skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the bias is much greater than that. The number of "extra chances" that are created from random H and the number of tickets n is 2^256 mod n. So if there are 6 tickets in the lotto, 2^256 % 6 = 4 tickets will have an extra chance to being selected as the winner. If I'm one of the unlucky ones, my odds of winning just went from 1/6 to 1/10. That's a 6.7% bias. The lucky ones' chances, on the other hand, went from 1/6 to 2/10 = 1/5 which is a 3..3% bias. The bias that a single ticken can get when there are n tickets is (2/(n+(2^256 mod n))) - (1/n) (except for when 2^256 mod n = 0. Then the bias is 0). The bias goes down as n increases, but I still personally wouldn't put my money in the pot.

The solution I've seen done (at least in the Rust rand crate) is exactly what you say: throw out every hash >= 2^256 - (2^256 mod n). This ensures that the order of your sampling set is a multiple of n. I'm not sure how you could go about that in Ethereum but it may still be possible.
Do you ever listen to On The Media[0]? It's also an NPR show, so perhaps it runs into similar issues, but I think they tend to be fairly skeptical and ask questions about these kind of issues (media bias, etc.).

Warning: it can be extremely depressing to listen to specific examples of how poor a job the media does of actually covering "The News".

[0]: http://www.onthemedia.org/
For the first 100,000 to 250,000 years (depending on where you draw the boundary) of the existence of modern humans, we could do no better than astrology, acupuncture, bloodletting, and throwing virgins into volcanoes to make it rain. Everything we know and have today is the result of a methodology for gaining reliable knowledge that is about 300 years old. It works. Some day, it may even embrace psychology.
> When the homeless population in your area skews significantly mentally ill, this ceases to be mere "fear of people who are different".

I think that's the same thing applied to mental illness; people don't understand mental illness and fear it. Why is someone who is depressed or bipolar threatening? What do we really know? Does mental illness make people more likely to commit crimes?

* It's the wrong question, because if there is any effect (and I don't know that there is), it probably depends on the illness and its severity.

* Mentally ill people commit crimes, but so do mentally healthy people - in fact I expect that 99% of crimes are committed by the latter.

* What is mental 'illness'? It's not a binary condition; it's a continuum. Also, many people living in homes and probably working at your office are mentally ill; would you trust them in your guest bedroom?

* Finally, homeless people (especially those who are mentally ill) are often the weakest in our community, often poorly fed and unable to care for themselves. Those are not the people to fear (fear strong, healthy, bold young men). If the homeless people were criminal and had intiative, they wouldn't be living on the street.
This is great. I've been trying to create something similar with everything stored key-val in postgres and a metadata table for relationships etc. It gets out of hand quickly.
Yes, it was a advertising company.

Beside creating false rumours for PR objectives, another use of the accounts was try to reach 5000 people in them (I dunno now, but when she was my GF facebook converted people accounts with 5000 friends into pages with 5000 followers, then ad companies could sell those to kickstart company pages).
Clearly users were only interested in sexual encounters which would not involve feelings. Just adding "married, looking to swing/cheat" to your profile could be an equivalent if it is searchable on the dating website.
And i had a committee member forbid me from including quantum effects in the modeling of my enzyme. He said it was "too speculative". All science is speculative, until it isn't. You would be well served to reduce your "highly speculative" filters. That is, continue to propose your interesting new chains of causation. If there were braver people than me (which shouldn't be hard) then perhaps understanding enzyme mechanisms would be further along by now.
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Rest assured that's the point of the 1.0 release. Those upgrading guides are what it took to get here, but our APIs are all now stable. Enjoy!
Knowing that and the fact that they seemed so disinterested in security it seems like this was just one big honeypot for cheaters.
This is fantastic. I'm hoping for some book releases in the near future now that the framework has reached version 1.
Seems sensible enough to leave out exceptions. Otherwise it just encourages bad programmers to write bad programs. And the rest of us would be left having to continue wrapping up all those sodding exceptions which should have been contingency return values just to maintain the interface/contract.

Over an RPC boundary it seems impossible that there could be any scenario so serious that is so unexpected and which it is not possible to form a contingency for that it would be necessary to propagate the exception across to the other side. It opens up a whole can of worms.
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There are at least a few in the works that I'm aware of
What's the significance of the picture at the top of the article?
> And Rust and his daddy... they are just too smart to become popular nowadays, people just don't have the will and time to sit and learn better ways of doing things when they have alternatives that "mostly work most of the time" and have an easier learning curve...

That presupposes that Rust is more complex than C++ in a way that causes developers to learn C++ instead of Rust. Certainly there are a lot of C++ developers at the moment (though that number is much less than in years and decades past!) But I don't see that many new developers learning C++ anymore. Even beginning programmers who are interested in games are turning to higher-level languages and frameworks these days. My employer hires lots of C++ developers, and it's well-known that it's getting increasingly harder to find them.

When comparing Rust to Go, sure, Go is an easier language to pick up. When comparing Rust to C++, the majority of people I've talked to think the ease of use advantage goes to Rust.
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Facebook is dead anyways. Most of my friends don't have online personas. Facebook's new thing of only showing what your friends liked and commented on is extremely annoying and makes the site pointless. Lots of have realized this.
I'm sure you could find a few people in the U.S. that would consider the U.N. a foreign terrorist organisation.
I think it should be mentioned that just because the source code is viewable doesn't mean it's Open Source. The link doesn't claim this, but I still think it's important to note.

Learn from but don't copy unless you find a source code license.
You should feel ashamed of yourself for writing this disgusting comment.
The US constitution allows for the people to petition the government for a redress of grievances. No monetary injury required.
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"with a company that is once-removed"

The NLRB decision is very careful to argue that there is a 'joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act', which is different from your statement that this is a 'once-removed' case.

Where do you disagree with their decision? Where is the case law to back your belief? Because they insist that the case law is in their favor and instead that for the last few decades:

> the Board, without explanation, has since imposed additional requirements for finding joint-employer status, which have no clear basis in the Third Circuit’s decision, in the common law, or in the text or policies of the Act. The Board has never articulated how these additional requirements are compelled by the Act or by the common- law definition of the employment relationship. They appear inconsistent with prior case law that has not been expressly overruled.

I take it then that you have not read the decision? It is the central topic at hand, and my quotes from the document, which directly counter comments you made, suggest that you are arguing at this point from ignorance of the actual subject.

" do they operate on a franchise basis there as in the U.S"

I gave you three links. They covered most of not all of the issues you just raised, including comparisons between the different economies. I also pointed out that there are a lot of articles on this specific topic. What additional questions do you have that are not addressed by those links?

One of the links says:

> According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the average tax burden in Denmark is 38.2 percent, while in America, it is 31.3 percent. So taxes are about a fifth higher. Most people, if given the choice, would accept a 20 percent hike in taxes in exchange for making twice as much.

which tells me that your analysis ("that $20 is really closer to $10 or $15 in") is simply incorrect.

At this point I've concluded that you don't actually care about the topic, other than to defend personal beliefs, which appear to be anti-labor.
Interesting. I've always wondered why we don't simply remove the entire pancreas for cases of pancreatic cancer?
Those limits are - by definition - set by the powerful and at their most effective on the powerless, because the ability to control what kinds of speech are allowed in a way that affects large numbers of people is in itself a huge form of power. If anyone claims otherwise, you should take a good look at their motivations.
Almost every AAA game I've seen didn't use the STL. Boost is a definite no-go for most studios.

Stack allocations are discouraged because they can introduce non-deterministic bugs (stack overflow depending on the call sequence which can't be predicted in advance).

Its nearly impossible to write a game without dynamic allocations. Most of the time they'll override the new/delete operators and on that level they work almost exclusively on void*.

You're working on a scale where a lot of the C++ features work against you.
Well, at least now I know that there are services like Ashley Madison. I was never aware that such services existed before the breach. Now, when I hear about a certain service similar to this one, I'll always connect it with what Ashley Madison offered.

After some time, there is a possibility that I will forget about the breach, but I don't think that there's a possibility that I will forget about Ashley Madison as a company.
I like tools that rather than scan for signatures (which can be polymorphic in nature and bypass AV), they can look for out-of-place behaviour on the OS. The Sysinternals Suite is great for malware hunting: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062

And things like Reason Core are brilliant for nuking any rootkits that somehow get on to a system https://www.reasoncoresecurity.com/

Malware has grown up and is now residing in hardware and can survive entire OS re-installs. I feel sorry for Windows users these days because malware has grown up and it is not as obvious you have malware. In the past there were obvious signs you were infected and the malware made itself known (sort of stupid when you're an attacker really).

Also some of the 'second opinion' tools are interesting too:

http://www.surfright.nl/en/hitmanpro
>Iteration, intuition, creativity, variation, intelligence, luck, guesswork, and more are what create theories.

These are all very positive. How about: racism, misogyny, bias, jealousy, and stubbornness. These, also, can feed into the creation of theories, and do.

And, again, the point is that this process is only as good as the evidence; when the evidence is lacking, we're left with only the investigator's expertise to justify the model. That's not science.
here its a performance review of some of them uBlock origin seems the best performance wise, https://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-ad-blocking-extensions-tested...
> edit: App/marketing is being translated as we speak; you guys will be able to figure things out right? ;-)

I couldn't find a good demo on your site. Got a direct link?
And I thought the NSA wasn't supposed to lie. When it says "only used to track a terrorist organization" or whatever, they are essentially lying. At the very least they should use words such as "and for other purposes".

But this is what we get when Clapper gets to lie and nothing happens to him (or when no one ever gets punished for abuses). The criminality of the system continues and expands - because why wouldn't it?
Wouldn't "emergent particle" be a better term? The fact that it is a side effect of multiple particles doesn't make its effects less tangible. It feels like object orientation is clouding our perception.
I reached the conclusion several years ago that journalism in all forms is nothing more than a specialized branch of entertainment and should be given about the same amount of weight. I think the damage that the news media does is the result of the general population not understanding this. There is an implication that journalists are somehow experts and intellectually a step above the rest of the population similar to doctors and lawyers. This is a mistake. If there were no distinction made between Fox News, NPR, and the latest Reese Witherspoon film, we'd all be better off.
You've been downvoted by someone, but I think that was premature. I want to hear you expand on this. In particular:

- By what mechanisms do you think that they are preventing protests and ideas?

- Do you think they are trying to be secret doing so? If so, how much manpower do you think they have and how do they prevent someone from defecting in a game-theoretic sense?
For those that don't get the reference, Dallas was a long running prime-time drama (a "soap", back when they didn't air these solely during the daytime), that was known for its wild twists (such as the "who shot JR" plot line, which is considered one of the best moments of TV).

This isn't even close to the levels required for entertaining TV, but in my humble opinion, the comment is neither bad enough to downvote, nor good enough to upvote, I merely suspect a lot of HN's readership is just too young to get the reference or had a knee-jerk reaction to soaps in general (which, hey, I hate the overly-dramatic nature of soaps too; but apparently what Dallas did was still novel in the 80s, and worth dragging out for a pop-culture reference now and then).
"Google is like a convenient highway"

If I have an idea for a better highway and money to build it, I still can't just build the highway. If I have a better idea for a search engine, I could wipe out Google.

Google is exposed to market forces, the highway isn't. Your analogy doesn't work at all.
> "Freedom of speech" doesn't mean the power to not be moderated by an Internet forum

The amazing benefit of the internet was the solution to this. In network protocol that doesn't distinguish between different classes of network hosts, each network peer has the ability to publish on their own. Sure, there are technical details in figuring out how to run your own server. The cost of learning that or paying someone else to handle it is a normal cost of publication (which isn't particularly expensive). The point is that there is no authority standing in the way.

As you say, if someone doesn't like how they are moderated on someone else's forum, they have the same ability they had to run their own forum where they get to be the moderator. The catch is that Freedom of Speech doesn't guarantee an audience, so getting people to participate is a problem for the individual publishers to solve on their own.

Unfortunately, we have lost a lot of this freedom, and that loss is accelerating. NAT has created multiple classes of hosts, some of which cannot publish on their own. This created a culture of software where connections that should be peer-to-peer are brokered through a central authority.

We need to regain the true right to publish - where network peers are equal - before these rights are lost completely. The imprimatur[1] is almost finished and the discussion is focused on how people moderate (or don't moderate) various forums, when the focus should be on making sure the right run those forums still exists in the future.

[1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/
Drop this in your hosts file and set up a refresh script to replace it periodically.

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One can only make an educated guess, but I think there are a few possibly easy cases:

1. Documents are leaked that specifically identify one or people whose records were illegally collected. Those people probably could sue, I would think.

2. Documents are leaked (or evidence otherwise emerges) that the NSA collected data on virtually all of a particular company's calls. Subscribers to that service would probably have a good case for standing.

Bear in mind, though, that we're only at the preliminary injunction stage. The review at this stage will typically take a pessimistic view of plaintiffs' ability to prevail on issues like this if there is substantial uncertainty.

It's possible they could lose on the injunction, but ultimately win on the merits.
It is a stock photo that has the title "Personality Disorder"[1] and has the tag "psychology." So the editors or whomever searched shutterstock for "psychology" and scrolled through, saw that they liked that one, and chose it for the article. I doubt if there is any greater significance than that.

1: http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-174194297/stock-photo-person...
I guess I should have been more clear.

I'm aware that they do not add extra passes in some languages.

But in Swift, C++, Common Lisp, OCaml, Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, Scheme, and many others, adding another map/filter/etc. will add another pass through the sequence unless you're going out of the way to avoid it.
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I understand mental illness. Judging by your rhetoric, perhaps better than you. I know full well how dangerous someone suffering hallucinations can be. You'll have to forgive me for not wanting to welcome such a person into my home.

Please, spare me your "Not everyone suffering mental illness is violent!" rhetoric. I know that. It's neither a helpful nor useful point in this context. I also know that some are, that a given homeless person is disproportionately likely to be such a person compared to the general population, and that there's no reliable way for a layman to mitigate this risk other than keeping the person at a reasonable distance.

Please, just for a moment, stop and consider that maybe I am not just some terrified waif, shaking in my boots because someone said "OH TEH NOES! MENTAL ILLNESS!". Perhaps some of us have real concerns about what you propose. Perhaps some of us are aware that being homeless, mentally ill, or both doesn't magically render a person incapable of offering significant violence, despite your claim.

Also, try being less condescending about it. I'm (poorly) fighting the urge to tell you to go do something anatomically unlikely because of all the silly things you just wrote.
I had nice results blocking ads with squid+adzapper.

The nice thing is that it does not slow down firefox, ad opposed to the adblock plus extension.
These videos were the main reason I grokked Diffie-Hellman during my grad CS course in crypto last year. Those are very good resources!
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Her fake accounts had as one of the objectives reach 5000 friends (when this happened you could convert it to a page with 5000 followers and sell it to a company).

To do this they created a program that searched the internet for pictures of someone in various situations, then prepared a easy-to-use library of photos to be uploaded every "x" period to look like a real person.

The account operator (or operators for some particularly prized accounts) would then log-in, post the photo scheduled, and write a post on the fly, the best operators could make the fake account look like a real person, fooling not only other users but bots, tracking software and whatnot.

The accounts that looked particularly real were very useful for PR efforts, some of the biggest clients were appliances manufacturers (example of one of them: GE), and one of the uses was for example one day try to distract the public after some bad news about washing machines causing accidents went viral, or try to create a counter-post that is viral too (in the washing machine case it worked, the viral post stopped being viral in 3 or 4 hours, and not even me remember what was the issue with the washing machines).
I did some research on this top a few years ago. It's interesting that quantum behavior could exist in such a warm, wet and complex environment.
I use Ghostery, uBlock and ClickToPlugin on Safari, and stopped using any other extensions since I came across a couple that were trojans for injecting ads.
What do you mean by worst case #permutations?
I consider this article the equivalent of announcing the stepping down of a founder of a porn site. Why is this considered news?
Article III specifically defines the powers of the judiciary, and these powers do not include hearing petitions.

It's an interesting question what substance the Petition Clause has. Unfortunately, it looks these days like it doesn't have much, since the First Amendment has never been interpreted to give petitions any binding legal effect. But I think it is clearly correct that the judicial branch, at least, does not have the power to adjudicate them under Article III.

Edit: By the way, an 'injury' does not necessarily have to be a monetary injury to support standing, though the law about what sorts of injuries count is exceedingly difficult and, perhaps, incoherent at the margins. One interesting wrinkle is that courts assume a fairly concrete definition of "injury", but also permit Congress to expand the applicable conception of injury (within some limits) in particular situations by statute. Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife is a good entry point to this area of law, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/504/555 (I do not think that the opinion itself is very good, but its discussion of other cases is helpful.)

Edit: Removed an imprecise first sentence.
I use uBlock Origin to block ads and Ghostery to block social media foo (and trackers, of course). Ghostery makes it easy to enable stuff you want to use all the time (Gravatar, Typekit, etc.) and to temporarily enable stuff like Twitter buttons, Soundcloud player, etc. On top of that I use HTTPS Everywhere.

When I feel the need for real privacy I use the Tor Browser.

// Oh, and I also disable all the fancy features in Chrome and most plugins.
Because the FDA also makes drugs illegal for sale if they haven't been approved. And probably recommends cases to the DEA when someone is selling unapproved pharmaceuticals.
> How is this not considered fraud?

It's in the fine print usually that some accounts are there for "entertainment purposes".

I think it would be naive to not suspect these sites of having a very skewed male subscribership in addition to using chat bots or paid people to engage customers.
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