skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> space colonization

That won't help.

Suppose we manage to completely terraform Mars (extremely unlikely in just 600 years) and suppose that the biomass of Mars can be made equal to that of earth. It will only be one more doubling time (i.e. 60 years) before Mars is completely full as well. Then what?

> you think that limits you think matter (like biomass, or planet size, or w/e) are somehow intrinsically relevant and unsolvable

No. I don't know what the limiting factor will ultimately turn out to be. It may be that we will eventually succeed in transmuting matter and turning the entire mass of the universe into homo sapiens. You can do the math on that too. That will get you out to a couple of thousand years. After that we would need to find a way to get around the law of conservation of mass. You have to be a pretty extreme optimist to believe we'll have that figured out by then.
Analogous to 'write concise and clean code' ?
There's a big change in how people are dying from gunshots in America
Ok, I can see I need to clarify my point. I am not opposed to a government or laws or regulations as such. What I am opposed to are laws and regulations that give some officials power to make arbitrary decisions granting one individual or company permission to do something and declining similar permission to another individual or company. Such decision-making power is the root of corruption. Some regulations are inevitable, but we should try to keep their number at the minimum.
The advisory recommended backing away from plans to deploy elliptic curve cryptography, a form of public key cryptography that the NSA spent the previous 20 years promoting

or they can't break it?

https://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://eprint.iacr.org/201...

should we switch to rsa-3072 instead ?
Facebook Took on Britain’s Best Startups and Won
Passphrases are not wide open to dictionary attacks.
Congratulations on being the first commenter in three hours and 60-odd replies to have apparently read the actual article.
This bit me as well, as I mentioned in a comment above. The solution I found best was to make OS X not produce an NBSP on alt+space.
DragonFly BSD and FreeBSD
So you are discounting the $100 million pragmatic investment made in 2007 because there was a much smaller contemporaneous pie in the sky investment?

This page discusses their similarly large pragmatic investments in malaria prevention, through things like insecticide spraying and bed nets:

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Health/Mala...
Yes. There's been other studies that have compared the biodiversity of the gut in some of the few modern hunter-gatherer societies to western ones, and the hunter-gatherers have far more diverse varieties of gut bacteria than us westerners do[1]. And also that people with more diverse gut bacteria tend to be leaner and healthier[2].

It's likely (though I don't know if there's been specific studies in this direction yet), that the reason Americans have gotten so fat over the past few decades even when controlling for average calorie intake, is that our diet of mostly highly processed foods reduces gut biome diversity.

[1] http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140415/ncomms4654/full/nco...
[2] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v500/n7464/full/nature1...
Also, you don't want to show all the children what happens if the drop does not go according to plan.
But surely you can't remember a different poem for every service that requires a password?

Relegating you to use a password manager anyway, at which point you might as well just generate random passwords that don't rely on dictionaries?
That's a hallmark of a great idea.
People learn from combined practice and feedback. Most people have 1000s of hours of practice, but precious little feedback. Writing courses, or working closely with an editor, is the best way to get the feedback needed to improve.
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No one is overweight/obese because of gut bacteria. There may be marginal effects, but it's a bit like optimizing the tires on a soccer mom's mini-van.
google it then.

EDIT: To the downvoters. Try googling why googling the article will allow her to read it. Very meta.
AMD’s Excavator CPU, DDR4 memory debut in embedded markets
"Like, in Munich if you search a black dude with his friends, chances are high that he's got pot on him."

Chances are high that a black dude has pot on him, or chances are high that a dude with pot on him is black? Those are actually two different things.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_paradox
For a variety of complex historical reasons, race and class are tightly correlated in the United States.
Astronomers spot incredibly rare, insanely explosive pair of stars
I was thinking of proposing something like the "assistant" idea, so good to have confirmation I'm not the only crazy one.
> When the VW emissions thing started making its way through the news cycle, I read comments postulating that this might be the end of VW. Hah - people are going to forget about VW just like they forget about everything else.

It wasn't the end of Toyota, and it won't be the end of VW; but it was the end of Toyota's goal to be the Biggest Car Company in the World[1][2], and it may be the end of VW's goal to be the Biggest Car Company in the the World.

Being #1 volume vehicle manufacturer is a curse!

1. https://hbr.org/2007/07/lessons-from-toyotas-long-drive - Interestingly, in this article Mr Watanabe claims that Toyota never had the goal to be the biggest car company.

2. http://www.economist.com/node/15576506 - James Womack, one of the authors of “The Machine that Changed the World”, a book about Toyota's innovations in manufacturing, dates the origin of its present woes to 2002, when it set itself the goal of raising its global market share from 11% to 15%. Mr Womack says that the 15% target was “totally irrelevant to any customer” and was “just driven by ego”. According to Mr Womack, the requirement to expand its supply chain rapidly “meant working with a lot of unfamiliar suppliers who didn't have a deep understanding of Toyota culture.”

Disclosure - I work for GM, these opinions are my own, etc.
Why fallback to just OpenID Connect? You could use a multi-pronged approach to prop up BrowserID using (continuing to use) OpenID Connect as bootstrapping fabric. Maybe along these lines:

* Merge the login.persona.org fallback login provider and Firefox Accounts (grows both userbases!); you'd probably need a nice path forward to FxA users with Persona-supported email accounts, but that may just be a matter of selling "Connect your FxA account to your Gmail account for easier password management; Here's how FxA will (not) use your Gmail information"; (worst-case you need to figure out the BrowserID protocol changes to allow individual email opt-out to a different provider. Maybe easy enough to do in the case of the bridge providers to Gmail/Yahoo as login.persona.org is already mediating that...)

* Use the Firefox Accounts "brand" for the fallback provider; this gives potentially a needed distinction between the fallback provider and the platform/tooling (so long as you can do user acceptance testing to maybe avoid confusing users), so that Persona <=> OpenID Connect as a developer brand and FxA as the consumer brand

* Setup an OpenID Connect proxy to Persona/BrowserID and call that the "Login with Firefox"...

A proxy could drop in to existing OpenID Connect workflows, but really be a wrapper around the BrowserID navigator.id. With Firefox Accounts as the main fallback this is still seen as "Login with Firefox" button This would require fewer changes to the auth code of existing websites (drop in next to your Google/Facebook buttons), but then as people get used to it you can start to encourage websites to "skip the middleman" of the Proxy and directly use Persona/BrowserID navigator.id to back that "Login with Firefox" button.

Maybe the only twist here would be a way for other browser manufacturers/plugin-providers to play in this space and keep the branding friendly. An idea might be to add a navigator.id.branding spec that if implemented could override "Login with Firefox" to show a "Login with Chrome" or "Login with Edge" button. The trick of course there would be balancing site CSS abilities and browser branding abilities. Doing so, however, would further reduce the need of consumers to know/learn/interact with the Persona brand and at that point they are just associating that button as the "browser login button". On the other hand, if FxA is the fallback provider it seems fine to just always have it say "Login with Firefox" and it may be less confusing that way, but with the original goals of BrowserID it might be nice to have it be browser/plugin-configurable solely for that reassuring "Login with my Browser" feel.
I have never known Apache or Nginx to offer live reloading of changed assets. Sure, it only removes 4-5 keystrokes from your workflow, but if I were developing assets live, I could certainly see the value in my changes appearing live in a second window.

The simple (multi-endpoint) reverse proxying is certainly a nice-to-have when developing as well.
This isn't just about pass phrases, or using a whole sentence as a password. The new part (to me, at least) was using short nonsense poems complete with rhyming and meter. This makes it easier to remember longer phrases/sentences. Not that the idea is hugely innovative, but it strikes me as helpful, and not already well worn.
The Paranoid World of London's Super-Rich
One example doesn't prove anything, but neither does saying "this is the case, I'm right".

(For what it's worth I have a semi-unrelated anecdote: I'm 25, and in the UK if I buy alcohol or cigarettes in a t-shirt and jeans then I'd estimate I get asked for ID maybe 90% of the time in a shop or 50% in a bar, if I wear even a shirt and jeans, yet alone something smarter... I don't think I've been asked for ID dressed like that in years. Now I live in France though, and haven't been ID'd here ever.)
I think ignoring the nature of the rules they're breaking is rather silly, as those rules are mostly designed to protect the existing taxi monopolies rather than to prevent the society from disintegrating.
I've built up partial evidence that as the rules become more restrictive, the triviality of the password INCREASES and the entropy DECREASES.

The idea is that people can't use their personal passwords so they fall back on trivial variations of common ones.

For evidence, I've been assembling so called "cracks" and database "leaks" over the past several years and cataloging the password policies on the sites and then doing statistical analysis on the passwords.

It's in interesting project ... check my user info and email me if you want to know more about this
I consider myself indifferent, or neutral.

I don't buy into the concepts of universal good and evil, or arbitrary morality.

There are just a series of events that occur.
It's right there on your qutebrowser link, dwb is first on the "Similar Projects" list (Scroll down) their "Unmaintained" comment leads to the reddit thread you mention, mind you that thread is 1 year old and the user/post is deleted: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2huqbc/dwb_abandoned...
> One example is not proving anything. You are trying to tell me on a systematic level, it happens.

Systematic? I told you you're wrong and that's a fact. You said if you just wear a suit etc, you're treated well. I showed you, that's not true. It's that simple. And no I didn't prove this with a comedy show, I proved it by giving an example of a correspondent of one of the most watched television shows in the US who was 'dressed splendidly in a tailored suit', yet he was stopped. That's not comedy, it's a fact that throws your contention in the trash. Obviously I can't prove anything systematic with anecdotal evidence (which I didn't allude to, but thanks for putting those words in my mouth), just like you can't prove anything systematic on the basis of your own personal experience. What I can do is merely refute you'll always get treated well as long as you simply wear a suit and I think that's obvious.

Either way it's a pretty sad state of affairs one can't wear normal attire or sports attire because you'd be risk getting harassed by police. The notion I'd want to wear some kind of civility-uniform just to not get wrongfully harassed by people who serve me, who I pay through my taxes, is silly. And it's especially painful when this requirement largely falls upon people who happened to be born with a certain skin color (as OP's example, supported by many, many studies of racial profiling, shows). To then even feel required to wear a suit, purely to not be treated wrongfully because you have a certain skin color, is degrading. And even then as my example (one of many) shows, you may still be stopped. But feel free to dress 'appropriately', whatever that means. Perhaps it's time for police to send us a manual every year on what we're allowed to wear, you know, what's appropriate, what prevents undue harassment.
The exception was the post war managerial capitalism that Galbraith wrote about. This is really just a return to the older model.
I don't think the article was claiming that this is an innovation outside of the capitalist box - just that it's a form of capitalism that's different from the way it's been practiced in past decades.
I haven't tried this exact approach, but I have tried an approach I would describe as broadly similar, but a bit less automated.

I run a small ambient background noise app called A Soft Murmur [1]. It has been featured by some fairly high-profile outlets, including the Arts section of The Independent [2], Netted [3] and being tweeted by SXSW [4].

I made a large update to the app about a year ago and made a concerted effort to get some press. I compiled a list of people I thought would be interested, ranging from tiny bloggers to well-known tech journalists. In each case, I made sure that there was a personal connection between the person I was contacting and my application - either the person had written about finding it difficult to work in noisy environments, or they had written about scientific research on the effects of background noise on productivity, or they mentioned using background noise as a tool for meditation or relaxing, or they had written about a similar service before, etc. Each email was hand-written without using any templates, and each email referenced why I thought that specific person would be interested. I also experimented with different formats - more detail, less detail, more formal, more friendly, etc. I also tried lots of different angles, sharing different interesting tidbits about the app and how it came to be.

None of those emails generated a single article or mention. I probably sent a couple of hundred over the course of a week, and the success rate was literally 0%. What's more, although I worked hard to make each email sound positive, I hated the whole process and it made me feel like scumbag.

All of the positive press about my application has been generated by word of mouth. I've been very fortunate with happy users spreading the word on social media, and press outlets picking it up from there.

It's possible that I just suck at writing pitches, but I tried a lot of different approaches and made a real, good-faith effort to only contact people who I genuinely thought would be interested in my app. I had no success whatsoever. Even trying as hard as possible to make each message personal and relevant, it still felt a bit spammy. It also sucked up a lot of time.

It's not something I would do again.

[1] http://asoftmurmur.com

[2] http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/a-soft-murmur-this-website-of-ambient-sounds-will-wash-away-distractions-a6684306.html

[3] http://netted.net/a-soft-murmur-white-noise-machine-site/

[4] https://twitter.com/sxsw/status/643805329013276673
...carry ten times the charge and exceed a billion volts of potential.

Great Scott!
In this particular case, 150-foot skid marks indicate that the driver was trying pretty hard to stop.

No doubt there are accelerator-brake confusions in many of these cases, especially with older drivers. I'm really hesitant to say they all are in that category. Investigators need more "black box" info to see, for example, whether the accelerator and/or brake were being pressed in the seconds before an accident.
Thanks for posting, Nomad looks really impressive. have you run it in production ?
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Why not? we can remember the lyrics to every single song we like, or the dialog from some stupid show from 20 years ago, but pass-phrases are out of reach?
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Probably not a good idea to start a thread on this, but...it irks me every time I see one of these "BigCo only pays $5.34 in taxes despite making $35,923,233 in operating profit" comments.

Corporations, like the rest of us, pay taxes on the money they make (profit). Profit may be reduced, perhaps to zero, intentionally, by paying money made to people (employees, shareholders, managers). Those people like the rest of us pay tax on that income. I assert that provided tax is paid on the money by someone, somewhere, that's just fine and I'm ok with the corporation itself not paying any (income) tax. Obviously they should pay property taxes, employer payroll taxes and so on.

Since the marginal tax rate on corporate income is much higher than most individual's marginal tax rate (in the USA specifically), company managers are strongly motivated to aim for low to zero profit and hence zero tax by either spending money or paying it to employees or shareholders (who are liable for the tax on that income).

Of course, real life is a bit more complex -- corporations and individuals can reduce or evade tax through jurisdiction arbitrage, various other tricks. I don't support those things. I do support the goal to have individual people pay tax, not corporations. That also seems to be the motivating principal behind the US tax code at present.
Draw conclusions. Go further...
Simple and smart. I like it and wonder if I should buy one. Seems like cheap insurance.

I wonder, does it work on people with beards? I know this usually causes trouble with sealing masks like this. Even if it doesn't, it's still a really useful device for all the non-bearded people out there, but I have to wonder.
Science to have separated journals for Robotics and Immunology from 2016
NSA-Proof Wallpaper
I assume this part is just a joke.
The hot region of the stack is, for practical purposes, always resident in D$, so there's no prefetching to be done. I think that you're really talking about out-of-order and speculative loads. You're absolutely correct that spill/fill can be catastrophic for performance, however.
That's a good point. I'd also think that certain gut issues - heartburn, etc - are variables that can be changed via medication? Thinking of Nexium here.

While it's an interesting approach, I am reminded of the former NFL linebacker Bill Romanowski, who frequently had his blood/urine/stool samples analyzed. I'm pretty sure that trio of tests is proven to work at identifying the same kinds of things, but that's just a hunch.
Usually its actually not about the crime at all- its just a revenge phantasy on somebody, who is percieved to be not "caged" in the working life and society as oneself.

Offenders are just the smallest set of agreeable individuals deserving the punishment for not walking the citizen line.
Everyone who is serious about passwords should run a cracker for a week or so on some large set of passwords. You end up getting a pretty good sense on what falls quickly.
Marginal effects can add up quite quickly over a lifetime.

Take someone 100 pounds overweight. That is 350000 Kcal more consumption in their lifetime than they should've had. Let's spread that over 10 years, or 35000 Kcal a year. That works out to about a 100 Kcal difference per day. Over 20 years, it would be about 50 Kcal.

Now, they could've made different choices, and there are some people who stay a healthy weight by making different choices. But I would not dismiss small changes as being irrelevant because given the time scale, those changes do add up.
It's not a case of just carrying on as we were.

Here are the pockets of Polio:
http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/files/2014/04/gitn_1204...

Why?

1) Vaccinators can't access some regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan because of violent resistance to Western aid.

2) Western vaccines are resisted by Muslim Nigerians who fear Polio vaccines are a Western plot to sterilise Muslims.

3) Hajj is a great opportunity for the disease to spread between members of these regions.

http://www.irinnews.org/report/48667/nigeria-muslim-suspicio...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150303-polio-paki...

Hearts and minds need to be won or brute force needs to be used, if decades of effort are going to pay off. Until it's eradicated in these regions, we're stuck vaccinating our children to avoid re-establishment of the disease.
This article tries to refute two different types of arguments, and in the process confuses them. The empirical arguments ("this isn't happening!") it refutes quite well.

The normative argument ("this is a bad thing!") it does less well at. Ownership in these companies is cut off from the rest of the economy, but the Economist seems to think that this trend is only worth reporting if the social issues can be brushed off. They cannot. SeedInvest is not a substantial source of capital on the same level as privately VC funds. Mutual funds, maybe.
"Why is prison even considered for young people?"

Here are some crimes I've seen in the news:

* A man was shot and killed during a robbery while he was getting robbed. He begged for them to not shoot him and they put one more bullet in his chest. The perps were 15. http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Arrest-Questioned-...

* A kid at a local school was gang beaten by other students, had teeth knocked out, and was concussed. He was beaten because of a "mistaken identity" Here is a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjC7yd1OaAk

So what should be done in the case of these offenders? If not jail, then what? Clearly these perpetrators are too dangerous to coexist in civilized society. So there has to be some form of punishment, and some form of separation. I would be ok with sending them to work on a farm instead of prison, but I'm pretty sure that others would describe that as being "forced labor camps" and would rail against that too.
Heck, just parachuting out of a plane is a post-Singularity event relative to a beaver!
In some languages which allow non-ASCII but aren't Unicode-aware (PHP, for instance), you can add significant, invisible zero-width spaces to identifiers.
I was wondering what the real "entropy" (?) for these kinds of passwords is? If you take the vocabulary of common words (ie. not generated from a list of eg. 300k words like in the article), aren't the permutations rather small?
If some person just makes these four words up from words they know (and probably use quite regularly)

Eg 10000^4 or even 1000^4 (for those types who would use "password" otherwise)? Isn't that quite bad or am I understandig something incorrectly?
Test case template for startups
BRB; preparing YC application for the underserved market of North American rodentia. (The market is huge! And think of all the pivot opportunities....)
The question they did not ask what makes the body smell. When we eat garlic we smell like garlic. So the smell must be related to how the food is digested. The researchers should look at the gut flora, in other words they should do a study similar to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10439129 All disease start in the gut.
a beautiful piece

the major takeaway for me:

If you wander the grounds of the monastery,
it becomes clear that Jeong Kwan has another rare
ingredient in her larder, one that rarely comes up
in discussions about the latest hot chef: time.

universal application