skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the parent poster: anyone.

I held a clearance for 20 years. If I (or anybody else who wasn't well-connected) had pulled this stunt, I'd be in prison right now. And I would have likely been detained in a cell until trial. This was made abundantly clear in the annual security refresher training and briefings that all cleared personnel undergo, in addition to the original ones you receive upon being cleared.

I say this not to specifically knock Clinton. Whether it was Powell, Petraeus, Clinton or any other individual: the law is unjust if not applied equally to all. There have always been people in power who have skirted the law, but it is especially galling that these days those individuals don't seem particularly concerned about hiding that fact, and their supporters can so casually excuse it.
Unless you make voting in the first vote a pre-condition to vote on the second vote.
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Either way, this is a password strength checker, sending just a hash to the server would be useless.

Client-side password strength checker would make it functionally impossible to check dictionaries.
It's ok to hand certs to Hitler.

It's not OK to let Hitler be an intermediate CA.
Depends on how big the dictionary is. :)
You're thinking too narrowly about who is using VPNs.
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Not necessarily - the second vote could be a ratification of outcome the first, rather than a repeat of the question.
True enough, and if you're into watching interesting people play games on video there's a lot of content to be had and DF is usually a fairly interesting watch since it can be relatively unpredictable at a certain point. There was one excellent guy I had bookmarked a long time ago, but I lost that set of bookmarks a while back.
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Would pay for something like this with Hololens + my own keyboard and mouse. Virtual desktops in Rift or Vive give me headaches and I use the headsets everyday.
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I respect if others discover meaning in this music. To me it sounds like a child's scribble.
Nobody uses the dow. It's price-weighted. It's most famous for being reported at the 6PM local news. But seeing the Russell 2000 would be great.
A jury is a very restricted case. There is a supervising judge and two (or more) competing advocates. The process for choosing those advocates is very formalized (defendant selection and public official).

Every one of these other participants breaks the analogy enough to make it useless.
Dow Jones is probably one of the least interesting ones due to the small number of stocks in it.
So, guys create a ton of work for themselves and post up a public tracker. They scope the game to be WAAAY larger than what it could reasonably be, but this scoping allows its creators to put up this multi-generational progress bar that slowly-but-surely inches to completion, and in the process eke out a meager living. The elation, when that progress bar does move, is borderline orgasmic.

I call BS
> That remains to be seen

What would a more powerful USA look like? It doesn't appear that the country is after an empire the same way the British had one 100 years ago, so raw aggression is out. I can't imagine a realistic scenario that doesn't require the implosion of other nations to embiggen America.
Your sampling methodology leaves much to be desired.

Sarcastically calling people, especially young naive people, "snowflake" as a rejection of their projection of uniqueness or specialness has been around for decades. It's applied without sexual or gender connotations.

Example of alternate declarative form from Fight Club, "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/quotes?item=qt0479117
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Sortition is almost what we have elected politicians for isn't it? The default case?

Referendums are for very important cases were we suspect politicians are out of touch with ordinary people.

This has been a nagging issue in UK for years and finally they figured it was better to ask the people.
Not sure. Several of high change frequency components from telephony were moved to platform/packages. Also Google has probably not dumped the latest changes yet.
Not important for devs until it works in MacOS and Linux. Until then, this is a toy for a toy OS.
Another documentary that anyone interested in this period of the Radiophonic Workshop might like is one on a colleague of Oram's: Delia Derbyshire, famous for being the creator of the Dr. Who theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXnmSgaeGAI
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The same could have been said of the horse until someone tried a train for the first time.

We've never tried sortition on a large scale, and on smaller scales it's already been shown effective.

A perfect opportunity to experiment with it would be the Canadian senate, IMO.

Also note: sortition is a form of democracy. In fact I would argue it's the most democratic process proposed which does not run a risk of mob rule. You still have an "elite" making decisions... only that elite is constantly changing, is made of a representative sample of the general population, and is at less risk of being easily corrupted by special interest groups.

It's actually quite beautiful and elegant: so simple, yet it addresses so many of the criticisms of every other system proposed. While at the same time it's incredibly flexible in implementation: it can be perfectly fitted to a parliamentary government structure or any other variation of already existing governments. Any country or state would be able to experiment with it without needing a major overhaul of how its legislative/executive branches operate (only how its members are appointed).
I talk to the person behind SOS regularly. They are actually quite brilliant and very passionate about consumer security.

The premise of Decent Security (and the fact that there's no name or monetization strategy attached to it) is why they can do better. They're not trying to sell you anything. They're trying to help people take control of their own systems.
This article can be summarized as "Oh no! The 'wrong sorts of people' are winning! Lets ditch popular elections."
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I worked on it pretty consistently all along. Though there were a few months in there where I only did 10-15 hours a week on ConvertKit.
> The result would be a very low turnout on the first vote

Would it? To pass a measure is to approve a change, so there's always a side that wins if the vote doesn't pass. Opponents of a change could defeat it on the first ballot, and would likely focus effort on doing so, especially if turnout was expected to be small -- because the first vote isn't meaningless, if it fails, the measure is dead, and there is no second vote.

But because of this, supporters of the vote would also work very hard to mobilize support in the first ballot, because succeeding in it would be necessary to get to the second.
> But it would be nice at the very least if they'd send it as POSTs in the body, not GET parameters.

If the GET is being sent via XHR over SSL, how is doing a POST any more secure?
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The efficient markets hypothesis alone isn't falsifiable. You need a model of information and how it interacts with prices: this gives you a so-called joint hypothesis. The joint hypothesis is merely extremely difficult to falsify.

I'm not saying it's not very hard to make money by trading. But be aware that you can't just assume efficient markets and have done with it.
Ah the Guardian. It's gone into full on hypocrisy mode after the referendum fell to the 'exit' vote.

It styles itself as the voice for the downtrodden and disenfranchised, but the moment they make the 'wrong' decision it posts article after article dedicated to denigrating these same people, advocating their voice be ignored. Quite sad really.
There should be a failure to replicate journal. The standards committee would should be all about rigor so that just getting published there would be a demonstration of technique and ability if not headlines.
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Why is it always this binary comparison?

It doesn't have to be good looking. It doesn't have to pretty. It doesn't need to be 3d, or need all these fancy bells and whistles. Nowhere has that been suggested (at least in anything I've written), yet people nonetheless frame their answers in this artificial contrast.

Once again: just make the UI intuitive. Make things behave as normal. Grant a few hooks into the GUI code so the community can create their own without having to reverse engineer your game. That is all!
If you're just as likely to be right as wrong, then is the only risk that your money is taken by fees (if you don't count your time as wasted)?
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As usual, people confuse democracy, vote, and freedom. In many coutries, we have vote. In some countries, we have a lot of freedom.

But to this day, we don't have democracy in a single country.

Democracy supposes that the people has the power. It's not the case in what we call democracies today.

You have a small group of people getting in the election pool because of where they come from and how much money they can manipulate. Then, this small group takes most of the decisions, which is what we call an oligarchy.

Voting then, is just a way to swap people from this group. In no way it puts power in the hand of the people.

Quite often people opposes dictatures with our systems to justify that if they are in that state, then we are in a democracy. The fact we have a better, and confortable system doesn't make it magically fit the definition.

For the people to have power, you would need them to want it in the first place. But most don't read political programs, most don't think hard about what their country should do, and most certainly don't accept any responsability for anything happening today in their country. They won't choose what they buy or whatch on TV according to the impact on the social life.

Hence, elections are not bad for democracy, it's just we never manage to use them to setup a democracy in the first place.

In fact, to have a democracy we would need to educate people to want it first. To make everyday's decisions by thinking about it. And to think about what society can become on a regular basis.

Right now, as most of us think and act mostly for ourself, we can't achieve democracy. Democracy cannot be brought only by using a fair political system (that we don't even have), you also need citizens.
Interesting...I would've guessed that this was referring to propietary algorithms used by the criminal justice system to determine recidivism [1], but it's actually about pushing back against the CFAA, which may restrict researchers' ability to write scrapers and deploy bots (and create fake profiles on services).

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-the-compa...
Try this on stock markets like the Nikkei, and I think you'll find completely different results.
I have never heard someone pronounce nginx "n-jinks" before like they did in their video. It's a minor thing, but it hurts their credibility in my eyes.
Even 1% is a very high total expense ratio.
Here's a talk my colleague and I gave at O'Reilly Strata about natural language UIs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnV2JnNBM1I

We focus on NLUIs for the purposes of data querying. In many cases, natural language is concise and allows you to elide implied constraints.

For example, "Opportunities where I'm on the account team"

The SQL would be:

SELECT * FROM OPPORTUNITY
WHERE EXISTS
(SELECT 1 FROM account_team_member atm
JOIN opportunity ON opportunity.account_id = atm.account_id
WHERE atm.user = me)

There's a correlated subquery in there. Even if you are a SQL expert, your time to query formulation is far higher if you use SQL than English. Drag and drop UIs are just a thin veneer over SQL, so a drag and drop UI requires understanding the underlying data model and join structure.

My argument here is that there are some key places where NLUIs really shine, especially when they are scrupulously combined with more traditional UIs.
Sidekiq repository: https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq
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I find the art of children to often be much more unaffected, creative, and interesting than that of most adult artists. In fact, so do some adult artists themselves, who admire and even seek to themselves emulate the art of children.
The ones used by security experts are in the GB range.

Obviously you could do more efficient approaches like converting characters to recognize that P@ssw0rd is just Password, but then you've increased the algorithmic complexity you're sending to the client. If you want to get super-fancy, you've got to find word boundaries and whatnot to find that MyP45512345 is really just MyPass12345.

Of course, the simple brute force approach (server-side check if my password in this 5GB db of passwords?) might be too slow to use for this case anyways.
i've actually used AFL to find some input parsing bugs in Perl, Python, and Ruby.

Perl was the team who fixed them the fastest.

none of the teams (rightly) considered these particularly high impact.
Its hypocrisy and contempt coming from "elites" via the very institutions that are critical to a democracy, the media. When the 4th estate works in a neutral, non-biased, fact based way democracy can work. However, once you have major media bought and paid for by those "elites" to push some billionaire's agenda you sow distrust in media. Once the voters don't have a place to go for trusted information all bets are off...
And then they change the interface -- with no notice. And let you search blindly for and stumble your way through the new way to do it -- if it still exists.

This is particularly frustrating with regard to my parents and their Android phones. I'll get them set on how to do something... and then it suddenly no longer works, anymore.

For a gang of kids or twenty-somethings who are constantly communicating about the tech in their hands, this... word of mouth / osmosis approach to adoption may work.

For many others, it's damned frustrating. Including for the techie family members who end up having to help them -- over and over and over...
I've only ever seen it written, how do you pronounce it?
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Would be interesting to see this for various test functions with various starting parameters. Here is a large compilation of various test functions: http://infinity77.net/global_optimization/genindex.html
engine-x, right? (as explained on their home page)

http://nginx.org/en/
> If I understand correctly, you say that software as an art form must by default have a conventional and easily usable UI or means of interaction, ("practical considerations of the medium") before considering anything artistic such as the gameplay itself?

Yes. Exactly!

And in many cases (especially with games), people DO play around with the practical necessities and often stumble on something inspired. Like HomeStarRunner's "Virus" SBemail, or fourth-wall-breaking adventure games that comment on their own interface. But I think in DF's case it falls flat.

Western music is written in a consistent scale for practical considerations: it was discovered that writing music in a mathematically consistent format made it easiest for musicians to play and reinterpret. Sure, people deviate, but the vast majority of those efforts are terrible. Cinema -- even avant garde -- is constrained to the limits of film, audience attention, and patterns in storytelling, and the viewer generally expects certain things. Literature is constrained by the practical considerations of books and the written word, and so written text is formatted consistently per reader expectations. How is software any different?
> What we are seeing now is IMO hypocrisy and contempt of ordinary people at a scary level.

This isn't anything new. It's the justification for all the bureaucratic layering in government. The people are too stupid/bigoted/whatever to make decisions for themselves, so we'll make it for them.
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The de facto and possibly de jure pronunciation is engine-ex.
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Ultimately, that's still laziness.

Learn the necessary skill.
I, for one, am exceedingly happy that the media establishment has so loudly proclaimed their disdain for democracy in the last week. Open your eyes people, they think they can run your lives better than you and they're quite upset that you've dared fight back.
I mean, I know it's pronounced like engine-ex (just like it's Oh-Ess Ten, not Oh-Ess-Ex, or jif not gif), but when I'm just reading the word to myself it comes out n-jinks because fewer syllables.
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One common criticism of compiler classes is that the first semester spends all of its time on parsing, so the students don't learn very much about compilers. And btw, there's an infinite number of conceptually difficult parts when it comes to optimization.
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Sortition is just too corruptible and disagreeable I would think. You can sample a society and "educate" them but then that process will forever be under fire too.

I believe that in a democracy things should be hard to change. Changing things should take a super majority. This will lead to more compromise and possibly better results for all. If there was a 2/3 requirement to change things then there would be little room for controversial changes to occur that cause an uproar among the citizenship. There would be more cooperation because to change something you'd need to compromise with your opponent for them to get a change they want instead of trying to get a slim majority in the government by election, etc.

If this principal was applied in the first place the UK never would have joined the EU and Brexit wouldn't have ever even been an issue. In fact, many of the things a lot of people find disagreeable wouldn't have happened.

We are divided because we let our form of democracy divide us.
How would you even validate the password server-side if you're salting it at the client level?
Thank you. It's been n-jinx in my head for about 5 years now.
I don't entirely understand what the commenter is trying to say, but from his username it seems like he is the successor.
Pixel density is a huge issue. With current Oculus and Vice displays, you can not only distinguish individual pixels but also see the red, green, blue subpixels.

I can't imagine doing work with that. Only some specialized tasks could work, I can see how Tilt Brush could work in CAD work. But projecting your usual 2d app windows to VR sounds awful with the current consumer products in mind.
I was looking for a blogpost here that used similar, orange visualisation. The graphs seem to be an intuitively general application in geometry or analysis or whatever - I don't have the basics down; this should help.
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I don't know about mobile-first and I am not sure it really matters in the jobhunting space. But I'd suggest looking at StackOverflow Jobs for a developer oriented resource:

https://stackoverflow.com/jobs?t=c&r=home
Unfortunately (or fortunately?) not everyone cares whether their actions harm their employer.
I think another thing to factor in is the increase in computerized trading. With more and more volume comprising of strategies that focus on the short term, it seems like the returns may not be as shown since the data the research is based on covers traditional trading periods.

not just HFT, buy algo shops like PDT and Renaissance Technologies being more and more frequent players
This is not very interesting. Anyone who has attempted even a cursory inspection of market returns understands this rationale.

The more interesting problem is to attempt to train an investment curve based on some normalized metric for market value, which would be superior to both the lump-sum and DCA strats. What he's not showing you is that gyrations in the market have a tremendous impact on the long-run return outlook and this is extremely detrimental to the lump-sum strategy in particular. DCA is slightly better but still not perfect. You therefore want to pool cash over certain periods of time and invest more, relatively speaking, during periods when the market is trending lower. This is a tough model to construct because there are certain subjective features (how to normalize market value properly) and more complicated variables you have to account for like a negative ROI on holding cash.

All that said, I actually built a model fitting this description a while back and it works swimmingly.
It was a Slashdot/Slashnet clone that was used by a lot of Liberal Democrats like Howard Dean. Rusty Foster would create websites for them using Scoop. The Daily Kos used to be Scoop based. Scoop has a good history, and should be upgraded and persevered to modern technology. No doubt it would run faster on a Linux VPS with a small amount of RAM than Wordpress or some other blog.

Wordpress once was B2, and someone saved B2 and renamed it Wordpress. The same can be done with Scoop.
The pro-publica article is self-debunking. The R script written by the authors is unable to find statistically significant evidence of bias.

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/propublica_is_lying....

That's probably why the article is nothing but a bunch of anecdotes.
That's not how it works, the return of the index is the actual return of the included stocks while they are in the index. There will be winners and losers, but the return is actually what you get.
> "brilliant computer scientist" or "will cure cancer,"

These are already covered by eb-2 anyways.
Previous Daphne Oram on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10993961.
Eventually most people have to redeem their investments, though, and they're going to do so in their home currency.

A US investor who bought foreign assets in 2014 and sold them today would have been hurt by the 25% USD/EUR rally in 2014-2015. The dollar rose against almost all other currencies too (besides, for example the yen).
I have heard this many times, mostly from non-native English people. I don't see any problem with that. Also we tend to say 'oh-ess-eks'. :D
Previous discussions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11875419 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11868077