skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, the business purpose and economic substance doctrines. Again, flimsy normative statements. A legislative pen obsessed with maximizing such a function will eventually write things unsavory to civil liberties, as well.
I don't think it's 100% true as stated. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photomixing
Currently hugo has not focused on this aspect of development and many people have found success combining Hugo with Gulp. There are a few projects related to this that make it pretty easy. There's a good discussion around this on the forum. https://discuss.gohugo.io/t/gulp-hugo-hugo-npm/1121
> When disagreeing with a particular popular liberal thought is so taboo, the people who want to vocalize their dissent will find strange bedfellows. In this case the unabashedly misogynistic.

That's not something I'm going to do. I don't subscribe to "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and I want nothing to do with misogyny. We're not doing ourselves any favors by associating with terrible people just because they agree with us on some issues.
There really seems to be a disparity between perceived and actual justice in the United States. I bet 95‰ of the population of the US thinks all people in prison deserve to be there and the miscarriages they hear about are the only ones that occur. I dread to think how many innocent people are actually in US jails.
Yep. And Apple did. That's why there is more robust strain relief than it used to have, and that's why there is MagSafe, which is vastly superior to the PC side when dealing with yanks and ordinary abuse.
"most of the circuitry is covered by the metal heat sink, held in place by yellow insulating tape."

This sounds a bit dodgy to me.
Could someone with domain expertise comment on whether this is normal ?
A New Firefox Add-Ons Validator
Hah, of course :) I won't spoil it so whoever clicks the link will surely die, especially if they understand German.
Well said. Crude majoritarian morality has hole after hole that even its most thoughtful adherents can do nothing to defend. Why people continue to invoke it is beyond me.
Have you looked at Youtube comments in the past few years? This claim is absolutely, demonstrably false. People say mean/stupid things when they feel there won't be any repercussions. Not having your name attached to something might have some correlation with that, but it's certainly not the cause.
Thank you. I didn't even realize there was a video :-O
That's ludicrous. Other companies don't have this problem? Sorry, but I take care of hundreds of PCs. Other companies definitely do have this problem.
Not in the imperial time, no. Dostoyevsky's The House of the Dead is an interesting account of his time in Siberia, and it wasn't all that bad.

It was different in Stalin's time, though. Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma tales tells a very different story. But even he survived after having served 15 years.
Generational poverty and crime are definitely serious issues, but that's not the movement's "overall premise". The movement's philosophical underpinning is a complete abdication of personal agency and responsibility. They perceive themselves to be part of a powerless and oppressed group (which is false, especially for some of these 'victims' that are Ivy League students with many open doors). To support that, they've built a revisionist narrative of Western civilization, espoused in works like "A People's History of the United States", that centers on oppression of these out-groups and on the evils on capitalism. They have a paranoid sense that everything is an act of oppression, see "microaggressions" and "cultural appropriation". They are hostile to freedom because their goals of changing how individuals relate to each other socially cannot be achieved without coercion.
I can't agree with that. Someone at Apple fetishizes thin cables to a dangerous degree.

These power supplies aren't as obviously defective by design as an iPhone cable, but after looking at the amount of design detail and engineering directed at the power supply and MagSafe, the sacrifices made seem pretty insane.
There are countless solutions to the read later problem, but none that I've used deal with an issue that I often encounter: I partially read an article, then add it to Pocket/Instapaper to finish later. The ritual of figuring out days/weeks later where I had left off was getting tiresome, so I threw this Chrome extension together. I'd love to hear thoughts.
Did you miss the part of the article that responded to that link?
This is what a Tor supporter looks like
Does anyone know of a tool for Windows and OSX that will audit all the certificates installed on a machine and tell you which ones are removed, compromised, or generally unrecognized?
Nice playground it reminds me of good old times
This is a fundamental problem with RSS/Atom based aggregation: people write their blog posts to work nicely with their own site's CSS, and then when the post is aggregated onto a different site with a different theme it can look very different. Some blogging engines try to avoid this by deliberately stripping out anything but basic HTML from the RSS version of a post, but that can create the same problem in the opposite direction.

In practice it's not a big deal, though. Most posts use pretty simple markup, and of the ones that don't, if you read a Planet regularly you learn pretty quickly whose posts are worth clicking through to the original site to read.
They're winning because, while their tactics can be terrible, immature, and oppressive, their moral thrust is correct. Most women and minorities do face obstacles in American society--even today--that most white men don't. This is evidenced in a wide variety of population statistics, at confidence levels that would be high enough to make headlines if they were risks in a medical study.
1) This policy doesn't apply only to comments that say "mean/hateful stuff". It applies to ALL comments. Is your assertion that there is never any value for anonymous comments? Is your assertion that ONLY mean/hateful stuff should get attached to real names, and that positive well reasoned arguments should stay anonymous? Or is your argument that we should call well-intentioned valuable anonymous comments " collateral damage" in the war against mean things said online?

2) If you think that ONLY mean/hateful stuff needs to be attached to a real name, who gets to be the arbiter of this policy?

3) What about the legally binding promise made in the MT Standard's privacy policy where they said they would NOT share that information with third parties? And they further said that updates to the privacy policy could not affect comments retroactively? Are we willing to let a company get away with flagrantly violating their privacy policy so that we can win the war against "mean/hateful" stuff that is said online?

Edit: I also notice that you are posting here under the anonymous screenname "killface", while I'm posting with my first initial and last name. Ironic.
However, I think the approach of sticking someone with an opposite opinion, then tearing their argument apart with debate, insightful questions, or merciless satire are wonderful approaches to dealing with this problem. Stewart and Colbert, of course, mastered this art in the U.S., and many British journalists seem to have a knack for it as well.
Well, we spend lots of money on bullshit, too.

We spent 200 billion saving the greek economy.

We build the Berlin Airport BER, the S21 train station, and the Elbphilharmonie.

All projects that waste money.

But the public services we get are still worth the tax. I wouldn’t want to pay less tax and lose our libraries, or free university access, or quality education. I wouldn’t give up just for a bit more money the public transit, which cuts down my commute times, or the services financed by the government.

Yes, the government invests broadly to get money back – from companies like T-Mobile and DHL to VW, all of which end up paying dividends to the federal budget, because the government owns a lot of shares in them – but we still need taxes.

And I’m okay with that.

The life here isn’t perfect, but it’s okay. One can live with it, without ever worrying about stuff.
Jessica Livingston on the Accidental Origin of Y Combinator
The Quantum Source of Space-Time
I switched from Chase to Charles Schwab Bank. Decent mobile app, can take pictures of checks to deposit them, can use any ATM without fear of surcharges, I've got checks should I need to use them, great customer service, and works with the online budget management software.

Probably a lose leader to the investment products, which you don't have to use, but I'm extremely happy.
If that's an exercise in irony, you nailed it, "killface".
The author flat out says a toggleable debug mode to allow that. Something like a command line flag on starting Chrome to explicitly disable that behavior. You know, like all the other testing flags Chrome has.
That seems like a simple superposition, while I'm going to assume the author meant some sort of quantum interference.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10628733

> In an ideal world, you wouldn't need computer security--people should just do what they're supposed to do.
cool one..
With the practicality of something that only worked on Debian systems aside...

> Between Let's Encrypt and StartCom ...

What do we have?

StartCom doesn't allow their free certificates to be used for commercial purposes and will hold you to ransom if you need to revoke it (eg. after a major vulnerability which exposes private keys).

Let's Encrypt only issue certificates that are valid for 90 days[0] because they want you to automate renewal by having your server automatically run their script which needs root privileges, and they use Google as the gatekeeper of who is allowed a certificate[1].

We are still short an option that issues certificates that are valid for 1+ years, which can be revoked at any time, can be used for any purpose and doesn't pass every request to a corporation for approval.

[0] https://letsencrypt.org/2015/11/09/why-90-days.html

[1] https://letsencrypt.org/2015/10/29/phishing-and-malware.html
Switch mode power supplies are notorious emitters of radio frequency interference. There are regulations they have to pass and passing them is often one of the hardest parts of power supply design.
95% of white people maybe

black people have no alternative to understanding how the world really works
'80s, dammit, Daily News. Never pluralize with an apostrophe. Never.
The right-thinking people.
It's not impossible. But the article does address this point:

> One explanation, that B.T. was “malingering,” or lying about her disability, was disproved by an EEG test. When B.T. was in her two blind states, her brain showed none of the electrical responses to visual stimuli that sighted people would display — even though B.T.’s eyes were open and she was looking right at them.
A Brief History of Graphics in Video Games [video]
"The company employs about 100 people in a 30,000-square-foot warehouse. About 80% of the company’s workforce is Latino"
Man Describes Modern Technology After Spending 45 Years in Prison
>fucking U+10472 SHAVIAN LETTER ICE

Oh no you di'int just hate on my Shavian alphabet!

Unicode is supposed to express writing systems. The Shavian alphabet is a writing system, even if it isn't in widespread use. It's apparently used more than Klingon though, as Klingon isn't included due to lack of widespread use. If I'm wrong on this, maybe we can convince the SEI to include Klingon? :)

Also as far as people being against emoji - the document covers why [1]. Unifying things is nice, so you don't give a smiley emoji to one person only to have it rendered as a "flipping the bird" emoji by another vendor. It's to aid in communication due to the widespread use of emoji characters. I was initially against the addition of them but you know what? The argument is pretty solid and backs what Unicode is trying to accomplish.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet

[1] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-2.html
This is very true. I knew a guy who only ate fast food, and he could not (or would not) eat at better restaurants. He simply did not like anything but the fast food hamburgers.
Bridge could be pre-fabricated and dropped into place overnight. The train tracks there are primarily for commuter trains, which don't run between 1am and 5am. I know I'm being an armchair engineer, but I just thought the contrast between the two was funny.
A related effort: https://twitter.com/yourfirstpr
Status codes are not reliable indications of authorization at all. If you steal someone's password, the server will give you 200's all day long, even though your entire session would be unauthorized.
While I appreciate the intent of the okTurtles folks, I think their reasoning about Google Chrome is flawed.

If I, as the user, want to override HPKP, it should be easy for me to do so. Perhaps, for instance, I'd like to MITM my own traffic for debugging purposes, or to get an idea of what data an app is transmitting.

Let's imagine for a moment that Google modifies Chrome the way the okTurtles people propose. Nothing stops Dell from writing a kernel patch which detects that code path and alters the functionality at runtime.

If you own the system, you can make it do whatever you want. And Dell starts out owning the system here.
I work for a company ( Cogent - http://cogent.co/ ) that does just that. In my experience there are many, many benefits. Not only is it fairer, more transparent and less stressful, it also provides people with clear guidance on career development and alternative career paths.

Here's our CEO, Marty Andrews, talking about it at a conference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf5r4yLTc9k
>pet/child destroys electronic device
>somehow manufacturer's fault

If Apple were to make a charger with steel-braided armor cable to prevent animals from chewing it, there would be a 250 reply thread on HN about how obnoxiously heavy and inflexible Apple chargers are. And some guy's cat story about how it destroyed the charger anyway.
Didn't know that until it was too late... It did surprise me that they were so bad that year.
Ok, I see you still have your very own definition of "p-value". I just thought it was useful to make clear to the audience that your "p-values" are not the same "p-values" being discussed here.

Edit: Probably you don't care, but for the record:

"Since the value of x that defines the left tail or right tail event is a random variable, this makes the p-value a function of x and a random variable in itself defined uniformly over [0,1] interval, assuming x is continuous." [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value ]

"In statistics, when a p-value is used as a test statistic for a simple null hypothesis, and the distribution of the test statistic is continuous, then the p-value is uniformly distributed between 0 and 1 if the null hypothesis is true." [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_distribution_(continuo... ]
I've used both shrink tubing and Sugru on iPhone cables. On the MacBook charger, just Sugru. Both will fail eventually. I find that typical shrink wrap is too stiff and creates stress riser. After a couple of years, my cables are more patch than original.
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I wonder how this will affect the South Korean pet cloning industry and whether they'll improve on viability of the clones.
That's one of the reasons the charger has a bunch of inductors and capacitors on the AC line, to keep interference from exiting the charger through the AC line. The metal shielding around the charger also helps.
Using the file system fs.* with Node.js, what's your take?
All of this is literally on the tech specs page. http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs

You can be disappointed, but if you're bitter, it's your own fault for not properly researching. Don't blame Apple, no bait and switch here.
> We want citizens who will speak up for what they know is right, even if they know they will face trouble.

I thought your comment was really good, but I don't think this conclusion is quite right. The problem is that lots of different people "know" that lots of different things are "right". In my life experience (read: I have no data on this), we don't seem to have the problem that not enough people will "speak up for what they know is right" because they fear trouble, we instead have the problem that not enough people are willing to challenge themselves on what they "know" is "right".

Sorry for all the scare quotes, but my point is that the entire idea that people can know that things are right, and then speak up for those things, is off-base. Certainly, it's a good thing to have a sense for what you think is right, and to be able to speak up for those things, but it's a much better and much harder thing to be open to being convinced that you are incorrect. That's what I don't see much of in our society, and what all schools, and universities in particular, should do a better of imparting to their students! Instead of teaching people to better manage their anxiety about speaking against perceived social norms, we would be better off improving peoples' skills of hearing things they disagree with, and of structuring their own arguments such that they don't drown out that disagreement (for instance, the all too familiar tactic of yelling and/or ranting continuously).
Does anyone know of a tool for Windows and OSX that will audit all the certificates installed on a machine and tell you which ones are removed, compromised, or generally unrecognized? It would be great if there was one so I can run audits because even if you install a fresh copy of the OS, the NSA and their friends can eventually sneak a cert on there. It would be great if there were an audit tool.
I'm happy that this guy finally got out of jail. Here's hoping he doesn't let this terrible tragedy hurt him the rest of his life.

I support any reasonable thing the public can do to help folks like him out. We live in a security state, and video cameras everywhere are beginning to show how rotten it is in places.

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.

It presents us with an interesting problem, which I'm seeing in not just police incompetence/corruption cases, but all across the political spectrum: when you have large numbers of people, even if an extremely small percentage of them do bad things, it's easy to paint a picture of them all doing bad things. That's true whether it's cops, members of political party X, members of group Y, or so on.

Note that I'm not saying it's an insignificant problem. I'm saying that this type of presentation, while powerful, provides us with zero context to gauge the size of the problem at all. When we consume such content, especially when it's highly emotionally manipulative, we should remember this.
What is your strategy for Customer Facing Applications
So if Common Joe's views on gender can be summarized as "Women should stay in the kitchen", is it elitist to not take that idea seriously? It has nothing to do with people's relative social or intellectual standing, and no one should have to bring themselves down to anyone else's level. Bad ideas are bad ideas, and should be labelled as such.

It's hard to tell if someone making a controversial statement is doing so to learn and participate in discussion, or if they're just trolling. And with ol' Common Joe the latter can be just as likely as the former. So sometimes people err on the side of caution, and prefer to avoid outright controversial topics that are difficult to discuss and articulate. I don't think it's an issue of anyone looking down on anyone else.
How much opportunity comes from government spending versus private investment?

Money going to the U.S. Federal government goes to: 24% Social Security (i.e. the dole), 24% to the least efficient healthcare system in the world, 17% to the military to drop bombs on poor people.

If the majority, or even 25%, of government spending was creating economic growth and opportunity, I don't think anyone would have a problem with it. This is a country that was begun by a tax war, so if there is an obligation to the past, an aggressive response to tax policy is certainly part of it.
We do not live in an ideal world.
I don't think your political leaning has anything to do with being a crybaby who thinks they are entitled to live in a "safe space".

You can easily be an extreme liberal or conservative and still tolerate other views.

This has nothing to do with their politics.
> PC chargers, for instance, are universally worse. A lot worse.

This is an unsubstantiated claim not backed by any evidence. In fact, your original post speaks against your very claim - you advocate people be ginger with their chargers or risk breaking them.

> This design already does the best job in the industry at handling hard yanks——that's what MagSafe is for

You mean to say "that's what MagSafe was for". Magsafe is gone now... (although I would generally agree that type of connector is good).

> it does fine with ordinary, expected use and abuse of the cable

Clearly not the case, as evidenced by this thread here.

> And it does great with being thrown into a bag or dropped.

I can't speak to either way except with anecdotal evidence of having to replace far more macbook chargers than any other type.

> 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

Somehow my Thinkpad's charger hasn't worn out, and I'm guilty of every laptop charger sin there is. The same holds true for my previous Dell laptop. These types of chargers are usually made from hard plastic, with a plastic cable. They don't fray the same way macbook rubber-y chargers do. In fact, Dell's chargers are designed specifically to be tightly wound around the charger and come with a nice rubber strap to hold it tight.

> Your implied accusation that "design aesthetics" have taken precedence over functionality and durability is unfounded

Perhaps, but it does seem so given all the anecdotal evidence in this thread. It looks pretty, but wore out far quicker than most should.

> The fact is that Apple's charger works a lot better and is a lot more durable than the competition.

This is another unsubstantiated claim, and/or is supported only by your proposition people treat their chargers with tenderness (which isn't going to happen).

Plain and simple - these things need to be designed to take a lot of abuse. If Apple can do that, great... but it seems they took a giant leap backwards with the new USB-C charger which will cause the infamous "broken DC jack" problem all over again.
-> almost necessary

Required. I'm in graduate school right now and you won't get a call back for 2nd rounds if you have a beard. It's some sort of irrational proxy for discipline.
I haven't yet had the need to try revocation, but Wosign is a more accessible option than startssl. No noncommercial restriction, 1 year free.
Bad actions by the US gov led to bad workarounds by other govs
I am short on time today and just don't have time to read through all the comments (or even the article at the moment, sigh -- I would love to read this), but I have something of a longstanding interest in multiple personality disorder and I have read of cases where physical things, like scars or moles, appeared and disappeared depending upon which personality was being expressed at the time.
I thought that they used a bitterant in the plastic. I guess I thought wrong.
This seems to be very much a "your mileage may vary" thing. I always used that same technique and went through 4 chargers before I finally got sick of the darn things. Then there are a lot of people like you who think that people like me must have hammers or wire dikes for hands.