skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you read Citizens United carefully, you'll see the point of the decision is actually the opposite. The wealthy can afford whole media companies, and otherwise have a great deal of ability to put information out into the general public, without ever stepping afoul of election laws. But, as has been in precedent in US law since at least the 1790s [0], groups of people also have the right to be "united for a special purpose" [1]. "[T]he individual person’s right to speak includes the right to speak in association with other individual persons" [2]. This applies to "[unions], associations of manufacturers, retail and wholesale trade groups, consumers' leagues, farmers' unions, religious groups, and every other association representing a segment of American life" and "It is therefore important -- vitally important -- that all channels of communication be open to [those groups] during every election, that no point of view be restrained or barred, and that the people have access to the views of every group in the community" [3]. That's what Citizens United established. Here's a key snippet from Kennedy's majority opinion:

"wealthy individuals and unincorporated associations can spend unlimited amounts .... Yet [under the Austin decision] certain disfavored associations of citizens — those that have taken on the corporate form — are penalized for engaging in the same political speech .... When Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful."

[0] The Rev John Bracken v. The Visitors of Wm & Mary College, 7 Va. 573; 1790

[1] Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining Co. v. Pennsylvania, 1886

[2] Scalia's concurrence, Citizens United v. FEC, 2010

[3] United States v. United Auto Workers, 1957
>The U.S.’s shift from traditional pensions to 401(k) plans makes it harder for Americans to know when it’s safe to retire.

That's not really true. Traditional pensions rely on the financial health of whoever is paying the pension. Personally, I'd rather rely on a 401(k) than find out in my dotage the company I was depending on to pay the bills went belly up.

The real problem with retiring under 65 is health care. The situation is so muddled now it's impossible to predict what a health care plan or a serious illness is going to cost you five years hence.
I was unaware. Thank you!
I'm pretty sure there's a film about this...
Show HN: Azure-sandbox
It always seemed kind of shocking to me that you could cross-breed cattle and bison. However, according to Wikipedia[1]:

The bovine family (Bovidae) diverged from the common ancestral line with water buffalo and African buffalo about 5 to 10 million years ago. Thereafter, the family lineage of bison and taurine cattle does not appear to be a straightforward "tree" structure as is often depicted in much evolution, because evidence of interbreeding and crossbreeding is seen between different species and members within this family, even many millions of years after their ancestors separated into different species.

So it sounds like they've been colliding all along.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison#Evolution_and_genetic_hi...
I guess it cant be compared at all since the US doesn't have any official languages. De jure != de facto
I can't figure out if that is awesome or absolutely terrifying... Imagine what is the equivalent today.
"Trainspotting" would be an interesting challenge: <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/may/31/irvinewelsh>
> It's no surprise getting agreement on policy sometimes takes time, in extreme cases over a year

The US, with it's mere two parties, has been stonewalling for the past six years. Not a single policy, no, but a very hostile setup where little of substance can get done. It's a strange setup when your head of government and your control of legislature can come from opposing parties.
> Even with sufficient health care, I try to avoid the doctor because of the cost.

If that is generally true then that is one really big difference between the US and northern Europe and Scandinavia. I never think of money when I or any of my family visit a doctor or hospital. Here in Norway I have to pay about USD30 to visit my GP, various fees for medical tests and so on, and I have to pay something towards any prescriptions but there is a cap on how much I will have to pay each year (about USD150 for drugs). Beyond that limit it is all free (except that of course it is paid for out of general taxation).
... and we use WebSphere 7 because we like to read hackernews while publishing our code ...
That's exactly what meals are to me. I just don't care that much about enjoying food - certainly not enough to spend time on it. Grilling a seasoned steak once a week is more than enough reward-from-food for me.
Actually newer seats have increased legroom by making the seats thinner. Of course airlines have moved them closer together.
Does Soylent not understand what Soylent is?

>Soylent is a simple, efficient and affordable food that possesses what a body needs to be healthy. Soylent is a new option for maintaining a balanced state of ideal nutrition, just like traditional food.

Source: https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/212767043-What-is-...
Reading the comments here, it is amazing to discover how many people dislike their work. When I was younger, I too had my share of jobs that I wasn't overly thrilled about, but with time I've found a great deal of fulfillment in what I do, and I truly hope the same for others.
I'm stunned that they don't do that already. They've had specialized weather codes that give more accurate jet stream forecasts for a couple of decades now...

Edit: This is the code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_update_cycle
Paul, appreciate the debate but I think we've beat this enough... Fair enough, you think copyright should be a few decades longer than me and that its ok to pass said rights on to heirs.

Got it! I guess what most of us agree on in this discussion is that copyright law could use at least some reform given copyrights in some cases have been extended by over a hundred years.
"Are flags censorship" isn't a factual question. "Censorship" is a pejorative that indicates you don't like something—so if a story you liked was flagged, it was 'censored', and if you disliked the story, then it was 'moderated', 'curated', or some such. The factual aspect, that user flags cause stories to fall in rank, is the same either way.

We reduce or turn off flags on YC-related political stories for a very specialized reason: the community's trust in HN is its most important asset and we don't want to jeopardize that. It doesn't make those stories and threads any better for this site than the usual flamewars; it means that the cost of letting those flames burn hotter than usual is smaller than taking risks with the community's trust.

At some point, though, enough is enough. For the latest barrage of political stories we should probably revert to normal moderation practice, unless significant new information appears.
> Now I see old people sitting in tiny seats and wonder how many will leave the flight with a DVT injury?

I think especially old people should already know to wear compression socks when sitting for long times. And the airlines AFAIK also hint people to use them, even for short flights.
http://web.mit.edu/redelson/www/media/stupida.pdf
Updated: Configuring a Mesos/Marathon Cluster on Ubuntu 16.04
Open source Kaldi gives you 7.8%, not very far from 5.9, you can check the thread from the discussion of the first version of the paper https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12502119
Adventures in Reverse Engineering Smart Bulb Firmware
Electric vehicles can be more expensive than comparable gas cars up front. The differences in monthly car payments is fixed and easy to understand. … For gas car buyers, fuel costs are familiar and expected. But how does electricity pricing compare to gas costs? It’s less intuitive to figure out for most of us.

Hardly disingenuous, they hit that in the 2nd paragraph and explain this article is about the differences in operating costs.
So basically it's used to verify a MAC?

What I'm imagining: CA takes the hash of the certificate, encrypts that with its private key, and appends it to the cert. Client's browser then takes hash of locally stored certificate, and uses the CA's public key to check that the MAC attached to the incoming cert is valid.

I'm guessing SSL uses RSA-PSS[1] or something similar. Guess I'll have to do some reading when I find the time.

[1]: http://www.onefs.com/emc-plus/rsa-labs/historical/raising-st...
"I really don't understand why people love properties", followed by "Getters and setters are elements of bad style".

So you don't like either of the following:

myObject.name = "Ben";
myObject.setName("Ben");

What alternative would you suggest then?
Whoa, WikiLeaks doesn't have control over the quality/veracity of the information leaked to it. If an email is added by the people who submit the leak, there's simply no way to verify that.

They're not journalists, they've never claimed to be.
Does anyone know how well you can time via an app?

I wonder how it sounds to play sound across devices. Streaming and clock syncing can happen beforehand, just the playback has to be very sync to an absolute timing.

Maybe one can do something crude sound propagation synthesis by playing with timing, sound runtime, gps and a crowd. If you synthesize the sound the app even stays very small. You could e.g. make an ocean wave roll through the audience (when every device knows where it is and knows the exact time of when the wave will hit that position).

Same could work with devices as pixels, but I don't find it that interesting.
No seriously Unsafe is not removed, it's not even deprecated because there is no replacement. I don't know where people get this idea from. Did anybody check the source? Of course not. Just repeating something somebody wrote on the internet somewhere.

Unsafe is going to stay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HG0YQVy8UM&t=1s
No, I don't think you can generalize like that. I like eating just fine, but I would consider Soylent if I wasn't married mostly because I just don't like cooking. Going out or ordering isn't financially all that feasible, whereas Soylent actually could be.
Run by who? The website is very sparse on info
The cabin is updated more often than the plane itself. Also chairs change in order to become lighter and take less space. This allows for more rows (depending on airplane model and airline)
Oh yes they do: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023043841045791419...
That sounds like an inferior version of the desktop dock that every business laptop (Lenovo, Dell, HP, etc) has had for over a decade. It would be an omission of failure if Apple resorted to something like that.
The really great thing about nutrition experts is that if you look hard enough you'll find one that agrees with the viewpoint you want to believe in.
> "Many of the people who were fired, blacklisted, or persecuted were only suspected communists"

would it have been OK to fire, blacklist, or persecute them if they had been actual communists, then?
What if that's 10% or more of their customer base? I doubt they are willing to lose the revenue.
> Research has shown we get most of the nutrients we need from our first meal (of whole foods) each day.

Not disagreeing but this is the first I've heard of this. Do you have any sources on hand?
I agree that page is not a thorough proof of their case. It seems to be intended to just outline, at a high level, their point of view.

You are saying you disagree that the constituent components of an egg are the source of its nutritional value?

Do you suggest that something inside a chicken imbues in the egg ephemeral nutritional properties that our digestive system cannot extract from an equally proportioned mix of fat/cholesterol/protein/etc that was produced in a man-made factory rather than a hen?
I honestly don't even think you know what I'd be wrong about, since you said you don't know the meaning of the comment you disagreed with.
Would be eating processed food nutritionally illiterate?
As for (2), exactly. Even at the start of the millennium I'd fly LAX-Melbourne and often the Sydney-Melbourne leg was a 747 with a dozen passengers on it (because there was also a non-stop that would routinely be half full).
... which were released when determined not to be enemy combatants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_longer_enemy_combatant

(If you want to accuse someone of breaking war laws, go to ICC in Hague...)

I think you're trolling me by now. You have no foot to stand on. (I'm not arguing that the US handling of POWs can't be criticized. Of course. All states can be criticized. But their Supreme Court system do seems to work.)
I think that the point is that you shouldn't have to rely on an IDE in the first place.
Traceroute to cloud.yeelight.com seems to go to China.

Your light bulbs are talking to a cloud service in China.

https://www.cnet.com/news/can-wi-fi-let-you-see-people-throu...

Nope.
Intriguing anomaly found inside the Great Pyramid at Giza
I don't think git's use was really intended for security. That being said it would be interesting to upgrade it and achieve security.
> investment that continues to generate benefits as an investment

Isn't a creative work the result of an investment in time spent practicing and learning? And aren't the generated benefits continued sales of that work?
there were talks about removing it, but it's going to be available: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/260
> Why does traveling in the US and the US knowing things about you affect you?

Because I can be detained by a country (or denied entry) much more easily when I am in the country than when I am not.

> Not by Chinese companies though. Individual parts are made there, but they are designed by non-Chinese companies and the manufacturing process is overseen by these companies.

I don't believe that "Chinese company" automatically equals "crap". Xiaomi makes some of the best products I've ever used (and they definitely have the best quality to price ratio of anyone), my Huawei phone is amazing, everything I bought from Ali has been good, etc.

> Last time I checked, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (not to mention Apple products and Google) were used outside the US as well. I don't think anyone in Europe uses a Chinese Facebook clone or Twitter clone.

The western world uses those products. I would be surprised if nobody outside China uses them. Maybe they don't, I don't know the WeChat penetration numbers for countries outside China...
Grocery shopping for one is frustrating...

Less sarcastically -- I've come to find that learning how to not just cope with, but enjoy the food acquisition process, end-to-end -- from procurement, to cooking and prep, and yes, even washing dishes and maintaining a decent kitchen; but most of all, preparing delicious meals for friends, now and then (and all of this, on a shoestring budget, if necessary) -- to be one of the most valuable life skills one can acquire.

So if you're currently finding it "frustrating" -- that's a good thing, because it means that your body is correctly signaling you to the fact that there's not just an opportunity to learn, but to make great efficiency gains but just a modest investment in just... figuring out how food works.

Taking milk as an example -- you're absolutely right that the chains are wrongly optimized in a lot of their offerings; the quart- (or gallon-!) sized milk offerings being a great example. At the end of the day, "milk", as such, is just not a great item to have in one's list of staples -- yogurt and kefir provide very much the same nutritive value (and overall "milk-experience", in my view) with much better shelf life, and much better value per unit cost, overall. Or if you must have "milk", as such, just a small bottle of raw (or appropriately pasteurized) milk from a high quality dairy (this is crucial), which you'll find you'll need to drink only about 1/3 the amount of compared to the usual chain-offered "big dairy" milk, will do just fine.

But the thing about Soylent -- the really "real sickness" about it, in my view -- is that rather than address this frustration by getting to its root cause (lack of awareness of how food works, on a basic level; and how awesome things can be when you get your food supply right, or at least working for you, rather than against you) -- it simply masks it. And on top of that, rather insidiously promotes dependence (on a brand) -- rather than independence and self-sufficiency -- as a way of addressing the problem.
hg absorb sounds very useful. I'd like to know details, since I can imagine undesired results it might produce.
I ran the numbers for my father a few months ago and it was basically even for him:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12379662
Yea, I read the whole report before making my comment. Terrible.
I'm with you for both those examples, they were utterly unsurprising to me.

But for most people, these were conspiracy theories. Because the government said they were not true. In the press, in congressional hearings, everywhere. That's enough for most people.

In all honesty though, I've learned I can't use my intuition to predict what people will believe or not. I mean, the Iraq WMD and 9/11 connection stuff was so obviously BS that it was like an absurdist comedy routine. But 70% of Americans believed Saddam was connected to 9/11. And I don't know what the WMD story success rate was but it had to be higher right?
There's also such a thing as "mineral rights", which is separate from land ownership. Hereabouts (Western WA), a lot of land that is built up used to be logged, and the companies that did, like Weyerhauser, often still hold mineral rights after selling off the land.
Due to lack of training and education, I don't claim to have any knowledge of nutritional science.

The makers of Soylent, on the other hand, are pretty good at making broad sweeping nutritional claims without bothering to back them up with legitimate science.
Getting OS X to trust self-signed SSL certificates
>I wouldn't want to hire someone who didn't enjoy coding enough that they didn't have something on publicly visible repo.

There is lots of reason why competent developers would not actively participate to OSS or have public repos. I think you are holding applicant to an unreasonable standard that does not entails they are bad if not upheld. I have worked with some extremely talented people - far more than I ever could be - who had 0 contributions, 0 repos and publicly available code.

Why? Because they valued the time spent with their family and friends more. They got the job done which is ultimately what I pay them for. Which is all that matter really. Are they competent? Do they get work done? Can they potentially take-up bigger engineering challenges (i.e can they grow). Yes? Welcome at X co.
People have spoken with their wallets. The legacy carriers that traditionally had larger seats and more varied classes of service were eaten alive by budget carriers on Price.
If you take the goalposts to have been set by Turing's 1950 "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", the only people moving them are researchers who want to trump up their own work or marketers who want to sell things.

My own taste uses the word "AI" as you do in a permissive way to include simpler tasks (which in themselves are more elemental than useful) like identifying an object in an image and presenting a few straightforward interpretations of sentences. But what Turing stipulated an actual AI would be able to do is "reach parity" with a fully human conversation, with all of our knowledge and values and desires and subtlety of motivation. When you really dig into what goes on in a real conversation---the joking, the shades of meaning, the individual quirks and tribal patterns, the lying, the compassion, ambition, insecurity---I think it's hard not to admit that we're still quite far from that. We may not even want it! But exactly the genius of the Turing test for setting a rough standard for AI is that it demands competences far beyond mere language processing.
Most of the time I feel like US or UK people are fake, because of all the forced smalltalk.

Yes, this is their culture and I respect it, but I just don't feel comfortable with it :/
Probably a rethink of the design. Why are you creating an object, then mutating its name from client code?

The whole point of an object is that client code shouldn't be concerned with such details as maintaining the state of each internal field. Try and think of an object as a single thing you send high level messages to you, instead of a struct, or a bag, or a hashtable.
5 million conficker nodes hitting someone

I can't be the only person who moaned out loud at that notion, and who also sees no way to stop it. People so often need to be burned to learn about fire, but in this case owning an IoT item is unlikely to burn the owner.

I don't see a good solution to this, that is likely to actually happen, unless as another person said, ISP's just start blacklisting people with compromised IoT devices.
Najaf Ali Interview about Freelancing
Yes, I'm in exactly the same boat but it felt like skipping breaks for hours at a time wasn't really the way the system was supposed to work and I wasn't sure if it helped when used in that way. Although perhaps just being "allowed" to take a break is enough of a benefit, that does make sense to me as I write it.
While security does not rely on simplicity, a simple system is much easier to reason about security. What you add is a whole stack of complexity through multiple hashes, entropy generation (on your end), and network transport (TLS).

There's no way you could convince me to use your system over a basic KDF implementation. The only people you're going to convince to use this protocol is someone who doesn't have experience in the field, which is why I'd consider your solution snake oil.
Kudos for ingenuity but from my understanding, flying over land is preferred than over an ocean as there are options available in case of emergency. So isn't this jeopardizing flights for fuel savings?
The number of scientifically rigorous and repeatable studies on human nutrition is shockingly small. The majority of the research that is done for the purposes of dietary recommendations involves survey or diary data.

I am aware of one controlled diet study--I think it was from the 1960s--where the participants were fed a semi-liquid diet which contained all the chemical components of what was then suspected to be complete human nutrition. The results could not be used, because too many of the subjects quit, or ate foods smuggled in from outside.

Knowing of that study, I have never feared that anyone would suffer some deficiency disease from eating nothing but Soylent. Because I think no one could accomplish such a feat for a long enough duration for any symptom to appear. I guarantee that unless the person is strapped down to a table for 23 hours a day and violently kept away from edible items for the 24th, they are, in fact, eating other things besides just Soylent from time to time.

So when nutritionists recommend against eating Soylent as a replacement for food, I have to wonder why they even think that is even plausible enough to say anything about it.

I understand completely why Cypher from The Matrix would sell out all of humanity for some virtual medium-rare tenderloin, instead of the nutrient slurry they have no choice about eating in the real world.
That's still the only thing that I can imagine connecting the harm done by the IoT, to the owners of IoT devices.