skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So that's it? I've never seen that before. Everything I saw seemed more complicated from installing various auth addons to multi-file edits and finger-crossing.

And I don't see how assertions like this can be made: "This will usually be a username of some kind, but it can also be an email address"

Except for HN, Twitter & Reddit, are there any services that don't use email for login?
Some of this overlaps with what Ian Stewart has written about the profession of mathematicians. Ian Stewart has written a bunch awesome books about math, and he writes in a classic 20th Century style of science/math popularizer, believing that there is a "general" public out there that might find math interesting. More about him here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Stewart_(mathematician)

From the essay itself, this part struck me:

"What I called the transitional generation, those born around 1920, entered the universities, often late in their careers and without Ph.D.s. The Irving Howes and Daniel Bells became professors but retained their allegiance to a world of readable essays and small periodicals. The next generation — my generation — came of age in the universities and never left them. The world became specialized journals, monographs, and grant applications. This generation wrote for colleagues. If they were intellectuals, they no longer were "public" intellectuals; rather, they were academic or professional intellectuals oriented toward one another and microfields. In the 1880s, political science could claim one journal; now more than 40 populate the discipline. The American Political Science Association recognizes more than 30 subfields. The larger culture, I believe, suffers when intellectuals turn inward."

This is very much what Ian Stewart has lamented about the field of math. In one of his books (I think "Letters to a Young Mathematician") he mentions that there are now a vast multitude of journals that publish work about math, but that the field now consists of narrow specialists who are unable to understand each others work.

Considering that the whole field of science depends on math, and progress in science often depends on progress in math, the breakdown in math is especially worrisome.

I have the impression that what is needed is more people, within each field, who are willing to play the role of cross - pollinator. These people would not be "popularizers" in the old sense, since they would not be reaching out to the "general" public, but they would be reaching out to various specialities, and trying to unlock the knowledge in each sub-field. Sadly, there are not many incentives for this. I have friends who work in academia, and they would love to see more cross-pollination of ideas, but there is no reward to them for doing so, and there are large penalties if they fail to make progress in their narrow speciality.
Agile board!
The investments would be the point of Yahoo existing, the company would just be a stakeholder of other companies.
Obviously the complaints were not effective - there were at least 3 officers who independently reported the concern of possible evidence planting - except the part about IA recommending immediate termination and prosecution of the officer, and the reopening/investigation into his cases.

My point is parent stated that officers are the problem because they won't police one another, not that officer complaints are ineffective (seemly a fair distinction). So I asked parent what his proposed solution was, and he explained the solution is to fire all police because they are inherently corrupt. I'm not taking a position, I am curious about the thought process. Do you believe as a society we are better off without police too?
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I played with SQLMap a bit on Kali. Easy tool to use, plays nicely with SOCKS5/TOR. I'm amazed at how prevalent SQLi is as an attack vector still. With PreparedStatements/PDO/other query libraries I would have bet this vector would have been all but eliminated many years ago.
Not everyone wins. Philosophers and specifically feminists have to spend valuable cycles deciding and debating whether sex work is morally wrong or whether there should be a sex-positive part of the free market. This time could be much better spent on questions such as war, income inequality, discrimination other than as regards sex work, or a thousand other things. But it needs to be done, it's not like there is general agreement or you can ask some authority. Likewise the time I spent writing this comment, and the time you spent reading it, could be put to better usage by each of us.

See: https://storify.com/carolleigh/gloria-steinem-a-swerf
AFAIK...SQLmap is pretty old, right? I definitely have vaguely heard of it before...however, I was surprised to see it have not just a spiffy Github Pages homepage (after being on SourceForge), but a pretty highly followed Github account with commits in just the past couple of days.

But honestly, I have never heard another developer talk about using it (though I imagine full time sysops and security folks know it well)...even though it seems like it has an API easy enough to use and throw in as part of your dev toolkit (e.g. run it as part of an integrated test quite).
Bananas are astonishing. Compare them to apples, from the viewpoint of a North American consumer.

1. Bananas are grown thousands of miles away. Apples are typically grown within a few hundred.

2. Bananas have to be transported in refrigerated ships, trucks, and trains, and even then only keep for a couple weeks after harvest. Apples are easy to transport and keep for months.

Yet bananas are cheaper than apples!

How that came to be is covered in this interesting article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/opinion/18koeppel.html?ref...
"The one thing I have found is a cat or kid toy implementation radius about one foot."

- Citation please :)
You are missing the central point here:

You can't have "something else" unless there are "crimes" which don't require victims. That's the only reason that planting evidence is even possible in most cases.
Is the Cloud secure?
This tends not to work with electronics which tend to be at least somewhat obsolete by the time you'd repair them--and, frankly, is less economical than it used to be for many items. That said, I do tend to fix or have fixed clothing with a relatively minor issue that is otherwise still good.
Incorporation isn't the boundary. Again, why are you conflating business data with the personal data of someone using a product that has nothing whatsoever to do with the business transaction.

If Amazon buys a shoe store, they get the sales records and any other related data. They do not get to know where you walk with their shoes.

If there is any confusion here, it is because of the recent trend in Services as a Software Substitute that makes the business's server necessary for normal use of their product. Some people seem to think this lets them open the packages they are conveying or storing.
$45B is not enough to change governments. That's about 4 days worth of US federal spending.
Another factor is that sometimes the software becomes the "battleground" between different facets of the company, especially when there's some social/organizational problem nobody is capable or willing to deal with. By spending money (dev effort) and eroding the software, the company gets palliative care.

Hypothetical example... suppose Sales makes little white lies when quotas are looming or commissions are at risk. This causes problems for Finance when they have to reconcile some things down the line. Rather than fixing incentives, a feature-request comes in for a meaningless "I Pinky-Swear I'm Telling The Truth" checkbox that all sales-people must tick in the workflow.

Next release, the sales-people complain about the unnecessary extra time it takes, and there's a counter-effort to make it ticked by default for users in certain "trusted" roles.

Either way, it hasn't helped much, because the sales-supervisors have no incentive or willpower to chasten the salesfolk for broken pinky-swears. So a new feature-request comes in, for "Sale Validation Logic" or "Sale Approval System"...
I would like to try a Gros Michel some day. My interest was piqued when someone told me it tastes like "banana flavor".
Agreed. I'd rather have my taxes being spent on worthwhile endeavors instead of half going to blow up strangers on the other side of the world. $435 hammers to line Dick Cheney's pockets? No thank you. A large portion of my taxes going towards curing cancer? Have some extra.
That's one of the beautiful things about the Internet. You don't need to know (or even think about) the answer to those questions in order to have a civil discussion.
When using something like LINQ or Entity, I assume that SQL injection is a "solved" problem. As long as you aren't doing something crazy like writing stored procedures which internally concat user strings with query language, it's a whole class of attacks which you know will not succeed. Has anyone ever proven this wrong?

And then there's the VTech's of the world.... sheesh!
"little more than a holding company for its Alibaba shares."

via http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/1/9832780/yahoo-considering-...
Yeah, that deal would have been great for Yahoo and terrible for Microsoft. It's funny how history works out.
It puts the UKs disappointing approach in perspective. The current government promised to be the greenest ever, but has cut renewable subsidies and is about to override local democracy by pushing through with fraking in Lankeshire.
They're a rocket ship IF they can get regulatory approval.
The argument is this: to an (admittedly over-simplified) approximation an ASIC and an FGPA have the same gates, it's just the interconnects that are different. The lower the power and space efficiency of the interconnect, the larger the incentive is to put ASIC-style interconnected gates into little islands in the FPGA fabric - hence the various complex tiles like MACs that you mention.

When nonvolatile nanoscale memory becomes more widespread (the demand driven by SSDs, but FPGAs get to benefit), the additional interconnect power costs get close to zero, and when things get so small that nanowires are much smaller than the smallest gate, the space requirements start being negligable as well.

At that point there's no real advantage to having those complex tiles, because the equivalent configured FPGA circuit is just as efficient, so you might as well take advantage of the flexiblity of a completely uniform fabric.

The point of view taken in the paper I linked above is that even LUTs are an uneccessary optimization at that point.

I'm not saying all of this is an inevitability - but it's my bet.
I think that is certainly the way, any manager or lead developer should always open to interruption, that way we can manage our team.

Being a lead dev or manager, i think we should always expect less coding.
Offshore cash, same as the Mojang acquisition, practically funny money given the ratio of how much of it it's possible to keep when repatriating it to the US.
> poor people in bad neighborhoods (of all races) tend to do more drugs

This is not true. This matter has been thoroughly studied - have you a source to back up this claim?

Even though the drugs that are often consumed in poor neighborhoods are more likely to be criminalized, they are still used at comparable (and sometimes higher) rates in affluent neighborhoods (along with many other drugs in configurations that aren't prohibited).

I don't understand what you are asking me to source - you are the one making the claim.

Here's an easy read that lays this stuff out plainly (I already linked it from my other comment, below):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kim-farbota/black-crime-rates-...
or lack thereof.
im not expert in this, but is hardware able to be broken back down into the elements that they came from to be reused?
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How much of your wealth do you donate?
Where did your read that? It would be really huge news here in Michigan.
Do they each really keep a calendar filled with schedule in their desk? :)
>1) Why did our society make this error?

Because America was, and is, racist.
Your edit is not HN-worthy.

Private school parents pay taxes yet don't consume public school resources, effectively donating the cost of their public education back to the state / public school children
Do you consider debt an asset? If I can feed myself by going into debt, am I wealthy?
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When a significant number of people think that killing someone for blasphemy is a just thing to do? when a significant number of people a few centuries back thought that humans could be property? I'd compare this to finding a civilization that used the word "tree" to refer to Volkswagens. Yeah, I'm going to say that there isn't a meaningful agreement on ethics or morals across culture and time.

This idea of an external set of ethics; an external morality that is "right" regardless of human opinion is a universal-ish concept, as far as I can tell, it's agreement on what those universal ethics are where there is disagreement.
Well then with all due respect, I'm back to just being really sad that someone could say that.
Adobe changed course to "HTML5 is the future" several years ago - late or not, the stable door's been closed for quite a while.

With that said, the fact that Flash-The-Animation-Tool is getting renamed is fairly big for animators who use it. Adobe hasn't done much with the tool over the past few years and many (well, me anyway) wouldn't have been all that shocked to see it EOL'ed or left to languish in maintenance mode. The fact that they're rebranding it suggests to me that the execs decided they still wanted a vector/timeline animation tool even in a post-SWF world, and to invest in that direction. In a sense changing the name is just shedding baggage, but they wouldn't have done it just to let the tool die under different branding.

(former Adobe employee, all content pure speculation)
So what? Steam sells plenty of games that are Windows only. Doesn't stop them from being available on other platforms.
If they sell the investments they have to pay taxes on the gains. These tax issues are the driving force behind everything going on at Yahoo right now.
Well, I guess if you're hell bent on erasing the victims of this horrible conspiracy so as to make an argument for greater latitude in recreational pharmaceutical use... Congratulations.

This is like "all lives matter." The idea that black people were victimized because there exists a crime to pin to them seems to me like you're changing the subject away from the humans whose lives are stolen by long term prison time, or from the terrifying treason against the American people this agency committed.
I think the joke is "isn't that all they do?"

Obviously it's not true for either company. Like any corporation that big the revenue sources are diverse.
Considering the eye test is pictures of actors , not real people, you may have simply remembers the answers, or watched more movies.
Just so we're clear, your complaint is that I'm talking about the thing I want to talk about, rather than me talking about the thing you want me to talk about? I'm not immediately seeing my obligation here.
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Surely an artist could hide another track with steganography if they wanted to. I mean Richard James hid a photo of his own face in the spectrogram of Aphex Twin's "Equation"
Man held at Guantánamo for 13 years a case of mistaken identity
> Except for HN, Twitter & Reddit, are there any services that don't use email for login?

I guess sites that use the username as a form of identity within a site. Email address usernames are just identifiers and contact information, without really being linked to an identity.

I would think if auth was being written from scratch it'd probably default to email based usernames. That ship has sailed though.
FYI I applied for that months ago and HR or whoever never wrote me back.
The graph is pretty interesting. It shows that the contribution of wind can outweight other renewables by a huge margin. It also shows that the contribution of wind can range between almost 0% to more than 50% depending on the weather. The storage capacity needed to smooth out these differences must be breathtaking. Hard to believe that lithium-ion batteries can make a meaningful contribution to that.
Move fast and break stuff...
Yeah but it's more than enough to bribe the hell out of a lot of senators.
It's comforting to know that I'm not the only one who struggled to get email-based authentication working in Django. It had me feeling totally incompentent a few weeks ago and I ended up implementing something very hackish to set the username equal to the email address.
There is recycling for various electronics components and, in some locales, certain components are legally supposed to be recycled (CRTs, lithium batteries). I don't know the details of what happens in the recycling process however.
> That's the only reason that planting evidence is even possible in most cases.

Are you honestly saying that -given everything we probably know about this case and the extent to which people in power were involved and actively worked to support it, cover it up, and promote those involved to even higher positions of power- fabrication of complaints and testimony would be impossible?
Separation of church and state does have its moments.
Dumping money in to a proven failed approach was not a great idea. He should have founded a separate school system instead.
As I said in previous post --- if I were writing a letter to my son, it would be a private affair and not posting it worldwide on FB.

Also, there is a huge difference between pledging to donate during our lifetime and "donating". Anyone can make that pledge and then decide a comfortable schedule.
Thus the song, "Yes, we have no bananas".
Hidden tracks were pointless with the advent of compact discs. Arguably, in any medium, it was trivially evident that there might still be content remaining on a record or a cassette based on eyeballing the position of the needle, or the remaining thickness of the tape spool, but you still had to carefully scan for audible audio. With CDs, skipping to specific times, while monitoring the audio was fast, accurate and reliable.

Now, with digital audio files, clipping hidden tracks out of long durations of silence is so easy, it's not really worth the effort to concatenate two songs adjoined by a period of fixed silence. Instead of providing an Easter egg of beloved content, in an otherwise left-over section of an audio format's recording medium, it's mostly just annoying and disruptive to what might've been an otherwise enjoyably seamless and regular member of many playlists.
The particular problem strain of the Panama disease affects the Cavendish specifically. This has happened before; the Cavendish, itself, only became the dominant cultivar after other strains of the same disease killed the previous dominant cultivar, the Gros Michel. All members of a given cultivar are clones, so they're genetically identical and thus very susceptible to being wiped out by disease as they have no mechanism to evolve resistance. We'll probably just have to switch again.
The title reminds me of one of my all time favorite simple hacks.

This was from an RTS game circa 2000, can't remember which. They were p2p broadcast lockstep as the above, and UDP based. Since the bandwidth is so trivial (boils down to what 10 fingers and a mouse can do), they'd just repeat the last N messages in every packet as brute force forward error correction. Lose a packet? Just wait for the next one.
> I don't think you have to be PC to balk at the use of "he" for the ambiguous case.

You're right. When I was a kid, I'd go with "they" for both ambiguous and the generic case, simply because it's illogical to have an arbitrary assumption, which is maybe a post-hoc justification that I made as a teenager. Eventually I ended up trying to train myself to use "he" in the generic case, because it seemed to me like my habit was just super-semantic nerdiness. But for the ambiguous case, if it's talking about a specific person, but whose sex you don't know, it'd still be very weird to not use "they".
(reposting a comment I put elsewhere with direct links to exhibit documents)

The Internet Wayback Machine has it from today

Archive.org has https://web.archive.org/web/20151202021559/http://henrycount... , this is just one of the versions they picked up today.

The article links to a variety of scanned documents hosted elsewhere, which look like excerpts from a full document dump. Exhibits 8 & 9 do not appear to be linked from the Henry County Report page.

https://www.hashdoc.com/documents/144475/dothan-police-depar...

https://www.hashdoc.com/documents/144476/dothan-police-depar...

https://www.hashdoc.com/documents/144477/dothan-police-dept-...

https://www.hashdoc.com/documents/144478/dothan-police-dept-...

https://www.hashdoc.com/documents/144479/dothan-police-dept-...

https://www.hashdoc.com/documents/144480/dothan-police-dept-...

https://www.hashdoc.com/documents/144481/dothan-police-dept-...

https://www.hashdoc.com/documents/144482/dothan-police-chief...

https://www.hashdoc.com/documents/144483/dothan-police-chief...

https://www.hashdoc.com/documents/144490/dothan-police-offic...

(edit: note that the documents numbered 144484-144489 are unrelated, mostly Italian?)
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They have a robust delivery platform. I have no idea why they don't hire a notable CEO and entertainment team snatched from the entertainment industry and start producing content like Amazon.
This is really old: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-...

I wonder why he reposted it.
There are still big tax issues with the Alibaba stake so that definitely has something to do with it. If they can get it to be a tax free spin off the value should increase quite a bit.
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Bah paywall.
The use of a polygraph doesn't reduce the credibility of any other evidence.
You did. For now, and the foreseeable future. It's still an awesome city on a bunch of levels... but in my twenties I'd go up there to play in bands and see friends and I remember really tripping out on the diversity of social groups. There was clearly massive socio-economic variance in small area but a general consciousness that those weren't the lines at which to draw social boundaries along. Lots of gaggles of friends at bars or coffee-shops with wildly different backgrounds, jobs, and outlooks.

Now it's a sea of fucking bearded hipster macbook pro startup dev nerds. To be clear: I'm a bearded hipster macbook pro startup dev nerd. I don't get credit for not being that. I DO get credit for not piling on by joining the cultural dog pile.

Personally I consider it close to a cultural and professional imperative to avoid living in the bay as a developer, for a whole host of reasons.
The website was down. Here's the wayback link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20151201191638/http://henrycount...
I killed my blog and stopped writing around 2008 and it peaked at near a few million page views in 2010. See: http://marcgrabanski.com/grab/3c8cd1.png -- this is just web traffic. Not email subscribers or RSS readers.

Thanks for stopping by to question my authenticity!
I suspect he looked at his daughter and saw the faces of billions. Not to say you're incorrect.