skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
or ~37.8 million, but ya. If your net worth is 100 million your kids should definitely get 100 million instead of 62 million. They practically earned it and definitely deserve it for being your kids. You wouldn't want them to wind up destitute.

Tell me this. If you hired your kids for a year and paid them 100 million dollars to do the job of being your kids how much would they pay in taxes? The answer is about $40 million. In the US transfer of wealth is taxed whether its salary or just for the sake of little Johnny. Loopholes should be closed (if they were even legal loopholes to begin with).
Adding the year does not devalue the resource. It is quite common for old but cool articles to be reposted.
Also in 2013, NASA's LADEE mission orbited the moon for a few months to study the lunar atmosphere. When that mission was over they crashed it into the far side.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Atmosphere_and_Dust_En...
Does this mean LinkedIn stores unencrypted passwords? That's pretty hard to believe.
Wasn't there a similar initiative in the aftermath of the recent financial crisis? With the difference that private people could help out indebted individuals on a smaller scale with some proxy gross debt buyer?
is RDP safe on wifi connections?
I am not "a JavaScript developer" (Python and Django mainly), but that doesn't mean that I don't need to do some stuff in JavaScript. Where do I start? The choices are overwhelming and there is no clear answer.

In addition the JavaScript world seems to be full of people loudly shouting hype about the latest and greatest new framework, then 6 months later it has changed to something else. Its really frustrating from someone that only spends maybe 10% of my time in JavaScript.
Outside of HackerNews and Google I wouldn't consider Go to be very mainstream at all.
The only other show that comes to mind is The Daily Show, of which John Oliver is an alumnus.
It means passwords like dadada can be reversed from hashes.
Are Windows RDP connections safe to do on wifi?
like hotel wifi? curious.
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IIRC, these accounts fall off the credit report in 7 years from the date that was deemed as last activity date on that account.
This sounds like my parents telling me how stupid I am for renting here in Barcelona for the last 8 years. Property prices have dropped by over a third, and I am spending less on rent than the prices are dropping by every year.
In C++, a well designed generic component will document the concept requirements of its type parameters. No idea what 'easy to copy' means, but if it is just means that T has a copy constructor, then the requirement would simply stated as "requires: T models CopyConstructible" (which are well defined terms of art). Hopefully one day C++ will allow defining these contracts in code.

Note that Concepts carry both syntactic and semantic requirements.

edit: typos
I don't think it's so much the financial uses pushing out restaurants and retail but rather housing that's being pushed out.

In Toronto the Financial District doesn't go completely dead, but the 4million square foot underground mall shuts down, and it's just a few ground level businesses that stay open. It's still more lively at night than the typical suburb, but not as bustling as the adjacent neighbourhoods or as the Financial District during the day when there 200,000 office workers there (vs just a few thousand tourists and residents within walking distance at night). From what I heard it's not as dead at night as the Chicago loop.
Thank you. Didn't realize that's what it meant.

Maybe the page that gets displayed when I click on the "Saved Stories" link on my profile, should include a note saying upvoting is the way to save stories.
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Swiss voters overwhelmingly reject proposal for unconditional basic income
Not if it's salted, no?
The Safety Mindset
Remote reprogramming requiring a metal lathe, milling machine, and a cooperative operator onsite is not necessarily a bug with nukes. Expensive, but accidents are more expensive.
Yep. Pavel Durov was forced out by various Kremlin connected folk for daring to stand up to the FSB and the Kremlin. He also went public about their unlawful requests. He then fled Russia.

edit: ugly sentence structure.
It wasn't salted, but even then a targeted effort could almost certainly crack a password as bad as dadada almost immediately for a fast hash like sha1.
Trevor Noah is too nice though.
The tyranny of the Hollerith punched card
Disposable SFTP Docker container with random password
It is probably primarily an engineering mission--with goals to see if it can be done, how efficiently it can be done, and what can be learned along the way.

It is similar in this respect to SpaceX or Virgin Galactic or Blue Origin. The science of rocket engines is pretty well understood, but it's still an interesting problem to optimize.

To some extent future science depends on future engineering, so advances in engineering can still have scientific value.
In principal, publicly traded stock has the attribute that all investors make buy and sell decisions on the same information. In order to enforce that, laws prohibit persons who know what is happening within the company before the general public investor knows from profiting specifically from that insider knowledge. There are a lot of restrictions, policies and processes for buying or selling stock "while in possession of material, nonpublic information about the security." [1] There are literally 'black out days' where employees of companies that have stock traded on the public market are prohibited from buying or selling company shares. From my days at a public company, this period was generally 4-6 weeks per quarter, encompassing the quarterly reporting period.

In particular, officers, director and senior staff have to file a form with the SEC in order to trade shares at all. Those trades are subsequently reported to the public in SEC Form 4 [2]. From the SEC [3]:

"Examples of insider trading cases that have been brought by the SEC are cases against:

- Corporate officers, directors, and employees who traded the corporation's securities after learning of significant, confidential corporate developments;

- Friends, business associates, family members, and other "tippees" of such officers, directors, and employees, who traded the securities after receiving such information;

-Employees of law, banking, brokerage and printing firms who were given such information to provide services to the corporation whose securities they traded;

- Government employees who learned of such information because of their employment by the government;

- and Other persons who misappropriated, and took advantage of, confidential information from their employers."

[1] https://www.sec.gov/answers/insider.htm

[2] http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/tsla/insider-trades

[3] http://ir.tesla.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1494730-16-7&CIK=...
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Inside McKinsey’s private hedge fund
I think that instead of negatively reinforcing being "quixotic"(overly idealistic) and stumbling when taking on a complex project, let's positively reinforce the fact that they had the fucking balls to try.

In future, people will be able to use this project (including it's shortcomings) as a learning tool.

Kudos to the team for biting off more than they could chew, for now we all have a better of idea of what size bite to go for next time.
Only Entreprise customers can fully opt out of all data collection. [1] All other users can only disable a subset and their PCs will submit "Basic Telemetry" regardless of what they do. Microsoft has defended this:

" Windows 10 still phones home to Microsoft with telemetry data including an anonymous device ID, information about the type of device that's being used, and data from application crashes. That sort of data has been key to solving problems with the operating system and other applications, according to an explanation published Monday from Microsoft Corporate Vice President Terry Myerson."

[1] http://www.infoworld.com/article/2987175/microsoft-windows/m...
Also, consider a tool like https://getpocket.com/ — i use it across all my devices. Love it. If you are into tagging I would suggest you will too.
With State and local spending, Military comes to ~10% of our tax dollars.
>At least that's my impression from the outside.

It has no value. We who are outsiders in the drama can't contribute and our impressions can be false. Some of use are just drawn into the drama and can't avoid taking sides.

Creating impressions is how internet drama works.
I agree with the sentiment, but still it is a bit worrying when we see so many hyped startups where a lot of scientists are like "yeah this won't work at all."

I mean I know that there are doubters for good ideas too but what's the line to draw in terms of skepticism?
Open Camps 2016
Really? I had the impression it's the other way around.

If it would have GC, other languages would have to use the supplied GC.

If it wouldn't have GC, other languages could simply implement their own GC.
It was also fairly rare. Not all that surprising since Amiga 1000's were never abundant in the wild, at least for a consumer/hobbyist targeted system. Appeal depended on a mullet like "business in the front, party in the back" intersection. Such were those days.
He is growing into the role.
Putting a semi-permanent colony on Mars is cheaper than you might think, on the order of $50 billion [1]. That's about 10 aircraft carriers, or 1/3 of the cost of the ISS. Making it independent of the Earth is of course orders of magnitude more expensive, but making a self-sufficient underground habitat on Earth isn't exactly cheap either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Direct
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Actually, I believe the description I gave of myself to match that of most of the left-leaning, >30yo HN commenters:-)
> OK, what would you do, then?

Something like this, perhaps: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2016-June/04...

TL;DR: neutral court of arbitration hears the case with all the private details; does not disclose those private details; hears defense etc etc.; makes a judgement; everyone else acknowledges and adheres to that judgement.

Disclaimers: (1) not that there aren't problems and points of weakness with this approach, of course; (2) personally I am very much inclined to trust what Andrea Shepard and Nick Farr say - I'm just saying that some separation of powers and being careful with smear campaigns (note, I don't think that what Nick Farr said is anything akin to smear, though, and I applause his courage here) may do more good in the end.
Betaface API gem: A face detection and face recognition web service
All comments and feedback welcome :)
This is the only government website I have seen that does not look like it was designed in the 90's. It is pleasant to look at.
That's what I find hard to believe though. LinkedIn, a $20B giant, doesn't salt its passwords and uses something as weak as sha1? I would expect even a 1-person startup to do better than that.
Cool, it's very interesting
Only if God exists, which is highly debatable and highly debated.
I don't get how an insurance won't cover something. Isn't that the point of Obama forcing you to buy insurance these days?
Wont the debtors have to report the forgiven debt as income on their taxes, potenially triggering a very difficult tax situation?
It's there but like you say no one makes a big deal of it.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/03/21/clinton-emails-s...
Was ist los mit dir, mein Schatz?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNYcviXK4rg
The Legend of Abraham Wald – solving problem of armoring planes
Debt doesn't magically (or legally) stop existing after a set period of time. It's just that legal means to enforce collection expire.

I once (in the early 1990s) refused to pay a company I was very unhappy with -- IIRC it was Verizon. They cancelled my service, tried to collect, then sold the debt after a while.

I still get these offers to settle the debt for 70% less than the total -- but the letters always include a disclaimer somewhere to the effect of "due to the age of this debt, you will not be sued, and this will not be reported to any credit bureau".
So the combination is... da, da, da? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
That might be the trick. We purchase volume Windows + Office licenses via Microsoft's EES program.
Crystal looks interesting but I can't really migrate to a new language. Something that compiles down to plain Ruby would be great though.
Cryptography is hard and best practice should be to use common libraries to help you get it right.
The architecture sounds nicely choosen and well executed (according to your comment) but i miss some additional information on your website.

Especially about how you plan to be always online. I see the same issue as with statuspages. Their value is actually more their stable platform than the code they produced, the most important feature the uptime.
> Security updates ≠ version upgrades.

That's totally true, but some things blur the lines:

- XP SP2 introduced an inbuilt, on by default firewall. It was a major new feature but necessary.

- XP user accounts were admin by default, Vista added UAC: another major new feature but also necessary.
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I'm a southpaw myself, and therefore quite biased, but I've always been struck by the prevalence of CEOs, Presidents, notable scientists, etc. that I have met who are fellow lefties. Don't have a p-value, but it seems much higher than the ambient (~10%) rate.

For instance, for the last 4-5 years in our computational science research group, we have been sitting pretty steadily near 50%.
The sad truth is above 80% of the food you can find in a U.S. supermarket is transgenic or otherwise called GMO. All sorts of carbohydrate sources - which comprise a huge part of the U.S. diet - from cereals, refined sugars and the base of the american diet: corn fructose. Vegetables and meat that's been grown with also GMO feed has been genetically modified and released to the public without enough testing. One of the consequences is cancer. Cancer grows because the quality of your food, the biotechnology embedded in it and american eating habits are incredibly unhealthy and unsuited for its lifestyle. Research the lobbying between FDA and Monsanto, research the correlation between meat consumption and risk of heart disease and cancer, research the recommended daily intake of fibre and compare it to the average american diet, see the correlation with cancer. There lies the answer.
This article is a lie. Monopolies ALWAYS create complexity (Zero to One - Peter Thiel). Here are what your typical bullshitting articles say:
- Cancer is a living entity, like a virus.
- Cancer is way more complex than we thought!
- Cancer keeps growing and it's unstoppable
- We still don't know how cancer is created

Start here: https://nutritionfacts.org

I lived this on my own skin with my mum getting cancer.
This article has been completely lobbied by the pharmaceutical industry. No doubt.
It's a good show (he's funny and you learn stuff) but it's way too preachy. He gets just a little too excited about things that are basically impossible for anyone to get excited about. Clearly pandering to the young, left crowd. I'm sure it makes some people feel very warm at night but it gives me a bad taste in my mouth after binge watching.
The issue with Newark is good access to clean water and air pollution. Newark (especially the Passaic River that cuts through the city) has a long history of terrible pollution, and the shipyards and airport contribute to some generally poor air quality.
Margaret Thatcher?
Depends on how much oak you like in your bug.
When I was a kid, watching american media, I thought it was incredible that people in TV shows would just leave their houses unlocked and trust their neighbours.

I don't know whether there is any place where people still do this, but in a community where everyone feels they belong and aren't driven to desperation, I could imagine an "open lock" policy working really well.

Everyone locking up their own stuff and blaming people who did not lock theirs down if they get robbed is in itself a form of arms race, which aren't usually optimal.
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Yeah, but that's the problem. There is no way to know all the relationships. This was an obvious one, there are a lot more subtle ones. In any case, the comments have been very helpful. A gradual implementation is the only sane way to go. Politics are not too big of an issue, if I can make a concise case and what's a better way to do it than a small project.
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Georestricted in Australia.. Anyone have a summary?
Well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7abNYC0KQI
I haven't felt urge to watch a single episode with him.
> but the ecosystem around Node is so much tailored around Linux

I really don't understand why people keep saying this, it's simply not true. Node works fantastically on Windows. I've yet to come across a library that won't work on my Windows box (barring obviously platform specific stuff). Node-gyp works fine too, and many libraries with native code offer Windows versions.

Especially when comparing to e.g. Ruby or Python, it's a world of difference. With Ruby you can't even use bundler on Windows and then deploy on Linux.

It seems all the basic fundamental design choices of Node and NPM were made with portability in mind. I'm frankly quite impressed.

Source: been running teams doing frontend and node for almost 3 years now, every team had at least one Win dev and at least one OSX dev, every team deployed to Linux. 0 problems, ever.
Is the author against excellence in general, or is he just against the corrosion of the word excellence by its proliferate use?
> implement their own GC

when that would be so easy, maybe. But especially on top of the browser restrictions that will be even harder.
That doesn't need to be true for this to have happened. Zuck is a high profile target, probably the hackers just prioritised cracking his account and such a weak password would be found reasonably quickly even using bcrypt
except payment isnt going to the people who were originally owed it - payment is going to the last agency which owned it, and can't collect on it
Here's some spec on the chip itself (KnuEdge seems to be a larger holdings company of sorts, the chip is more associated with subsidiary KNUPATH):

https://www.knupath.com/products/hermosa-processors/
It sounds like we need a special category. He thinks corporations should be partial persons. I wonder what fraction he'd pick?

He's got many good points that are a helpful education on the topic, like pointing out that since the 5% owns 2/3 of all stocks, "shareholder rights" really means the interests of the wealthiest. That's probably not what progressives are trying to champion and probably betrays their lack of understanding of the subject.

I feel like this topic is related to the hypothetical discussion of how we should handle long-lived or immortal people. Since corporations persist for much longer than humans they can act on the same goal(s) for a destabilizing period of time.

If corporations are treated more like people, if they have a "conscience," then how do they define and update it?
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Almost positive one of uMatrix or uBlock has that functionality, because I get redirected to https when available and those are two of my very few extensions.
He mentions, without going into detail, that the forgiveness is structured in a way to avoid a tax burden for the debtor. I have no idea how this works but I think it's a safe assumption that people who know more about this than I do will comb through it and John Oliver and company have vetted their own process.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/systemd-ess... for the bare minimum

http://linoxide.com/linux-how-to/systemd-boot-process/ for how it starts up

https://lwn.net/Articles/604609/ cgroups
https://lwn.net/Articles/531114/ namespaces

https://dvdhrm.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/thoughts-on-linux-sy... logind/sessions/seats

http://0pointer.net/blog/projects/socket-activated-container... and finally "the series" from the horse's mouth :)
Which things do you mean? And excited as in happy or as in rage?
I don't remember if the Psion was BGA or not; I'm guessing not which makes soldering it substantially easier.

In a similar vein, you could double the RAM on the original Xbox by soldering a second memory chip to the unpopulated pads on the underside of the board.
"We want to sincerely apologize to all users who took offense at our choice of words, particularly the "careless use" thing we published in several of our statements. We never meant to offend anyone."

"It's really important to understand that TeamViewer is a tool that needs to be used sensibly and extremely smartly."

Managed to stay super arrogant after their major f*up. Way to go! bust...
Why do the poor make poor decisions?
In 2012 (the hack which this came from) their passwords were encrypted with SHA1 and not salted.

I have a feeling that today things are better than that, but who knows, maybe not.
My suspicion is that most organizations don't manage upgrades and/or use home licensing where they should not.

I have had upgrades for Windows 10 sitting in my WSUS review queue for a long time now and simply not taking action has led to them not being installed. https://imgur.com/0LN5N7n.png
Why there is no non-profit here that gets donations and spent them to wipe out medical and general debt that is the cheapest available on the market right now? Or are there ?
He says he sent it to a non-profit organisation (looks like RIPx Medical Debt) which "specialises in forgiving medical debt with no tax consequences for the debtor".

I'd try and find some links but I'm currently on my phone.
My schedule:

- 10pm to 6pm with 2 wakeups, the second one is usually longer

- so between 7 to 8h

- during the week less but minimum 6,5 hours and on the weekend longer, ~8h
Is it even called emoji if it in fact is not emoji?
Quite handy. If anyone has OpenWrt hardware like me, OpenVpn clients and servers work good enough and the setup is well documented: https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/vpn.openvpn
Even though this is not what this article is about, quite a few comments suggest better ways to compute the midpoint of two doubles, where "better" is supposed to mean "such that unnecessary overflow is avoided".

What I haven't seen is the suggestion

0.5*x + 0.5*y

Yes, we now have two multiplications, but floating point multiplication is considerably faster than division.
You can see it on Facebook:

https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=912968418832168&id...
It was unfinished, almost unmaintained, and basically left for dead. It was (and is still) a lot better than shell scripts, but the problem (of system [lifecycle] management, including initialization) is complex and hard to isolate/decouple and evolve in a sane manner.
Given that virus checkers only catch about 50% of any malware and recently there have been zero days in some household name virus checkers anyway. It might be good advice.

Some people will click on exe's because they believe the virus checker will protect them.