skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, there is no possible CMS where this is impossible. But I imagine it would take some custom configuration...e.g. a change to the database call that fetches comments to select only the username field, not the email, for articles before 2015-12-31.

Imagining the logic and code is not hard. But if you are a non-programmer, this is not how you think about things. Most people are trained to use a CMS, and every other computing interface. They don't understand that computer software can be changed. For them, hearing that it is impossible to reconfigure a CMS is like hearing that it is impossible to reconfigure a 1998 Honda Civic to become a hovercraft -- that is, it sounds completely reasonable because "that's the way these things are".

Edit: Another factor...it seems that the Standard uses a hosted CMS solution...which yeah, would pretty much make it impossible for this fix to originate in-house: http://www.townnews365.com/
Magsafe actually isn't stupid - there's bidirectional communication with the laptop over the data pin in the middle of the connector, using the 1-Wire protocol. The protocol is probably simple enough to have no security issues, but now I wonder if a malicious connector could carry out an attack (buffer overflow, bad data, etc). Some security engineer might want to investigate this...
Right, trade is neutral. Quality of life is a normative statement, however. The implication being that the state, as a centrally planning agent, is capable of calculating what will objectively increase or decrease QoL. Taken to its conclusion, we reach the spectacular failures of the Five-Year Plans and similar initiatives.
Thanks for working on this! Post is also spot on.

edit:
Running a CA is a full-time job that requires financial backing, gear, well-trained operational staff and a lot of policies to operate in a reasonable and safe way. I'm happy that Let's Encrypt take their time to get everything in place and do not rush General Availability, BTW. I could not find /any/ information on SPI's CA on the web. I have no idea who or how they currently operate their CA. Their Website has a horrible and real-world vulnerable HTTPS set-up. I imagine their CA might also have aged a bit.
It's not impossible -- but the company that maintains their website does not know how to do it and therefore told their client that it is impossible.

This is, unfortunately, not uncommon at all.
I concede that point to you, however certain types of violent crime are easier to avoid.
It is not that I am “unwilling to configure our software so that comments posted before the new policy is implemented remain under chosen screen names.” I extensively investigated that possibility and was unfortunately told by our content-management software experts that such a configuration is impossible.

So what? If it is impossible, then your privacy policy was clear you will protect the identity of posters.

Heaven help journalistic sources if they apply the same policy to anonymous sources!

Here are your options:

1. Tell the CRM writers the situation is unacceptable, and force them to fix the issue

2. Get a new, sane CRM that can actually do something that should be a complete no brainer: allow previous posts to remain as-is. Then fire the person who chose the unbelievable bad CRM you actually forked over money for.

3. If neither of those options are possible, then do not proceed with you new policy until which time you make the impossible, possible.

Frankly, you have Paul Levy on your tail. Be prepared for some substantial lawsuits from an incredibly tenacious and effective lawyer.
I'm sorry for mistaking your statement as an attempt to contribute to the conversation. It might have been clearer that it was a joke if it were funny.
A quick look at their source suggests that they are using something called BLOX CMS, and their nameservers are run by TownNews, which is apparently the company behind BLOX.

BLOX is advertised as "Cloud-based" with "No hardware or software to install & maintain".

This all suggests that they actually cannot make such a change, by virtue of using an SaaS solution they have no control over.
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I've done the same for my chargers as well (as in using Sugru). I love your idea of making a mold for better finish as well as selling the "robustified" chargers. I think there will be a market for this, but best of all, I think you can pull this off on demand too (in a way?). I also think the $99 charge is fair.

A quick back of the envelope calculation is as follows:

$80 for 85 watt charger on amazon [0] + $3 * 2 for Sugru on both ends of the cable [1] + $5.95 for USPS priority 3 day shipping [2] ~= $92

With this supply chain (if it can be called that), you can still estimate shipping the charger to the end consumer within 6 days (2 days with Prime shipping with Amazon + 3 days for USPS). I did not factor in the Prime membership and the mold in the costs though, but it can be factored in fairly easily. Also, I chose to use USPS shipping costs, naturally your mileage will vary because your company/business probably has higher costs (cool service by the way, and congrats :))

[0] 85 W charger: http://amzn.com/B004L6MLPQ
[1] Sugru 8 pack: http://amzn.com/B00EU7DBNM
[2] Small flat rate box from USPS: http://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/Notice123.htm#2517977
So glad this was posted on ycombinator.
Long time ago, someone told me that assaulting someone as a trained black belt martial artist makes your assaults 'assault with a deadly weapon'. So they actually might of made the adjustment in those cases.

I was 10 years old when I was told this, so big grain of salt.
You're entitle to your opinion, however wrong it may be.
Ask HN: YCombinator's SAFE for UK?
YC's SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) is a great document to simplify raising on a convertible note. The version on the documents section is for companies incorporated in Delaware.

Are there any UK companies that have used SAFE and if so, is there a version of the document for UK incorporated companies?
If it's an academic setting and you are the instructor, you can

* Flunk them for not learning or engaging with the material.

* Limit their time in class discussions if they are not engaging constructively.

* Have the administration remove them from the class if they become belligerent.

Of course, the third item is the crucial one. It seems at many universities these days, administrations are taking the side of the customer, er, I mean, student, in every dispute, regardless of the merits.
Too good to be true, perhaps.

http://www.nature.com/news/young-blood-anti-ageing-mechanism...
Just to note, our society oftentimes makes penalties much worse when the crimes are against officers of the state. Like police officers. Or judges. Or the President. And it makes sense that someone shouldn't see killing a cop as a viable means of escaping arrest or what-have-you, just as they shouldn't see murdering a judge (or threatening) as a viable means to get a judgment in their favor.
Honest question: could you even do that without buying an extra copy of Windows? Back in the old days you got a CD key with your PC, so you can install a fresh copy of Windows easily from your own media.

But nowadays it seems like not all keys are equal, and I'm under the impression that short of buying your own copy you can only reinstall the OEM, hacked-up version.
Okay, but my point was that iTunes should have just played and organized my MP3s instead of trying to re-encode them to a different format.
This is both incompetent and dangerously irresponsible.
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The problem is that the vendor OS disk is just a "factory reset" and not a clean windows copy.
Except they too have a mechanism for post install infection built in.

http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/197005-new-apple-malware-i...
They're probably talking about "Are you man enough to be a nurse?" which briefly grabbed attention over a decade ago.

Want more men in nursing? Discourage them from being competitive and choosing to become doctors. Male doctors outnumber female doctors nearly 2 to 1. Men become physicians and surgeons. Women become obstetrics and pediatrics. As a general rule of thumb, most fields that show a gender difference lean heavily towards social bias and differences between gender preferences than discrimination against anyone. I don't know when it became so socially unacceptable to have different preferences than someone else.

Disclaimer:

I don't work in nursing. My grandmother was a nurse for 35 years. I'd hardly call it an "active movement". I don't closely follow the statistics (frankly, I don't care) but it is easy to see that it has not been successful by any significant margin.
> Otherwise, Apple makes ridiculously durable products

Except for the first USB cables for iPhone5, those things only last a few months. First time I have had to buy three cables for charging one device within a year.
The axioms are only defined on discrete uniform distributions. All other distributions must be constructed from the discrete uniform.
I'd say the US economy isn't centrally planned. I would also say existing tax policy is used to encourage certain behaviors. I'm suggested further tax policy to encourage other behaviors as well. I don't see the problem. Shareholder's don't get as high of a dividend? Because its not like Pfizer is going to be using those savings for R&D. Its either going into people's pockets or used to acquire competitors (which arguably does not help consumers or increase their quality of life).
Fair enough! I figure a cloning factory requires some expensive machinery and electronics, notwithstanding already expensive things like climate control, power, and lighting. And it's not like people have built cloning factories before, so you can't exactly look up plans on the internet. By comparison, bridges are fairly well understood and much simpler.
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While all of us call BS on the tech team saying it "can't" be done [1], I'm all for this. If you're saying mean/hateful stuff online, you deserve to have your real name attached to it. It's amazing how much more polite people are when they don't have a wall of anonymity protecting them.

[1]: My bet's on people who can barely use a computer stood up a wordpress or joomla site, and only really understands how to edit configs, not actually change the programming.
I'm not sure the Netflix/Hulu/HBO Go applications would work if we did that.
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Who's talking about ownership? We're talking about control. You can control something that you don't own.
Did you know those are covered under your iPhone warranty? As long as you have a warranty (including AppleCare, so up to 2 years), they will replace the USB cable and headphones for free.
At worst, couldn't they run a query to change their commenters' first names to their screen names and their last names to an empty string?
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It might make comment chains really difficult to follow.
I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending your actions by citing freedom of association is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for what you do is that it's not literally illegal to do so.
http://popmotion.io/guides/feature-comparison implies that popmotion is a free library, but http://popmotion.io/subscribe says it's $9/month. It also fails to mention the difference between Popmotion and PopmotionPro. Any insight on this?
I don't think you're quite getting the scale of provincial bigotry. It's not just this one town. It's every small town, all over the world. Provincial Syrians are just as bigoted towards Americans as provincial Americans are towards Syrians.

We think of nationalism as being inflicted on us by the media, but it's not. We inflict it on ourselves, as a natural result of our natural desire to be with others like us.

In fact, you're just expressing a kind of bigotry against provincial people with this response. It takes care and the desire to rise above it.

You can't fix hate with hate.
It's important to note the distinction between "blacks commit 50% of the murders in the US" and "50% of the murder convictions in the US are black people." It's well-documented that 40 years ago a white person could openly kill a black person and they would not be convicted. I've read a lot of studies, reviews of court cases, and court judgements about the subject, and it is clear that prosecutors are far less likely to charge a white person with a crime than a black person.

Prosecution figures are simply unreliable as a metric for judging how many crimes are committed by whites vs. blacks. There are many interesting cases that show this. The most interesting one is McCleskey v. Kemp. It's not my favorite in terms of the specifics of the case, but it is my favorite because in the intervening years it has become pretty clearly a bad ruling, to the point that the justice who wrote the majority opinion wishes he could reverse his own vote. The unfortunate thing being that he cannot, and his vote has made it effectively impossible to detect and address racial bias in prosecution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCleskey_v._Kemp
Of course people are "too rough" with their power adapters, but the mfg should take that into account when designing such a component.
It's not uncommon for people who went to Harvard to avoid mentioning it right away, because of the way it can derail conversations or create weird expectations. (It's sometimes referrred to as, "Dropping the H-bomb.")

[1] http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012...

[2] https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-who-went-to-Harvard-some...
But I think you have indirectly hit upon the solution.

The rules of good arguments, good logic, and relevant evidence are the points to emphasize and enforce.

So disallow any and all appeals to social proof, and you eliminate the ability for these people to waste everyone else's time.

If someone wants to argue the Earth is 6,000 years old, let them take a couple of cracks at it. But once it's clear they are deviating from the rules of scientific reasoning in science class, make it clear that is the reason for disallowing their arguments and move on.

"We cannot allow academia to be consumed with discussions over whether gravity is a social construction, especially not because right-wing partisans feel that only mostly owning the field of economics means that academia is engaged in conspiracy against them."

Take this sentence, for example. It's not clear at all how the second clause logically follows from the first.
It's interesting that most of the author's claims about quality (and reasoning to not buy a non-Apple brand power supply) boils down to "look at all the extra stuff on the circuit board in the apple power supply". Surely not everything Apple put in the charger was absolutely required, and that also doesn't mean someone else couldn't deliver the same quality with less components.
The definition of "mean" is pretty subjective. Elected officials ought to be subject to criticism.

What's your name, btw?
I'm not up to date on the details of US tax law, but I'd be surprised if such a general anti avoidance rule does not exist.

Mergers the size of this will always have genuine economic incentives in place to do the deal. Add to that very well paid lawyers who will put together an amazing story to get the deal through. So it won't stop them.

Also, this won't stop companies from being sold outright to a foreign competitor. If a Chinese company swoops in and buys the US company, these laws can not apply.

It seems like an easy problem to fix, but it's extremely complex.
> You are a URL bar away from many thousands of SQL injection flaws, right this very instant. By your logic, any exploitation of those bugs should be lawful.

It is a common mistake to think that some terrible law is required because otherwise some terrible act would be legal. Pretty much everything seriously bad (and also most neutral or good things) is illegal six ways from Sunday.

And if you can think of some actually terrible specific thing which is not against any other law than the CFAA, certainly let's pass a law against that thing in particular.
"Is it necessary to have a local trust store that can override HPKP pins in order to debug a TLS connection? No, it is not."

Isn't that exactly what is needed in a corporate or home network where the administrator wishes to monitor/proxy tls/ssl traffic?

Whether that is OK or a good idea is a whole other discussion, but maybe I am misunderstanding the authors point.
Well, nice for quoting half of my sentence.

If you want that the next generation has the same opportunities, then you need those taxes.

Without them, you won’t be able to provide intelligent and engaged children (no matter their family’s wealth) with quality education.
my issues are that mean and hateful are fully separate categories and neither seems to have an agreed upon definition. Just look at colleges today where anything is hateful if someone complains. Worse many who do put their name forward are threatened by these groups in an attempt to silence dissenting opinion.

Threats on the other hand should suffer exposure. Being politically incorrect isn't hateful or mean but there many who will claim in. The danger is we are basically going to silence some who have real reason to fear persecution.
Avoiding committing crime and avoiding being incarcerated for crime are not the same thing.

(The first may help in the second, but just as committing a crime is neither necessary nor sufficient to assure incarceration for it, avoiding committing a crime is neither necessary nor sufficient to avoid incarceration for it. It is frequently argued that it is both more necessary and less sufficient for blacks to avoid crime in order to avoid incarceration as compared to whites, for instance.)
Hi all,

A little side project. I would love to get your feedback on this.

Thx!
Since it was not provided in the article, here are the relevant links:

Paper: http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/16/11/26065

Lab: http://www.cellregeneration.org/
> Is there actually any possible CMS where this problem cannot be solved in one line of code?

The mistake here is assuming that the news organization has

a) a developer

b) access to the code

Quite simply, most are far too cash-strapped and rely on third-party services.
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Well, in the defense of your mentioned programmer, it very well might be more complicated than it looks at first glance. Having worked for two different news organizations in my past, I've an unfortunately large amount of experience with the crufty kinds of integrations that lots of newspapers use for doing everyday things like providing classified ads, e-commerce sales, etc -- it's extremely common for varying areas of the site to be served by entirely different software stacks cleverly masked in such a way to make the branding appear continuous. In the worst of those cases I worked with years ago, your only method available for changing the "header" (not HTML header, of course) involved copying/pasting HTML with manually-inlined style declarations into a text area on the partner's website.

It's probable that he or she was just simplifying things for you, and that you're just unaware of the actual underlying complexities; although changing the color on the wordpress site's navbar sounds pretty clearly trivial at first glance, the full spectrum of places to which that change would have to be manually copied might be extensive, undocumented, and tedious enough to alter that "No, that's impossible" is the go-to answer instead of spending time explaining why something sounding so trivial might actually amount to many hours of effort.
All Apple needs to do to stop their cables from fraying at very high rates is to use a continuous flex cable like these: http://www.igus.com/wpck/15029/productoverview_CF?C=US&L=en I used to work on amusement rides, and we had a problem with cables on bumper cars breaking very often due to movement. After replacing them with these they never failed again.
Great, so you explain how Apple's design is faulty, and how it could be improved. I think you'll find this is easier blustered about than done.

PC chargers, for instance, are universally worse. A lot worse.

This design already does the best job in the industry at handling hard yanks——that's what MagSafe is for. And it does fine with ordinary, expected use and abuse of the cable. And it does great with being thrown into a bag or dropped.

What it doesn't do, because that's impossible, is to magically become able to be yanked on 500 times and coiled as tightly as possible around itself, without ever wearing out. But I've offered a solution to that.

Your implied accusation that "design aesthetics" have taken precedence over functionality and durability is unfounded. The fact is that Apple's charger works a lot better and is a lot more durable than the competition.
My Dell computer has artificial intelligence that can change state lottery results, so that certain balls get picked.

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Unfortunately, pinning doesn't solve everything.

https://noncombatant.org/2015/11/24/what-is-hpkp-for/
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There are just tenants of liberal vs conservative philosophy. If you hang out with a certain group of people, half of those things will be unspeakably taboo. If you hang out with the Young Republicans, the other half will be just as unthinkable. That's just culture and world view, not censorship.

If someone says something unpopular on hackernews, ie "Edward Snowden is a traitor" they will be downvoted into oblivion. You could say that hackernewws censored the person's ideas, but I think the reality is that what they said wasn't very popular with the people they said it to. I think this effect is just as relevant and predictable with online communities as it is with college campuses.
No one, at any point in this thread, has ever suggested that we don't need computer security.
I think after 44 years I'd feel pretty safe.

Attempted murder of a head of state, maybe 25 years or so? Assuming pre-meditation. Attempted murder of myself, 10 years at most, if not pre-meditated, otherwise if it was pre-meditated then some more, but with a chance of parole given good behaviour and maybe psychiatric observation.

Aggravating or other circumstances should be taken into account too, I'm sure that those judges would do their best.

44 years is excessive, by any measure. You're simply not talking about the same person any more. 22 -> 66, that's a life gone. Does the guy in that article look like a serious threat to you? To the officer he tried to kill? To anybody else?

All I see is an old guy who made a really bad dumb move when he was a lot younger, and probably a whole angrier than today. I also question the extra months after he served the many many years for a shoplifting charge when he was 17. That's just revenge, it has nothing to do with justice or having the best of society at heart.