skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With mental rotation, there is practically no overlap. See the graph from the original study.[1]

It's a similar story for physical strength. Nobody denies that men tend to be stronger than women, but most people vastly underestimate the disparity. In a study that measured grip strength in 2,000 people[2], the weakest 5% of men were comparable to the top decile of women. Even elite female athletes were only as strong as the median untrained male.

There are more examples (propensity for violence is another big one), but it takes time to find citations. Suffice it to say that most people think the sexes are more similar than they actually are.

1. https://brothersdiamond.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/menwoman... (For more on mental rotation and testosterone's effects, see my comment downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10443021)

2. http://egitim.judo.gov.tr/Dosyalar/makaleler/-ENG-Hand-grip-...
It sounds like they resold the vouchers before buying them from Southwest expecting that they could buy an unlimited number. But Southwest got wise to it and limited the program. And then their business didn't maintain enough cash reserve for refunds (or had customers unwilling to accept refunds).

I wonder if the intent was ever to defraud, or if they just made a colossal mistake.
I'm not sure I understand how an infinite monkey attack would work against diceware.

Let's assume a word list of 7776 words. All words are lower case alpha. The attacker has pur wordlist. And the attacker knows there are seven words in the passphrase.

That's still 7776^7.

Even if we prune the wordlist ("I'm not using 'zerg' in my phrase", "I rolled 11111, that's not random so I'll roll again") it's still not an attackable space.
Capital controls and all the chaos these entailed were actually imposed before the referendum not after, as suggested in this article. The European Central Bank froze its liquidity support immediately once Tsipras announced the referendum. The Greeks voted NO while they were in the queues for the bank ATMs.
Out of all, my bank forces to have my password to have exactly 5 chars. This is madness. Fortunately to actually do anything I need a second authentication factor.
yes, the worst site I ever used..
It's pretty trivial to get round though, give people an exemption on the primary residence. That way, the vast majority are unaffected yet those that invest in land are.

In the UK the system is already quite a bit like this. When I sell a BTL property I need to pay Capitial Gains, but not for my primary residence. Sure, it allows some loopholes, but it'll probably save you a lot of votes too.
The problem is this. In order to make money you need to be reasonably sure that someone can't take your stuff and sell it as their own.

This is a separate issue to stuff costing too much, or DRM.

Everything you create that is original is copyright to you. This is known as your moral rights. This means that if you come up with a novel character, design or mechanical item, you have the ability to exclusively produce, market, license or sell that thing.

This is good, because thats how the economy works. If you make an item, and a large corporation comes along takes them all and sells them as their own, that would be theft.

This however is a problem for giants like google, youtube and facebook. When you publish something to the giants, you sign away your moral rights. This is mainly to allow things like recompression and excerpts. (Because your emails/videos/photos are your own copyright, google must seek permission to display, alter or create derivative works.)

Its very much in their interest to dilute and dissolve copyright laws. They have managed to capture the general dissatisfaction at the high price of music and movies to push their agenda, which is to sell adverts on the back of someone else's work.

If we take a specific thing like dōjinshi, The people creating the subtitles are not breaking the law. The act of transcription is their own copyright. What is illegal is selling/distributing the video as well without paying the original owners.

In the digital economy, we need strong copyright, or us small people will never be able to make a living.
The worse ones are the constraints to which characters one isn't suppose to use, which on my book only reveals sloppy coding as the developer wasn't able to cope with arbitrary characters.
It's not free. You still have to pay for the batteries and the solar cell. It's a big front payment that you must amortize in many years.

And then you must pay for the new batteries or solar cells, because they break or the newer versions are more efficient.
An OS X web server... As another comment mentioned OS X is hindered by the fact they refuse to use GPL 3 code http://meta.ath0.com/2012/02/05/apples-great-gpl-purge/. This results in their userspace code being out of date (i.e. they still use bash version 3.2) and having bugs like these.
IIRC the higher variance in male IQ is hypothesised to be the result of men having only one X chromosome. I'd expect the null to hold in this case.

As @chroma pointed out, it would have been interesting to see if the mental rotation ability was improved, or if it is dependent on testosterone exposition during development.
I would love to see approaches similar to the attempt for elasticsearch for all major databases as out of the box highly available, that would make me sleep a lot better at night. For the mean time I'm just going to manage my databases traditionally (through a service or run by myself). It seems like its really a problem that needs to be solved, other than that I'm a huge fan of these infrastructure approaches.
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"These animals have been domesticated for so long, they must certainly have obtained some human friendly genes through natural selection"

Domesticated species evolve by artificial selection/selective breeding not by natural selection.
> There is something fundamentally wrong with taxing an absence of income.

I'd argue the other way, that taxing income is discouraging production. We should be taxing consumption more than we are. If you see deeded property as a non-renewable resource, then ensuring good use through taxation seems essential, not just a good idea. Now, land is not exactly non-renewable since we can build up, as you point out, but in densely developed urban areas, it's pretty close to non-renewable.

We just had a land bubble, and many think the bubble is reinflating, at least in some areas. Putting a check on irrational pricing by adding a consumption tax here seems like a plan worth discussing to me.
And the entropy of the password 0b0 is only a single bit - if the attacker knows you've used a single-bit password. Hashed into the SHA-256 space that's only a 1:2^256 chance of someone colliding with it. Still, is that a password you'd set?

What does that have to do with the output of the password in terms of brute-force guessing? Aren't you kind of assuming that an opponent won't try a broad dictionary attack? Equal distribution of hash outputs fundamentally assumes equivalent distributions of hash inputs, and that's not true for the distributions of common passwords.

Again - everyone knows the passphrase patterns everyone uses, everyone knows the password transformations everyone follows (eg l33t) and overall those patterns are significantly weak against attack because of this public knowledge. By those algorithm, with knowledge of salts/etc those passwords are very weak.

Should you use a song, or a slight modification, or a l33t transformation? Certainly not - if the input space isn't uniformly distributed across the input space, the probability of hitting pay dirt definitely isn't uniformly distributed across the output space.

Even the class of "valid transformations of sensical English sentences" is not an equal distribution because of the above. If you can compress a language you can attack it, because by the assumption of compression the data is not at its minimum entropy. Maybe not feasibly if you're lucky - but don't bet on it just because Webster's is big.
I am not sure why you're saying they cheated. I am a layman, but my understanding of that quote is that he refers to a rather large deep neural network, which was trained unsupervised to encode general images (not just cats), had a neuron representing the concept of "cat". You can run the network in generative mode to see how the general concept of cat would look like.

So I am puzzled by your comment - you seem to be talking about supervised learning, but I think the network was trained unsupervised.
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don't worry, you are too big to fit through the holes, so worst case they will just immobilize you until you yell enough that someone comes and kills the vine monster. they might see you naked but you won't die. :D
The article does rely on the stereotype of "highly analytical without any empathy". That's obviously not the case for everyone.
Why do you care what other people think?
It seems that The Economist agreeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10442929
Diceware proper is not 'plucked from actual phrases that have been uttered'. It's a random sequence obtained by throwing a dice a number of times (hence the name). This means you can't lookup your e-book collection for an exact phrase to use (eg. a famous quote).

Moreover, diceware can be set up with any dictionary, and nobody stops you from computing your own dictionary. If you do that, good luck to the bruter attempting to break your passphrase!

BTW there is no limit on the number of terms in your diceware passphrase, so if/when brute force makes 5-term phrases too weak, users may just add one or two more terms.
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The iCloud and Microsoft account password rules are bad examples. The first one forces one to use certain characters (uppercases, numbers) amd the second one supports only up to 16 characters.
The latter. According to the article the 'like neurons' part just means that they use ion channels to communicate. You could argue that the title of the article is slightly misleading, but then again this is an article that talks about 'charged ions'.

From the abstract of the paper (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...)

"[...] ion channels conduct long-range electrical signals within bacterial biofilm communities through spatially propagating waves of potassium. These waves result from a positive feedback loop, in which a metabolic trigger induces release of intracellular potassium, which in turn depolarizes neighbouring cells. Propagating through the biofilm, this wave of depolarization coordinates metabolic states among cells in the interior and periphery of the biofilm."
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Similar work is progressing well for (off the top of my head) Kafka[1], Riak[2], and MySQL[3] though you'll note they're all quick to point out "don't use this for production yet."

I'll be keeping on top of these developments, but for now, managing yourself or leaning on AWS services is definitely the pragmatic decision.

[1]: https://github.com/mesos/kafka

[2]: https://github.com/basho-labs/riak-mesos

[3]: https://github.com/apache/incubator-cotton
> There is something fundamentally wrong with taxing an absence of income.

Isn't the plan to eventually replace all fixed assets with rental assets? Thus solving this problem.
ISIS use "dragged to death behind Toyotas", will that do ?

http://www.zerocensorship.com/t/uncensored-isis-execution/18...
What we really need is to stop using passwords.

Passwords are awful UX design solution. The users have to think of and remember some meaningless phrase to get the service they really needed. If you use easy password, your account can be hacked. If you use difficult password, you won't remember it in a week.

For some people remembering a password or login might be especially difficult.

You can use software to generate and remember passwords but all of them will be lost if you reformat your drive. Some of password managers are proprietary, non cross-platform and some would upload your passwords to the so called cloud so NSA can look at them too.

In any case your passwords can be easily compromised when your PC is infected or you use somebody's else device.

What we need is to get rid of this obsolete system. We need hardware authorisation key (that could look like a real key) that can be used for both registration and logging in and would generate and securely store private keys for all used services. Such device should use strong crypto, should not allow exporting private keys, update firmware or operate without user confirmation.

I think such kind of keys will appear sooner or later, they are superior to passwords and password managers and easy to use but I am not sure that they will be open source, cross platform, and backdoor-free unless we do something in advance.
It's actually more political than you think: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/08/autism-his...
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Indeed. Hearing about how things didn't work out is highly instructional too.

In the past LLVM has been almost completely unusable for dynamic languages. Not it seems there are dynamic two implementations using it (at least JavaScriptCore). So this is a pretty good result.

The other good result is that it shows with LLVM other architectures were supported than x86.

I know at least pypy and unladen swallow have tried to use it in the past (5+ years ago) with no success.
It's less than that because the words were clearly not picked randomly. "Chili dog" is an English phrase, and "monkey nutso" is a transformation of "monkey nut", also an English phrase.
I'm going to post a bit of an unrelated (in that it is not related to Doujinshi) comment, but still drawn from a link you posted. Please forgive this, as I didn't have anywhere else to post it.

In the first link, it says,

>According to the 2012 CIA World Factbook, 98.5% of the residents of Japan are ethnically Japanese. Doujinshi arose largely due to the uniformity of intention, good will, perception, and morality of Japanese people.

This seems a rather poor reason to me. There doesn't seem to be any grounds to say that what's going on with doujinshi has anything to do with morality, and further the link between this sense of morality and being ethnically Japanese - as though this won't be found if other ethnicities were to co-exist on a larger scale.

Most countries are pretty homogeneous with regard to ethnicity (albeit not as high as Japan), so I'm wondering as to why the author has decided to pick up on this fact about people rather than the elements of culture that have nothing to do with how ethnically homogeneous a society is.

The author implies that the first sentence automatically will lead to the next - I think that's a false link to make. As someone who isn't ethnically Japanese in Japan, it makes me feel uneasy as it just seems to be widening this gap that people make between ethnicities and countries of origin, especially with regard to Japan.

It's a borderline 日本人論 statement that I've seen is popular in Japan. Countless books about "Japanese style" and how it's accomplished through the "harmony" achieved by something innate in Japanese people or culture (that God forbid cannot be learned, silly foreigner! /s) that's brought about through the fact that Japan is an ethnically homogeneous country.

tl;dr rant about how I think the author makes a link between two unrelated things, and furthers the divide between two groups of people while still managing to be offensive during the course of it.
> As another comment mentioned OS X is hindered by the fact they refuse to use GPL 3 code

They do not refuse, they cannot include it from a legal point of view.
isn't that forcing people to develop land that we might not want to see developed? like coastal areas, islands etc.

That would mean a big crust of hostels/wealthy houses along the coasts and gradually seeing normal people live when you go further inland. It's already occurring, but I don't think that's a trend we should reinforce, and the State is has the power to meddle to prevent the market power from doing very bad stuff.
If you agree that there will be no further densification of already developped urban area (whether because of planning restrictions or physical constraints), then adding taxes isn't an incentive to better using the land. Which was the point of this tax.

Preventing bubbles is another problem. I think in London the problem is that brits have this curious obsession with owning property and be willing to bid as much as they legally can, burrying themselves into debt, in order to achieve that. This is compounded with the lack of supply and foreigners using London property as a safe. But unless this obsession ceases, adding taxes or limits to borrowing isn't going to prevent bubbles. In fact the recent increase in stamp duty on expensive properties does not seem to have any effect.
Third worst password rule: preventing the browser from prompting user to save the password for your site. I found this to usually happen with home banking sites (as a workaround, I usually have to disable and re-enable javascript).
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> Everything one does in slighly different way is innovation

No, it is not. If I decide to change the design of a bicycle to have square shaped wheels I have not innovated. I have instead made it objectively worse.

I think to innovate is generally accepted as meaning to improve upon something in some way. I don't think G+ improved anything, as its abject failure in the real world demonstrates.
So, are we trying build some communist utopia where private ownership of the building is forbidden, all land belongs to government which rents it to a citizens?
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Property is income, just in a very illiquid form. Recently it's been quite possible for average homeowners in London to make more by property value appreciation than their salary.

Property is widely considered the only form of investment that is safe and pays a decent return, while interest rates hover near zero.

London could really do with a property tax that isn't capped like council tax. The recent SDLT changes are a surprising improvement, and there's even work being done on the "holding company" loophole. I'd suggest 1%, or 5% if the beneficial owner isn't resident in the UK for income tax purposes or is a company in a tax haven.
THAT'S NOT HOW MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS WORK.
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No. They are not superior to passwords - they merely provide different tradeoffs. For example, the site that requires your hypothetical key-type key would require that either all of their customers have spent money on such a key (bad) or that they are willing to pay for keys for all of their customers.

This is something that has been thought about in detail - see https://vtllf.org/blog/ssh-web-sign-in/quest-to-replace-pass... for Stajano's analysis.
I think a lot of it is driven by management. I've had to talk management out of it before. Then they still "don't get it" and think I'm OK with an "easier to hack" website, holding it against me as a character flaw - as if I'm a bad engineer who doesn't believe in diligence.

Anyway, that's probably where they come from - implemented by more obedient employees.
For most websites, users should just be warned that their password is insecure, not forced to use a stronger one. Your website probably isn't important enough to me to get its own strong password.
Interestingly, Iran is the only country in the world that allows its citizens to pay for someone to give up their kidney https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_trade_in_Iran.

By some accounts it works rather well, see http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/09/tina_rosenberg.html.

(It is true that they do allow other nationalities to pay for a kidney, however someone of their own nationality must give up the kidney, preventing at least some level of medical/tra splant tourism).
The Angular team is full of amazing low-ego developers that are a pleasure to interact and work with.
I see no justification for an exemption of capital gain tax on primary residence. This should be the way increase in property value should be taxed. If you realise that gain (like if you sell a stock), then you have cash that can be taxed. And property would become like any other investable asset.

But it is absurd to tax someone on an income he doesn't have.
The skyscrapers do seem a bit out of place in London, but I wonder if that's just a temporary issue. I remember reading that there were similar objections to the Eiffel Tower in Paris around the time when it was built. Perhaps they only look out of place because you remember what it was like before, or perhaps they'll always stick out.

Are there limits placed on the heights of buildings in residential areas of London?

As for narrow streets, I'm glad they kept them. Compared to some other big cities London feels more 'human friendly' (for want of a better term), wide streets can make a place feel more car focused, less a place that feels like a destination and more somewhere you travel through to get to where you want to be. Dedicated bike lanes are the only changes worth making IMO, but you can create that by working with the existing roads so long as you reduce the demand for cars. It seems that the London Underground has been increasing in capacity over the past 10 years or so, hopefully that will continue.
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This sounds a little obsessive. How often are hackers brute forcing a random 16 character hash?
More importantly, you just replaced the problems of virtual keys with the problems of physical keys: you can lose them. Recovery is much more difficult than recovery of a virtual key.
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No. For a dictionary attack, someone would need to know that you are using words. They would need to know if they are separated by spaces, or dots or slashes. The probability of someone knowing your personal scheme is fantastically low, unless they already know one of your other passwords and can guess it. A password like:

"Żółć zżółkła w gąszczu fantazyji!"

Is absolutely impossible to crack in any reasonable amount of time. It's a perfectly valid sentence in Polish, but the attacker would need to know to use a Polish dictionary, and also a one of these words is an old-Polish word which will not appear in any modern dictionaries. Finally, they would need to know you have an exclamation mark at the end.

It's literally impossible for someone to guess all of that, and this password is infinitely easier to remember than !@#%#$@j4jnvdbst$#^@%$@#$#
Yeah what I meant is that sometimes the phrase appears like natural language, and was probably uttered once, if not on a stray ebook than somebody once said it. Of course then we have have the question of whether history starts the moment it is electronically recorded.

If NLG upsets you, you can always settle for a Markov chain and some atmospheric noise to seed the random values
Point is you can use passphrases that are easier for humans to remember, but you then need to measure entropy as numbers of words and size of dictionary and 16 characters is too little. https://xkcd.com/936/
So all BSD systems have the same bug??