then a further year for the legal practice course.

there is afaik no real preference for students with an llb - there is no pretence that a further two years of case reading (and drinking) has much professional value
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Steam supports splitting libraries. Even before that, symlinks were common.
Yeah, as a quick hack I made it so typing 'end' for a key or value exits it. This is obviously a valid key or value though, so something else is needed.

Maybe some control sequence would work? Not sure how you handle those in Node.
When talking as complicated as the developer tools it's not helpful to pronounce a sweeping judgement like "subpar" based on a single niche feature. Are the Chrome tools subpar because they lack support for easily seeing which fonts were used on an element?
In case you don't see the link, Pope created a web interface, hosted on Github Pages, that allows users to easily do the localization, collaborate via Github forks, and import/export their work via CSV:

http://paperspleaseloc.github.io/

Pretty brilliant...reading Pope's devlog for the game makes it clear that he's an excellent game developer and designer..but it's unexpected that he'd also know how to whip up a useful, well-designed web-app for the purposes of supporting his game like this.
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Are you talking about Wisconsin?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploma_privilege
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Localization professional and developer here. I'd recommend taking a look at Transifex. This is a well thought out tool for managing localization projects and assets (prompt catalogs, resx files, etc), and for managing the translation process (it supports machine, crowd and professional translation, so you can optimize for cost and quality).

They also just released a really neat Javascript tool which makes translating web content super easy. You just embed some JS in your template, and it re-writes the pages in translation when needed. Way way easier than, for example, setting up a multilingual Drupal site, and in most cases, will get the job done nicely.

My $0.02
Paris has height restrictions, which doesn't seem to have deterred artists.
Yeah, standardization & being able to use the largest package manager on the planet really blows!

...

Ah nevermind, I can see you're very enthusiastic about anything anti-javascript. Carry on
I dropped out of academia and my advisor was a self-absorbed prick, but: for concentrated learning there really is no comparison.
Only Paul Graham knows.
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I don't understand your example. I don't want to run the "// everything else" bit if the error condition was true.
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I would also venture a guess that Apple may know a percentage if not even a majority are only interested in trying a Mac because the x86 proc gives them a bridge from Windows. If you take that away then mac sales may take a hit and possibly a significant one.

Anecdotally I know for me, this would cause me to move from a top of the line Macbook Pro Retina to an Air or even a mini. Time and market has changed to where having a mac is a must for me as a professional developer but I won't spend 3K on a single machine whose primary differentiator is ability to compile iOS applications.
> why is this ARM OS like my Intel OS but without all my apps?

The problem should be much smaller on OS X than on Windows. Apple has a culture of breaking things regularly, instead of worshipping backwards compatabillity.

The result is that most Mac apps are kept up to date by the developer. Recompiling for an arm-based OS X shouldn't be an issue.
The article, and quote from the root of this thread, may well be wrong in the detail but correct in the long-run as evidenced by the ideas exposed in the Mill.

The comment I was responding too seemed to be generally discounting the possibility that there was any room to improve upon the internals of Intel CPU's which was the motivation for linking back to the Mill.
Oh c'mon, this is handwavy no-true-Scotsman bullshit. Anybody who says you're wrong, that they're faster, will be referred back to your unsourced claim of "on average".

As for me: I administered and supported SVN at a shop with about a hundred and twenty developers and about half a million commits and an overall trunk size in the gigabytes. I've spent time in the SVN codebase and am comfortable saying I understand it and can wield it better than most people who aren't committers. And guess what? I'm significantly faster at using Git for pretty much anything I've ever had occasion to do with it, while being able to leverage the conceptually-very-simple plumbing architecture of Git to do things that make other developers a lot faster.

(Git isn't perfect. Mercurial is better. But the answer isn't regression to a poorer model.)
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Check out the code of the Input.com site. There is some ASCII (logo)art in it.