skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. My point was that you can't always explain why you do things. That "you" isn't personal, btw. It's true of everyone, myself included. We all respond according to our social conditioning. Thinking we're so smart that social conditioning doesn't apply is stupid.

2. I haven't taken away your agency, or rejected you from conversation. We're conversing right now, aren't we?

And yes, we might learn something. Are you learning, or just reacting to perceived criticism? In the first paragraph of my original comment, I explicitly excluded you from the broad discussion of racism I went into. I shouldn't have to do that, it should be obvious. But one thing I've learned in these discussions is that people take things personally when they shouldn't, then immediately make the rest of the discussion all about themselves. Which is exactly what you did here. We're not talking about either the "few bad apples" you raised, or the problems of social conditioning that I raised. We're talking about how offended you are that I spoke up at all.

If you can learn anything from this, learn to be aware of the risk of doing that. It's an incredibly frustrating thing for those on the other end. It's a major reason why women and minorities are very wary of discussing sexism and racism with white men. (And no, I'm not accusing you of being sexist or racist, so stop right there.)
They went a step further. Once a Windows 10 machine is activated, a "hash" of its hardware is taken and associated with the product key. When you reinstall Windows 10, the activation service matches your hardware information with the product key. You need to enter a product key only the first time you install Windows 10 on a particular machine.
You're assuming that a collective (e.g. cops) can be neatly reduced to the sum of individual action without loss of information. This is not the case. Individual cops need not be bad for the police as an institution to be an intrinsically hazardous one.
are you familiar with the potentials of "quantum cryptography"? If not, just do a web search ... that was the reference here.

I'm not a physicist so I can't speak with any authority on the claims but Bruce Schneier in Applied Cryptography claimed that a system which used the principles of quantum cryptography as the transport of the data had already been developed and deployed at great cost between a few key organizations, and this was in a 1996 book.

I'll use this as a basis for a [fallacious] appeal to authority argument here and claim that the "less hackable" claim can't be dismissed outright. But again, I'm not even going to attempt to make any physics claim here --- I simply don't have such credentials.
So when you said "bust your door down, shoot your dog, taze you, and throw you in jail," for simple failure to pay taxes, what did you mean?

Because the story in the linked articles went something like "bust down your door, NOT shoot your dog, NOT taze you, NOT throw you in jail, but seize some of your stuff to pay off a sizeable tax debt or maybe work out a deal to pay off your taxes". Which is a big difference from what you originally said.
George Mason University is libertarian and not right wing. I think Google donating to a libertarian organization is a good thing.
John Oliver (Last Week) on public defenders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USkEzLuzmZ4
The best estimate right now is 20-50% replication rate for fields that rely on p less than 0.05 to judge results. So I think you meant 50-80% false positive rate, although these are not equivalent (ie is the null hypothesis of no difference ever really exactly true...):

>"Ninety-seven percent of original studies had statistically significant results. Thirty-six percent of replications had statistically significant results; 47% of original effect sizes were in the 95% confidence interval of the replication effect size; 39% of effects were subjectively rated to have replicated the original result;
[...]
In cell biology, two industrial laboratories reported success replicating the original results of landmark findings in only 11 and 25% of the attempted cases"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26315443

Edit:

For comparison, Dr. Oz was accused of fraud and called in front of congress for only being wrong half the time:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/12/1...
One thing to look out for though is the fact that they offer you to generate a private key for you.

You probably don't want them to have your private key :)
I would agree, that's not racism. However, I would say that a blanket statement about all members of a race such as this, 'black people have no alternative to understanding how the world really works.', is.
Wow, that's a great lecture! It really seems like the pieces could be coming together on not just unification, but a fundamental (though very non-intuitive) understanding of how spacetime works.
Right wing also refers to "weed should be banned", "abortions are illegal" type religious lunatics as well. Libertarians often do not like to be called right wing because they are not.
In the USA, the legal system is quite racist.
But it makes sense in git, since it's written from the perspective of the user pulling the commits, not from the user sending them.
Interesting. In the US it really depends on which state you get arrested in.

Several states give you $50k / year, but 24 states give you 0: http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/03/us/table.wrongful.con...
If you're going to smear a school, at least get it right. GMU was never known as a "community college." It was founded as an eastern campus of UVA and then promoted directly to being an independent research university. The only two names it has ever been known by are "the George Mason College of the University of Virginia" and "George Mason University."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason_University#Histor...
No mention of Dave's eevblog ?

Its both entertaining and informative:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi-b9k-0KfE
I am unable to see why author has has knickers in twist.
I had considered that, but still detected — perhaps incorrectly — a whiff of implied denigration in the choice of what to say about Ruskin and how to say it.

My comment was an attempt to establish a neutral balance by linking to an argument in favor of the wrong side. If anyone has a good argument for the right side — for why abstraction rules and traditional drawing, painting, and sculpting skills are worthless — I would love to read it. Hopefully, it amounts to more than “because we have photography now”.

I may disagree with what I perceived as the tenor of the original comment, but I saw no reason to downvote it. I see no reason why mine should have been downvoted, either.
From the link you Posted:

> However, it is not possible for a low-privilege application to defend against the platform it runs on, if the platform is intent on undermining the application’s expectations. To try would be futile, and would necessarily also violate a crucial digital rights principle: The computer’s owner should get to decide how the computer behaves. Dell and Lenovo let their customers down in that way, but for better and for worse, it’s not something that a web browser can fix.

To which the response from the original article is:

>One of the most fundamental principles of information security is reducing the attack surface, meaning that when something is unnecessary and can lead to a vulnerability, it must be removed. Is anything Google could do to make it more difficult for Dell to compromise their customers? Yes, there is. The most obvious thing would be to not allow roots within the local trust store to override HPKP pins. Had Google removed the red carpet to disabling all of its safeguards, where would that have left Dell? Sure, they could still compromise Chrome, but there would be no “Google Approved” method of doing so. Dell would either: Have to give up, or: Literally install malware on their computers. Dell’s stock would plummet.

Thus fixing this would:

1) Reduce the attack surface created by 'accidentaly' publishing a private key for root certificate (especially when removing those certs is beyond the technical ability of the majority of users)

2) Improve the ability of the computer OWNER to decide how the computer behaves since they would be aware when HPKP pins are being overiden.

3) Force OEMs that wish to compromise Chrome to write explicit Malware that will be much harder to handwave away and thus be a bigger risk to their reputation.
Because...innocent until proven guilty. But according to the parent comment, guilty until proven innocent. The author of the story doesn't need to prove anything to you. His experience and the fact that he was ultimately released from prison should be enough.
Great to hear Jessica's voice (literally) on this. Listening to her story, it's wild to think she and pg had such success with what really must have felt very experimental. "Learn quickly by funding a bunch of startups at once" feels like a very startup-y way to go about your business.
I get that you're trying to equate attempted and real murder but it sounds very short-sighted and it does not do any argument justice that you isolate such a serious incident from the countless factors that are surely involved (motive being prominent, but i feel a discussion of that would also turn simplistic).

For the sake of future discussions, just remember that these people are real, and there's mostly likely tremendous misfortune behind such a heinous act as murder.

No one gains anything from these 44 year long sentences.[0] He's been incapacitated for his entire life, and because of that, is seemingly going to be it for the rest of his life.

[0] Obviously if he's diagnosed as completely deranged there might be an issue of public safety.
The obsession with job creation and emphasis on quantity not quality is definitely a RW core belief and policy goal.
>People are not being wrongly incarcerated (wholesale) for violent crimes that dont exist, not being violent is sufficient to avoid incarceration for such crimes.

That's absurd. You're completely ignoring the face that the FBI invented completely bogus disciplines of forensic science (hair analysis, bite marks) and self-certified experts in those disciplines who then went forth and helped convict scores of people for two decades.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-fo...
I've heard that some corporate networks do this to enable filtering and monitor employee internet usage. I could see that being a somewhat legitimate use case.
Guilty verdicts are difficult in American law. "Beyond a reasonable doubt" is hard to achieve, even when the accused is guilty. "Probable cause" is all that is needed for arrest, a much lower standard.
Just curious... are you American?

"Having said all of that, I do not want to see us become self-indulgent with pity. There are 300 million people in the U.S. There are tens of thousands of cops. You could run a video like this everyday and statistically there still wouldn't be much incompetence or corruption going on."

Because it's mind-boggling to me that you don't think there is incompetence and corruption.
If you're missing something, I must be missing it, too. He said that the person in the video is "lighter", and has a "hooked nose with a dent in it". I'm certain that there's another video that's not shown on the site, because there is no possible way that you could determine those details from the 20 pixels that make up the thief's face.
You seriously don't see any difference between 1) Dell installing a cert that applies broadly with plausible deniability (the current situation), and 2) Dell installing a similar cert and explicitly overriding some sort of per-domain debug setting?

Yes, Dell could do anything they want, but the latter situation clearly establishes mens rea[1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
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If that shot of the person's face is from a video of the incident that person is not him. Yes, there's lossy compression applied but that don't make someone's nose into a completely different nose.

Healthy skepticism is good but the only thing worth questioning here is if that shot is in fact real–something that could only be evaluated if they released the tape. But since they're not exactly going out of their way to do that I can only assume that it would be against their interests. Until they produce it I'll have to take his word at face value.
You're gonna love this: http://www.meltingasphalt.com/neurons-gone-wild/
Contrary to what the blog post and the docs indicate, it doesn't seem to actually require you to use react-router, it just requires you to use history (which is neither specific to React nor to the browser). None of the API calls seem to ever have access to react-router (only history).
Don't make it entirely on the State. The individuals who are acting negligently on behalf of the State need to have an incentive to do the right thing as well.
Agreed! This saved us all kinds of headaches in a large project at my old company (not open source in this case, but still helpful).

I left a similar response on Medium before I noticed your comment: https://medium.com/@peterjmag/great-tip-d6fcdec36e13
I actually agree strongly with your point, I just think that the pursuits named above are better at teaching people how to learn than many colleges are these days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_evasion_in_the_United_Stat...
Not really, it's the same thing here in Toronto.

Developers regularly buy tear-down bungalows on 50' x 120' lots for $1.2M and proceeds to put two tiny houses on the lot that sell for $1M each.
So you don't think that the corporate employees have the right to know then their company is doing MITM to monitor their HTTPS traffic?
The same reason there aren't "discount" Rolls-Royces:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
Brett Glass's head just exploded.

If you're not familiar with him, Brett is a small ISP operator who dependably interrupts internet policy conversations to accuse pretty much everyone of shilling for Google. Lessig took the time to write a full rebuttal: http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/90048838607/on-the-curious-cas...
Who got a few years for murder?
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That video is from the other robbery where the robber was shot and killed by the clerk. The video from which the snapshot was taken hasn't been released and has only been shown to the suspect and his attorney and it was during that viewing that the attorney took the picture. hth
One of the skills that engineering teaches and/or selects for is something like "taking ideas seriously."

I respect what you're saying but I think there's room for nuance. They tend to be competitive and driven. In a sense you can't become an engineer without those traits because engineering, or the application of scientific principles in design, is hard. You have to work hard to become an engineer.

Engineers are highly capable of implementing plans because of their method of thinking and acting. Daydreaming about something is different to actual implementation. It's why the phrase Ideas are cheap, execution is everything is a common refrain in these parts.
Thank you.

I'm leaving my comment in place. It shows a nice example of not paying careful attention to the conversation. Too much of that on the net already.
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That's a really good way of putting it.

I live in Minneapolis, so I'm uncomfortably close to the current protests. There are plenty of nice, well-meaning cops out there spraying mace at people in my city for exercising their right to free speech and assembly. The Minneapolis police, as an institution have down a terrible job of handling the protests. (and please, people, don't turn this into a meta-discussion of the protesters or the original shooting. I'm just observing some facts here.)
Maybe you should pull out your full derivation. Random Wikipedia text doesn't count (particularly when it is just bald assertion, as in this case).

Most null hypotheses hypothesize a normally distributed measurement error. For any given distribution (continuous uniform), of course, the p-value means something different. That is what I have been arguing this whole time.
One thing that he left off his list of things to make contributing successful is seeking up a "docker" box which is ready to go for development.

(Or a vagrant file)

If the image is set up so it "just works" and has all tools preinstalled, you can be up and running locally in seconds.

With NPM scripts, its often possible to run I to problems with node-gyp... Or any other number of cross platform incompatiblities.

The docker/vagrant route is a really novel solution I've seen used effectively in other projects.
I'm typing this on an Thinkpad X60 which is plugged into a power supply of similar vintage to the machine judging by the IBM branding &c. The laptop was manufactured in December 2006 and is ex-corporate (i.e. not treated with kid gloves) and judging by the nicks in the cable, the PSU has had a similar life.

So might Apple PSUs for all I know, my ancient white iBook G4 psu is still serviceable although the iBook is in its box because the hard drive sounds like a food mixer and I can't be bothered to go through the procedure needed to remove or replace the drive...

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iBook+G4+12-Inch+800+MHz-1.2+GH...
One particular model Ford (F150) comes in a version with a V8 that is a bit too strong for the frame. If you use it for what it's made (pull heavy stuff) at some point the transmission will simply drop out from underneath because the retainer bracket at the back is too light for the job. This happened to me (no warranty, they claimed the vehicle was not meant for heavy duty, in spite of being sold exactly as such...). I can easily imagine your 'tranny drops out from underneath' after renting your car out to someone that pushes that car a bit further than you normally do.

I'm still boycotting Ford over that whole affair, what a nonsense. Stick a 350+ HP engine in a car and then expect it to be used for shopping only...
The article addresses this explicitly. The point is to reduce the attack surface and limit the damage that is caused by these sorts of 'mistakes'.
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RFC Should functions have a color?
The title is a reference to http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/
what-color-is-your-function/ a joyfull rant about async functions and promises.

I like to request your comment on a similar topic. While coding in go - I often find me asking: is this package go-routine save? Many times I find the answer in the doc's or can ask on the internet, sometimes I need to look at the code.

"go routine safety" is just like the color in the rant of munificent.

On a current project I would like to assert that a user provided callback is a pure function - there we got another color!

those two colors are alike - they represent meta informations about an entity (function, package, struct) and they are about the behavior of the entity.

They also have something to do with boundarys - tho my English skills deny me to elaborate :(

I wounder...

Do you know other kinds of colors?

Is that coloring bothering you? And if not how do you approach it?
Of all murder cases in a period of time what % of cases are effected by these issues with these types of forensic science (you arent suggesting all forensic science is bunk are you?), I never said the justice system is infallible, however are you suggesting that the majority people who are convicted of murder are innocent?
US contemporary libertarianism for all intents and purposes is right-leaning. Globally, it's the complete opposite with a lot of similarities to anarchism.
> Am I missing something here?

Yes. The video at the bottom is a video of the second robbery—the robbery that occurred after he was arrested and where the actual robbers got shot. It is not the video that was used to identify him.

This is explained in the second paragraph on the page.
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Biased towards neochartalism.

EDIT: As I can tell from your recent blog posts and HN submissions, you've been binging lectures on MMT and have been getting rather excited over it. That's fine. Do not assume it is anything but a heterodox theory, rather than an axiomatic truth. Economics is a field that is startlingly easy to deceive one's self in proficiency of from limited exposure, and you appear to be a prime example of the very failings you lament.
Certainly, this particular case is prosecutorial misconduct. There was probably probable cause for the initial arrest, but not to keep it going. Sometimes I wonder how much of this is prosecutors not wanting to admit they were wrong and they did an awful thing to an innocent person?
I suspect even if it were a compiled Java binary with lost source code, this could still be solved with one line of code. Sigh.
Palo Alto Networks firewalls do exactly that. It was one of their big differentiating feature; this is the main reason companies buy them.

Personally I agree with you, but PANW has 15.62 billion reasons to disagree with us. I suspect Google's position is to placate companies like PANW and their customers.
Especially because prisoners on death row aren't likely to have accepted a plea bargain.

It seems reasonable to expect that plea bargains at least slightly increase the rate of imprisonment of innocent persons.
If you were using land to grow food, do you control it or own it?
Even that conservative error rate come from academics "in the system" is about "guilty/not guilty" style errors.

Whether the guilty deserve the punishment they got (what with BS like "three strikes", "zero tolerance" etc) it's another matter altogether.
I'm starting to wonder if the site was updated between when you three read it and when I read it. Different video, different robbery. The video in evidence for his case hasn't been released. The attorney had to take a picture (which is the one you see at the top). The video at the bottom is the video of the robbery in which the person he suspects of being the real robber in his case is killed.
That's a very weak definition of "impossible". Even in the situation you describe you just hire a developer for a couple of hours to fix the issue.

Yes, doing this will cost you money, but it will be much, much cheaper than dealing with the inevitable shitstorm that is going to follow if they go through with this change.
http://www.cjr.org/investigation/rolling_stone_investigation...

Has Rolling Stone actually fired any of the people involved in its retracted story? When Rolling Stone makes a blunder of this proportion they have no business talking about Americans believing falsehoods.
I should have make myself more clear. You see, I understand that.

What I also understand is that it is the _only_ video we actually have chance to see.
How many guilty people would you set free to avoid imprisoning an innocent person? You said 10.

But probably some of those 10 will be repeat offenders. So how many innocent people will you see murdered in order to avoid imprisoning an innocent person? That's a different question, isn't it?

I think this gets to the question of "beneficial for society as a whole". If you stick some plausible values on this (say we're talking about people accused of major crimes, recidivism rate = X%, some weighted values assigned to harm for false imprisonment, being raped, being murdered, etc., and some plausible relationship between false conviction rate and non-conviction of those who are actually guilty), then it should be possible to calculate an optimum rate of convicting people.

(Two notes: First, as the rate of false convictions goes up, the rate of non-conviction of the guilty goes down. Second, calculating the optimum is going to depend on the exact values chosen for all those parameters, but it still could be an interesting exercise.)
You really tricked them! Had them replace their faulty product!!