skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. Hidden service addresses are actually fingerprints of the server's public key, so they are authenticated "automatically".

Maybe the author doesn't trust Tor's encryption?
This is seriously awesome. That's enough internet for me today.
The “world’s cheapest smartphone” is looking awfully shady
Unusual Maps: A Weighted Radio Map of the U.S., 1937
I use: https://www.zerotier.com/ - it's commercial (nothing to do with me), works on Mac and Linux, plus is free for 10 hosts. Makes a private, secure, software defined network.
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Is there any good article on how Haskell got into a situation where there are multiple different string types? I understand how it happened with C/C++ (e.g. on Windows), but Haskell is much more modern than that.

I feel there must be some sort of story or interesting thing to learn here. Or is it just the usual str vs widestr type problems?

Also was interested to see the comment about huge records and the memory pressure it can cause. Seems like that's really an issue with immutability. I was expecting the author to provide some sort of advice or workaround for it, but apparently not.
Nice that he recognizes that land mass springs back after the ice sheet melts. But it looks like he ignores the effect the weight of all that additional water has on pushing the sea floor down. And would that increase the subsuming of plates, thus speed up continental drift and geo activity?
Specifically angular momentum. The Earth's moment of inertia changes as the mass distribution about the axis of rotation changes. Given a constant angular momentum, this redistribution causes it to gain or lose angular velocity.
Anachronistic quotations happened quite often in ancient and medieval writing, so Eco was just having a bit of fun.

I agree that the Name of the Rose is not an historic work (incidentally so did Eco), but plenty of medievalists think that it is good enough to be a useful teaching tool:

http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2009/postscr...
You realize that some white guys are explicitly forbidden to apply to a job, they won't get a chance to get employment to make a living and feed their kids. I'm not saying that non-whites don't face the same issues, but how can you honestly say that it only hurts their "feelings"?

You can be pro-discrimination in favor of minorities, but don't hide behind the "it only hurts their feelings" fallacy.
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This is hilariously ironic.

God says...
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Obama the retard atheist-nigger.
This in itself doesn't discredit Rand, it just discredits his execution of Rand. A physicist that fails even though he believes in Quantum Theory doesn't mean Quantum Theory is necessarily wrong.

The Salon article is rather biased and doesn't actually analyze the specific failure points as it relates to Rand. Selling Rolexes in Sears isn't Randian -- it's just a bad business decision.

The dude's personality also isn't necessarily Randian either and it would seem that was a major contributor to his failures.

There are plenty of Christian business successes and failures -- and they rarely have anything to do with Christianity.

Did he actually follow Rand? Selling a $4000 Rolex in Sears has nothing to do with Rand.

The Salon article even states "discredited free market.." Is that so? I'm not sure many reputable microeconomists would say the free market is discredited any more than the law of supply and demand is discredited. There are distortions that happen surely, but that doesn't 'discredit' anything.

Has Adam Smith been discredited? We could more easily say that Marxism has been discredited based on the fact that nearly every Marxist economy has failed while plenty of free market economies have succeeded.

This failure has zero to do with Rand and everything to do with the personal failings of this CEO.
If you're sad that HN users don't rush to defend something that's indefensible well then I'm not sure what to tell you.

Would you like one of us to pretend this is okay so there's an illusion of a debate that doesn't need to happen?

Hiring is kind of a big deal (it determines people's livelihoods, careers, etc) so people take it seriously. Hiring is not the place for an angry hateful racist (and possibly illegal) rant.
Lucky for him, department guidelines only allow officers to shoot unarmed naked people of mixed or indeterminate race a single time, even if the officers yell "stop resisting" and/or "he's coming right for us" [0] first. They narrowly missed his heart, but had he been a single minority race, they could have kept shooting as long as they didn't stop to reload.

[0] http://southpark.cc.com/clips/149674/its-coming-right-for-us
And a PR move from Apple.
Are you saying that you never hire anyone at all to work on your project, or that you think so little of the community that created the language your project uses that you lie to them about job openings?
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> "Her dramatic eye movements are self-stimulating her brain hemispheres, a technique called bi-lateral stimulation. By panning her eyes back and forth she is unknowingly using this technique to synthesize her brain hemisphere's memory and logic functions connecting complex ideas and accessing enormous amount of information."

Is this satire?
MDM doesn't affect the iCloud id, unless the phone is supervised. (In which case this all would be a moot issue)

Whomever reset the password took control of the email account or knew the secret questions and reset via a web portal.
English readers were very fortunate to have William Weaver as the translator. Umberto Eco himself said --only half in jest-- that Weaver's translation of the Name of the Rose was better than the original.
Hey, you're talking about my library Renderable - and I'm totally up to finding a more idiomatic way to express the problem. It just so happened that type classes were the easiest way to do that.
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Are police officers allowed to moonlight as security guards?!?
"People with more education have higher earnings. Boosting college education is therefore seen by many—including me—as a way to lift people out of poverty, combat growing income inequality, and increase upward social mobility."

Consider instead:

People with yachts have higher earnings. Boosting yacht ownership is therefore seen by many—including me—as a way to lift people out of poverty, combat growing income inequality, and increase upward social mobility.

I'm genuinely curious as to why people think going to college causes a person to earn more money. Is it about the actual knowledge and skills you can acquire? Or is it more that, given how many well-paying jobs require a college degree, not having gone to college reduces your options for getting into a more lucrative career?

The idea that college itself makes you richer, as opposed to historically having been correlated with wealth, is hard to fathom.

I can see the argument for universal college education in terms of career mobility. But even then it seems like a somewhat problematic goal. College tends to be expensive, and as things are now, asking everyone to go to college is effectively a large tax on life. You're not paying for something rare and precious, you're paying just to get in the game.

People are always going to look for proxies for filtering people by ambition, talent, and world view. Encouraging these filters to be things that are more easily changeable seems good for social mobility - it's a lot easier for someone to, say, learn how to play golf than get a four year college degree.

Still, it seems like the ideal would be for almost no one to go to college, so it's not a big deal if you didn't. And going to college is something nice, but far from essential for the job. Make K-12 more intense, or make it go to 14th grade, if we're worried about quantity of learning material.

A lot of presumably smart people advocate for universal college education as a means to reduce poverty. To me that doesn't really make sense. I really am open to changing my mind on it though. I'd love to learn more about the argument in favor of it.
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The reason DuckDuckGo returns nothing for "C-x n" is that it is unbound by default. Which makes it useful for writing extensions. Using the help system as "C-h k C-x n" tells me that it is unbound. That's information I cannot get with google...and can only infer from DDG's results.

What I've realized is that problems like learning DDG's results for Emacs key bindings are XY problems. The right problem is learning Emacs help.
As a gamer, most of the tools for aiding with GMing role playing games are windows only.

Some examples:

Shadowrun 3rd edition has an excellent free-as-in-beer character management tool that runs fine under wine.

Essentially all of the mapping software; even open-source AutoREALM is windows only (though there is a port to wx in progress). I use the profantasy (proprietary) tools which mostly work under wine, though I had to bypass the copy-protection to get it to work despite being a paying customer :(

With SaaS beoming more popular, there are now webapps that cover some of the features above, though to varying degrees of polish.
I don't know about such an article, but Haskell's basic string is a linked list of characters. Nobody likes that.
I am using SoftMaker Office 2016, (http://www.softmaker.com/en/softmaker-office-linux) on my Linux box and it works great for collaborating on MS Office documents - preserves formatting and everything else without a problem.
One way they could hint at how to read it could be thru the form factor. Imagine if the data were to be embedded in a glass skull like the crystal skulls[1] or something akin.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_skull
It's not that hard to find instances of crazed people committing murder or other serious acts of violence.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3356115/Alabama-man-...

http://mtstandard.com/crime-and-courts/missoula-motel-murder...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/arizona-man-meth-se...

http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2015/04/fort_pay...

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/compensation-for-mother-of...

http://somd.com/news/headlines/2016/20355.php

European nations will likely have fewer such problems than we do - our population is much more violent. As Scott Alexander once quipped, "Who'd have thought populating half a country with the descendants of a group of people called "Border Reavers" would cause so much trouble?"

https://twitter.com/slatestarcodex/status/672540086932779009

I'm not trying to say that the police were justified in this incident - note that I'm a huge critic of American policing. I'm merely pointing out that the threat is quite real.
Except these officers were moonlighting as security guards. How is that even possible?
My uncle died in 2009 in a room alone, straight jacketed. He suffered a cardiac arrest likely cause by terror at a country hospital in Wisconsin. He had committed himself and was dead within 24 hours.

It wasn't the first time the hospital has killed a patient using the same technique. In the subsequent years I have spent a lot of time thinking about why he died and the indifference of those around him when he was most vulnerable. Law enforcement refused to investigate mostly on the grounds that he was insane and there was nothing anyone could do.

He had three kids and a wife who was a social worker. She was later fired as the state of Wisconsin decided social services where no longer a priority.

I've come to the conclusion that most of us would rather ignore the problem of mental illness rather than solve it. It's more convenient to kill the ill than treat them and society simply looks the other way.

I am given hope that his son is now a leading neuroscience Ph.D. Candidate at UC Davis. He has vowed to not let his father's death be in vain.
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Same here, except I didn't even see the ad at all. I only realized it when I looked back at the screen and Chrome had focus and was on a new tab with the "promo". Not a big deal, though.
That's not specific to being legal, consensual, or adult.
She can't take back what she said at this point, it's been revealed that she has willful negative biases based on protected classes that she applies to employment. Canada doesn't have a white male exception to these rules. She should be fired.
cookiecutter-django-rest takes care of the setup and configuration so you can focus on making your api awesome. Scaffolding a project takes seconds and it gives you authentication, user accounts, and the docs and tests to support them. After that, just add your own resources to the api and start shipping.

It also gives you a solid foundation for your api to mature by baking in things like asynchronous queueing, image optimization, and application monitoring.

We're happy to announce that we just released 0.5.0 this morning! We'd love to hear your feedback.
That forgets the primary lesson of the film: markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent, and doubly so for rigged markets.
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I think so, but even if it's not, it's definitely Poe's law in effect.
True. Originally yes. If I were them I'd look into changing their logo but alas.
Yeah, I was kidding... the article doesn't imply any relevance to humans here. It just meant that once predators evolved to be ambulatory, prey either followed suit or became extinct.
Right. We have armed officers interacting with the crazies, because we don't take mental health issues seriously enough to have enough mental health care workers do it.

We used to have sanitariums, now we (non-experts) say it's cheaper/better to just release them into the public. Then get all surprised and pissy when things go wrong.

We've regressed.
Or you are using regexes generated programmatically.
Fan, consumer, or audience of U.S.-based porn. ;)
Nifty. For a while I was working on a commercial drag-and-drop tool for PERT-style estimation[0].

It foundered on the rocks of Angular. But I did enjoy doing research on PERT and estimation generally.

My suspicion is that PERT works more through the "unpacking effect" than through the statistical stuff. PERT sorta-kinda resembles a simplistic normal distribution, which is nonsensical in a lot of ways.

Later operations research got way, way more sophisticated. But it is my suspicion that stuff like stochastic project networks have produced more PhDs than accessible estimates.

The unpacking effect is more compelling, because it's a way to offset the planning fallacy that humans are prone to. Make people break down a task before they estimate, and they will give a higher estimate. This is because humans systematically forget to include lots of tasks.

In software engineering, for example, off-the-cuff estimates typically don't include stuff like time for documentation, waiting for CI and so on. We subconsciously over-weight the tasks that we understand best: the coding.

[0] http://confidest.com/
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Google Play Books: So much promise, so few results
And now I can't get the image of weekly get togethers of generals and CIA spooks watching live satellite streams of the infighting, betting while doing pristine and cheap coke courtesy of the mess
Are there any examples of a company successfully run with Ayn Rand's principles?
Apple says the FBI screwed up its investigation and now it can’t access iPhone
What you're saying makes perfect sense, but law is weird. I would probably talk to a lawyer before assuming that something technically obvious is actually interpreted correctly by existing law.

Sure, if we were all flush companies then filing suit over things like this or risking lawsuits when we know we are correct would be perfectly reasonable. But when you don't have the money or time to fight legal battle -- even one you think you should win -- you have to appeal to the court of public opinion instead.
You should not meditate while driving, cleaning your house or doing sports. That is as dangerous as driving, cleaning your house or doing sports under the influence of mind altering drugs.
If you are lexing there is a much better way than trying to munge together a giant regex manually:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.4/Lib/re.py#L346
This is very important for us because we think we can change the minds of people (at least the people who do not have a direct. malicious motivation). We think that if the facts are out, people will support the facts. This is not the complete truth (if it is true at all):

> Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the opposite. In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger.

https://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11...

One hypothesis imho worth exploring: how much does presentation matter? can we present the same facts in a way that is more pallatable? what if we tried to coax the audience into believing they came to the conclusion from the facts themselves?
I think the Federales have enough money to compensate Apple above and beyond what it costs them.
I think the story is much, much more complicated. For starters, it feels like different (albeit related) notions are being conflated: genuine vs feigned stupidity, and public election vs internal promotion. For example, it's unclear why Boris Johnson would feign stupidity rather than simply feign confidence, of which he has ample anyway. David Cameron has achieved political success by appearing and being both shrewd and confident. As for Cameron's choice of cabinet, a more personally satisfying explanation for his cabinet choices is that they are loyal to the point of taking the bullet for his less popular policies. I don't think any of them are idiots or even appear idiotic to the general public, despite their policies being vulnerable to criticism.
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Hold on - what has any of this got to do with openness? How is that in any way part of the argument?

Also, I believe you just called Tim Cook a flat out liar, since he has repeatedly, publicly talked about his and the companies beliefs about crypto.
Modern art, ladies and gentlemen!
Many Valve/Steam games use Wine libraries to do their thing on Linux/SteamOS ports, so Wine is probably more important and more used now than ever before. The fact that they work so well that most folks don't even realize there's (some of) Wine behind the scenes is testament to how far it has come.
It is of public interest. It may sound like someone just complaining about a bad job, but I'd say companies have responsibility to make sure that they pay a livable wage to their employees. And that should be of interest to the public.
That summary seems to be wrong as the technique helps with processing emotional information and not with connecting complex ideas. At least that's what I remember and what the wiki article says as well. It's been a while since I read about it.

I know that it is a well researched and established method for treatment of Parkinsons (short term and midterm results have been empirically solid) and also used to treat PTSD.
I'm using uBlock Origin and had no problem reading the entire article. But I agree, something like Blendle* seems a great solution.

*Blendle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9453821
If you will down mod, at least show how I am wrong!
The last few months I've noticed how many people at the top of their respective professions put artificial and somewhat arbitrary limitations on themselves which seems to help creativity flourish.

Rene Redzepi as seen here does a geographic restriction and also was only vegetarian, though I believe will be adding meat to the menu in the future.

Another chef is Magnus Nillson at Faviken, which is more geographically isolated and uses much more local items.

In a recent interview I learned that Steven Spielberg used to (maybe still does) try to artificially restrict the budgets of movies he directed so every possible thing was not at his disposal.
Similar idea as old VB, but in no way equivalent. Much better language, much better component system.
> No tinfoil intended here, but it strikes me as very unfortunate that the Supreme Court Justice most likely to be opposed to this recently passed away last weekend.

I know Scalia fans like to believe this, but you are dead wrong. It would all depend on how the Republican/Conservative establishment feels. If the Republicans agreed with the Feds, you can bet your ass Scalia would side with them.

The man had no principles, he was just an anti-Democrat and anti-Liberal.
Enormous amounts of bullshit.
This is mainly a cultural and political problem. Hospitals used to overwhelmingly be non-profit. Now they are for profit. There's less and less funding available for what is a public health concern that enrich private for profit mental health facilities.
>Is this satire?

Why do you say that?
> Also, the people operating and visiting that hidden service could have had other reasons for visiting.

Such as?
When your officers carry guns, there's an implicit duty to never lose control of that weapon in a situation, and that necessitates a certain distance, often "enforced" with a gun.

You don't want to end up grappling with someone who might actually be much better at it.
One of Shakespeare's lost works, a collaboration with John Fletcher, was the History of Cardenio which is believed to have been based on a section of Don Quixote.

Don Quixote was quite popular in English so it's kind of exciting to think of Shakespeare reading Don Quixote.
Cops do that all the time. A long time ago I had a part-time job doing security at a YMCA; on busy days we'd have off-duty police directing traffic. I talked with some of them, who said most of the cops take side jobs doing traffic or security. The department even had an official system for distributing the work.
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>There's always going to be more money in causing suffering than fixing it

How?
I stopped buying them about ten years ago. I now just buy the cheapest thing available for hand tools that have no special use. For powertools I stick to Hilti. Air-driven Snap-on. Specialty tools are purchased from Snap-on or Matco. Craftsman used to be a good brand, now its just a brand.
Node-currency-swap: Simple and universal exchange rate library for Node.js
https://xkcd.com/1171/
Funny, just bought a Samsung range there, delivered for free yesterday, best price in town for this unit. A few automated delivery date confirmation calls too many, otherwise great experience. I hope the Koreans have a higher standard then Kitchenaid/whirlpool, I've had 3 bad experiences in a row.
TeXmacs 1.99.4 hacked to support retina display. Documents look incredible.
I think it is satire but I like the ambiguity.
Do you think they would actually be doing a good job if you (public) knew about the instances surveillance helped? If you were tasked with catching terrorist, what would you do?
Nope. Contemporary.
While it may be a viable strategy for individuals, it's pretty much a non-viable strategy for companies to just ignore this :)
What part of the original tweet suggested an outright ban on white male applicants?
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