skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The backfire effect has had a lot of airplay. I've just now made a quick scan of the study, but not read in detail (https://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/nyhan-reifler.pdf). I don't think the paper justifies its conclusion that "corrections [..] increase misperceptions among the group in question".

From the paper, "In other words, the correction backfired – conservatives who received a correction telling them that Iraq did not have WMD were more likely to believe that Iraq had WMD than those in the control condition." (https://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/nyhan-reifler.pdf)

I don't think that connection flows. Rather, I see this: when you take people who have developed political opinions, and act in a way that suggests insult to their world-view, some will react with defiance/sabotage.

The study identifies the pre-existing political leanings of the subjects. Hence, background work has been done to understand a subject's political persuasion, and the subject knows they have been profiled for this.

Then they isolate an issue which some subjects will know to be contentious across liberal/conservative lines, and present the subject with a position. This act (focusing on a vulnerable issue and then preventing evidence that indicates a clear conclusion) alienates the project from the subject, and sets them up to be from a rival worldview. Some subjects, particularly the more politically-aware subjects, will be speculating on the purpose of the study. Then the study asks the subject to - essentially - calculate one plus one one on the issue, towards a conclusion that supports the rival worldview.

The people running these studies will be identified by the participants as members of the intelligentsia. That will have a bearing on subject behavior, and will further encourage defiance in some subjects. In my scan, I didn't see signs of effort made to disguise or water down the focus of the study.
It is very naive to think that the universe is only capable of producing water-based life. Conditions are so varied that we can expect life based on completely different concepts, starting with a different chemistry, and with a different structure - maybe not cellular based.

And that life would exhibit completely different properties: size, velocity, morphology, ...

And everywhere you look, whether in sci-fi films, literature, and even serious research programs, they are looking for simmetrical bipeds, roughly our size, with minimal morphological differences, water and carbon based, moving and reacting roughly at our speed, etc. Very shortsighted.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.htm...
NITE may have abused the rules to maintain their short position, but this was definitely not some evil plot to drive down stock prices. The reason that these tickers end up on the "chill list" is because they are massively inflated shares that are literally not worth the paper that they are printed on. Shorting and holding is almost guaranteed to be very profitable strategy.

The difficult part is maintaining your short position, and this is where the real story is. Here, an alternate theory for NITE's behavior is that they were protecting their short position. Stock manipulation schemes are often a cat-and-mouse game where the manipulators are trying to trap shorts in large positions and then squeeze them out of it, forces them to buy back the stock at even more inflated prices. In this case, NITE would have been allegedly abusing the rules to win the game against a cheater.

In my opinion, the manipulators are likely far more at fault for Dilorio's loss than NITE is.
Didn't Stallman warn us about it?
This comment does not clear up my confusion at all... :-)
I feel like this is by design. `std::vector` is an amazingly useful thing, for example. But in order for it to exist, you need to have templates. `std::unique_ptr` handles memory management automatically in 95% of cases, but in order to do so, the language requires lvalue and rvalue references, to properly steal resources. Heck, destructors and RAII beat the snot out of Python/C# "using" statements or Java "try/except/finally", but it requires correct lifetime management of objects.

The complicated features are all there to support simple library use. On a day-to-day basis, the complicated features are hidden behind a library, and are rarely seen. When you need them to write the library, they are available.
Apart from that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?
It's mostly grey because of all the concrete, in my opinion
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Use a GPG Card - much simpler than acquiring blank Java cards.
The problem with C++ is the constant introduction of unneeded features that are infinity obscure in necessity.

People will say "Oh just don't use that feature" but that's not how this works. If something is there it is used. In reference to C, I don't think I know of a single feature or release that had major changes in how I wrote C. Maybe C99 and allowing me to declare in a for loop.

I've been using C++ for class this semester and the only thing I like is reference types. Makes pointers much more concise. Other then that it can all go in the bin. In order to keep my C++ project clean I've needed to avoid a huge set of features and keep it in a data-oriented design.
1. You don't know that ("most").

2. Water is fairly scarce in certain regions. Considering how unhygienic such toilets end up in such far off places, I probably would too.

It's not like they can't afford it (most folk carry a smartphone these days, while earning <$200 a month).

3. Rural India is generally way more hygienic than Urban India; apparently has a more even sex-ratio too.

4. I've spent time in villages from my childhood. I know why toilets were kept separated in the backyard, and why they've now moved closer home.

Please don't give me the old "white saviour" line. Chomsky and his starlings may use this line with gusto, but the vacuity of it is readily apparent for those not afraid of not being fashionable.

I also understand how the stupid policies of the state driven by such sentences of native courtiers, led to widespread agricultural failures, ridiculous price fluctuations and rural depopulation.

Do you care ? No.

5. I've also seen homeless Americans poop on the streets.

6. I'm not a fan of the whole post-colonial affair of "white guilt" milking. If you do indeed care, please tell me something that's not religious. Your experience is not divine.
rite of passage, rite of spring ...
What do you think of high-resolution satellite imagery? Do you imagine that a satellite operator needs to get opt-in consent from anyone who happened to be looking up at the sky at the moment of the photograph?
Why did the reddit AMA go badly?
Please don't use colored output if you didn't first check the background color of the terminal. If you can't check the background color of the terminal, then don't use colored output.
That's great you like driving, but what's upsetting is you demanding everyone else pay for your free parking.

Nobody is saying parking should be illegal, just that people shouldn't be forced to build it if they don't want it.

Edit: People more informed than myself have studied how forcing everyone to build parking makes housing less affordable.

http://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/420062
The Democratization of Censorship
Ah, but now some people on the internet think they made a mistake. That's priceless.
I don't think this works since it doesn't factor in age in any way.

Just because a 22yr old might work as an intern does not make them lower class.

In the UK we generally consider class to be something to include family, upbringing, attitude and as well as finances.
Especially people driving trucks for a living. While everybody can appreciate a huge TV
Krebs confirmed this in his latest blog post [1].

Today, I am happy to report that the site is back up — this time under Project Shield, a free program run by Google to help protect journalists from online censorship.

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/the-democratization-of-c...
Is self-replication a requirement for life? What if there is an indestructible, non-replicating individuum which exhibits some of the properties we attribute to life?

It is difficult to understand how it came to be, but maybe there are other mechanisms than replication, mutation and natural selection.
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I agree. Small companies without stable revenue don't care about your growth. This is well known. I work in one, and it's all "learning by doing" as we jokingly call it. Your job is to help the company earn money, with a time horizon of about 6 months or one week, depending on circumstances. In return you get to demand a high-ish salary. That's all. EOF.

This touches on a lot of points, but it gets this one across too: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...
Comments elsewhere here suggest that this service is involved:

https://projectshield.withgoogle.com/public/

"Project Shield is a free service that uses Google technology to protect news sites and free expression from DDoS attacks on the web."
DNS doesn't "propagate" and it certainly doesn't take 72hrs either. You're simply waiting for the cache TTL to expire on the DNS server you are using, then it'll re-query the authoritative servers.
Did you checked the code? Because it does exactly what you describe already.
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Thanks. Good info. It helped my search.

THOSE ALARMS

"It wasn't 10 seconds after the LEM was secured on the (lunar) surface that NASA was on the phones to the (MIT) Lab. This was the Lab's responsibility, our system, our machine, our alarms. "What were those alarms? We're launching (the lunar module from the moon's surface) in 24 hours and we're not going with alarms. We must have an operational computer." We really went to work. The computer seemed to be operating at 80% of its normal speed, but why?

We turned to our simulation facilities. We had a high-fidelity digital simulation of the computer and the executing programs, surrounded by a digital simulation of the LEM vehicle, the equations of motion, and the gravitational environment. We also had an analog simulator with the real guidance computer, the inertial measurement unit (IMU), and a man-in-the loop. We tried every anomalous condition. We examined the executive code, the alarm mechanism, and the fundamental algorithms. We worked all night and time was running short. Our NASA buddies called us every 15-30 minutes anticipating, demanding a solution. We had to find it. We re-covered old ground, new ground, brainstorms, crazy ideas, anything." Fred H. Martin

https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.1201-fm.html

https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.1201-pa.html

http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/A11_MissionReport.pdf Mission Report with 22 pages of text and 22 pages of diagrams describing significant problems during the Apollo 11 mission.

http://www.htius.com/Articles/r12ham.pdf Margaret H. Hamilton describes the software’s global error detection and recovery mechanisms she helped design.

http://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html Don Eyles describes the components of the Lunar Guidance Computer.
You're right about respect. As a car enthusiast, do you ever drive faster than the speed limit? Speeding significantly increases the odds of fatalities in pedestrians and cyclists.

It took becoming a parent to get me to slow down.
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In that case wouldn't you see this stuff in Japan and China?

edit: it almost seems to speak to a LOSS of collectivism in the US, when people lived in small communities that all shared the same values
Once for all you'll have to understand that without a good distribution of roles (girls must grow to be moms making and educating babies; boys must grow to be warriors (including scientists, explorers, farmers, etc) to defend women and children against invaders of all kinds, then you won't live happy old days, because you'll be invaded, raped and dead by then.

The uproar should be against that uproar!
People ask me why i only play 'old games'. This shit modern companies do with DRM and anti-cheating(like e.g. GameGuard and similar invasive 'drivers') can't be trusted - its invasive, hidden deep in EULA excuses and closed-source. Such "root-level" software could arrive in your favorite game as update with vague note of "enhanced cheater detection".
They had to rollback after backlash and exposure
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/23/capcom_street_fighte...
I had two thoughts as I read this:

- Lots of talk about how the happiness of this group of people was higher, but no numbers on the happiness of their parents. I have three kids. I love them immensely. I don't want them living with me in their 20's. Especially spending all day playing video games while I work to pay the bills.

- I wonder what proponents of Universal Basic Income would say about this. Turns out that when there's less incentive to do things, less gets done. Which seems to run contrary to the narrative of "if only I didn't have to worry about bills, I could do something meaningful." At least for me, I find providing for my wife and children quite meaningful. What job I choose to do that is almost secondary.
Fortunately, they are just Internet Points™, so it doesn't really matter if a handful of people feel offended enough by levity to downvote an occasional joking shitpost.
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I'm working for a journalistic organization that cooperated with Google to create one of the graduated Jigsaw projects (Investigative Dashboard).

We were considering using Project Shield relatively recently (as in, some time this year), but at that time, the info about how it actually worked was... well, non-existing on their website. IIRC, their SSL support is also fairly new, which made it pretty unusable until very recently.
Data is also not the plural of anecdote.

Stitching together a bunch of statistics with anecdotes is not research, which is what the article does whereas the actual source is as yet still unpublished.

Of course the article is somewhat worse then that: the anecdotes pretty clearly paint a picture of a poor job market with few low-skill opportunities for advancement. But speculates wildly that it must just be video games.
Didn't notice about snoop, thanks!
Indeed, I have FDE enabled and a passphrase, but I reckon that the passphrase is not buying me much.

OTOH, it's defense in depth, and there are some vulnerabilities which could allow to exfiltrate keys without non-sandboxed-RCE

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit...

I reckon that a passphrase protected key would be safe from this attack (modulo offline brute-forcing)
I have a feeling you'll need automation on the receiving end too.

Smarter mailboxes where you literally address the mail to an electronic physical mailbox, which digitally signs the receipt.
I was referring to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which states that there is an upper limit to the combined precision of a particle's position and momentum. Bohr's take on this was that the limit is due to these concepts being a poor approximation of actual quantum mechanics, which would fit the scientific eminence co-existing with devout religious beliefs in Heisenberg.

I am no physicist, nor am I well versed in Heisenberg's life, but the quotes in the link suggest to me that he has spent a large amount of time pondering ethics, unseen causality, and attributed intent. That is what I meant by seeking perspective.
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The story of SoundCloud's data team
He's not using Google CDN, but Google Project Shield: https://projectshield.withgoogle.com/public/ . Project Shield is a free service.
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Let me address your points:

1. See the latest numbers heres: http://www.thehindu.com/data/most-of-rural-india-still-opts-...

I should have qualified "most" as "most of rural", sorry. Of course rural India is 70% of the population.

2, & 4, it is indeed true that people are choosing to poop in the fields out of choice and it "feels" more hygienic to people. But it is a misguided choice - likely a major cause of disease and childhood stunting - http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjourna....

btw, I am an urban middle class Indian too. Not white by any stretch of the imagination. And where I did I say the white man is the saviour? I just said that the plight of rural Indians is completely ignored by those who complain loudly about western media views of India.

In fact I give full credit to the current government for raising awareness about toilets and trying to fix the issue.
As I mentioned in my other comment: stealing local files does not necessarily have to happen via unrestricted-RCE (which would allow you access to the ssh agent)
I don't know why people think the USAs relationship with other countries is complicated. I guess it's complicated in the fact that we aren't the good guys as we've been brought up to believe. "We" have overthrown democratically, elected governments, trained death squads, assassins, and insurgents. Our own Navy shot down a passenger plane, and we tried to convince the world it was terrorists,and the best we could do was sorry, not sorry.

It's not complicated, the US does bad shit, too. Sometimes it blows up in our face.
What's the point in submitting to HN when there is no desc on the website. Should we all signup?
Which edition are you reading? Theere's a revised veersion from 1992. The forward isn't by Ophuls, though the text is largely his. Copy at the Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/pdfy-SXVS7n8VWRQUMvFD
corsix == Peter Cawley (https://github.com/corsix)
> OTOH, it's defense in depth

Yup. IMO not using a passphrase is nuts, considering there is practically no convenience loss (ssh-agent, OS X keychain, pageant) and fairly significant benefit. Protects against:

- accidentally exposing the private key (it happens, accidental wildcard in the shell), and

- attacks that aren't after your keys specifically, e.g. your home directory gets stolen.
This isn't reddit, no PM:s here. You should put your email address in your profile
I think it's relevant given that the subject of this post was people boycotting someone for supporting Trump.

Not that I think Trump is a good person, but it's worth remembering the double standards that allow the left to feel morally superior even as they act "deplorably".
I would say that the complexity of a language and the complexity of programs within that language are inversely correlated. Java is a very simple language, but as a result, the programs written in it must be more complicated to make up for the shortcomings of the language.

As an example, Java's lifetime rules are much simpler than those of C++. At some point after all references are gone, the object will be garbage collected. Simple. But as a result of this simplicity, you don't know when the finalizer will be called. You can't use it, for example, to flush and close a file, because you don't know when file will be closed. Instead, you need to use try/except/finally, and so you can't add this to an existing class, because it would require code modification from all the users of the class.

Up until Java 8 and lambda functions, functions could not be passed as arguments to other functions. Therefore, the developer needed to make an entirely new classes derived from "Callable". Complexity that came from the simplicity of the language.

C++ has a lot of complexity in the language itself. I won't deny that. What I will argue is that the complexity of the language enables simplicity in programs.

Edit: Lambda statements came in Java 8, not Java 7.
Double True, most clients aren't going to think about it.

If you bring it up as a feature of your services that everything is well documented so another developer can pick up the project and run with it. Even bringing It up in a positive way would probably just make them worry.
This is really mind-boggling to me as someone who grew up in the 1990s frustrated by having an "overprotective asian mom." When we were 5-6 she'd kick us out of the house in the morning to go play with the neighborhood kids and tell us to come back for dinner. We walked to school alone, waited for the bus stop alone, etc.[1]

Yuppie millennial parents are hands down the worst. It starts with the baby wearing and escalates from there. We've got a rooftop club-house/grill in our apartment building. I was grilling some steaks when my daughter (almost four) said she needed to use the bathroom. I took her inside, left her in the restroom, and went back to check on my steaks. When I got back, some mom was standing there with her in the hallway giving me the eye. Lady, kids don't get stolen from locked-down apartment buildings--relax.

[1] The school even posted 3-6th graders as "patrols" to help the smaller kids cross some of the intersections, with nary an adult in sight.
I mean, also, the neighbor was trespassing on the mother's property and spying on her baby. That's pretty freaking creepy and a lot like harassment.
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I find it frustrating when journalists level these claims of market manipulation without clearly specifying the trading strategy. I am struggling to write down a sequence of trades that corresponds to the allegations of the article, generate a profit and abide by basic order book mechanics/sensible counterparty behaviour
Metaanalysis: Student evaluation of teachers and student learning are unrelated
It is a CPU from RDC (Taiwanese manufacturer). It is 486-compatible but misses some instructions from later Pentium sets.
PrivacyCon web page, featuring video and slides: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events-calendar/2016/01/priv...

The foundation whose PrivacyCon study that lead to this reveal, including link to the study: https://googletransparencyproject.org/articles/google-funded...
My experience in America is that police very rarely get involved in the discipline of children. Although it definitely would appear otherwise going by TV.
The email address in your profile is not public. It's used (I think) by HN mods if they need to contact you.

If you want your contact details to be public you need to put them into the "about:" box in your profile.
What would you lie to your phone about?
What a stupid pun.
Two words. Real wages. They are at historic lows.

> Turns out that when there's less incentive to do things, less gets done.
More importantly any fish continuing high levels of mercury like tuna.
> Rolling through a stop sign is a serious offense for us, and outright dangerous, and can only happen out of negligence.

This is not true. It depends on the location, traffic conditions, and your knowledge of the area.
The thing is, it doesn’t stop there.

Even colors depend on cultures heavily. The ancient greek are believed not to have seperated between yellow and green, other cultures similar.

Internationalization is a lot harder than it seems to most people. And then there’s also accessibility.

Even with traditional UIs where everything is hand made it’s already an extremely huge task, but a conversational UI is far more personal.

It has to deal with things like how much privacy or directness is expected in cultures, with taboos, it has to have a full perceptional model of the person who will hear it to be able to properly handle all this.
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Betteridge's Law still seems to apply, even if the question mark at the end is omitted.
> Software is not simply lines of code

Reminds me of Dilbert's boss, who said "I looked at your code, it was just a bunch of typing. With too much punctuation."
So, because the driver is signed and valid and trusted by all normal windows installations, it would seem there's nothing stopping malware authors from bundling this capcom.sys for an easy rootkit kernel driver, even if you've never had anything to do with the actual game.