skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a love of the free-market that drives these conversations; it's a hatred of exploitive capitalism. Ultimately, the players are source of all the league's revenue, yet the have to split that money with the owners (who contribute almost nothing to the day-to-day revenue stream).

The players also have a strong union, which negotiates a number of protections for the players, from minimum salaries to safe work conditions, while allowing for higher compensation for key players.

So it is very reasonable for those of us on the left to be against the extreme labor exploitation represented by the salary cap.
> The struggle between gravitational attraction and the expansion of the Universe actually had its end determined some six billion years ago, when dark energy became the dominant factor in our Universe. At that point, any objects that weren’t already gravitationally bound to one another never would become so

This is assuming gravity won't become the dominant force again billions of years from now. We don't know whether or not dark energy is uniformly distributed in the Universe -- if it isn't, gravity could win again one day!
Episode 31–Steli Efti–Closing Software Sales and Your Mental Game–Chasing Product
tl;dr

Complex or simple,
lead with point. Because reasons.

Intro, support, conclusion -- do it.
I know a couple of cops, and as a cop you indeed do profiling on "random" checks.

You simply pick someone where common experience shows that a "hit" is likely. Like, in Munich if you search a black dude with his friends, chances are high that he's got pot on him. In other cities, being young, white and speak with "gangsta speak" and hanging out with your friends can be an invitation for the police to check if you got knives on you. Or if you generally behave nervous, check if the person has an arrest warrant open instead of just looking at the ID card.

There are no official quotas to fill like in the US, but it is definitely better if you profile and have a "good looking" checked person/hit ratio.
Hands-On Dell's XPS 15 4K Inifinity Edge Beauty, Precision 15 at Dell World 2015
Climate change is here
My approach: say politely "How can I help you, Officer?" I have the theory that, in the first seconds of interaction, the Officer places me in a category: citizen, or perp. I want to be in the citizen category.

Probably it helps that I'm a 6'4" white educated male, with a nice smile I think.
All passwords should not be memorable.

Once you see them as tokens that 3rd parties will probably lose, then you know our efforts should be in secure token management software (keepass, lastpass, 1password, etc).
There's a way to detect the system decimal separator using JavaScript, but it only works in IE and Firefox, and it doesn't work in Chrome because it is marked as 'optional' in the standard.
"Most people use passwords. Some people use passphrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic passpoem, detailing the life and works of seven mythical Norse heroes."

http://www.schneierfacts.com/fact/27
Candid question : Is gut bacteria (in terms of variety, strains, etc) affected by diet? Foods like kefir or some yogurts are known to influence the bacterial fauna, so just wondering.
Twitter is buying the stock back from him at $0. You can't just donate stock to a company. That stock's nominal value is $200,000,000. So he takes a loss of $200,000,000 which he can write off against any gains he gets from Square's sale.
There is no subject so complex and innovative that you can't start with a summary explaining what the point is and why readers should care.
LoL at 'discover'
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/22717/how-secure...

I think we should held a competition to find out how old this tibit of knowledge really is and also the oldest article about security experts demonstrating passphrases are wide open to dictionary attacks.

1982 reference on passphrases http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/01674048829...
No, it doesn't. But $190 million in losses can be written off against $190 million in gains.
I just created a vim plugin "vim-troll-stopper" https://github.com/vim-utils/vim-troll-stopper

It protects you from these tricks by highlighting "troll" unicode characters in red.
Yeah, I was thinking more in the "fusion timescale", perhaps in 15 years you would be able to print those kind of materials in molecular precision on a large scale. But let's hope it continues to advance a lot faster than fusion, so that it could help make fusion a reality.
You can give gifts to a corporation. Twitter is buying the stock back at $0.
Vim plugin that protects you against unicode trolls
I like to paste things into this as well...

http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
"Every time I get a memo from someone written magazine style, I literally tear it up"

So they either communicate on paper, which would be stpid, or he misuses "literally", which would be ironic.
As an architect (houses) and an hobbyist programmer I see a lot of similarities between these activities: they are theoretically creative work but normally is not your creative aptitude that will land you a job. There are far less creative roles than boring ones..
I witnessed something similar in mid-May this year on an ICE train between Nürnberg and München.

As is normal, everyone's train ticket was checked (including mine), but when they came to a group of Chinese tourists, there was a problem with one passenger - he'd pre-purchased 3 months prior with a credit card, but the credit card had since been stolen during their international trip. In Germany, Deutsche Bahn require you to present the exact credit card used to purchase your ticket as identification when asked.

The ticket inspector didn't believe the passenger, saying "If your card really was stolen, your replacement card will be the same number" and "If your credit card was stolen you would go to the police to report it." I spoke up at this point in support, explaining that in other countries (at least in Australia), you get a new credit card number so thieves can't use the old number online. But the officer was convinced card numbers were immutable. The passenger did have a police report, but the German officer said "This case number is for British Police, checking this is too difficult."

The inspector asked for the passengers passport - understandably the passenger was not about to surrender his main identification to someone else. The inspector said he could not assist if he did not see the passport, and the passenger then allowed him to see the passport. But when he provided it, the inspector looked at it, then said "Thank you, I now take this, you do not get this back until the police arrive and the police will decide if they give it back to you."

The passenger was part of a tour group, and all of the other tickets had been valid. They asked if they would all be arrested, the inspector said no, but when they asked if they could accompany him to the police station, the inspector said "No, you are not allowed to, only he can go with the police." The entire group all got out at the next stop anyway, where the passenger was arrested by police. After an argument the police did allow the tour group to follow, at least through Munich Station for as far as I could see.

TLDR: the passenger had a successfully pre-purchased ticket, had passport identification that matched the payment details, bank & police statements to support his story of a stolen credit card, but he was still arrested by Munich police. And Munich was only a stop they were passing through during their train journey! I adore Germany, but seeing this left a terrible impression. That Deutsche Bahn card ID policy is crazy, and something is very wrong with Munich's authorities. I'll stick to Berlin next time.
> The summary first style of writing is a hack to enable quick trust establishment. It doesn't work for all concepts and it's unlikely to be effective for communicating very complex and innovative subjects.

This is literally the point of an abstract in any and every respected scientific journal I've ever read.
"Earth 2.0." Perhaps this is our future ...
If you're technical, they'll tell you to make money you need to learn X framework/library/language.

Instead, if you can communicate well, you turn a WordPress theme into millions.
The only problem with this technique is that people start dropping in commas everywhere they'd take a breath. It's a pretty good approach, otherwise.
This also is good advice for anyone applying to YC. I'm not going to read your 10,000 word manifesto -- just tell me what it is you are building! :)

We've actually found that the ability to provide clear and concise answers strongly correlates with success, so this is a major factor when evaluating founders.

I'm also reminded of my favorite C. A. R. Hoare quote:
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."

The same thing applies to business. Long, complex pitches are a sign of muddy thinking and hidden icebergs.
Just this week I found that Wordpress cannot handle passwords with ' or " because of bogus "escaping" posted data.
Solid strategy though...
If they aren't memorable then they are something you have, not something you know. Now you are down to one factor.

To put it another way, what would you suggest for a master password for the token management software?
Atoms don't know they're being watched and using language like watched misleads people into thinking they do. Same issue as the double slit experiment. Watching is not passive, the correct term should be measured and the methods of measuring things affects them because you have to bounce particles off of things to measure them and thus measuring them (watching) changes their behavior.
Research shows antioxidants protect cancer cells from free radicals, too
Personal tip - the first sentence should almost always address that you've read a recent article of the journalist that's relevant to your pitch.

Hey X!

Loved your recent coverage of [relevant topic to your startup], raised some interesting points about A, B and C.

[Begin pitch about startup]

Be intentional about this stuff. I run a news site that gets pitched a lot of topics, some relevant and some completely off base, and a lot in the middle. The ones that have proven they have at least spent 5 minutes on the site understanding what we cover are always way more likely to get a response from me.
TL;DR

Get to the point in the first paragraph or I'll make you take an online newspaper writing course.
The protocol speaks LoRaWAN, which isn't IP. The data will get sent via a distributed network, over IP (using MQTT), to a server of your choice. This application server (run by you or someone else) can then store the data, have a REST API endpoint, MQTT channel, or whatever service that runs there.
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I would recommend William Zinsser, _On Writing Well_.

Persuasion tactics have almost no place, except at the end when you say, "So, are you in?"

Before that, the hurdle that (as @joshu says) 80% of pitches fail to clear is explaining clearly what the company will do.
TLDR, this is a very critical review of a book that argues that the draconian Rockefeller anti-drug laws passed in NY State in the 1970's were not only strongly supported by the African-American community, but would likely not have passed without said community's support.

The author's response to the review is equally long and detailed [0]. I recommend reading both if you have the time.

[0]: http://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/response-michael-javen-f...
I want to make sure I get this clearly

Your criticism is that Bill Gates once spent an insignificant (relative to his resources) amount of money to take a flyer on a weird solution to a problem that vexes the world.

Did I characterize it correctly?
"If you want your own little poem password, you can enter your e-mail here, and their program will send you a secure one, which will then be deleted from their server."

Uh...

They went through all the trouble of making a website. Maybe use https and just show me the password on the website?
"Win" means come out of the argument as "not a sexist".

We need more female teachers -> "Why? Is teaching a female job? Fucking sexist!"

We need more male teachers -> "Why? Are female teachers not good enough? Fucking sexist!"

Lose-lose scenario. Therefore you can't "win".
Actually, "nobody said those words in the article or anywhere in the comments".

So, if your purpose was indeed to highlight that, you obviously failed since nobody here seems to be discussing that.

Here are some articles that say what you allegedly wanted to - https://www.google.com/search?q=risks%20building%20on%20some...
React, Angular and the Front End Landscape
Use of the word "literally" as hyperbole is understood clearly by every single reader of this thread, including you. You might as well get over it.
> Uber doesn't get to unilaterally decide anything. Customers overwhelmingly decided that they prefer Uber to whatever benefits they had been receiving from the regulated taxi industry. If they hadn't, Uber would be out of business and we'd only have taxis.

Customers don't know shit. They only see the cool, new, better taxi company. Ask around, most people don't realize Uber is operating illegally.

Questions you ask about FDA and consequences of prolonged trials are important. They are being asked. But my point is, you don't want random companies operating in the light while ignoring medical safety laws - that will lead only to people getting seriously hurt. You always have an avenue of operating under the radar; the enforcement around drugs is not that strict, if you want to ignore safety there are tons of ways to get pretty much any chemical. Folks over at nootropics communities order various experimental chemicals from chem labs, and it's probably even mostly legal. But they know all the dangers and they take full responsibility over what happens.

> The fact that they had "some legal battles" and the laws was changed, implies to me that they were also operating in defiance of the law at the beginning. How is that different from what Uber does? Besides, now you have the taxis, your preferred company, and Uber as options. With your recommended strategy of "everybody obey the taxi laws", you would only have the taxis. Aren't you better off this way?

They didn't break the law. They found a loophole in the licensing process and exploited it. Taxi companies got angry, the issue went through the legal system and the law was adjusted in a way that took into account the innovation and increased efficiency, while also keeping the good parts of the existing system. Contrast that with Uber, which not just breaks the law, they're being blatant about it.
I'm not blaming anyone for the APIs being in the state that they're in. I'm simply saying that the Windows API is, today, taken as a whole, a more crufty API than the Web APIs are.
It didn't even have to be "scripted", it could simply be a test drop to check that the boxes open as expected and the beaver can survive the ordeal. Sounds like a pretty sensible thing to do.
is anyone aware of the reverse of this, a homoglyph normalization library? id love to be able to take strings that visually look the same and compare them against one master list, such as for spam detection
POV differences could be eliminated by a simple lens & mirror setup.
Walmart plays catch-up with Amazon
I can't read any of these Washington Post articles because I've 'read my limit of free articles'.
From High-Stakes Poker to Programming
It is not clear how one would synchronize the cameras on such fine time scales either.
I had a similar experience to rubidium. (Texas Ph.d., here, although in computational science, not a vile experimentalist ;) )

I've seldom seen an argument suggesting that the pay between Ph.d. and masters is substantial, or even advantageous (on average). Ph.d. is about becoming an expert and leader in a research field. It is not about the $$ or ROI.

On the other hand, in terms of career options, the differences are often quite substantial. Ph.d. is much more likely to be in a small research team than in the line of fire for a deliverable. Much more likely to be working in a laboratory somewhat independently/autonomously. Because of the predilection towards independent, high-risk/reward work, I have seen some recruiters and VP/engineering who are hesitant to add doctorates to typical engineering teams, as they gravitate towards different sorts of problems.
This plus the other news about NASDAQ doing similar moves I think is a bad sign. Public markets are clearly indicating they are failing to attract the big players, especially in technology, and this is their strategy.

The problem is, if their strategy works, the public would be way more exposed to risk like they were in 99/00 and any bubble bursting would have big impacts. As of now any bubble wouldn't have that widespread of ramifications.

On the flip side, this would likely drive markets up for a while and show a paper "improvement" of the economy because the numbers are public and auditable. Wouldn't last though.
The Intelligent Plant (2013)
The invisible device that powers everything you do
Staples founder Tom Stemberg dies
I was recently bitten by OS X's non-breaking space shortcut. I'd accidentally typed alt+space instead of space due to typing a following # (alt+3), and that made weechat, an app unaware of the NBSP, see the command '/join #channel' instead of '/join'.
I'm one of those "some people" you mentioned. It is indeed about morals. Violence, in my view, is definitely a character trait inextricable from genetic makeup and early upbringing (which sets significant epigenetic markers).

That is exactly why people should be armed. There is no reason for violent criminals to be in prison, they should be dead either from their victim defending themselves, or those around the victim defending the victim. As for non-violent crimes, they shouldn't be in prison, they should be fined or made to work to repay their damages.

This is the rational mode. Your mode, being soft-hearted and wanting to find excuses for violence behavior just so that the criminal can't be blamed, is the emotional mode.
Here's the John Oliver version of the same story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjpmT5noto

(Also, incognito mode is your friend when cookies conspire against you.)
>People with 1990 skills now are not employable today in many/most fields.

Citation or clarification or examples needed. If you started a job in 1990 at 25 years old, you'd only be 50 years old today. I don't think unemployment among 50 year olds is higher today than in 1990. So I guess they got upgraded skill along the way? Which fields are we talking about? Nursing? Law? Architecture? Garbage man? Interior decorator? Computer programmer? Car salesman? Retail worker? Heavy equipment operator?

http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea10.htm
Edward Snowden mentioned using a pseudo-random phrase like MargaretThatcherIs110%SEXY in his interview with John Oliver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzGzB-yYKcc
> I don't think anyone on here thinks we are special magical creatures when it comes to quantum physics.

The general public does, most explanations of the double slit experiment you can find lead people to believe that mind affects reality because the word observation confuses people into thinking consciousnesses is involved.
You clearly need to take stats again, because you don't understand what you're citing. A 95% confidence interval is not the same thing as a hypothesis test of p<.05. A confidence interval is for estimating the uncertainty that your chosen margin of error will include the true population parameter.

Nobody's claiming she's always 100% accurate. That's also a factor of low sample sizes. But I went ahead and computed the margin of error for you. For n=12, a 95% confidence interval requires a margin of error of 28%, so her true detection ability is, at worst, 72%, which is still higher than anything else we've got.
It's a really bad example of what the submitter was allegedly trying to point out as you can see from his comment above.
My guess would be it needed changes to keep it working with one of the iOS updates and since it wasn't making money sago didn't see that it'd get a return to keep it up to date.
I didn't mean to drag the conversation down to this level. We can pick it up on espn where I feel more comfortable distorting facts to my advantage
This comment sounds like the short version of 'humans need not apply' by cgp grey.
So how would you respond to 47 U.S.C. 276 (c)(d)? [1]

(c) STATE PREEMPTION
To the extent that any State requirements are
inconsistent with the Commission's regulations, the Commission's regulations on
such matters shall preempt such State requirements.

(d) DEFINITION
As used in this section, the term ''payphone service''
means the provision of public or semi-public pay telephones, the provision of
inmate telephone service in correctional institutions, and any ancillary services.

This explicitly states that since inception, the FCC has been directed by congress to have jurisdiction over __inmate telephone service__, and __any ancillary services__.

How can you have anything __more__ direct than this language?

[1]https://transition.fcc.gov/Reports/1934new.pdf
> notice that I use the word "oblique", not necessarily "orthogonal", because there are many unsubtle people who take the idea too far ie: "I want attention so will go wild with my thinking" ... Your best bet is to be really honest with yourself, about what you're saying that's different but not crazy ...

That reminds me of a recent article (which I can't find again) that talked about the "optimal distance" between prevailing fashion and a new trend, based on studies of trend-setters.
Do you think it is fun? If yes, you have it. If no, you don't.
I wonder if this is a behavior inherent to older drivers? I'm in my 20's, but my first car was from the late 60's. I hadn't properly bled the master cylinder on my brakes, so I would have to pump them to make them more effective. Just wondering if it's a natural panic behavior, or something learned.
Inspiration vs. Grind
Is Shrekli's Twitter account really his? It seems way too insane to be real.
It's up to us as citizens to request for speedier enforcement of those rules. That's why I keep raising the point. Most people don't even know Uber is operating illegally; instead, they act surprised and upset when local governments try to move agaist the "pretty cool taxy company".
And I could argue that startup founders want to be pitched on "interesting candidates" because hiring people is part of their job...
In college I helped a lot of people write papers, and almost always they were trying to "sound academic", and the sentences were so complex they didn't even parse. So I'd ask, "What does this mean?", and whatever they said, I'd reply, "Write that down!" Basically they were trying too hard. It reminds me of the common advice to edit your work by reading it out loud.

If you are a great writer your prose might be better than speech, but I think for most of us, writing for non-literary goals, writing should approach common but correct speech. Good writing has the illusion (but not the reality) of being conversational.
How so? Doesn't this completely depend on the actual product being built?
What Is Machine Learning (specifically Amazon ML)