skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The attack surface is only increased for those individuals who reuse passwords. Risk is actually reduced for those who use unique usernames and passwords. GP said nothing about requiring email addresses and provided several other alternatives that require nothing of the user at all.

Additionally, the reason you gave as to why the site might require it provides no real value to the user. There is no incentive to link yet-another-website to an authentication provider, except to access the site; which seems completely unnecessary.

Finally, I object to categorizing Google, Reddit, et al., as "authentication providers." While that may be a service they perform, they are actually, instead, just tracking you. If you'll forgive the clumsy metaphor of a caffeine-deprived mind, it would be a bit like calling police serving a search warrant "furniture reorganizers."
I wonder if beavers ever take a break? Are they always "busy as beavers"? Do the women beavers push their men to dam a bigger pond?
> What happened??

Marketing.
I don't think Star Wars has been not mainstream since the eighties. There's a lot of deep-nerd stuff around the games, the licensed properties, etc., but the movies are pretty foundational to modern culture--in the United States, at least. (A good friend of mine uses them as an analogy to how Americans approach politics. "Everybody loves Star Wars, but Americans are too afraid to be Jedi.")
Relevant thread on how people on HN always bring up Betteridge's:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4842803

Maybe there should be a law about people mentioning the meta law about HN on HN?
Massively popular cartoons and games, as well as aggressive cross-promotion and merchandising, have kept the franchise in the public eye since the sequels started.
My bad, I meant JavascriptCore or the JS engines often paired with WebKit. What I meant was, why pair Servo with Chakra and not any of the other Javascript engines?
It's just very rare to use a Windows VM in a cloud service environment to deploy services.

This may change with the Docker support we are seeing promised. Powershell is definitely a workable remote shell. But it's not the case that this is sufficient today.
The current HN title is bad, since the first paragraph says that he will happily work with "hydroflouric acid", but not with "hydrogen flouride" (i.e. gaseous HF).
> Edit 2: oh, and peroxides.

Then you might be amused by his post about peroxide peroxides (just add more -O- links in the HOOH chain)

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2014/10/10/thi...
Compiling something for yourself has an effect on exactly one person: you. "Complaining" affects other people and often enough actually reaches people who have a more direct line of effect on the product (especially in the foss world).
The first one seem very applicable to laser guided bombs.
from the text of your [1]:

The second, the R-W-W (“real, win,
worth it”) screen, sometimes known
as the Schrello screen, can be used to
evaluate individual projects. Versions of
the screen have been circulating since
the 1980s, and since then a growing
roster of companies, including General
Electric, Honeywell, Novartis, Millipore,
and 3M, have used them to assess busi-
ness potential and risk exposure in their
innovation portfolios; 3M has used
R-W-W for more than 1,500 projects.

(I've never tried to dig any deeper than seeing mentions that Don Schrello seems to have put it together sometime in the 1960s/1970s as part of his marketing company.)
> Imperial Japan did some awful things, but those actions by themselves could never morally justify the indiscriminate slaughter of 50,000 civilians.

Right or wrong, the "indiscriminate slaughter" of civilians was the norm in WWII. In that sense, there was nothing unusual about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

As many as 200,000 civilians died in the firebombing of Tokyo, which would be as much or more than both atomic bombings combined. [1] If firebombing civilians was considered acceptable at the time, it is hard to understand why the atomic bombings would have any kind of different moral quality. Indeed, from the accounts of both the atomic bombings and firebombings I have read, I would very much prefer to die in an atomic bombing, which in many respects seems almost merciful in comparison. As many as 900,000 Japanese civilians died in conventional bombings. [2] The emphasis on the atomic bombings has always seemed strange to me: what is the difference between killing 200,000 civilians in a horrific firebombing and killing 200,000 civilians with nuclear bombs? Why so much questioning of two bombings and not the countless others that killed many more?

The horror of the atomic bomb was not that we killed 200,000 civilians, it was that it took only two bombs to do it rather than many. There was no new lack of moral concern for civilians. Civilians had no direct reason to fear atomic bombs more than conventional bombings: with the near-wholesale destruction of Japanese anti-bomber defenses, they were going to be just as dead. Atomic bombs were a strategic threat analogous to your enemy suddenly gaining huge reinforcements. And this strategic threat (though it hardly mattered to Japan) quickly escalated: go to the Nuclear Secrets nukemap [3] and compare the atomic bombs dropped on Japan with the megaton bombs developed by the US and USSR.

(I don't mean to place undue emphasis on the US bombings of Japan, either: again, the killing of civilians was a norm in WWII.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo#B-29_raids

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raids_on_Japan

[3] http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
And the left simply waits for a crisis to develop and then co-opts it to advance their pre-existing agenda regardless if they actually have a plausible or rational response to that crisis. I assure you, I'm not taking a political position, but it would be untrue if I said that in 2015 it was done nearly as much on the right as on the left.
The author is a dyed-in-the-wool conservative who used to write for the Weekly Standard. This isn't satire, this is defense.
If you are trying to give the linked article a fair shake, perhaps you should be comparing it to Afghanistan, not Iraq? My impression was that we (the US) had some evidence that the government of Afghanistan was actually involved in attacking us, whereas the justification for the second war against Iraq was largely "They kind of look like the guys who did it" - there was noise about "weapons of mass destruction" that was later proven to be a lie, but the impression I got from my more right-ish friends before it was debunked was that this was largely a ploy to get the weapon-hating left to go along with it.
I'm using i3 just like on my (much much more powerful) desktop, but I hardly use any gui apps apart from urxvt on it. It'd probably make an acceptable webserver if I wanted, but I already have a dedicated server machine. Even with X it's only rolling 82MB memory usage.
> Not being able to find private space in your multi-million dollar open floor plan modern home is one of those good kind of problems to have. If you want to live in a home with private space it isn't exactly hard to do. Since when did twitter prevent you from keeping a diary if you so choose?

I think that the article isn't saying we've lost the ability to choose privacy. It's saying that we've created a world where there's incentives to give up privacy, and very little consideration of what that choice means: sometimes we don't even comprehend that we're making that choice. Your own comment is an example:

> I do agree with the author that private space is important though. It's nice have time to reflect without the worry of interruption or judgement. In these "Open offices" it can be an actual problem, I seem to be the only person I know who would be fine with just a cubicle.

I don't see a cubicle as being private at all. It doesn't prevent people from interrupting or judging me, it only allows me a little respite from distraction, and even that it does poorly. Contrast this with the concept of a study, a room that houses rarely have any more, but in which much of the work of the world has been done.

Your very example of a "private" space demonstrates the ease with which one can give up privacy without even considering the choice.
Well, I was talking about Edge the browser (UI + DOM rendering + JS) not just the JS engine.
That's the lovely thing about this piece. Often times when I read these thinkpieces, I know a bit about the author and his or her biases, and have to exercise some discipline to not let that color my opinion of the article too much.

I've never heard of Sonny Bunch, so in this case it is pretty easy.
Provocative maybe, but I don't see what's outrageous about it. You have to look no further than the Arab Spring to see that rebellion destroys order and disorder is worse for ordinary people than a politically repressive government. It's the history of the world: the overthrow of the French monarchy by radicals ushered in untold chaos and violence before the establishment of democracy.

The article poses the legitimate question of whether it's acceptable to sacrifice a planet to preserve galactic order. Let's reframe that: was it acceptable to burn Atlanta to the ground to preserve the union? Is that such an outrageous idea?
Or having any child at all.
Now try it other way around. Compress with 7zip first, then XOR with known randomness and try compressing again. There is a random number generator X out there for data Y that will let you produce low entropy this way.
"There is as yet no absolute challenger to the relational model. When people think database, they still think SQL. But if there is a true challenger, it is in the graph model."

This article is quite biased towards graph databases with regards to the SQL versus NoSQL tension. This video presents a much more balanced view of SQL versus NoSQL, in my opinion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI_g07C_Q5I
Lucas made the prequels to wow starry-eyed kids, and kids grow up to be nostalgic adults. That move, more than any other, is why Disney laid out 4 billion dollars for the franchise. They plan to sell to those kids, and their kids, and so on until there's not a dime left to be made.

I think Lucas got ripped off, frankly. Disney is going to make their money back on the movies alone.
Not too familiar with what you speak of, but I found this the other day and may or may not be similar to what you're describing.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nitrous/efdcneeepl...
I assumed definite tongue in cheek
I don't think it would have been political suicide. The program was (presumably, I don't know the exact history) classified so the vast majority of people didn't know about it, and people who did wouldn't be able to talk about it publicly. It likely wouldn't have come out before his next election. Despite dropping the bomb he was very unpopular and wasn't expected to win a second term. Also, several of his top generals (Eisenhower and MacArthur) weren't in favor of using the bomb, and people have a tendency to rationalize whatever authority figures choose so people may very well have defended Truman as strongly as they do today.
I was also surprised to discover Microsoft Research's awesome technology. Actually, they've done a fair bit of licensing that research to other companies who go on to make great things with it. I always thought it was because they were pre-occupied with their own projects: Windows, Office, the Xbox, and of course supporting the vast .NET platform which remains the core of their business model: creating software tools and licensing them out to huge corporations, big big money!
I was kidding. I however do think refusing to work with a uniquely useful substance because of the risks, without considering risk mitigation, is irrational and can impede good science.
HERE+IS+UR+proof+Turkey+US+BACKING+ISIS+-+YouTube
No, DNSSEC isn't required. LetsEncrypt supports a bunch of DV methods right now[0], but the bottom line is that if someone can control either your DNS server or your web server (any web server on an IP at which your domain points) then they can always get a certificate for your domain. This applies to all DV cert issuance from most CAs afaik.

Full DNSSEC verification by the issuing CA (LetsEncrypt) still wouldn't mitigate attacks against the "Simple HTTP" method.

[0]https://letsencrypt.github.io/acme-spec/#rfc.section.7
Good write up, I'd only read the wikipedia summary. That stuff is terrifying.
50 years of mass shootings in America
No dependencies, runs everywhere, and easy to use. Great job! Some of those PRs are looking pretty tasty too.

Here's a link to the current release with cross-platform binaries: https://github.com/xenolf/lego/releases/tag/v0.1.0
Gandhi Was a Racist Who Forced Young Girls to Sleep in Bed with Him
If you don't have the latest asyncio version, change `ensure_future` to `async`.

> asyncio.async(display_date(1, loop))

See this https://github.com/python/asyncio/pull/242

The author is using the latest release of asyncio, will be good to mention that.
Show HN: Integrate data from multiple sources to a single repository and analyze
The difference being, of course, that you approached me. I believe I have the right to be let alone when asked. You believe that you have the right to approach anybody, petulantly insist that they talk about what you want, and then hang around bothering them after being asked to go away. Assertion of boundaries only seems like a bizarre power grab to the irrationally entitled.
Why Japanese leaders attacked Pearl Harbor
Was going to post peroxides here.

Also, working in a biomedical lab studying cancer, we frequently solvate some nasty drugs (e.g DNA repair inhibitors) in DMSO... always gives me pause.

Also generating lentivirus with some nasty payloads (commonly various protein knockdowns/shRNA, which reduces expression of a given protein, some very important to cell stability)
Secure Your Data by Lock Folder and Files
Configuring Let's Encrypt for Nginx with Automatic Renewal
The problem is that people often have important interactions, in some form, with those that they don't really know at all. Two politically relevant examples would be police officers arresting someone, or recruiters/interviewers reading resumes and interviewing people.
Absolutely I agree that different political groups have their tendancies; I don't think that changes what I wrote and seemed too obvious to mention. However, my comment was about the article, not politics. Not everyone is ideological or engaging in an ideological fight. I was just making an observation with a current example.
Are you seriously suggesting that we suppress scientific knowledge for the benefit of political aims?
So, more like New Orleans than Texas?
> for the record: I've done both. I've had a number of very physically intensive jobs when I started my career and to this day I'm grateful every bloody day that my life took a turn for the better and that I don't have to work until I can't stand up straight anymore. Being not the most physically strong person I realize that if I had continued down that path I would have been a physical wreck by now.

> Have some respect for the people that do the heavy lifting. And if you're unconvinced: go take a manual labor job for a year or so and re-read your comment here.

Jacques, why the rancor and assumption that the OP and other commenters (like the GP) haven't also had physical jobs? I certainly have… It's all I did the first several years of my working life. And like you, my life is now quite different.

You have a different point of view, but it's not because we haven't done physical work. In fact, in my case I'd say it was my experience doing that kind of work that leads me to identify with what the OP describes in the linked article.
There was a tragic accident in Japan back in 1982: A dentist mistakenly applied HF solution instead of fluorides to a girl, who subsequently suffered extreme pain and died. Both materials are called フッ素 (fusso, which is actually the name of Fluorine), and there was a fatal miscommunication between dentist's assistant and the distributor. The dentist felt so guilty and stressed out that he died from stroke at the girl's funeral.

For Japanese in my generation, the fear of HF was imprinted by the accident. I couldn't find English reference, but here's Japanese wikipedia page:

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%AB%E7%8E%8B%E5%AD%90%E5...
Note that he's primarily taking about HF gas, not the aqueous solution. Aqueous hydrofluoric acid is certainly not to be trifled with but I don't think it's in quite the same category as some of the other substances this guy talks about. I used to work in a lab that used large quantities of the stuff and I knew someone who got some on his skin. He went to the hospital but I don't think he suffered any lasting consequences.
It is the NRA that has twisted the Second Amendment to say what they want. [0] [1]

Let me quote from [0]: The [NRA under its new leadership] pushed for a novel interpretation of the Second Amendment, one that gave individuals, not just militias, the right to bear arms. It was an uphill struggle. At first, their views were widely scorned. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, who was no liberal, mocked the individual-rights theory of the amendment as “a fraud.”

Look, you're welcome to your opinion; I'm not expecting to change it. But you should recognize that the point is quite a bit more debatable than you make it out to be.

[0] http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/so-you-think-you...

[1] https://www.law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/F... (the Reva Siegel article linked from [0]; that link is dead -- I think this is the intended article)
How to go from a computer literate to a computer programmer
Because pure objectivity in social sciences is a myth, a utopic state at the best of times? We all have biases when it comes to deciphering human behaviour -- the best scientists will try to shed them harder than others, but they'll likely still retain some.

On top of that, you have to consider that social sciences (including economics) are "Schrodinger objects": as you observe and describe them, they change. Once you understand that, you can leverage the dynamic for personal or political gain, which is extremely common.
It was the American physicist Albert Michelson (the creator of the beautiful Michelson interferometer design which enabled very precise measurements of the speed of light) who said "it seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established . . . An eminent physicist remarked that the future truths of physical science are to be looked for in the sixth place of decimals."

Subsequently, the sentiment of this statement has been misattributed to Lord Kelvin.
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In case anyone is interested, I built a toy implementation of WOOT in Typescript. You can find it here: https://github.com/ryankaplan/woot-collaborative-editor

Disclaimer: it's a toy project and I don't suggest using it for anything important.
Until the Ferguson outrage at least, a cop who did the wrong thing could expect to face, at maximum, a paid vacation as punishment. Maybe he would be "banished" to a nice cushy desk job upon his return to active duty.

Cops protect their own. Thin blue line and all that. But this sort of thing is what enabled sex scandals to run unchecked within the Catholic Church and if we let the constabulary get away with it, the public consequences could be far worse.
First off, I would like to say this is exactly the kind of thing that has the potential to have a monumental impact on global healthcare, not just in the developing world. We could definitely do with this type of initiative in the UK.

The reality is that some of the biggest vendors (US and UK based) actually ship some of the worst software and charge hundreds of millions of pounds for it. Ultimately, its the patients that pay the price. It's a complete myth that bigger vendors build safer systems.

I agree with a previous poster in that given more visibility, I'm sure there are thousands of developers that would love to contribute to this type of project (myself included).

It's also pretty clear that mobile will be a key requirement for this type of solution. Not just a responsive website but full native implementations. I realise that this can be expensive, but if it's open source, I'm sure there are developers that would love to get involved. Maybe you would consider an API? This might encourage an ecosystem of client solutions to flourish.

Finally, do you think there is a role for a patient login here? There is a world-wide movement to encourage patients to play a more active role in managing their healthcare and giving patients mobile access to their health records is a great first step towards this.
Maybe you misunderstood me, but I meant the legal mechanism by which you can defer publication/examination of a filed patent for over 20 years before having it granted. It seems to me that that is a de facto increase of the patent term, so I was wondering whether there's a statutory provision for this and if so, where.
No doubt policy makers will use this tragedy as a justification to restart the debate on mass surveillance programs and encrypted communication. But a lot of good the mass collection of phone records did to prevent this. The lack of success of these programs speaks to the impracticality and ineffectiveness of these program.
I think its always worthwhile to post correcting comments. My post you replied to was not sarcasm, for what its worth (I genuinely appreciated you correcting my mistake with factual information).
How the GOP Would Cope with a Trump Nomination
He was vice president at the time, and see the Truman Committee -- he already had a good reputation regarding wasteful spending. People would certainly be more angry about the pointless wasting of American lives as the end of the war got delayed.
That just seems like a continuation of the game. It's not worth my time to jump through the hoops.

I should have added above, another reason to use the tactic is to frame the debate, often disingenuously. For example, they've framed it as if dictatorship is legitimate and order is the only issue.
Anyone know when most of the python stdlib (the batteries included part) will start itself using async/await (for any/all things that could block)?? I suppose it will never change due to backwards compat. (which feels odd...)?
Please ask again in two weeks. ;)
Leaking of coming Star Wars movie advertisements into HN is strong with this one.