skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an italian, I call bullshit.

Some people are just closed to new stuff and Wired writers made a whole-italy-opinion out of this (out of a few tweets, actually).

To be 100% honest, when I've been in a Starbucks store (in London, Geneve and Hamburg)... Well, the baristas just don't know how to make a proper espresso coffee. Despite this, I guess that Starbucks in Italy will be smart enough to hire italian baristas that have previous experience on how to make an espresso coffee and let them avoid starbucks-only recipes/techniques (assuming such things exist).

Also, I hope italian starbucks will be as nice as other countries, and let me sit at their table, mind my own stuff and enjoy some coffee or tea or something else.

In the end, they are very welcome to come and open all the stores they want. If they will be able to adapt to the italian market and stay alive... We will see.
I guess it depends whether Heartbleed and GHOST are actually more serious than the ones without names.
That's a bit of a straw man. But anyway, if you want to contribute something to the debate, why not suggest an alternative system?
The middle ground doesn't exist in itself. To have a middle ground you need to have a previous political position from which you can measure it, the illusion is believing that you can find a universal ideological space from which you can map the rest of ideological positions.

That is, when you take a certain political position that not only determines what measures you want to apply, it also determines how you see every other political position. The center is not the same center for a conservative and for a left-winger.
tldr: The report suggests they used powdered MnO2 to make fire starting easier.

The Wikipedia entry for MnO2 already references this article :-)
Seems a bit harsh and unnecessary. This is so much clearer than a security bulletin on a mailing list I'll never see. I'm pretty sure our sites are safe but now I'll remember to check.

Rebels without a cause...
Would be wonderful, you could also develop a fix and call it COCKBLOCK

Edit: dear Ben, you let us down :(
I don't see that as a ridiculous premise: far enough in the future, it's almost inevitable.
It's only ridiculous because you think in absolutes. To a large extent this has already happened.
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Here's 4 alternatives to capitalism: http://thenextsystem.org/new-systems-possibilities-and-propo...

Some of these, like Participatory Economics, have lots of literature/tutorials behind them.
Obviously if we can't depend on technology to defend us, we'd have to resort to alternative methods: we'd have to genetically manipulate some higher-order species to help defend us. Maybe birds, no dolphins; better yet: apes. Yep, that's it: we'll tweak apes. That couldn't end wrong for the human species, right? ;-)
The Name of the Rose is the finest novel I have ever read, and that was in translation.

Haters gonna hate on humanities academics. I suggest they go watch some superhero films to cheer up.
There are plenty of "free market" countries where the economy has failed too, so I think a little more evidence is required...
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Not to mention that it appears completely broken in Firefox. https://i.imgur.com/1wgZlgv.jpg
I remember really enjoying this talk on "Functional Composition" by the author, Chris Ford: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/music-functional-language
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NG-NL 2016 – A speaker's point of view
Maybe if "AI" or "robots" or some equivalent automaton becomes a sort of de facto currency - that is, a gateway to prosperity...then it could be yet another resource hoarded by those who supposedly have power...i think that's what is meant.
> That pretty much goes for any movie or anime, I would say.

The possible exception would be Steins;Gate; I contend that the mad-scientist ranting sounds better in your native tongue.

(I am aware of the position that it's somewhat less authentic and will concede that the English version of Mayuuri's tu-tu-ruu is of lower quality.)
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Scandinavian countries aren't nearly as socialist or successful as non-Scandinavian socialists claim they are:

http://www.bullshitexposed.com/scandinavian-socialism-debunk...
So instead of buying VMWare Fusion you're suggesting people buy Veertu?
If labor's value is decreased and capital's value is amplified, it eventually leads to a feedback loop where capital easily begets more capital, the very nature of cronyism.
Legally no. They say this explicitly on the TOS.
A slightly better (easy to understand) explanation: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/24/randomness_is_a_lott...
Godd luck :)
The lottosonline article is so beside the point. The original paper uses lottery outcomes from all over the world as the seed for "truly random" numbers. For example to define cryptographic curves where no government agency can introduce their magic constants.

On a meta-level, casino and lottery operators have an incentive to push content of that sort. More than once have I been reminded in a casino that the inventor of the Roulette game was a mathematician. "So maybe there is some structure in the results after all".

It's as if they were planting a thought from which the number-crazies and gampling-addicted emerge. There are always some poor souls who think they can crack the code.
Serial Experiments Lain wasn't too bad either.
Well YELP is public. Public markets can also be quite irrational.
That's the "dilute form of communism" I was referring to. Socialism is not a "new possibility."

I concede, though, that nationalised health and defence has major benefits.
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To completely ignore the tone of your post, and reply to the topic at hand, it isn't "clearly sensible". Even if your only motives are driven by profits, it takes a lot of money to retrain a replacement. Add to that the motivational benefits of providing an employee with support during a time of need, which will statistically provide greater productivity in the future, and it's usually better in the long term for a company to support employees in need.

I'm frankly disgusted that anyone would look at this from a purely profit driven viewpoint, especially as this viewpoint is short-sighted and mistaken.

Treat your employees well and they will usually treat you well.
..whereas the more balanced mix of socialism/capitalism in top eu countries make you seem like a 3d world country. The power brings corruption argument works on the premise of small local business.
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How? Free market capitalism is the epitome of creative thought.

It's not a limiting doctrine that says you can only do this or that. It's a doctrine that says you are free to engage with others however you want so long as you respect their autonomy and freedom to make their own decisions.

If someone wants to start a voluntary socialist commune, they have the freedom to do so within a free market. Unfortunately for aspiring socialists, most people don't voluntarily want to adopt socialism (at least beyond a particular point) and socialists must then turn to force and coercion in order to enact their preferred style of society. Ignoring the emergent orders that arise from a free society of creative individuals is the truly limiting mode of thinking. (Note: I just used socialism as an example. You could substitute any style of governance that doesn't respect individual autonomy.)
I'm on the fence over the "marketing". On one hand it is easier to communicate terms like DROWN, GHOST and Heartbleed than say CVE-2016-0800; meaning knowledge of the vulnerability gets spreads quicker and sites are patched more readily. Alternatively it could be a distraction from good security management practices, where only the "marketed" vulnerabilities get patched instead of general tracking the security of critical pieces of your infrastructure.
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Basic economics and history? Common sense?

In the 1930s US almost all the jobs were in agriculture. Then robots took those jobs. Happened all at once, which hurt, but then what happened?

Picture the future as a few dozen capitalist overlords who own all the robots selling each other robotic goods and services (because no one else has the means, right?). Where's their value add? What's everyone else going to do? Sit on their hands and wait to starve to death?

Every year something like 10% of jobs (IIRC) disappear and are replaced by other, different jobs. That's a trend we can extropalate and economists do. The projected impact of 'robots taking our jobs' is (again, IIRC) single digits per annum.

Of course it's possible to argue that the rise of the machines or the on rushing singularity make it impossible to reason about this with any certainty, but then that applies to Dr Hawking as well, no matter how much smarter than the average bear he is.

The optimistic view is that automation will liberate humanity from all forms of drudge labour and eventually usher in a post scarcity society. This also arises simply from extrapolating current trends. Not that long ago the bulk of humanity was grubbing around in the dirt trying not to get killed by bears or die of disease. The proportion of the population for whom this an everyday reality gets thankfully smaller every decade. The long term trend of human history is that things consistently get better, usually because of technology. Why should that change?
World Bank estimates that global poverty fell to less than 10% for the first time in history [0]. Perhaps this wasn't solely caused by capitalism and globalization, but considering those two idea were probably the driving forces of the last century, I believe they are instrumental in reducing global poverty.

I just don't buy the argument that absolute livings standards have always been increasing due to capitalism but eventually when we get to a certain point it will all turn into disaster. That's similar to the argument that luddites have always made and they have always been wrong.

[0] http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2015/10/04/wo...
I personally don't care, but the public might, and since the FBI seemed to cherry pick this opportunity to push the issue when public opinion might be more favorable to its request, it's nice to see something that counters it - even if only in the sphere of public opinion
We already live in a form of communism: "But in fact communism really just means any situation where people act according to the principle of “from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs” — which is the way pretty much everyone always act if they are working together to get something done. If two people are fixing a pipe and one says “hand me the wrench,” the other doesn’t say, “and what do I get for it?”(That is, if they actually want it to be fixed.) This is true even if they happen to be employed by Bechtel or Citigroup. ... Communism then is already here. The question is how to further democratize it. Capitalism, in turn, is just one possible way of managing communism — and, it has become increasingly clear, rather a disastrous one." (http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-hope-in...)
I'd be happy with socialism if it meant fewer pointless jobs filled by employees that don't want to do them. I see this as a major problem with our current system.
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Anonymous has always been romanticized. The reality is that the original people who used that mask didn't care all too much, the image board community that formed it and it's early actions couldn't be more distant than what idealists have claimed it's identity as. At it's root's Anonymous was a shared identity for people who made Swastikas in Habbo hotel and other such raids having fun with the internet.
Exactly. As a demonstration, compare our current production situation to the production situation as of, I don't know, a thousand years ago. It used to be the case that 90% or more of the population was dedicated to food production. Right now, something like 2% of the population is dedicated to food production. By their standards, we've got machines producing everything we need.
He's in his "telling other fields they're wrong about everything phrase"

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2556
If you’re saying that `this.state` doesn’t update immediately after `this.setState` so you can‘t use the previous value, one way to get around this is to use `this.setState` overload that takes a function:

this.setState(prevState => ({ prevState.count + 1 }))

This way all the changes will be stacked on top of each other correctly.
You're talking about e.g. EPA deciding to regulate a dangerous-but-previously-unregulated chemical. In that case it's reasonable for EPA to declare that it will regulate the chemical. FBI doesn't get to make such declarations with respect to its own investigatory powers.
90% of me was sure this was a (humorous) joke. The other 10% fact-checked. Wow, twist indeed.
Bit off topic, but I also work in embedded (automotive) with Green Hills compiler & Multi2000 debugger. After using GCC and GDB, Green Hills tools are so much inferior that it has become the biggest issue on project.

On top of it all, they require constant(!) connection to license server and will throw annoying popups if being disconnected for few minutes. It's so frustrating to constantly being punished by DRM even if I'm paying customer.

Sorry for rant, I just needed to vent a bit.
In general, I think it's fair to say that freelance writing has gotten tougher. A lot of the people who used to have full-time journalism gigs are now freelancing in various ways (or working for companies doing evangelism, editing, etc.) I'd also agree that the people I know who probably make the most money directly from writing get most of their business from a small group of clients.

However, for the vast majority of people I know who write computer-oriented books (including myself), it's essentially a branding exercise to support either their full-time employment or a consulting business of some sort.
It's not that advancements are going to hit a wall. It's absurd to assume human demand for consumption is finite. There will always be human desires that cannot be satiated by machines.
> How does learning to code prep one for work as a service technician or helpdesk agent?

Because it's treated as an alternative to the main-line college preparedness curriculum.

This isn't Algebra I + Programming I. It's Programming I instead of Algebra I. Because if you're not good enough at math to do well on college entrance exams, you might as well start your career readiness...

(This is rally hard for us folk out in the real world to understand. We know that programming is a high-demand field precisely because it requires a level of intellectual preparedness similar to or sometimes even greater than that obtained while successfully completing a college degree. But K-12 people in the US tend to be idiotic about credentialism. So where we see "exceptional self-learner with great work ethic can make it without a college degree in software", they see "any schmuck who can't hack it at college can get a high paying computer job")
I talk to a lot of people on Twitter and I see real people turned off from React because they saw complicated boilerplate projects and assumed all of this is necessary just to get started. I’m just trying to counter the misinformation.
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Apathy and disagreement are different things. So are extrapolation and confirmation.

No one is in a position to "confirm" this statement or prove it irrecusably wrong. More or less tenable arguments may be made, more or less well. I think Hawking does well here, behind the poorer commentary, but I'm unwilling to engage in or let lie propaganda for any end, particularly on a forum on which we are to default to respect for others' ability to engage in thoughtful dialogue. The source for this article is not easily to be dismissed, but the article's title is misleading - a straight fib - and a misleading headline that suggests one reading over another while pretending to fact is propagandistic.
There sure was a whole lot of force and coercion behind social security.
I agree, but it also felt like one of those TV Shop videos where you just know that you're being sold to.
How does Angular 2 change detection really work?
...asking apartment landlords to open doors to the house.

This is a courtesy extended to likely political donors. If the landlord doesn't open the door, they don't take her to court, they just break it down. This courtesy is not extended to private homeowners.
German foundation says democracy is declining worldwide
Then develop a workaround for the fix and call it COCKKNOCKER.

Edit: Well, OP edited their comment and now mine makes no sense... time to take a break.
Because the director of the FBI said one one of the reasons they were pursuing this was so they could look the families of the victims in the eye and say they'd done all they could to bring them justice.

If the families say, actually, we'd rather you didn't do this, then that makes that particular argument less effective.
For most end consumers who didn't realize that they paid for a windows license when they bought their computer, it's just a free upgrade, no different than their iPhone updating.
Nope, this is different.

Your machine can not support SSLv2 at all (so you couldn't be downgraded), but the existence of SSLv2 on the server (or a different server running SSLv2, say an e-mail server) allows the attack.
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Tell me some of those plenty.

When there is little to no coercion from government I doubt any free-market society will fail. And even if it fails, it cannot be as miserably as those socialist ones. Freeing markets almost-always brings better economy.
I absolutely don't understand the point this website is trying to make, apart from "Norway is backed by big oil", which is true and the suicide part (which cannot be linked clearly to the economic model), everything else is either really subjective or does not account for the difference of purchasing power in the different countries.

EDIT: Because I was downvoted:

> "1. Scandinavia isn’t really all that socialist"

Socialism does not have the same meaning in Europe and in the US and apparently, this was forgotten. They are liberal socialist countries, if you prefer.

> "2. Scandinavia isn’t actually as prosperous as liberals like to claim"

Raw GDP is unrelated how people actually live, I don't get this point.

> 3. Scandinavians have lower gross and disposable incomes

There is no mention of purchasing power, you can't buy the same things with the same salary in Dollars, it's comparing apples and oranges.

> 4. But money isn’t everything! What about the poor?

There is no mention anywhere in this part of the poverty rate of the different countries, just a graph of the poverty in the US (which does not argue for his point).

> 5. Norway is backed by big oil

Yes, and what about the other ones ?

> 6. Scandinavians aren’t as happy as Americans

Suicide rates are much much more than just economics themselves, and I don't understand why this is there.
You can't just define capitalism as "the good parts" and cronyism as "the bad parts". There is no mechanism that is part of capitalism that prevents rampant exploitation and capital accumulation, because that is the basis of capitalism.
The 1st US Congress had 29 senators and 66 representatives (95 distinct people), not all simultaneously, while the 5th US Congress had 45 senators and 118 representatives (162 distinct people, as Andrew Jackson served as both a representative and a senator during this period)[0].

Of the 95 members of the 1st US Congress, 21 (~22%) of them were members of the 5th US Congress, with the following breakdown:

* 5 senators (~17%) remained senators;

* 9 representatives (~14%) remained representatives; and

* 7 representatives (~11%) became senators.

Notes: John Brown was initially a representative of Virginia, then later became a senator of Kentucky (which was part of Virginia at the time of the 1st US Congress). William Smith (MD; 1st US House), William L. Smith (SC; 1st US House), and William Smith (SC; 5th US House) were all different people.

Method: moderately careful transcription plus grep, perl, sort, uniq, and comm.

EDIT: Thanks for adventured for the correction. I mistranscribed Philip Schuyler's name when copying down the members of the 5th US Congress.

[0] I didn't independently check the lists on Wikipedia[1][2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_United_States_Congress

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_United_States_Congress
Today I launched MuscleWiki. The goal of this website is to make a easy to use, to the point, exercise guide. Version one enables people to click a body part and then get quick loading, high res gifs. No 10 minutes intro explaining, no super low resolution.

I plan on expanding this into male/female/home/gym/kettlebells/etc options that users can check. I also plan on opening the site up to the community to develop trusted sources of information.

I also want to add tools (things like macro calculators and one rep max estimate)

I am not a programmer. I have done this to the best of my ability working in an ops background. It leveraged mediawiki, bootstrap and had my friend draw the graphcis to get where I am today.
From a pool of 11 million scans of HTTPS sites, I could only find ~265k targets with SSLv2 enabled [1]. That's 2.4%, not 25%.

A breakdown of the type of target that have SSLv2 enabled would be useful to understand how they reached that number. It's possible that they scanned much much more than HTTPS on port 443, and found a lot of embedded devices with poor SSL configurations.

At any rate, you should verify the configuration of your websites. There are many tools to do that, and we publish configuration sample to make it easy: https://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generat...

[1] https://twitter.com/jvehent/status/704657734810148864

[edit] the page https://drownattack.com/top-sites shows that sites like yahoo.com are vulnerable, but there are no details as to why it is listed vulnerable. yahoo.com does not allows connections with SSLv2, but some of its subdomains do, so maybe the top-level domain is listed because some of its subdomains are vulnerable?

[edit 2] according to one of the researcher, the scanner "check if pubkey (not cert) runs on SSLv2. Then mark all others with that pubkey vuln" (src: https://twitter.com/seecurity/status/704665265712308224)
I write for a living (conversion copywriting). My favorite resources are all at the bottom of this article my colleagues and I wrote:

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I absolutely love the first half of the one by Stephen Wilbers (Keys to Great Writing):

http://www.amazon.com/Keys-Great-Writing-Stephen-Wilbers/dp/...
Oh come on, it targets SSLv2. You better have a _damn_ good reason for still having SSLv2 enabled on your systems.

If you didn't, you had this one coming.
> Of course it's possible to argue that the rise of the machines or the on rushing singularity make it impossible to reason about this with any certainty, but then that applies to Dr Hawking as well, no matter how much smarter than the average bear he is.

Well, if there is anyone who knows about singularities, it's Dr Steve :-)
To think in absolutes would be to believe that human desires are finite. Even if I'm 100% materially comfortable in life (an unlikely occurrence given our ever increasing standards), I'm going to desire forms of consumption that can only come from human interaction.