skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The deadline for comments is December 18, 2015.

Summary

As enterprises move more services online, many have given customers the option to use third-party credentials to access their services, rather then asking them to create and manage a new accounts. For example, you can use your social media account login to access your fitness tracker account. In effect, the social media company is vouching that the same person is logging in each time they access the tracker website.

Allowing third-party credentials are beneficial to businesses because it saves them time and resources in managing identities. For users, the benefit comes from not having another username, password, or a second-factor credential to manage and remember.

While these arrangements are becoming more common, organizations are finding it a time-consuming task to manage each relationship, or third-party integration. The dominant solution is a service called brokered identity management in which “identity brokers” manage the integration relationships between organizations and credential providers. Organizations can use an identity broker to manage multiple third-party credentialing options instead of having to manage each separately. However, for users, there is a concern that these connections create the opportunity for a breach, or exposure of personal information, as well as for the broker to track a user’s online activity.

The “Privacy-Enhanced Identity Brokers” project will examine how privacy-enhancing technologies, leveraging market-dominant standards, can be integrated into identity broker solutions to meet the privacy objectives of users and organizations. This project is a joint effort between the NCCoE and the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace National Program Office (NSTIC NPO).

Ultimately, this project will result in a NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide, a publicly available description of the practical steps needed to implement a cybersecurity reference design.
No idea. I've always taken the train from Seattle to Portland.
Tell that to our employers. As for myself, I'm fine with 'programmer' or 'software developer', but my employer(s) often like to spice the titles up a bit.
Tom (pattern matching language)
Viewed from this prospective then interference would be a feature, not a bug. Degrading WiFi would result in the use of less WiFi.
This, exactly. Twitter could "just be twitter" if they were private. They made the choice, though, to go public, and now they have to answer to shareholders, whose needs are quite different from the needs of their users. The fact that they're under a lot of fire for "not being a good enough investment" is a problem of their own creation.
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What should someone who designs complex systems, databases, networks, etc call themselves? Engineer?

They're not developers, so what is the appropriate term you would apply to them?
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Age and storage conditions of the flour have much more to do with the moisture content than the humidity of the individual day.

But yes, measure by weight.

pounds vs kilograms isn't particularly important (as long as you keep them straight!)
Bullshit ends and content starts at 1:10.
Cool. Do you know about the paper on "composable contracts" that defines financial contracts (derivatives, etc) in terms of functional combinators? It's pretty cool. They're able to define automatic Black-Scholes valuations for complex derivatives, and stuff.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/Papers...
NASA just saw something come out of a black hole
It's only more work at first. Then the constant seizures will annoy people so much that they'll start locking their cars, and the police's workload will decrease.

Note that I'm not just interpreting the situation this way to make the police look bad. This is how they actually, explicitly describe it!

> Sharp said this plan does two things.

> “The bad guy is not going to break into the car and be able to take that item. It inconveniences the person to come down and pick up the property,” the lieutenant said.

> That inconvenience is a kind of tough love approach that reinforces the safety message.

> “Maybe next time they won’t leave their stuff in plain view,” Sharp said.
It is surely faster on modern 64-bit CPU's, and surely not faster on the 8-bit ones.
Pattern matching programming languages
Except I'm not a communist and I don't believe in communism.

I'm just not naive enough to think that the ever widening income inequality and wealth consolidation/hoarding is not a bad thing.

And the grain of rice wasn't meant literally.
>Homosexuality was listed as a mental disorder in the DSM until the mid-1970s.
The understanding of relatively highly-occurring afflictions such as PTS and schizophrenia is evolving to this day and it's a near-certainty that the DSM will be a different document 10 years from now.

Just because it had errors before doesn't discredit the document in its current state; it's the product of scientific investigation. By it's very nature it will make mistakes and then update the conclusions as time goes by. Yes, of course it will be different in 10 years, but currently it is our best understanding of mental ailments and the knowledgebase has come a long way.

> main transgression against the rest of society is making us feel uncomfortable when we look at them.

The main transgression is that the victims are trapped in a cycle of suffering because their brains are malfunctioning and are preventing them from recovering or seeking help to recover.
Yes they will, and they already have with this same congressman: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/secret-service-broke-pri...
Did I just read that your company doesn't try harder to hire black people because it would make your company less competitive?

I could be wrong, but i'm pretty sure I just read that your company intentionally avoids hiring disadvantaged black people in your own country because hiring minorities overseas is cheaper and easier.
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Sous-vide eggs are weeird -- The yolk sets at a lower temperature than the white, so you tend to end up with a set yolk but a jelly-like white.

You might be able to find a good compromise temperature, or even a good temperature-time profile with a sophisticated cooker, but boiling and steaming handily cook the white more than the yolk which is usually what people want.
You'd ideally need a Stingray to develop against, and they're only sold to government customers.
"Beautiful story. Not very relative to HN I think..."

I've been noticing a number of mental health related things on HN. Perhaps it's because these things hit closer to home among this demographic - weather it be personal experience, or that guy we worked with who eventually broke down. For whatever reason these do get voted up here.
Exactly. It's why we tried to fight that crap back when they first tried it.
Our neighbour had quail. They're cute, but very flighty compared to chickens.
I was wrong about that particular feature, hledger calls it "multiple commodities" instead.
I simply know that they are incorrect and I'm sure their study is flawed. I mean really, 202 people from Mechanical Turk sampled?
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Blasphemy! For me a scotch is something totally different than a good Bourbon or whiskey.

A good bourbon like Pappy's shouldnt be compared to a smokey peaty scotch like the Laphroaig quater cask I have in my cabinet. For me Bourdons are a daily drink and Scotch is for a celebration.

Anyways Japan and now Taiwan have been winning the most recent awards.
Only Trump's businesses have gone bankrupt, usually after he got a substantial amount of personal wealth out of them. He has never personally gone bankrupt.
Not every mental disorder warrants institutionalisation; I never said that. My point was to clarify that a medically diagnosed person who does some crazy action should be institutionalised, whereas a person who does the exact same crazy action but has no mental disorders should not be.
I can't imagine what it must be like to be in that kind of situation. I know how angry I get even when just dealing with customer service people who seems to have a different view of reality than me - being in a situation where people with actual significant power over my life have a different view of reality must be brutal...
I really like this idea. I don't actually have the problem that people are bashing my door down to have me support old code, but my github account has accumulated a huge amount of cruft. Much of it, while quite beneficial for me for playing with something, is completely useless for others. I tend to use Github as a backup system... I'd really like my Github account to be useful for others and not swimming with half finished ideas. I think it's time to clean house...
On the other hand, if you actually bother to do the math, using the normal approximation you get that a 95% confidence interval around p=0.1 with n=3000 has an upper bound of 0.111, which is well-separated from p'=0.12.

(in fairness, the confidence intervals do overlap each other)
They could just grant the fan site a license. Or had a broad license that fan materials can use.

It isn't unheard of.
I don't understand why there can't be a social network that simply charges its biggest beneficiaries.

That is, make it free for every user until that user reaches a certain level of influence. That way, you can grow without charging anything and then charge those who a) value it the most and b) have the money & reason to pay to sustain their influence.

Why can't Twitter create a pricing model for everyone with over 1m followers?

Why can't Facebook keep its service free for consumers but charge organizations?

The massive power of huge social followings (organic reach--without ads) is worth so much but valued at ZERO by social networks. I think it's a huge missed opportunity that is resulting in diminished value for everyone.
What about executing an already "proven" idea really well?
They want real time
The only problem with that is that there might be producers outside these regions who produce better quality products, these producers will be penalized for not being able to use the actual product name and may give up on it, leaving the market worse off, with lower quality products. The other problem is that producers who benefit from the regional brand name have very little reason to improve or even maintain the quality of their product as they have a monopoly on it.
That's an awful lot of words with no substance to basically label me a pinko commie.

I'm not a communist, nor have I ever believed communism as a system works.

Feel free to continue spouting your gung-ho rhetoric though.
Anything that I think "may" be useful to someone I put up on github. Sometimes to my surprise people use it. I remember putting something up (not even one star/issue or anything ever), then 1 year later getting a random email saying "this is great, thanks." Yeah, no problem, anytime.

I went the opposite direction (kinda) from the author. I realized that people assuming I would fix what I put up didn't matter to me. Sometimes I would make fixes, or check issues, sometimes I wouldn't. Some people got mad, some understood, some were drive by so they never checked back in anyway. Whatever, it's up there, if it really bothers them enough, they can fix it, or use it. It's up to them, not me.

However, I'm still a little like the author. I have a bunch of projects that are "good enough" for my use, but definitely not for someone else (for example, I wrote a password safe[1] cli program because I needed something that would work on FreeBSD. It only handles the features I use and may croak on a file that uses all field types). I keep these off my github.

[1] https://pwsafe.org/
> "the deer market"

I know this was a typo and you meant "free market", but it was a hilarious typo.
Thanks! I haven't yet, but that's a great idea. Will do so shortly.
We invented government to provide a fair and equitable structure that everyone could operate under. The idea is that everyone can conduct their affairs in peace under our laws, and that those laws will allow (note, not guarantee, as the government can't force someone to be productive or useful) individuals to prosper and flourish by protecting their fundamental natural freedoms.

Government does not exist solely to "protect those who can't protect themselves". Whether a person has substantial physical resources with which to "protect himself" or not, that person can petition the government for relief and participate in the democratic process.

The thing here is that "protect people who can't protect themselves" is so generic it can mean anything, just like "the pursuit of happiness" or promotion of "the general welfare". Do you mean protecting employers against employees that want to steal time or goods? Do you mean protecting workers against idlers who want to consume their resources without having done anything to earn them? What about protecting companies against frivolous lawsuits from people just trying to get a big settlement? These likely aren't the problems you're thinking about, but they're the problems some people out there are thinking about.

See what I'm saying? People are going to bias their opinion to favor their individual circumstances, but again, we all have to live under the government's rule, and it needs to be as fair and equitable as possible for everyone. Not just rich people and not just poor people; not just atheists and not just theists; not just healthy people and not just sick people. The interests must be well-balanced to maintain social order.
Re: "I wonder if someone could take advantage of this"

I believe that microorganisms patentability would indeed introduce a whole lot of problems for any human being. Starting with what's apparently already happening with plant patents -- see e.g. the story at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7798919
My home state doesn't play around about their Whiskey. The best stuff isn't for export, though: homebrewed as moonshine, mixed with custom recipes, and distributed to family and friends. Jack n Coke is still a favorite drink.
> C++, of course, makes it impossible to hide anything from your users because they need to allocate your class themselves, you need to put all your private ivars and methods in the public class definition, and you can't add ivars to the class later.

On the other hand, actual practice:
http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/024.htm
Good 'roots' on that nameplate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_(IBM)
> what, then, would make them willing to pay to be a part of a social network?

At minimum it has to be free to get started, with the payment happening later as an add-on or up-sell. App.net put the payment up front, you couldn't use it until you paid, with the (predictable) result that nobody used it.

The model to look at is probably the tawdry world of "free-to-play" gaming on mobile, sadly.
>Cook eggs for 5 minutes

Thing is, it's difficult to apply a time to the process. Different stoves, different water starting temperature, different pots..these these will all affect how quickly you can cook the eggs.

I think it's a matter of having some idea, some "recipe", and tweaking it. Currently I warm my eggs by running them under tap water, then put them in the water on the stove, set a time for 14 minutes, bring the water to a boil, turn it down to medium, remove from stove when timer elapses.

It works for me. Judging by the article, and the comments, almost no two people do the same thing.
To answer your question in general "Every society!".

But if you're talking about the USA and want to understand why so many are not institutionalized see the single-page summary:

"A Brief History of Mental Illness and the U.S. Mental Health Care System":

http://www.uniteforsight.org/mental-health/module2

From that page:

"...the deinstitutionalization movement has been widespread, dramatically changing the nature of modern psychiatric care.(7) The closure of state psychiatric hospitals in the United States was codified by the Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963, and strict standards were passed so that only individuals “who posed an imminent danger to themselves or someone else” could be committed to state psychiatric hospitals."
That's probably true given it already happens with brand names in general.
Am I the only one who thought TPP stood for Twitch Plays Pokémon ? :(
ProtonMail under attack
Got a bottle of Laphroaig Quarter Cask as a house warming gift and it was very interesting. The most smokey and peaty drink I have tried. Very good and unique.
Interesting, but doesn't match my experience. Even if your own eggs don't taste better, they are also about a month fresher.

Even if you don't believe they taste any different, they're interesting animals and it's a fun hobby.
This really reminds me of the old demoscene diskmag Hugi article about adding 16 bit colors (without MMX).

http://www.hugi.scene.org/online/hugi18/cobrad.htm
> TPP is an agreement between governments and corporations.

Since when are corporations party to a treaty? While the TPP is a huge push toward corporate sovereignty by diluting the power of governments, this is a trade agreement between nations. Just because the treaty is effectively governments hading power over to corporations (sorry, "investors"[1]) doesn't mean those corporations ratify the TPP.

[1] Investor-State Dispute Settlement? Just investors, not corporations in geneal or "other non-state actors"? This isn't even trying to hide that it's all about free movement of capital. Get ready to watch even more money flow out of the country.
There is an IMSI Catcher Detector, called AIMSCD, available from https://secupwn.github.io/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/ (also Aptoide or F-Droid, but not the Google Play store).
If you want to copyright an organism, you had damned well better remove its ability to copy itself without your permission first.

As much of the utility in modified organisms is that they do copy themselves without your help, it seems as though the patent system would be much better suited, because there the enforcement burden is to prevent a human from using the organism to accomplish a specific purpose.

People sometimes forget that laws are pointless if they are not enforceable.
Reality doesn’t exist until we measure it, quantum experiment confirms
Sort of, but you would still be required (I believe) to have a worker in Europe to look at any personally identifiable information of any European, even if the data is actually in the US.
I find it somewhat mindbending that he advises working on a MVP for 10 projects simultaneously when it's all I can do to work on 1 plus, you know, my real job that pays the bills.

More power to anyone who has that sort of energy!
The search feature currently only works on Postgres. It builds an SQL sentence with an ILIKE clause, for case-insensitive matching, which I think is valid only in Postgres. It's not a huge problem for me, but I'd like having full SQLite support for when I'm in development mode.

They said they will work on a connector architecture to support other RDBMS, I hope it's not too difficult.

It looks nicer and is more easily configurable than ActiveAdmin. For simple CRUD it's probably the best admin gem I've seen. However I usually build moderately complex dashboards in ActiveAdmin (things like "show me lists with the 10 oldest open tickets and the 10 unassigned tickets with the highest priority"), and I'm not sure how would one replicate this in Administrate.
You are right, rhere are trial versions. The vast majority of apps doesn't, though.
30,000+FOREIGNERS+JOIN+ISIS+?WTF+-+YouTube
Simple. Did you actually use Baidu? I do, on a regular basis.

Let me elaborate

Andrew Ng no doubt is a famous researcher, but I am talking about a common user's experience, and no, I don't see anything that reminds of machine learning while using Baidu services.

To give you an example, search for 'Windows 7' in Baidu.

Here is the screen capture of the results I got (http://imgur.com/nNBSo3g), basically there is no mention of Microsoft's site. I do see the first is the link for people download this software for free. Ok, where is the machine learning? There could be a few reasons explaining this behavior, but I don't wish to go into those. To say the least: if it is not technical issue, it is ethical. Both are very important to shareholders.

As a control, I searched for the same on Google, and the first 2 results are from wikipedia, while the rest are from microsoft.com, mixed with news results from news sites, which are very to the point.

Another example, Baidu's SDK has opened up security holes up to 100 million Android devices (http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/02/bunk-baidu-sdk-puts-backd...), and unfortunately, this isn't the first incident in 2015. As far as I can recall, there are at least 3-4 similar issues, unintentionally or intentionally caused by technical incompetency.

Disclosure: I worked in China for some time and now still got business connection with it. I am not an armchair warrior to bash China.
Wow this is a fantastic example for learning a whole bunch of concepts. I'm going to try this out as soon as I get home!
Does it take less time? I have a similar cooker and it uses ~1 cup of water for completely hard boiled eggs (total capacity 10 eggs[0]). The cooker rings a bell when the water has completely boiled off, which is closer to 10 minutes than 20 minutes for this model. I think total capacity is 10 eggs.

Now, in a saucepan the water doesn't have to boil off completely, but you also have significantly more water.

That isn't to say I use this unitasker all the time, I usually don't remember to have eggs around often enough!

[0]: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61jBthbQW6L._SX425_.jp...
> Not trying to nitpick...

It's not nitpicking when correcting a meaningful mistake.