skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-usa-secession-i...

And yes. Leo Strauss was of that opinion and you will find a whole suite of argument that talk about how the middle east became the new enemy out of need rather than actual threat.

This was part of the PNAC (Project for New American Century) which identified the need for a new enemy after the fall of the wall.

Now whether they were actually successful is another discussion but it was part of the Bush administrations fundamental belief as several of it's key members where students under Strauss.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss
>It is unfortunate that extreme right wings and nazis are capitalizing on this frustration but somebody eventually would.

Somebody eventually would, and in 2008 it was considered of paramount importance that it not be extreme left-wingers and communists. Stomp the Communists, get the Nazis.
>Once you know the facts, it's much easier to draw correct conclusions.

I disagree. Facts can and do often get in the way or confuse people - and oversimplifying the facts for mass consumption has its own problems.

What if the facts are data/statistics? Depending how they get massaged you can have wildly different conclusions and both still be "right". Or voters not willing to investigate the data themselves (or lack the ability to perform statistical analysis) could be easily influenced by how the data is presented, if the data is presented in a manner meant to make drawing the "favored" solution easier.

What if the information presented is meant to mislead people with facts? Such as the old "ban dihydrogen monoxide" campaign.

I can't remember the city (state?), but they held a vote to ban Uber. The way the phrasing was to accept/decline the ordinance to outlaw Uber was so confusingly worded I read it several times and still wasn't sure if I was supposed to vote "yes" or "no" on the ordinance... was it saying "yes" to the new ordinance to overrule/replace the old ordinance or was it voting "yes" to keep the old ordinance? If I voted "yes" was I voting to outlaw Uber or allow Uber? I have a feeling it was intentionally made as confusing as possible.
Thats true.
Switzerland did that because the alternative was, concretely, losing the ability to keep foreign customers, so they chose the lesser evil.
Why do you think it would be different for the UK?
I admire your willingness to be open minded and ask the question, but I've asked the question in the past, and I've never gotten a straight answer. Instead I get some pat pre-package talking points, and if I dig deeper I get a confusion of ideas. And that's because the people opposed to immigration tend to be motivated by racism, but they don't want to say that, so they every other imaginable thing. It's simply impossible to have an honest conversation with someone, if they aren't willing to be honest about why they favor a particular policy.
> That kind of behaviour is rightly criticised.

Indeed it is. I think there is a big difference between a promising company whose technology has a few bugs and whose salespeople are overzealous and unethical, and a company that is an outright fraud.
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Do you think a FB competitor that offered really nice encryption and privacy features would be successful?

I'm imagining an app that let's you choose where to store data, let's you store your data encrypted and offers message encryption, and of course allows you to sign up anonymously and permanently delete data.

I hate Facebook but I recognize it serves a useful function - I only use it because everyone else does.
> Good luck, Comodo

why?
Unfortunately, the inadmissibility of evidence due to being obtained without warrant seems to be eroding: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/us/supreme-court-says-poli...
No he didn't.
Politics is not always rational. It is also in the interest of the survival of the EU to deal with the UK in a heavy-handed manner. If a precedent is set that shows leaving the union is all upsides with no downsides, why would other countries remain? IMO, France has the greatest risk of leaving next, and without France, the whole EU might collapse. The kid gloves are definitely going to come off in the negotiations: I have an inkling that's why the 'Leave' campaign is delaying the invocation of article 50.
> When do you start with biased data?

In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once
came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.

"What are you doing?", asked Minsky.

"I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe" Sussman replied.

"Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky.

"I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play", Sussman said.

Minsky then shut his eyes.

"Why do you close your eyes?", Sussman asked his teacher.

"So that the room will be empty."

At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

(from: http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html#id3141241 )

There is always bias (and other types of error) in data. There is even bias in the choice of which data to use and the type of analysis to perform.

If you think that this isn't a problem, you should really read about practices like "redlining"[1]. For many decades segregation was (and still is) enforced by opaque "loan approval" methods that just happened to always deny loans to blacks.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case...
Can confirm. US (dual) citizen living in Europe. Increasingly banks here will not take US citizens as customers as it is too annoying for them to deal with.
Or more importantly, why isn't there a browser written in a language impervious to low level buffer overruns, ROP, and pointer problems?

Certainly there are other higher level data exposure problems that could manifest, but I'm so utterly sick of C-level security exploits that I'm ready to throw everything out with the bathwater.
My wife and I are for one, there is so much discontent within our generation over what has happened...

We are seriously considering between the US, Canada, Ireland (she's Irish by birth) and Scotland (in anticipation of it leaving the UK and joining the EU).
That's also very good to point out. Please note I quoted the article.

You point out a bias in the statistic. Of the imprisoned population. What are the percentage breakdowns for types of crime?
I think this is a portion of what's going on. I'll prefix by saying I'm no expert in history or political science but I believe through the larger lens of history, the big picture is that the West is undergoing an acceleration of empire collapse in several places.

Overall, the lessons of history teach that geographically large, wealthy, socially advanced empires don't actually survive all that long on average. They are complex systems with lots of moving parts, and various unexpected stressors can break essential components in unexpected ways. Major changes to the labor force, migration and productivity are very frequently the type of stressor that breaks empire systems.

The EU is a form of empire, that had many flaws from it's inception. The British Empire we believed had already fallen and was on the mend after WWII, had maybe found it's place in the EU, but the reality is looking like it still had further left to go to hit rock bottom. (If we look at the map of the vote it resembles Britain circa 1700, before the rise of British colonialism.)

Likewise, in the USA the American empire has hit the peak of it's capacity for expansion and economic dominance and is starting to get a taste of what the cracks in empire look like. This truly massive scale democratic republic is a real achievement but it's unclear what happens in a system like this at this scale. We may have simply exhausted the limits of a republic to project power, expand wealth and still maintain political harmony at home. The population's awakening to these changes, coupled with feeling the stress of labor shifts, is manifesting in political upheaval.

Anyhow I'm no expert in history or government but I don't believe it's out of the question to assume this is what it feels like to be embarking into the darker bits of history. Personally, I'm accepting that Asia will become the dominant economic driver for the remainder of my life and plan on embracing that from here out
One forum post, nine different sentences saying the same thing: "Comodo invented 90 day free certificate".

To me this sounds quite similar to the ownership of the rectangle with rounded corners (I am actually not sure whose side I'm on in either dispute).
Too late for me. Already renewed my expiring certs elsewhere yesterday.
Not quite clear how they can "waltz off with their proceeds." They would be required to pay taxes on any income they earned in the US, unless they figured out a way to actualize the income earlier (e.g. Eduardo Saverin renouncing before Facebook's IPO). Sure, by moving to the resident-based tax system used by nearly every other country in the world (China is trying to copy the US system and Eritrea requires you to pay an "expat" tax if you want a visa to return), the US expat could take their US-based K-12 education and leave and work elsewhere, but that's not quite the same. People pay for their college education. An excellent education system also serves the domestic purpose of having an informed citizenry to pass good laws, and attract the best and brightest immigrants from around the world.

I think the biggest reasons other nations don't tax overseas income is because they don't have the power to force a special exception for their expatriate citizens (e.g. Greek citizens working in Canada). The US is using its position of power to require these overseas banks to modify all of their accounting and reporting systems to continue to do business in the U.S. This has large issues of fairness and generates animosity.
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If you can't get paid time off to vote, no questions asked - you have an entirely different and more serious problem. That, and isn't youth unemployment a very real problem in the UK too?
Charging for renunciation is the most ridiculous part. You are paying for a process that:

is expensive only since they want to investigate you as a presumed criminal or tax dodger (the movie Brazil comes to mind)

is a result of their non-compliance with international norms

is the result of the US declaring you have a status that was never requested

As an expat I consider all US citizens to be indentured servants due to this requirement to buy independence from the US and whatever it chooses to enact next. Effectively, these changes are not noticed by the US' domestics, but those who think they "can flee to Canada" when they have ethical problems with the US are now deluding themselves. "If you don't like it, then leave" may have been sarcastic BS, but at least it was a real choice that many people made in the Vietnam era, etc. If you don't like us leave us money (which we will use in the ways you probably object to)" is something else.

I will find it both funny and sad that when the people who supported the two party system are pissed by someone like Trump implementing fascist policies they will finally realize that their own willingness to destroy our basic civil rights makes it impossible for them to avoid helping a system they find morally repugnent and criminal.
Well, colour me impressed. Looks like they have indeed done the right thing. Fair's fair, I'm going to go ahead and renew my Comodo cert.
I feel like this is a politically-correct rant thinly disguised as programming related.

> I don’t care what your politics are. If you’re building a data-driven system and you’re not actively seeking to combat prejudice, you’re building a discriminatory system.

Fuck that. Build _correct_ systems first. If you’re making a system that intentionally distorts data for the sake of “combating prejudice”, you’re _lying_. That doesn’t help anyone.
But the stickiness of geography for finance and autos are very different. Replicating a segment of London's financial sector in Frankfurt is easier than replicating BMW/VW to UK.
If you can build a piece of software and run unit and integration tests on it, it is more or less rot proof. That's because all those tests lets one delete or replace components of the system without having to worry too much that the whole thing is going to break in some unknown way that won't be caught until it's in production.

Without a good suite, the larger the system gets, the more people get scared of doing radical things to it because they are worried about breaking some critical functionality. As far as the not being able to build aspect goes, the main threat here is relying to much on closed source software and/or libraries that go out of support that no one can find the license, or critical documentation for, or worse manifests some critical unfixable bug.
> "As the European commission, it's a civil service as there is in all the European countries."

That's a common misconception. Why? In other countries, the civil service aren't the only ones that can propose legislation.

In the EU, the European Parliament can't propose legislation, the European Council can't propose legislation, only the European Commission can propose legislation. You may be electing people to represent you, but how are they meant to represent you when they have no input into what is being discussed? All they can do is say yes or no to what the Commission proposes, it's the Commission that controls the agenda.
> If you have to poll then it's not asynchronous.

Says who?

Maybe not "streaming". Maybe not "real time". But certainly asynchronous.
One can always reapply for citizenship under the same conditions as anyone else. If her parents are Americans and she was born here, she will very likely get citizenship back.
Because this website is full of self-important assholes, that's why...
I use the FDA's 18f API and the Jsend standard.
> "Comodo invented 90 day free certificate"

It's even sillier than that. Comodo has long offered a 90 day free trial cert. You have to pay to renew.

Let's Encrypt gives a 90 day free cert that's freely renewable as many times as you want along with an API to renew it. These aren't the same business models at all.
If the data itself is bad and known to be bad, the results will reflect the bad data.

In the case of policing, the arrest record is racially biased (the US releases data that shows this bias and it's well researched). If you train on arrest records, it won't predict actual crime because the results will be racially biased.

Being unbiased is actually a very difficult problem. Especially when we are predicting things rooted in social / cultural trends.
A critical difference being that the traditional banking system insulates depositors from theft whereas cyptocurrency theft leaves depositors victimized without any legal recourse.
> If you are a US citizen and you get in trouble somewhere on earth, the US government will come to your aid.

Agree this is worth something. I would propose a substantially decreased federal tax bracket (maybe 1-5%) for expats. Sort of like how you pay a decreased vehicle tax when it's not in use.
>I don't think he's finished.

Not even close. I think he spent the last three or four episodes working out how to efficiently sort sprites or something.
In the US, our rights are inalienable

As long as you are white. They fixed that later with a few amendments. If you served a prison sentence you may have lost a few as well.

Seems like this inalienable rights can be taken away arbitrarily is what I'm saying.
> Instead, what took about 150 year for America was rammed through in about 30.

you do realise the treaty of rome was signed 60 years ago right? The current EU has a ton of problems, but it's the continuation of a process that goes on since the end of WW2.
I have friends who've barely been to America, but they have the passport, so they have to stupid paperwork every year. It's not reasonable.

>Americans gain huge benefits from the taxes paid by prior generations.

So do the citizens of countries with residence based systems.

>If you are a US citizen and you get in trouble somewhere on earth, the US government will come to your aid.

This is patently not true. When has the US ever intervened on behalf of an ordinary passport holder, in a way that citizens of countries with ordinary tax systems do not?
The Sun Cloud API [1] was specifically designed to adhere to REST as close as possible, including HATEOAS. Here's some background from Tim Bray [2], who worked on this API when he was at Sun [3].

[1] https://kenai.com/projects/suncloudapis/pages/Home

[2] https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/03/16/Sun-Cloud

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bray
Along these lines, I'm thinking that having larger corporate offices make the walk farther for non-handicap parking in general would be beneficial to employee health. I know that some parking lots are huge in general, but positioning entrances, and the majority of parking to effectively enforce a roughly 1/4 mile walk would help a lot.

Although it was really rough at first, I worked in an office, where the closer parking lot was always full, and in a Phoenix summer, that sucked.. but as it cooled, I had forced myself to park at the far end of the overflow lot, that was farther down the road... about 1/3 mile walk each way. My health in general improved a lot over those months working there. Although, it was a bit exhausting when I'd invariably forget my security badge in my car about once a week.

I'm also thinking it might be nice to have cities actually block off auto traffic on certain streets in favor of higher walking, opening areas to foot traffic over auto.
With any luck, Adobe will also leave millions of slow and bugridden PCs in Britain too.
Whoah, hold on.

Diffie-Hellman implemented very carefully can be a one component of a sound crypto protocol that does key exchange.

Both italicized phrases are important:

* It is extremely easy to implement textbook Diffie-Hellman in ways that are gravely insecure. In addition to domain-specific software implementation concerns that you must known about to safely implement number-theoretic crypto, you also have to carefully select parameters. It's parameter selection weaknesses David's paper takes advantage of.

* Diffie-Hellman by itself produces trivially breakable cryptosystems. DH is a building block. To build a safe protocol that uses DH, you need a higher-level construction --- usually, an authenticated key exchange. Check out the Noise protocol framework for more details on what this looks like. As you skim it, try to think about how relaxing or altering any of the constructions in an instantiation of Noise might produce a crypto vulnerability. This stuff is _hard_.

http://noiseprotocol.org/noise.html

The basic idea of the paper is to explore the different species of [p,g] DH parameter tuples you can come up with to produce a version of DH whose key exchanges are cryptographically difficult for randos to break, but easy for their authors to break. For instance, you can set p = pq for p and q sharing a bad generator g.

A true cryptographic "NOBUS" DH backdoor is an interesting thing to have: you can deploy it across the Internet and it will chug along executing key exchanges that only you, as the author of the parameters for the backdoor, can break.
Why not? This was a good piece of serious journalism.
If the European Parliament were able to propose legislation, you would have a lot more of the kinds of laws and regulations you don't like about the EU.
Ugh, more garbage from the technical bubble children who are perpetually an exposed nerve.
Shows how most CEOs of even large companies are human like everyone else, not the "super mature", "super calculated", "super intelligent" begins they are made out to be. It's also important to note the arrogance - invented the 90 day trial :D
Hi Peter, really appreciate your initiative. Is there any kind of conflict if I apply to O1 and L1 at same time, assuming I have all the requisites for both. In your opinion the option for Premium Processing Service decrease the chances to be approved? Best regards, RN
I gave up on MacOS back in 2012. Linux + package management for the win.

Maybe if Apple maintained their own ports tree, but they don't. There's no UNIX under there. There is a BSD kernel, a bastardized UNIX-ish base on top of an ancient file system (yes HFS+ has finally been replaced, but just this year) with a proprietary display system and yaks fucking turtles all the way down.

MacOS is a terrible developer OS. 10.6 and Expose and work spaces. 10.7 took this wonderful thing and replaces it with Mission Control; which only allowed one row of workspaces, no columns and windows were now grouped together so you couldn't see shit. No way to revert to the old behavior either.

Then Apple destroyed Final Cut. Goodbye video editing.

I switched back to Gentoo + i3 and never looked back.

I know there are now tiling window managers for MacOS. That's cool. I might try them one day. If I'm forced to.
The point of the algorithm is simply to choose advertisements as successfully as possible.
If the data is truly biased in that it doesn't reflect reality then sure, go ahead and correct for this bias. But make sure you are not introducing your own biases which are wrong.
"But is it OK that we’re using extraordinarily biased data about previous arrests to predict future arrests and determine where police are stationed?"

The truth is that men living in certain areas are much more likely to commit violent crime and therefore get arrested than the average person in the United States. This is the sad reality of the world we live in. It isn't wrong to deploy police resources where they are most needed. If the data shows that these areas are no longer hotspots of crime, then we can reroute resources elsewhere.
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The transgressions are not assumed. All they've done is reverted a small piece of DRM that was leading to piracy. They have not opened up their store at all. It's still completely closed to non-Oculus hardware.

Perhaps you're missing context to understand why people are upset. Oculus has went so far as to actually pay developers of open, non-exclusive VR games to restrict their games to the Rift and Touch only, either indefinitely or for a period of at least six months. These are games that were already in development. In one case, people had even pre-ordered Giant Cop for the Vive through the Humble Bundle, but Oculus purchased timed exclusivity rights for the game afterwards.

It's a really nasty situation, and Oculus deserves every bit of criticism they've received. This reversal of a tiny piece of their overall exclusivity strategy does not in any way diminish or undo everything else they've been doing. In fact, it's completely irrelevant for anyone who wasn't planning on pirating content.
I really don't see what this has to do with what I said. You disagree with 30% of older people on a social topic, and therefore, they don't care about the future of the country that their children and grandchildren will most likely inhabit for many generations? What?
> Why do you think other networks wouldn't have grown global?

Because privately-run networks have to turn a profit by the end of the fiscal year, if not sooner. It's too easy for a company to engage in profit-seeking behavior which harms long-term growth, like demanding fees to interoperate with it. The core Internet protocol suite, OTOH, is completely specified by RFCs which are free to read and implement.
They hacked his computer. Causing modifications to it. How can they prove whatever they found was not planted there?

Usually computer forensics researchers, to have their evidence be admissible, use special devices that block write access to hard drives and such. Else it gets thrown out in court. Why is this different?