skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not really addressing the grandparent's point. Why shouldn't you purely punish culpability and ignore outcomes? It's seems way more logical and everyone recognizes this on some level.

If I shoot you purely by accident most people will agree that I shouldn't go to prison. It was an accident, I'm not a danger to society.

If I mean to murder you but my aim is off, or modern medical science manages to keep you from death, how is society better off exactly by keeping me in prison for a shorter time just because I wasn't successful?

The rational reason to put people in prison in the first place is because we consider them a danger to society. Am I less of a danger to society just because I was slightly incompetent on my first murder attempt?
>In this day and age, people are born into many diverse situations, regardless of shared racial makeup.

The problem is that racists don't look into "diverse situations", just racial makeup.

E.g. is there any more diverse situation compared to a poor black guy from the ghetto, than being the President? And yet, even the President is often described, from private discussions down to protest banners in racism terms -- heck, even as a n....
> hey, this site has a HPKP pin that is being overridden by a local root, are you sure it's the IT Dept or the AV vendor but not your manufacturer screwing up?

Yeah, that is a crappy error message that will confuse and scare people. However, it is not that hard to write a better one:

"Your connection to {this site} may be using a security certificate other than the one specified by {this site}. This may be a part of your Antivirus or Corporate network firewall. However, be aware that it is possible that groups other than you and the operator of this site may have access to any data you view at or send to this site."

Then handle this warning the same way that self-signed or expired certificates are handled.

> THAT will increase the attack surface exposed to the outside world (see Tavis Ormandy's work), only to reduce the "attack surface" exposed to your own manufacturer or system.

How does it increase the attack surface? The attack surface of 'installing an antivirus that has access to your https traffic and can perform a MITM on it' is the same either way, right?
> No, feminism has turned into an anti-male movement.

If you're incapable of recognizing that feminism isn't one set of ideas, but a diverse set of ideas, you're just as bad as those who espouse the Duluth model. You accuse all feminists of declaring men guilty until proven innocent, but in doing so, you're declaring all feminists guilty even despite the fact that I've already shown some of them to be innocent. And what's more, you're alienating a lot of feminists who would be on your side.

> That idea is not consistent with my experience.

Which is why I tried to expand your experience by quoting major feminist writers. Do you not realize that your experience is limited?

> These days, every time I hear someone arguing against equal treatment, against free speech, against due process, and again diversity of opinion, that person is a self-proclaimed feminist.

Every time I see a rapist on the news that person is a self-proclaimed man. If you're going to (correctly) complain about being judged by a few poor examples of our gender, you should recognize the hypocrisy of judging all feminists by a few poor examples of their movement.
In no particular order...

OpenVMS and NonStop (NSK) do not compete. Entirely different products and markets.

VMS Software Inc (VSI) have licensed OpenVMS from HPE. They've not acquired the product.

The company was newly formed, not a spin-off of HP.

VSI have been circumspect on their x86-64 release schedule.

The team includes many of the same development folks that ported OpenVMS from Alpha to Itanium.

OpenVMS I64 Itanium software list prices are unchanged from those of HPE. Whether and how much the VSI sales reps might be discounting, you'd have to ask them.

Related:
http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1917
http://www.vmssoftware.com/pdfs/VSI_DrawerSt_v2.pdf
From the Kleppmann's mouth:

https://twitter.com/martinkl/status/629169643710775296

I saw him talk at a conference, and that was one of the questions someone asked. He must be so fed up with it by now!
You complained I didn't show anything, so there you have something. Do you have anything, even if it is a bald random Wikipedia assertion, supporting your position? (Rhetorical question, I couldn't care less.)

Here is a full derivation from a random blog, which I guess doesn't count either: https://shihho.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/pvalue_distribution/

Another one: https://joyeuserrance.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/proof-that-p-...
Those statistics are just false. More reliable numbers are:

Blacks killed by blacks: 90%
Blacks killed by whites: 8%
Whites killed by whites: 82%
Whites killed by blacks: 15%
Ratio of whites killed by police to blacks killed by police: 1.857

[1] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/...

[2] https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/...
Martin Andrews – Open Salaries
The point, though, is that's not what these tech equality conferences are about - they are about equalizing the gap, i.e. it is the gap that is important, not the value of the work being done (or otherwise).
But you know you've stolen somebody else's password. It isn't a grey area. The server is telling you that that user is authorized, which is true, and you know that that user is not you. If you want to take the narrow interpretation of the CFAA without making it a dead letter, that is how you violate it.
Why should that idea be censored by an external source? If he really wants to say that, he will pay the societal penalties.
When you can (barely) afford an attorney after rotting in county with a shit waffle public attorney begging you to take a deal you're not exactly a threat.

Public defenders are notoriously shitty. I have an acquaintance who gets into legal trouble every now and then that is quite smart despite being so stupid. He uses a public defender most of the time and has to actively micro-manage them. This includes what motions to file and who to contact. If he is in jail this can also require reaching out to friends to visit the defender in person so they can't just ignore him. If he doesn't do this they just ask him to take a deal.

They are underpaid, overworked and they deal with actual shitty evil people every day and sometimes the only way to tell the difference between them and the innocent is simply their word. Attorneys you hire can overcome the last issue by being paid enough to offset it.

I think the public defender system needs a complete overhaul. I can't think of any solutions that don't have their own downsides but everyone deserves a fair trial and an attorney whose interests are aligned with their own. The best outcome you can hope for right now if you're poor and subject to prosecution is either a rare defender who cares but is also not overworked or a bright eyed and bushy tailed grad who's out to change their world.
IBM’s 100 Icons of Progress
Is there a plain text version somewhere?
Before you offer to build other people's website, you probably should make your own usable first

https://imgur.com/6wjmLqa
Unless it has changed recently, Chrome on Windows and OS X uses the system trust store - it does not have it's own. Not sure why Chrome's being singled out here.
> So someone who is forced to pay taxes at gunpoint is a freeloader?

Someone who wants all the priviliges of living in a particular society without having to pay for any of them is, yes, a freeloader.
>"You haven't shown anything where a true null hypothesis uniformly generates p-values between 0 and 1."

Try this in R. It calculates p-values for testing the hypothesis that two groups (n=10) come from the same distribution (normal with mean=0, sd=1). It does 100,000 such comparisons, then makes a histogram. This results in approximately a uniform(0,1) distribution of p-values:

hist(replicate(10^5,t.test(rnorm(10),rnorm(10),var.equal=T)$p.value))

If you increase to 10^6, 10^7, etc it will converge upon the uniform distribution. That is what people mean.

Edit:

Or something like this. Keep adding to the sample, the p-value will random walk between 0 and 1. The mean will converge onto 0.5:

n=10; Nsim=10000

a=rnorm(n); b=rnorm(n)

p=matrix(nrow=Nsim,ncol=2)

for(i in 1:Nsim){

p[i,1]=length(a)

p[i,2]=t.test(a,b,var.equal=T)$p.value

a=c(a,rnorm(n)); b=c(b,rnorm(n))

plot(p[,1],p[,2],ylim=c(0,1),
ylab="pvalue", xlab="sample size")

}
I've been defrauded and burgled for substantial amounts. I've also been mugged at gunpoint. Only for the latter violent crime would I suggest jail time.
Interesting -- I know nothing about non-US libertarianism. In the US, it has been filtered through a two-party system of roughly "public/economic control and private freedom" (D) vs. "public/economic freedom and private control" (R). The result is that it has been largely coopted by the (R) side to promote public/economic anarchy.
Which is why we need computer security. And sometimes laws.
What do you mean by quantity, not quality in terms of jobs?

Someone going from unemployed to employed seems to both be a quantity improvement (one more job) and a quality improvement ($0 in wages vs >$0 in wages).
> feminism isn't one set of ideas, but a diverse set of ideas

Irrelevant. What matters is the people who have social currency and power today, and they're the toxic variety of feminist.
These people are working on cloning, other people are working on in vitro meat. There are still plenty of problems to solve in either process.
Why most public apologies suck
Timeout: Ruby's Most Dangerous API
Along the same lines, I'd encourage everyone, first timers and grey beards alike to check out http://24pullrequests.com/ (they use a 'beginner' instead of 'first-timers-only' as their novice-friendly tag).

If you're in the Salt Lake area, also please consider joining us next Saturday [1] or Tuesday, Dec. 15 [2] as we give a little back to the Open Source community!

[1] SLC JS Learners - monthly JavaScript Study Group - http://www.meetup.com/SLC-JS-Learners/events/224563977/
[2] SLC JS Learners - monthly meetup - http://www.meetup.com/SLC-JS-Learners/events/226862778/
Please note, I am not accusing any specific person of being a government spook
intent on weakening security, but I can’t help notice the parallels in this
situation with what is known about how Internet standards get compromised

Except that's exactly what the author is doing. Otherwise why did I have to wade through the first 50% of this blog post? Palmer's blog on the subject [1] is well-reasoned and makes the motivations for the decision clear. Slepak may not like those reasons, but adding a veiled accusation of stoogery to an otherwise weak rebuttal just makes you look like an asshole.

I'll requote Palmer's fundamental assertion:

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.

I can appreciate this argument. Today it's pre-installed certificates, but tomorrow it'll be some malware that hijacks the owner's machine in some other way. If Chrome's responsibilities expand to include the security of the entire system, it would place an impossible burden on its engineers.

[1] https://noncombatant.org/2015/11/24/what-is-hpkp-for/
Is this healthy skepticism you're displaying? I regret that I'm bringing your motivations into question but given that we know his case was dropped because witnesses recanted after seeing said photo of the surveillance video I'm not entirely sure why you're pressing this.
Javacript moves fast (everybody knows that...). React and the tools around also move very quickly.

I've been delaying learning React for awhile. After a period of ranting about "another JS library, another JS tool etc etc!!", I got tired of my ranting and have been giving a decent go at picking up React and a myriad of related tools (webpack, flux, react-router...).

It turns out, if you have some experience of framework, whether it be AngularJS or Backbone (I come from BackboneJS and Marionette background), it doesn't take you too long to learn these things.

I signed up for Egghead, searched around for awhile for the latest relevant tutorials, opened up many Chrome tabs and jumped around different places, but after a week, things are falling into places (JOY!).

Learning part is frustrating, because there are references to old versions, old tutorials and you have to somehow mine through to make sense for yourself. But what isn't thesedays?

I haven't picked up redux properly yet, but now I get Flux, I don't think it'll take too long before applying it. Redux Router? Bring it on!!
Is there a full transcript somewhere?
I'm not suggesting, I'm pointing out the fact that the FBI has systematically perverted the courts with bogus testimony, and for a long time.

I'd suggest that the fraction of wrongly convicted people is much higher than the number of those who are/were known to be wrongly convicted.
While it does suck that all of Apple's chargers fray so easily, however I don't see it as a reason to be cynical about their products. In this case, Apple seems to be prioritizing environmental friendliness over function here. The cables are so weak because they have specifically removed PVC from their charging cables.

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/environment/

> The greatest environmental challenge facing the computer industry today is the presence of arsenic, brominated flame retardants (BFRs), mercury, phthalates, and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) in products. Apple engineers have worked hard to eliminate BFRs and PVC from MacBook Pro circuit boards, internal and external cables, connectors, insulators, adhesives, and more.
Which browser?
Thanks. That's a good point. I wonder if there's a better term, or way of explaining it.
>>This design already does the best job in the industry at handling hard yanks——that's what MagSafe is for.

Absolutely not.

I use a MacBook Pro, with the MagSafe feature hard, right along with a Lenovo higher end laptop. They both travel, they both get the same treatment.

I have gone through several Apple chargers. I have had exactly ONE Lenovo charger. The same was true for my older T60P and it's charger. In fact, that one is still like new, despite 10 years of use.

I like the MagSafe, and it has prevented a few strong yanks, or trips over the cord from damaging the Mac, but it's also prone to failure in the wire near the MagSafe connector, just as it's prone to failure in the wire near the charger assembly.

Interestingly, the Lenovo chargers ship with a nice Velcro wire retainer that is intended to be used right after WRAPPING THE WIRE FIRMLY around the charger. And the Lenovo devices have both easily gone a couple thousand use cycles, the older one maybe a couple more.

There really isn't a single metric, other than size, that favors the Apple charger in my use case.
Why do you draw a distinction between the two?

(To be clear, I'm not trying to defend victimless 'crimes' here; rather, I don't understand why you would distinguish between someone stealing from you at gunpoint vs. raiding your home while you're out).

Edited: With the obvious exception that the mugger is endangering your life by pointing a loaded weapon at you. Is that the only difference?
Always, always wipe and clean install oem Windows installs with versions directly from Microsoft.
"They don’t understand that Venmo isn’t PayPal and doesn’t offer the same kind of buyer and seller protections. "

Actually, in each of the stated examples (tickets not shipped via physical delivery with signature confirmation), Paypal's seller protection would not have applied, either. That's another common vector for fraud.
I love material that so profoundly affect my thinking like this one did (last time was probably being introduced to LessWrong).

I can't thank you enough for linking this.
Pretty amazing, but there's one feature all test runners seem to ignore, and that's persistent watching. And the ones that _do_ support it just run pretty much _everything_ on each save.

My development process looks like this:

- run the watcher

- save a source/test file

- if the file is in /test/ dir, then the suite is ran

- if the file is in /src/ dir, then it is instrumented (and the instrumented source replaces require cache

- once the suite is done running, a coverage report (Istanbul ftw!) is built both in html and console versions.e

- Every save only takes a few milliseconds to generate the feedback/output, which is really important to me

It took some time, but got it working eventually: https://medium.com/@TomazZaman/how-to-get-fast-unit-tests-wi...

Now the question I have at this point is: Is it only me who has this kind of requirements? Because I've Googled a lot (A-LOT!) and there's simply no Javascript test optimization techniques out there. At least none people would write about.
sorry, current Firefox (42.0) on Win7
What is the appeal of Firebase? Is it only useful for people who either don't know how to write RESTful backends or want to write one very quickly?
Yep, which is why we have simplified assumptions like "we tax everything at x rate", where x rate is likely lower lower than if they were successful at separating out what profit was made where.
My gut reaction to this article's premise is to believe it. However, it's evidence seems to be pretty lacking.

Consider this passage:

"But before Wright’s confirmation, the FTC already decided against filing charges against Google, overriding its own staff’s recommendations. Google only had to voluntarily agree to alter some of its business practices to resolve the case.

Google’s actions between 2011 and 2013 show how they dodge legal bullets: by molding elite opinion, using the support of experts and academics as a firewall against criticism."

It's cleverly worded to make you think that Google bought off the FTC via Wright, but the chronology of events as the text describes is actually:

1) Google funds Wright.
2) Google agrees to alter its business practices.
3) FTC agrees not to charge them.
4) Wright is confirmed at the FTC.
Wow, that was incredibly unfunny.
True. I don't subscribe to the idea that salaries are proportional to the value they create, though.

Anyway, there are arguments to be made on both sides, and it's clearly not working very well.
The common point against rewards for wrongful imprisonment is that it makes it harder for the wrongfully imprisoned to get out of jail, by penalizing the government for admitting a mistake.

As things currently are, prosecutors will fight tooth and nail and illegally hide evidence just to avoid admitting the mistake, so it's unclear exactly how much harder it would make things.
Federal Officials Are Warming Up to Self-Driving Cars
You're fine, appreciate it detaro!
And as I stated in another comment which you didn't address in your reply:

>...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.

The police and prosecution have the latitude to release that video and could certainly do so to exonerate themselves. Releasing it is what the police should have done immediately after his case was dropped if their interest was is in catching a robber on the loose or demonstrating publicly that they did have the right man and the prosecution was dropping the ball.
No way! He just needs a new CMS expert.

Here's one option:

UPDATE Users SET Secret_RealName = Avatar_ChosenName WHERE 1=1

If they run that on their CMS database's Users table (with appropriate adjustments for actual column names)

They destroy the old users' real name by replacing it with their Avatar name.

This would preserve all old comments' anonimity. Active users could edit their names back to "real" if they wanted.

There's no way there's a CMS where a fix is impossible.

The result in this case might be a little unsavory but its far from the only option... Just the cheapest guaranteed one that I can think of.
All kinds! I'm not sure if I can answer that properly. But I found that sometimes it follows the trend. A few weeks ago, "Deep Learning" was a hot topic (well it probably still is) and immediately following that we had a side project on Deep Learning. :)

Average size deal I think is between $1000 to $5000. But again, it depends how the seller prices it. Many times the price is settled behind the scene. We just cater the meeting between the seller and buyer.

3rd question is also hard to figure out. Some side projects (obviously) never get sold. A few users were disappointed that their projects didn't get sold. But what can I do? (I suppose I can bring more people...) But there have been quite a few projects that got sold literally within days after posting.

By all means! You can sell any side projects. It depends on the people and what they want. And what do they want? We just don't know. :) Try it out by posting something and gauge their interest.
I have no problem with discouraging alcohol, tobacco, heroine, cocaine, and gasoline usage.
> on my network and VPN

Do you run a network other people use? Are you really going to censor Springer because of a personal opinion?
Samsung worked directly with the banks to deploy a tokenization scheme via the magnetic card swipe system so it would be EMV equivalent. It's not sending your actual card number, but a virtual card number provided by the bank that doesn't have the 'chip required' bit.
You said "Everybody here in the comments seem to take the story on face value.".

You're implying that we shouldn't take the story at face value OR that the author is being dishonest about his experience.

Then you say, "Meanwhile, the only video attached to the post is pixelated to the highest degree, and you certainly can't see facial features on it. Am I missing something here?"

A clear call for proof.
Does certificate revocation work better these days?

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/05/13/how-certificate...
The epistemological method in use in the class, so for instance in theology appeals to faith or words written thousands of years ago would be acceptable, while you'd probably want to reject appeals to logic/rationality.

In science you'd want to use the scientific method and reject appeals to faith.
Quantity means jobs, any jobs ... shitty jobs, no minimum wage peanut for pay jobs, that sort of thing jobs ... Where quality cares more about aspects like the employee welfare in terms of wages, overtime, paid vacations, paid paternity leaves ...etc etc
You're leaving out a key issue, which is that the FTC made their decision not to file charges based on papers and arguments from academics (including Wright) who were being paid by Google.
Some issues where libertarians disagree with the American right wing: immigration, drug legalization, government surveillance, abortion, gay marriage, jury nullification, right-to-die, foreign wars, ...
Oh, okay, that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification!
As others have pointed out, there are valid reasons to wish for anonymity. You're kinda making the "If you have nothing to hide..." argument.

That said, I agree that (some) online communities profit from real-name policies. C. f. the difference between youtube and Facebook. But that is no argument for retroactively changing the policy.