skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like your post and I think you're on to something, but I want to be pedantic about one point I think is important:

> Unlike the true magic thinking of millenias past, there is an underlying transmission mechanism

This doesn't distinguish it from magical thinking. Witches transmitted demons using magic... or whatever.

What distinguishes it from magical thinking is that the transmission mechanism is 1) based upon empirical observations; and 2) far more importantly, is a refutable theory. So even if we can't prove or disprove the theory with high statistical confidence using a single experiment, we can formulate specific hypotheses that test the veracity of the theory and then try to refute those hypotheses. Either in controlled but very small scale settings, or by finding naturally occurring data sets that prove or refute the theory.

Many economic theories are vaguely similar to evolution in this one respect[1]. The problem with theories of this variety is that if you know a priori what you want to be true, then you can amass evidence. So you have to be intellectually honest with yourself, or you're just hiding your magical thinking with a pile of complexity.

[1] But extremely different in many other ways... I mean for this comparison only to point out a single similarity -- that neither theory's complete set of claims can be directly tested experimentally, but we can still think about these theories scientifically. Of course the comparison between evolution and any particular economic theory more-or-less stops there...
There is a line: support vs. optimization.

Support everyone with a browser & internet access, optimize for the stuff that has the greatest market share or where you can do the most good and stand a good chance of having your dependencies met.
Not sure why the downvotes here - I'm pretty sure this mentality is spot-on among those who are willing to look the other way when things like this happen.

It's just much easier to rationalize it away than it is to stand up against injustice.
I want my history to be like my personal slice of Archive.org.
Somewhat related, China has launched the first quantum communications satellite which is meant to prevent eavesdropping using Quantum Key Distribution, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/world/asia/china-quantum-s...
But unfortunately he's right
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Cool approach, you need to compromise two separate servers just to have a usable password database you could run tools against. A key compromise can be fixed quickly and a password compromise is useless without the key.
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Yes, we should actually listen to the people.

Then you'd need to pass some counterproductive feel-good measures that make white non-workers feel like they have a higher status. E.g. build a giant wall patrolled by bastards and rapers to keep out Osama bin Lopez.

You'd have to make peaceful Chinese, Indians and Africans poorer, just so that a few wealthy Americans could maintain their existing social status. The consumers of goods produced by the Chinese are harmed by this, but that's a diffuse harm that's too complicated for most people to understand.

You'd have to Leave, because a bunch of voters think "Leave" means "Pakistanis leave the UK" rather than "you need a visa to take a weekend Ryanair to Amsterdam". (I suppose that last bit would be good for Amsterdam.)

You'd need to throw more money at education and eliminate all accountability (it makes me angry little Johnny isn't in the 95'th percentile? your standardized tests are broken!), and ignore the unpleasant sounding policies that would really help (e.g. http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2016/09/value-added_and.... ).

Oh yeah, and we'd spend more money on all the free ponies, while simultaneously lowering taxes on ourselves and only raising them on other people. You want to raise taxes on the rich, I'd like to raise taxes on gays and Mexicans, so we'll split the difference and only tax rich gay Mexicans.

If we listened to the people, all we'd do is push policies where the benefits are obvious and the harms require a little mental effort to understand (or are only inflicted on unsympathetic minorities). We'd push policies based on being emotionally pleasing rather than actually being beneficial.
There is nothing necessarily immoral or legal about what those cops did.

They were in an incident and were deciding what charges to lay.

It's a tricky thing laying charges.

Laying charges is not abuse of power.

Now - if the cops were inventing or fabricating evidence - saying the person did something he did not do - then this would be definitely abuse, but it's not clear that happened.

But if someone standing in the street with a gun is doing something a cop can feasibly consider 'public nuisance' - and it's within their right to charge someone with 'public nuisance' - then the issue here is not the cops, it's the loose definition of 'public nuisance' and the cops ability to arbitrarily apply it.

The article is mostly quotes from the ACLU, so it's only one side of the story and selected information, it would be interesting to know more.
It should generally result in a mis-trial. Is there a punishment for "loss of evidence" by a cop? If so, that should apply as well
As far as I know, ctrl-j [0] is correct. The quantum entangled state transfer may be instantaneous. However, this merely results in a correlation of measurements. In order to determine a correlation, you need to have both measurements to compare. This is the part that must be transferred classically.

See my top-level post for more information [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12548712

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12548733
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> So they sought out a way to prevent him from doing that.

And settled on an illegal way of doing so. When they are law enforcement officers. It's hard to understand that anyone signing up to "protect and serve" would think that they are given the right to do whatever it takes as long as they think they are doing right by the greater good.

If you cannot conduct yourself in a law-abiding manner as a LEO, you deserve to go to jail.
For work, I just ordered a Dell Precision, the one that supports Ubuntu. We'll see how it turns out; I'll chime in on the next HN laptop thread. (Seems like we have one every week or so.) It certainly looks better than Lenovo at this point.
> Also - the 'protestor' was carrying a weapon and acting directly against state authorities. If someone in my neighbourhood had a gun, was standing on the street trying to prod police officers, I would definitely want the police to be checking him out.

That is the basic definition of a "protest": to prod the authorities. It is a basic right in any free society.

> That said, I don't know if he was actually breaking any laws.

Which is the crux of the matter. The cops should just STFU and move along.
This website is broken on my mobile (Sony Z3). I can only see a tiny column of text on the left.
Comcast: https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/the-network-effect/

Some also block JS (sometimes accidentally). Remember Sky? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/28/sky-broad...
Look up "Skinner box." Basically codified the psychology behind a slot machine. A mouse hits a single lever that either releases or doesn't release food. When the lever is set to Always release food, the mouse soon gets bored and only eats when he's hungry. When the lever is set to Randomly release food, the mouse gets addicted, compulsively hitting the lever all day without concern for how fat he is getting.
I love this show. Haven't been excited about a show like this since The Wire. Not because it is "real" in the same way that The Wire is, but because it is so fresh and challenging. There are points where things go wildly left-field, but it's not predictable. Even the first season twist, which is fairly predictable depending on what movies you've seen, is preceded and followed by other twists.

The second season has veered quite dramatically from the first season, and part of me misses the hacking-focused plots (particularly the realistic handling of social engineering). But I can't fault the creator for avoiding expectations, even if the show's pace feels slower (apparently he had both seasons planned out before he started).
To be clear, they aren't storing your password. They are storing an encrypted hash of your password. This is so they can verify your password when you use it. The alternative is to not have passwords in one fashion or another.
I only watched a few episodes, but the whole "She needs to learn to hack in 24 hours" bullshit was a little too much for me. Everything she was doing could have been a script. There was 0 reason to have her punching in commands like that, and either way that's simply using Linux.

'python hack-it.py' would have sufficed. If you haven't seen it, it wasn't much better than this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmz67ErIRa4 and at least that was entertaining.
How does this compare to RethinkDB / Horizon ?
On the Unusual Effectiveness of Logic in Computer Science [pdf]
From the announcement:
Use new Ruby Macho library for reading and writing library macOS Mach O file locations.

Why does Homebrew need to parse Mach-O files? Is this for fixing up shared library paths inside executables?
That's a pretty controversial statement. Many countries are experimenting with purely cash based welfare instead of in-kind. See:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/wel...
For me at least, the messenger is still working on Facebook.com, also on messenger.com. I'm sure it does for you too?
It seemed like whole way classes are defined in java script seems a little hackish. Functions and are first class object, but using a function to make a class is just weird when coming from a java or c++ background. Are there any programming languages that have this method of making classes?
You mean this SSL? http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/gogo-inflight-internet...
Just speaking for myself but I liked being able to just open Facebook when I want to look at Facebook. That goes for PMs people send me on Facebook.

I didn't want a second app running at all times in the background when my goal was to minimize Facebook usage when possible.

Now I have to jump through hoops to check messages every once in a while on my phone because they make it so they won't show up on mobile unless you install their secondary app or switch to a desktop user agent.

So now I just check messages once or twice a week on desktop and use their service even less often.
Let's see: 2.36 kg of sugar makes enough syrup for 24L of OpenCola, according to the wiki article. So, 12oz of OpenCola contains 34.9 grams of sugar [1]. 4 grams less than the equivalent amount of Coke [2].

Not to say that this isn't still a lot of sugar, just that it's comparable to the product it's trying to emulate.

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=solve+for+x:+2.36+kg+%2...
[2] http://www.coca-colaproductfacts.com/en/coca-cola-products/c...
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Why won't people stop using passwords? It is 2016!
Censored. You keep using that word. I'm not sure it means what you think it means.
Bcrypt with a high work factor is useless if your password is still 12345
This leads to the failure mode wherein all those predisposed to commit crimes of a certain nature aim to become undercover police officers tasked with combating those crimes.

Then they can commit their favorite crime with impunity, at the expense of those too dumb to become cops first.

No one can be above the law. No one. If an undercover officer commits crimes to avoid breaking cover, the police department is culpable, and must pay some penalty. Since a corporate entity can't be jailed, I'm not certain what form of punishment would encourage it to minimize those lesser crimes committed in pursuit of the "big fish", but it is very clear that impunity is dangerous, destructive, and corrupting.
I don't think a warrant for specific information changes that calculus; collecting additional information outside the scope of the warrant would be illegal regardless.
How reliable is Signal these days? I basically moved all my friends to Text Secure shortly after WhatsApp had been acquired by FB , but after some time we got constant problems of messages not being delivered, so we switched to Threema.
This is a neat example of what one's mother tried to teach one when asked, 'mom, can I have a cookie?' and she responded, 'yes, you can, but you may not!'

The facts clearly demonstrate that the police can in fact confiscate property on a whim. They may not, under the Constitution. But who cares about the Constitution? It's just a scrap of paper standing in the wave of our Brave New World.
Yeah, not only that but it was also very unoriginal. Straight up lifted from two particular movies in fact.
This. I wrote about it:

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=169
Thanks. I did a second pass through the policy paper, and put a summary of the verification implications here: https://blog.foretellix.com/2016/09/21/verification-implicat...
There were some very strong hints about the twist in S01, I'm pretty sure we were meant to know. The S02 "twist" was much less obvious though IMHO. Despite reading theories about it on reddit before the reveal, I still didn't quite believe them.
Livers in Russia? hah.
Google can't arrest you though.
sorry, not quite following. There is an android client here:

https://deepstream.io/install/android/
I just purchased a Lenovo X1 Yoga with an OLED screen (very similar to the X1 Carbon, but with a touch screen). I went back and forth between the XPS 13 and the X1, but the slightly bigger OLED screen, better keyboard, and touchpoint swayed me. Hoping I don't regret my decision..
Always fun watch someone go cold turkey, since it becomes obvious to them their an infozombie really quick; reaching for a phone in their pocket that's not there every few minutes, going through withdrawals from not being able to read feeds/email, etc.
Thanks for the great feedback. Current average visit is about 9 minutes...so it seems pretty sticky compared to our more polished/shiny real estate sites (7 min avg).

We will most likely add an advanced search down the road, but as someone who has made their living with real estate websites for a dozen years, I love this one the most (as is).
You will have lots of manual digging to find the right drivers and will likely need to edit inf files.

The API/ABI for drivers didn't change between 7,8,10
According to reports Allo doesn't support quick reply on Android N, any kind of reply on Android Wear, or notifications on more than one device. If there was any chat app that should support all of those it should be Google's new and shiny, which begs the question: Have Google made these features hard to use on Android, or are Allo's developers just not good at writing Android apps?
The problem is that these technologies are increasingly necessary to function within normal society. Do we somehow regulate the allowable behaviors of apps? Is it on us to improve our self control so we can act as engaged, but distant participants?

There's also the ethical question around people not being aware of their obsessions/addictions (especially in the mobile gaming space)
Entanglement may be expanded to groups of particles. Also, I'd like to note that it's not necessarily that the communication is secure, but rather that third-party observation can be detected. That's why the discussion focuses on using this to send keys, and not messages themselves.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12548798
> I've heard before of it just being stored in the codebase.

Yuck! At the very least put it in an environment variable. Best case is loaded once at server boot from an HSM, kept only in memory, and rotated on a regular basis.

Having it in the code, like all other config, is a terrible idea.
Problem is: the prosecutor's office depends on the cops to do its job. If it starts prosecuting cops, they will stop cooperating, making its job almost impossible. And cops will outright sabotage inquiries into their own conduct.

Case in point: in the Freddie Gray case in Baltimore, the police had failed to serve search warrants for the officers’ personal cellphones.
>Nonsense. 2015 saw the largest income increases ever recorded at each of the bottom four quintiles.

I see you bought that propaganda item that was floating around last week. Anytime someone is talking about the "largest increase" of anything, they are usually trying to lie to you. In this case, while income may have "increased dramatically" between 2014 and 2015, real median income is still lower than 2008:

http://images.dailykos.com/images/134215/large/household-inc...
There were also references to at least one of the "source" movies. It was very deliberate.
It's still pretty interesting. Historically Americans have always considered themselves middle class, regardless of whether they were on food stamps, received EITC, or drove a Bugatti. The fact that now many more people are identifying themselves as poor or working class is a shift toward the international norm, which might presage a change in America's political "exceptionality."
Paywalled.

Updated: click "WEB" under the article.
"McLaren produced 1654 vehicles last year."

If they're looking to use them for production, it seems like they may be following the early-days Tesla model for volume of vehicle production:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster#Production
You understand the difference between “as many green threads as the programmer wants” and “infinitely many threads”, right?
But it's a sideshow, the show even plays the same music as a homage. To me what makes it tolerable is that it accepts the twist as a matter of course and jumps right into other interesting plots, including whatever the fuck is going to happen tonight.
tozny.com provides a fantastic password-free authentication scheme as well.
The fact he was carrying a gun, and trying to act out against police in the first place, is not going to engender him any sympathy in the public at large.

Illegal or legal - someone carrying a gun in public trying to prod cops is creating problems, not solving them.

If this guy was holding a sign out of a nuclear plant saying 'no more nukes' and was unarmed, then it would be a different story I think.

In terms of public perception, I don't think this guy is going to win any points among regular people.
click "WEB" under the article.
This might sound like a very naive question but I am curious as to how the data was actually transmitted.
If it is the twist I think it is that twist is purposely obvious (I hope your not thinking your smarter than the show because of that). I mean that twist happens fairly early.

S02 has far more truly hidden twists.

I mean even in Ex Machina I had some rough idea of what was going to happen in the end but that doesn't make it a bad movie.
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Have you tried removing your device here?

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> Your comment is a child post to mine, but you haven't responded to anything that I actually said.

Okay, you seem to take this very seriously. But why? All I have said is that you don't need an MBA to be successful. Do you firmly disagree?

Anyway, back to your arguments: you claim a lot of issues with windows and linux but you don't give a single real-life example. So basically, citation needed :)
They're at least self-aware, in one scene the fsociety crew is watching "Hackers" and one of them comments "I wonder what will ruin the next generations perception of hacker culture" or something like that.

Not my favorite rendition (full disclosure: "Hackers" is my favorite), but they do really drive home the "otherness", which is the core of any "hacker culture" story.
There's actually been imperative extensions and prolog compilers for it. Here you go:

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~emina/pubs/alloy.mscs13.pdf

Also, for ASM's, the most interesting one I've seen is certified compiler project that is taking a lot less lines of code than CompCert:

https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/andi/papers/hipeac14.pdf
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Is "measurement" or "observation" a simplified term for a complex process? It can't be as simple as a human "looking" at something since there's nothing special about humans (that I know of). I really wish I had the time and capability to understood how quantum entanglement really works. It seems a lot like magic if you take the layman explanations at face value.
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It isn't directly usable for communication, but you can use the shared random state as a one-time pad for provably-secure communication over nonsecure conventional channels.
Clock web below the topic title, then click the first result.
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I'm getting really confused. I work at a school where we wanted to do cheap and cheerful Webinars. Hangouts, with the ability to record to a Youtube channel looked ideal, but the repositioning of products is so rapid, I guess I may have to look at this all again.
Not only do they have to communicate the shared measurement (classically) but they also need to have a shared EPR pair to begin with.
We had a baby a few months ago. We got so many clothes from friends and family, some of it brand new, that our baby haven't had the chance to use it all before outgrowing it.

We even got the pram, cot and car seats (plural!) for free. It's crazy.

Any clothing we bought was just because we liked it and not because we needed it. Seriously, I don't know how is it in northern cultures, but where I come from it is extremely common to get the clothes from your cousins (and pass them on to the next :)), regardless of your money (unless you are rich, in which case I don't know how it works :)).

I'm not sure if this is a Latin thing, Southern European thing, Mediterranean thing or what :)

Edit: My point being: Corruption (as mentioned by others in different countries) and the very strong family support networks in other cultures might be the reason why this doesn't exist in other European countries.
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Couldn't?
It's a tricky thing laying charges.

Yeah, especially when the charges are being made up.
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Except the basic CLI knowledge prepared her for when she needed to run some emergency commands e.g. to restore the network connection. I'll allow them a tiny bit of artistic license here, it certainly added to the tension.
Please find a detailed answer here:

https://deepstream.io/tutorials/integrations/db-rethinkdb/
On my third child, and my ex-wife, and my current wife or I have never had a sleep issue. We made it a point to put them in bed with us from the get go. No crib or sleeper. Breast fed, and we all slept fine with the occasional sickness or hot day making sleep a bit difficult for everybody. The babies tend to sleep better and wake less when they hear breathing and heartbeats nearby is my guess. That and both of my wives were/are very adept at breastfeeding in bed on their sides. I count myself lucky!
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Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End is a good sci-fi novel (partially) about potential long-term consequences of the war on general purpose computing.
I took a quantum optics course once. It's true what you say that entanglement can't be used to communicate (by itself), hence no problems with relativity, speed of light etc. This is known as the No-communication theorem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem

But together with a conventional communications channel (e.g. radio signals), you can use quantum entanglement to create a secure communications channel. This combination is called quantum teleportation (as opposed to just quantum entanglement):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation