skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Often it seems that facts, evidence, and observation are derided as "left".

Well, those on the left would think so. Oddly enough, those on the right think that facts, evidence & observation are derided as 'right.' Weird how that happens, isn't it? It's almost as though we all sincerely believe that we are correct and that those who disagree with us are incorrect.
> At the end of the day it's a comedy show not a news show and his job is to make people laugh

He and Jon Stewart keep (kept in the case of Jon) using this excuse when they get things wrong, but when they get things right they take all the glory they can get. The show(s) have to have some sort of accountability.

For example Couric was just ripped for adding 6 seconds of dead air on a documentary....but that's literally what The Daily Show had been doing for years, making people look like idiots (so it fits their segment narrative). That's all good fun until you realize young people think people like Stewart and Oliver are trustworthy news sources.

I like what they do in many cases, but I despise this excuse that it's "just" a comedy show. Maybe NBC nightly news should just add an in-studio audience that laughs and suddenly they can get away with every screw up.
emacs, submlime, xcode can soft wrap code well (indenting a little extra on the wrap). wrap for semantics, not any arbitrary boundary, and then you can view the code perfectly across many different resolutions & window configurations (2-up, 3-up, whatever).
That's why your editor has soft line break capability.
In some ways. Consoles had insanely long update cycle, so their hardware was always behind a lot. This caused badly developed games (which weren't made scalable) to use the lowest common quality and performance on all platforms.

Only now consoles seem to be speeding up, possibly because of increasing competition like Steam Machines.

Another problem were interfaces. Too many developers cut corners and didn't develop separate interfaces for controllers and keyboard & mouse. This resulted in very bad UIs.
Lefty here... but as with many other things in life (e.g. gloves, golf clubs, etc.), the prevalence of 'right handed' mice forced me into being a mouse/trackpad righty.

Most left-handed people I know have a mixture of left/right-handedness, whereas it seems all the right-handed people are right all the way.
Congrats on the release! I love Hugo and I'm really excited to be able to use a lot of the new features in 0.16.
Last anime I watched where I experienced something similar was Steins Gate. It was a bore up until episode 12 and the story just took off afterwards.
You keep mentioning voting. Some people reflexively downvote any post that talks about votes. If you didn't mention voting you may get fewer downvotes.
Actually, choosing an improving neighbor at random (the random edge pivot rule) also has expected exponential worst-case behavior, see Friedman, Hansen, Zwick, Subexponential lower bounds for randomized pivoting rules for solving linear programs.

More generally, it is not known whether a pivot rule exists whose (expected) worse case running time is polynomial.

For the shadow vertex rule, it has been shown that the smoothed complexity (i.e. after perturbation of the input) is polynomial. However, the shadow vertex rule is totally impractical.
IronPython uses a combination of lock-free techniques and fine-grained locking. Reference counting is of course replaced with the .NET runtime GC. Single-threaded and multi-threaded performance suffers since this approach means pessimistically synchronizing all accesses, including those that are single-threaded.
If you read the article, it is about someone's attempt to tease apart which is the cause and which is the effect.

In other words, the article is about debunking exactly this restatement.
The show is interesting because it combines a late night talk show format with a news format. Their special segments are often in the same format as a nightly news program, where they take an issue, perform research, and prevent a side.

Should we hold these types of shows to a talk show standard or a news standard?

When CBS presented a fabricated military report about George W., they were rightly condemned for presenting false information and presenting it as fact. If, instead, the fabricated document had been shown on John Oliver, would we think it's OK simply because John Oliver is partly comedy?
Proof of Luck: fairly distributed coin with no mining (2014)
I wasn't being literal about the percentages. It's subjective. At this point we are trying to dissect humor and killing it in the process.
Switzerland rejects plan to pay citizens $2,500 per month
Have you ever heard the phrase 'it's funny because it's true'?

If he's not going to actually consider the facts, why make jokes about current affairs rather than just totally making things up?
guess what the US Dollar is backed by? guess what many monetary systems have been based on for quite sometime?

debt!
Exactly! It's more condescending and "holier than thou" than anything, with such clear bias that I don't find it fascinating or interesting at all.
Even the documentation of vector describes what it does and few implications. It doesn't warn you that vectors of raw pointers are bad parameter types, for example. It does talk about iterator invalidation, but it doesn't really educate us about how that affects our designs.

That's not to criticize vector, but to point out that C++ had especially nuanced implications if loosely coupled design is a concern.
I view the article differently (although I agree it is a learning tool): I see it as showing yet another example of what I think of as Silicon Valley hubris.

I've spent about 15 years in research on colloidal nanoparticles, much of that for biological applications of magnetic and fluorescent nanoparticles. There are countless barriers to creating the proposed "tricorder", each significant enough that overcoming even a single one would make one a "made man" in academia, e.g., "solving" RES uptake.

Look at this statement from the article, for one example of what I see as hubris,

"The particles were so safe, [Conrad] said, that animal testing could be skipped."

This statement contradicts advisory statements by the FDA, guidelines issued by the FDA, the general understanding of the frameworks put forward by the NNI (National Nanotechnolgy Initiative), general trends in the field, and (regulatory) common sense. This "tricorder" would be a combination of a hardware diagnostic platform, a pharmaceutical contrast agent, and some sort of software platform: it doesn't get any more complicated than that. It would take months for the FDA to figure out how to regulate this device. I am completely unable to conceive how anyone with any experience in this area could think that animal testing could be skipped.

Also, your statement that we should "positively reinforce the fact that they had the fucking balls to try" reads to me as if you are unaware that there are many of us in the biomedical world trying, very hard, fighting over scraps of funding and trying to move the ball down the field. We just aren't in the public eye or consciousness. It hurts to see a group like Verily get celebrated for trying when the rest of us get ignored (or worse, dismissed) when we're working on some pretty challenging stuff under some lousy conditions.
Someone already knows the answer to this, (but not me): if you examine a statistically representative set of ancient books, (both pre- and post- Gutenberg) what is the average line length? And doesn't that partially depend on "standard" parchment/vellum size? And doesn't that depend on the size of a young sheep's belly? ("The tyranny of the size of sheep!" Where's James Burke when you need him?)
This whole situation is disturbing to me as a solo operator always considering getting deeper into the INFOSEC circle. Ok, here's what's happened in around 24 hours or so: weird tweet done in a style used for evidence; tweet mob claiming the guy is a rapist; entire, styled site goes up with detailed descriptions that he's verbally an asshole + "Coming Soon" placeholders (could be rape claims by now); people claiming claims are legit because people doing smears are standup people; people agreeing its true because it's already known to unknown people; all kinds of people making excuses for why they should say and do everything except file rape charges with due process.

Another commenter used the word bizarre. To me, it looks both bizarre and like smear campaigns by trolls that I've seen destroy people that were probably innocent. Now, I know Jake is an asshole and we now have one credible witness, Nick Farr, to extreme bullying. Yet, these are the exact kinds of tactics liars, trolls, SJW's, and spooks use on innocent people. The targets get "convicted by the media" without a trial or any real chance of defense. Many people wrongly assume large number of accounts saying same thing means it's open and shut.

They need to knock that stuff off to handle this right anyway. If one or more rapes happened, they need to contact the authorities to give full details on this. That FBI already wants to throw him in a cell with a number of witnesses claiming rape and others claiming bullying should make this easy (read: barely due process). In this case, Jake will be able to tell his side of the story, bring in his witnesses, and so on rather than one side's media campaign being sole decider of his fate. Plus, I find it hypocritical that the website describes its existence is to protect the next community from a "sexual predator." They'll tweet, accuse, make websites... all kinds of talk to "protect" others from a "sociopath"... but won't go to the police to attempt an arrest, conviction, and prison stay for same sociopath. Unheard of reaction in my parts among liberals or conservatives. Always cops involved when it's this public with people usually doing time.

I recommend people stay clear of both Jake Appelbaum and any of these idiots in the smear campaign. You can bet they'll do the same shit to you if you piss them off too much. Probably won't be rape claims but you'll be defending an online shitstorm. Nick Farr seems to be an exception who I hope recovers from any abuse he received and gets back to doing the good things people here describe. Definitely hang with him sometime.
Does anyone know of any good hardware password managers?

I'd love to switch from a software to an offline, open source, and self maintainable solution that will work for everything, not just websites/when I have my browser open.
Just out of curiosity, how is sha composed with itself 1023 times worse than bcrypt? Is it because bcrypt is also memory bound?
Proposed connection between intelligence and gestation time
Off topic, but what's the current status of flow-replacing-PropTypes?
Folders: a language where the program is encoded into a directory structure
More recent discussion: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1087219.0
Suburban PDs tend to be vastly overstaffed for the level of serious crime and bored most of the time. Mine spends the majority of its hours on mall shoplifters and dogs at the park.
> using this excuse when they get things wrong

That's exactly what it is. It's the equivalent of those people on YouTube who assault someone and then say 'it was just a prank!'

I think making fun of someone and trashing their reputation without being super careful to check all the facts first is really nasty and I don't like watching either of their shows.
I like the Ricky Gervais bathtub selfie in that article.
So what?

Paid services necessarily require a higher level of trust (since you are handing them money) than random internet services. So we are off-topic from ssh keys and identity.

If you don't want someone knowing your personal payment details (CC #, billing address), then pay in cash and use services don't deliver things to your home. And if you can't, then just don't use a service.

But that's living in way too much paranoia for most of us.
Interesting fact: the Hollerith punched card is the same size as the dollar bill in 1890. This is because Hollerith was able to take advantage of existing stacking and sorting equipment already designed for banks.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/...
I was looking at some C code of mine that is ~30 years old - it was written on 80x24 serial terminal in vi and I was fairly pleased with how readable my code was. I suspect a large part of that was the short line lengths!
The use of traffic tickets as supplemental revenue is a time-honored tradition with many real-world examples. Some places fund their entire police department this way.

I don't know why you'd think it couldn't be greater than the cost, either. It takes, what, five minutes to write a ticket, which might average $100? That's $1,200/hour of revenue. No way the officer costs that much, even including benefits and equipment. Most people just pay tickets, they don't contest them, so court costs will be small.
Homeownership is so overrated, not so sovereign after all..
> “I thought, holy smokes,” he said. “It’s going to be too expensive. It’s not propulsion. It’s not environmental control. It’s not power. This software business is a very big problem, and that nation couldn’t afford it.”

I think the difficult thing about space travel and exploration is that it is all of the above.
Reflections on the data science profession (talk from NY R Conference)
TL;DR

Duke researcher Jane Costello tries to answer the question: do poor people make poor decisions, or is it that poor decisions lead to poor people. In order to answer this question, she looks at the extra money that a casino brought in to a poor native tribe.

She concludes that it was poverty that was leading to the "poor decisions":

"Ten years after the casino’s arrival, Costello’s findings showed that the younger the age at which children escaped poverty, the better their teenage mental health. Among her youngest age cohort, Costello observed a “dramatic decrease” in criminal conduct. In fact, the Cherokee children in her study were now better behaved than the control group."

Importantly, the parents didn't work less. They worked just as hard but the labor was redirected towards parenting.
It's more a problem of only using convenient evidence and omitting other facts that might make the show's argument weaker. Nothing is so much "not factual" on the show as it is often "incomplete" and "heavily spun." It's genuinely an enjoyable show, however, especially if you side with the attitude it offers. But not unlike some Michael Moore documentaries, a fair amount of it can be tossed up to propaganda.
Here, false alarms from cars are so common most people have grown to just ignore them.

No need to disable the alarm; it is already largely useless for its intended purpose. :/
You read the article about Subaru and lesbians, right?
After some googling it seems very likely he just made the term up. The entire comment seems to be quite a bit of "I am very smart."
NoScript blocks all JS by default. At least, that's what it does on my browser. The only pages that load JS here are the ones I have explicitely added to the whitelist. The rest gets no JS (or Flash or Java for that matter), unless I add it (most of the times this is temporary).

It claims it can detect XSS attacks but that's not the main reason I have it installed. I've used NoScript for the past 5 years or so. I've tried disabling it and running only with uBlock (AdBlockPlus previously), but the truth is that in my case it simply doesn't work. At any given time, I have 20+ tabs loaded (more than 100 just sitting there), and there's just way too much JavaScript cruft on most sites out there. NoScript is the middle ground between completely disabling JS and having Firefox consume too much RAM for no apparent reason. If a site requires more than 2-3 external sources of JS to display any useful information then I usually just close the tab (and then I yell at the kids playing on my lawn).

More on topic though, I'm not affected because I run on Linux, and uBlock catches the ad anyway. Has anyone notified the author that his site serves malware ?
State Department Blocks Release of H.Clinton-Era TPP Emails Until After Election
I don't care about getting the votes. I do care about pointing out irrational behavior.

In this case, I am pretty sure it was the person I responded to because I saw the karma score drop right along with the response to my previous comment.
> Connor and his neighbors put up “No Through Traffic” signs. And their city councilman, Tim Male, tried to get Google Maps to take note of the official detour, by calling the company and flagging it through the apps’ feedback feature.

Assuming the road itself is a public road (not a driveway or gated community), is there any legality to this?
Simple Automated Scanning in with Arachni
So I get to do the HN thing, be overly curt and negative. Yay!

You're doing it all wrong! You already have the dream form of job, freelancer living in Hawaii. You just need to suck it up and fix the problems with your job (which you can do because you are your own boss)

For video material, Google "Fuck you, pay me!" Then check out these 2 people - Brennan Dunn "How to double your freelancing rate" and search HN for comments by patio11.

P.S. I spent 2 of the best years of my life living in Oahu, trying to get back :)
oh my god, you just uncovered the cause of the obesity epidemic in america- the spread of SUVs and wide multi-lane highways
Its a news show for many. If it were satire it wouldnt be so one-sided.
That's not how subversion works. The subverted system will in fact turn off wireless in airplane mode. It's turned back on by a trigger. Stays on long enough to do the job. The commenters imply they would be using it outside an airplane. So, FAA wouldn't even notice.
Nope, it is much better for those who use passwords with good entropy.
Don't think of it as a new standalone line of business; think of it as an "upsell" that your reps can incrementally sell, since you need them there to sell the occasional big ticket items.
Maryland has snow. Berkeley does not. Bikes only reduce traffic when people can ride them. Applying a Berkeley solution to a Maryland problem could only worsen congestion and quality of life.
Site is here: https://www.ripmedicaldebt.org/

Actually it's pretty simple. They figure out who needs the debt relief. They then go buy the debt for pennies on the dollar from one of the companies that has it. Then they forget about it. (I'd say they just delete the Excel file it's in, but there is lots of negative karma going on above this post about how wonderful Excel is)

From their website "Through sophisticated data analytics, RIP analyzes its medical debt portfolios to pinpoint those who are most in need of relief and then negotiates to purchase this debt for a significantly reduced amount – rates typically made available only to large organizations in the debt buying industry.

Once this debt is purchased – debtors are unburdened of this unpaid item."

So Oliver just gave them $14+ million in debt that he paid pennies on the dollar for and the are going to ignore it. Remember it's been written off (as a tax benefit) already, so it's only the debt people that care about it. Last guy that cared got paid by Oliver, so he's good to go.
Similar story about the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split in UNIX : http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074...
Ideally the md5 library documentation says "this is a digest function, not a secure bash"
I don't know if that is true. A cursory glance at compensation statistics seems to indicate wide regional variance in the compensation in all these professions.

And, for me at least, intuitively it makes sense as well, but I don't want to argue intuition here.
It's not at all obvious how much they actually paid, and comparing it to Oprah's $8M car giveaway is certainly dramatic but pretty disingenuous. It's unlikely the debtors would have ever ended up repaying anything close to $15M (in fact, presumably closer to $60K)
I disagree. I don't know Jerry Seinfeld's personal politics but I would argue that Seinfeld was a deeply reactionary show...
But then you are using php so you already lost.
What frequencies can an EMF meter pick up? One of my own designs of the past was to hide something in a cable to amplify a signal along 10GHz optionally with a beam hitting it. None of the WiFi security monitors looked for 10GHz. Neither did most cheap, spectrum kits.

The dedicated chips in phones with the radios could have extra functionality for other spectrum activated by a trigger, possibly received wireless signal. So, it's a concern to me.
Ok slow down there. They don't SPEND hundreds of thousands on those topics, they MAKE hundreds of thousands on those topics. Comedy Central/Viacom is not UNICEF and John Oliver is not a career humanitarian. They entertain people. When that is too hard they just pander to the most prominent demographic to gain viewership because that's how they generate revenue.
Because you're moving the "exit" from your non-anonymous local ISP to your non-anonymous colo provider. If you want to hide your traffic or at least make your adversary work a little to determine who you are, shared VPN endpoints are better.
The second part of the article is pretty interesting too. Apparently giving poor people money would save money in the long run.
Show HN: Every Wikipedia article leads to Philsophy, I made a JavaScript library for it
No, in 2007 they even sent your password to email immediately after creating account: https://twitter.com/dchest/status/739804779296219136

There was also "remind password" feature:
https://twitter.com/extractor/status/739801634423857152

Also, they used to store MD5(password) in cookies.

Yes, these are the same people who made Telegram.
Nothing fancy, just an application of this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...
It was really heart breaking for me an interview with him that I watched where the interviewer asked him something like "You combine comedy with high quality in-depth journalism. Do you consider yourself a comedian or a journalist?" to which he said "I'm obviously a comedian. I'm not a journalist."

Sorry to disappoint you John Oliver, you're not a good comedian, you're just not funny enough. However you're extremely entertaining. Better start telling people that you're a journalist who uses comedy to get the attention of people into important subjects that they wouldn't otherwise pay attention to.
For the record, see Braess' paradox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess'_paradox

"Normal" and intuitive behavior is not what you can expect from a busy traffics system.
A fingerprint cannot protect data, since it's both public and low-entropy. It can authenticate identity to someone who holds the data.

I.e., you cannot securely encrypt something with a function of your fingerprint: anyone can cycle through fingerprint representations and eventually get decrypt the data (or the key to the data). You can, however, authenticate yourself to someone (or something) which holds a plaintext encryption key, and once you have been given the key, decrypt the encrypted data. This only works if you can trust the person or thing to never give the key to an unauthenticated part. That only works with hardware, since any software which holds a key in plaintext can be examined to extract the key.
"Granted, it would take a big program to eradicate poverty in the U.S. According to economist Matt Bruenig’s calculations, it would cost $175 billion. But poverty is even more expensive. A 2013 study estimated the costs of child poverty at as much as $500 billion a year. Kids who grow up poor end up with two years’ less education, work 450 fewer hours per year, and run three times the risk of bad health than those raised in families that are well off."
Startups [are] addicted to meaningless jargon
I truncated the title because it was too long.
If a route is more efficient, but people don't want it to be, the solution is traffic calming, not hiding the right of way from maps.