skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK welfare model has succeded in creating a generation completely dependent on the government and with a high sense of entitlement

No wonder the immigrants have a higher level of employment and literacy
This is already built into the browser: in firefox, inspect element, then right click in the source and 'Copy Unique Selector' does this. In Chrome, you do the same inspect element, but the right click item is 'Copy CSS Path'
Someone has sorta done that http://ismycreditcardstolen.com/

(Try to submit bogus data to see the results :) )
PAKE only authenticates the password and generates a random session key. It doesn't enable the user to encrypt their data for a later session.

If you don't know what the PRNG is for, perhaps a cursory 30 second lookover and then crap all over wasn't enough. ;-) Watch the 9 minute Tech Video, which explains, the asymmetric key generator can't use a fixed length seed; it needs to be a random stream. Also, there's a challenge/response which can only be answered by knowledge of the client's private key, so your comment about the replay attack (I think you meant relay attack) is also incorrect - whichever you actually meant, you're wrong either way.
I loved that writeup.
Parent didn't censor the offensive post. Free speech means having the right to criticize others.
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Ironically if you watch UK Prime Minister's Questions it consists primarily of point-scoring and jeering, with occasional excursions into triviality.

On occasion in Parliament you will find people delivering impassioned, carefully researched speeches .. to an empty room.

The prerequisite for discussion has to be willingness to listen and finding a commonality of view, both of which are in very short supply these days.
Reddit has just grown too big and important. Neither the links nor the discussions feel genuine anymore. I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way. I wonder what will replace it.

And of course I'm talking about the popular subreddits mostly concerning news and politics. Subreddits about classical music and such, still work fine. However any political subreddit seems compromised in some form or another.
You can get a milligram scale for $20.49 on Amazon.

The article calls these "high-powered, expensive scales" which seems like a weird thing for a blog that's all about prices of things to get so wrong.
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Getting error.
OSCP certification: https://www.offensive-security.com/information-security-trai...

The lab is a lot of fun.
As far as I understand the reddit situation, a major problem is that advertisers have a strong fear of screenshots of their product next to a random badthinking redditor's screed becoming subject of some five minute hate on twitter or facebook.

If I were a US citizen, I'd be less enthusiastic than you seem to be about this situation, irrespective of coincidental alignment of (current) outcomes with personal moral sensibilities.

I'd want to look very hard at the fact that the control loop for "what you can't say" on the ad-driven internet runs through corporate ad departments and random twitter mobs.
Sad? Oh wait...
There was an interesting discussion on the topic of people dying after being declared fit for work on the BBC Radio 4 show "More or Less" that examines statistics in the news [1].

It's a few weeks since I listened, but part of the argument would be that you would expect the death rate to be higher as by definition some of this population is in less than perfect health. The death rate for those that weren't declared fit for work was higher as well.

Also between 2010 and 2014 total spending on welfare increased by £28 billion so austerity seems to be as much a PR exercise as anything <-- just to make clear, this wasn't part of the show.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06810qc
Someone should implement a Duke Nukem Forever clone in Perl 6.

Pretty excited about Perl 6. Haven't used Perl in a long time but there seems to be quite a bit of cool stuff and I'm very excited to see what a language where Larry had more free reign will be like. Xmas reading/coding here we go (how fitting)
I'm not too sure what you mean by a generation completely dependent on government. Or high sense of entitlement.

23 year old graduate here from the UK - never touched welfare in my life, never had to. But happy to pay tax for those that need welfare. It's hardly a life choice.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7491b154-0850-11e5-85de-00144feabd...

"In the US labour market participation rates now lag five percentage points behind the UK."

"In Britain, however, the workless family – perennial preoccupation of politicians, policymakers and tabloid newspapers – is as rare as it was it was 30 years ago, unless a member of the household is disabled."
In what way would it benefit them?
Has it? Where's your evidence? Or are you simply parroting the rhetoric of the right-wing press?
The idea of using a portable bytecode and AOT it on installation time goes back to the mainframes.

OS/400, now IBM i, is probably the last living mainframe doing it.
I'm a single developer, imo no one will read these messages until Beta version.
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A startup cloud backup called Dew Drive any much review ?
i think a new startup called Dew Drive is out with some advanced facility and future plans. they are still working on it i think any comments ?
https://dewdrive.com
Yes, I don't think it's done the left much good harping on about austerity when we can all see people in the Mediterranean countries have had a much harder time than us.
I liked the look of this initially, and thought it was well presented, but personally I don't like the idea of all layout being dynamically generated on the client side. Taking your static layout as an example, you can see the browser needing to make a second request for the data the first time you load it.

https://teletext.io/static-example.html
You have to love how austerity has been redefined. What austerity? The UK total budget expenditures have gone up every year. They might be lower versus GDP but that is the result of a recovering economy.

You do not have an austerity problem if your budget is increasing. You have a spending problem. The UK's mental health woes are simply an issue that their government managed health care didn't deliver on promises and overspends in other areas.

So sorry, there is no problem cause by austerity here. Always scoff when you see such claims as your more than likely to find government expenditures have increased.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/13/male-employment-ra...
I didn't mean "worth something" to imply a financial value. I meant it more as a gatekeeping mechanism to the serious discussions. Which is why there would need to be split between viral/entertainment karma and "serious" karma. And that would also be the fix for your concerns of "just talk" or harmful personalities dropping in.

I'm not terribly concerned with whether people catch this vision or not - the bigger point is that reddit needs their own vision.
In software development we routinely ignore historical good ideas - we keep re-discovering the same things over and over again. I'd say that even if we eclipse JIT in the coming years, in the distant future someone is going to repeat our same mistakes.
I believe they're referring to something like this: http://getcockpit.com/
OP here: was afraid this would happen (good old HN hug of death). Unfortunately this isn't mine, just something I found, so I don't know if/when it'll be usable.

Basically it's a multiplayer text game with strong creation, collaboration and exploration elements. You and the other players inhabit a universe full of "vessels", which you can create by giving them a name and description -- so a vessel can be literally anything. Vessels can be infinitely nested within each other, and multiple people can child vessels within parent vessels. There also seems to be a small programming language with which you can give vessels behaviour, but I haven't investigated that much.

Two blogposts about the game:

https://emshort.wordpress.com/2015/10/06/if-comp-2015-paradi...

http://importantastrolab.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/ifcomp-2015-...

Really sucks that it's not loading; I think a lot of people here would have gotten a kick out of it.
Exactly! The only real reason I was not using Python 3 was library support, but now things have changed: https://python3wos.appspot.com/
> But they have never been to the Seychelles, and official Seychelles ink stamps used to register Fortuna United at Companies House in the UK were not sent from the islands.

> Zirnelyte says suitable stamps can be bought on the online auction site eBay.

How is a stamp from eBay an "official Seychelles stamp"? Does it just mean the stamps officially used by the Seychellois shell companies to "sign" things, rather than by the government of Seychelles? The way it was said sounds very fraudulent to me (even for a shell company mill), as if they forged the Seychelles registration docs. The image shown appears to be two bland stamps with the same design, each with a company name and a shared address in Seychelles (and from Googling the address, it looks like that's another company registration agent.)
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Fully agree, JIT makes sense in dynamic languages or real-time conversion of op-codes, for everything else AOT is much better solution.

Having already quite a good experience with memory safe languages when Java came into the world (mostly Wirth and ML derived languages), I never understood why Sun went with the JIT approach. Other than trying to sell Java to run in the browser.

There were already quite a few solutions using bytecodes as portable executable format that were AOT compiled at installation time, e.g. mainframes and research OSes like Native Oberon variants.

The best is to have both on the toolchain. A interpreter/JIT for development and REPL workflows. Leaving the AOT for deployment/release code.
You're right. However, the purpose of this bookmarklet is to provide a streamlined method of getting the selector without having to go into the source. Using 'inspect element' is easy for me and you but for some people its enough to put them off trying to get the selector.
"People say that traditional herbal medicine is unscientific, and to a degree they are correct. But just because no one has published a paper with a controlled experiment doesn't mean they don't work. Some of them does work because of trial and error."

Some of these herbs might work, but I imaging it's all do to the Placebo Effect.

If uneducated people want to ingest herbs--I really don't care. The problem is these people are killing Tigers, Bears, Rhinos, etc. falsely believing they will be cured of their alignment.

These people need to be educated. I am really bothered when I see another animal killed out of absolute ignorance, and tradition.(an unexamined tradition is just a folk tale?)

A well done double blind study is beautiful. We can argue about standard deviations, etc, but the studies need to be done.

Herbs great! Just leave animals out of the mystical cures.

http://www.tigersincrisis.com/trade_tigers.htm
Note I'm not against welfare per se (I can't read your article because paywall)

And to be fair http://www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/briefings/character...
Personally I had to leave the US as my H1-B was not even looked at in time to be able to continue my work, which includes traveling. They had 6 months time to process my application to no avail.

With an expired H1-B visa they don't let you in again. Premier processing fees did nothing. My company is in Texas not California, maybe that's why.

But I'm happy to back in a democracy now (Germany), even if the US pays better. Helping out developing countries is fine, but their state is not working, and this affects business.
The increasing in welfare spending seems to be a result of increasing spending on pensions though?
http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/spending_chart_2006_2016UK...
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Moldova did not have a professional army at the time because it was in the process of leaving the Soviet Union.

The only reason Transnistria exists is for Russia to exert influence on the politics of Moldova. Read the "Primakov memorandum of 1997":
"3. Transdniestria shall participate in the conduct of the foreign policy of the Republic of Moldova - a subject of international law - on questions touching its interests. Decision of such questions shall be taken by agreement of the Parties."

In other words, Russia participates in the conduct of the foreign policy of the Republic of Moldova on questions touching its interests. An independent Transnistria will not offer the same advantages, and an Russian exclave between Ukraine and Moldova would hardly prove itself economically or militarily viable.
When we applied to YC, Steve was nice enough to meet with us at Hipmunk, and as with what he did there, I think he's going to do a great job at Reddit, where I've become an increasingly invested participant, once I learned how to dig deeper into the subreddits, such as /r/oakland or /r/vandwellers etc. I think, based upon my experience on the site, compared to those on fb and elsewhere, that Reddit continues to have incredible growth opportunities, because there are hundreds, nay thousands, of subreddits that we can't even imagine, people will create, once people discover their power, like /r/camelracing or /r/swatvalley, or who knows what. 10 years from now, I think Reddit will be (one of) the biggest site on the whole of the internet. And if not Reddit, than its many copy cats. I just wish there was some way that I could help, aside from what little moderating I do.
From the faq (http://8th-dev.com/faq.html):

q) Are there any restrictions on who can use 8th?

a) Yes. Due to Israeli export laws, residents of the following countries may neither use nor purchase 8th: Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, North Korea, Palestinian Authority, Sudan, and Syria.

WTF! This is the very deal-breaker for me...
U.S. Army drones will have a mechanism in place to protect your privacy
Guys, I live there all my life, in Tiraspol, and I don't agree with you.

Here's no gangsters, no communism. Of course it is not as developed as Chisinau, but far better place to live than the rest of Moldova and Ukraine.

Pensions are much higher than in Moldova, lots of people from Chisinau when they get old buy here appartment and move over.

Questions are welcome. Can make proofs if needed
I'm wondering if the person being quoted was confused by seeing the return segments of a multi-segment trip

I wondered that too. I'm a Miles & More member via Swiss (which is part of the Lufthansa group) and you definitely need a password / pin to access your FF account.

Accessing a specific booking via booking code / surname is a whole different issue.
Speeches to an empty room are still being read into the record (Hansard).
Much of that is due to incentives and not an inescapable aspect of public fora. Two notable examples that stand out in my mind of "people I probably disagree with about some things but trust highly" are HN's very own gwern, for exhaustive research, and Scott Alexander of Slate Star Codex. Somehow they have hacked, avoided, or self-disciplined their way into good-faith engagement without giving up ground to do so.

Integrated fact-checking would go a long way in political debates; gwern provides his own and S. Alexander, while less exhaustive, is relentless in analyzing his own biases and hewing to rhetorical charity. They would be less remarkable in a world where political debates had integrated fact-checking, as politicians would have to adapt.
This is very nice, but probably not something I would use, mostly because I have been using Insync for years on all of my machines and it works perfectly for me.

Is there any use case for this FUSE wrapper that Insync doesn't support?
Ive heard of people who dedicate their studies to this. Also Ive an anthropologist friend who spent time living in a developing country studying how people culture blended their traditional vs modern medicine usage.

IMO a real boon for medicine will be increasing sophisticated personal monitoring and the data this makes accessible to the world when shared. If sure we'll see some amazing cause/effect relationships from all sort of areas being identified in coming years .
Reddits problem is not the small communities people barely know that they exist until someone points them out. It is the shift in attitude in the bigger communities. I can spend hours finding specific examples but the gist of it is becoming more US-centric and "nerd dismissing" place by the day.
Yes, but to be fair, Lua is one of these few examples where JIT makes a lot of sense because the extreme simplicity of the language, which greatly expands the opportunities for a JIT to generate efficient code with relatively low overhead and JIT compiler complexity.

This approach is great for some things, but it does sacrifice the flexibility and expressiveness of the language. Anything not part of the core language (which is a lot compared to most other programming languages, e.g. anything related to OOP, or more advanced data types than strings, floats and tables) has to be re-invented and/or bolted-on, which IMO makes it unsuitable for most kinds of applications.

This should not be interpreted as critique about Lua the language bu the way, I'm a big fan of Lua for embedded scripting and I generally love tools with a narrow focus (as opposed to kitchen sink technology). I would not choose Lua for anything besides embedded scripting though.
I'm working for an unusually Microsoft-intensive "corporate-y" customer, and even in my corner of the company the newest computers are Macs.
Development is done on several virtual machine images with fancy tool and server setups and old Windows versions anyway; the only difficulty is SSD capacity.
> Why did Java stay with a JIT for so long, anyway?

I read in some forum once, that it was political.

At certain point it became kind of heresy at Sun to suggest AOT compilation. Hence why all Java AOT compilers are only available from third party JVM vendors.

If someone from those days at Sun can confirm or deny it, please do.

I imagine it took Oracle some beating in high performance trading, from the companies wanting to move from C++ to Java, to really change their mind. This is what triggered the value types, JNI replacement work. So AOT was the next checkpoint in the list I guess.
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That's not really a great example, because a default sub is going to attract men on a site dominated by men, and the ethos of that sub is to, basically, not have men's views represented. This would naturally lead to friction and so it'd make sense that more moderation would be needed.

I don't think it should've been made a default, anymore than /r/mensrights should be made default.
You should read the article before commenting.
> The UK welfare model has succeded in creating a generation completely dependent on the government and with a high sense of entitlement

If you are too ill to work in the USA, what happens? Are you left to die?
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Paying for the priviledge of taking a test in unfriendly conditions when you're already paying for the course is uncalled for.
Department of Work and Pensions had to create a document for staff in JobCentre+ because so many "customers" were declaring their intent to die by suicide.

It's good that they have a policy. It's scary that they need it.

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/70850/response/174789...

It's pretty annoying to hear Priti Patel (and people in this thread) deny the reality: benefits sanctions cause suicide.

http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/one-in-five-benefit-rel...

(And people who are sanctioned aren't all knowingly doing something wrong. They've been open and honest and declared everything to DWP. But currently DWP will suspend your claim, then send you the letter asking for more information. You don't get that letter? The first you know is when your benefits are suspended.)

Edit:

> In the UK, suicide rates rose in 2011 and 2012 (the most recent data available).

Newer data is just coming out. Small rise in deaths by suicide in women, small drop in deaths by suicide for men.

EDIT2: link to data sort of here. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/business-transparency/fr...
It looks like it from that chart, yes. However, increasing pensions isn't a sign of austerity either.
Really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_programs_in_the_United_...

Also, I'm not against welfare
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This leftist idea that the UK operating an environment of "austerity" is laughable.
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>When I pick a CMS, the tech stack is a consideration but I scrutanize the admin interface much much more.

Right, I agree. And interestingly, I'm firmly of the opinion this is one of the reasons Wordpress continues to win in this space; albeit for familiarity reasons rather than it being a paragon of good UX, and despite it's core and plugin system being incredibly ugly in too many ways.
Wordpress (yes I know) has a pretty robust JSON API plugin[1], which is being rolled into core as of the next release (4.4). This means it's dead easy to have a familiar CMS experience and then pull out the data in whatever way you want.

There are plugins available for other CMSs[2] which do pretty much the same thing too.

[1]: http://v2.wp-api.org
[2]: https://github.com/pixelandtonic/ElementAPI
Please, let's stop with all the success bias. Let's add in some stories about those that lost their shirts due to Quant trading.
An example of this is the single most used medicine ever, aspirin.

"Plant extracts, including willow bark and spiraea, of which salicylic acid was the active ingredient, had been known to help alleviate headaches, pains, and fevers since antiquity. The father of modern medicine, Hippocrates (circa 460 – 377 BC), left historical records describing the use of powder made from the bark and leaves of the willow tree to help these symptoms.In 1763, Edward Stone, at Oxford, isolated the active ingredient of aspirin in his discovery of salicylic acid."

We lose a lot when the oceans and rain forests are destroyed beyond repair including chemical compounds, proteins, and processes that have taken eons to evolve which we have not yet discovered.

How important to medicine are the ancient remedies derived from poppy and coca leaves?

On the flip side, there is this essential oil, naturopath movement posting things on my Facebook stream about how tea tree oil is a natural antibiotic and to use it on everything. Unfortunately, tea tree oil is effective against MRSA which is now developing resistance to it because of careless overuse by the natural health community. There are dozens of products at Whole Foods that contain it but not at therapeutic levels so one of two things are happening, first, people are killing bacteria on their skin which for the most part is beneficial and, second, bad bacteria is developing resistance.
These are interactive novels/games, similar to time travel books you might have read as a kid, but in an browser format.

Here is a link that has a zip file with all the games: http://ifcomp.org/ballot