skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are other good reasons too.

The system isn't fair, voters in low pop states have more power than california.

The system emphasizes swing states above others, as the country is so split right now.

The system is worse for third party candidates (especially if a STV or ranked system was used. This would also please the Bernie or bust folk).

The system is outdated, it was meant to have a group of well informed electors make the decision about who is president. This doesn't makes sense anymore as the electors are pretty much bound to the will of the states popular vote, and people have access to more information. Plus the whole safeguard against someone unqualified idea has been tossed out the window now anyway.
The user's pages on Wikipedia were deleted by an admin because it was used more like a personal blog, which Wikipedia was never meant to be. Of course, perhaps the admin could have given thr user a chance to copy over the content before deletion but then again I don't blame the admin for considering it similar to regular spam and deleting it. Maybe they still have a copy and perhaps the user can request for it.

I still find Wikipedia to be a good source of information and don't consider it dying. Even if it is dying, I don't believe this to be the reason.
Go fonts
Stanford didn't produce this young man.
So is clearing your browser cache sufficient to be sure that any possible PoisonTap infection has been removed?
I've noticed the list of go-to demos hasn't changed much in the past half year. As a Vive owner I'm kind of feeling let down by the lack of compelling new content.
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Could this have been fraud detection automation? I would be shocked if they didn't at least let you dump the contents of your account and setup temporary mail forwarding. It's their service and these people didn't follow the rules but when they ask us to essentially entrust our digital lives to them they owe even the misbehaving users (as opposed to criminal users) who broke a TOS agreement something more than just scorched earth tactics.
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mwave can be pretty shady... I know that their user email list has been either stolen or sold.
If you can't acknowledge the presence of trade offs, then I don't see how I could justify specific trade offs.

Just because I want to engage in a productive conversation doesn't mean my entire argument boils down to tone policing. It is OK to stop talking to someone because they are too frustrating to talk to.
So first, why it's important for me that we're able to trade continuously. Suppose I'm an HFT who trades the S&P 500 ETF. I put out a buy order at 217.75 and a sell order at 217.76.

If a trader comes in an buys the ETF from me at 217.76 then I need to be able to hedge immediately in other products. Without continuous trading I would need to quote wider.

Second, HFTs make less money per dollar traded than the people who used to do this. In a sense, HFTs "won" because they were willing to do this cheaper than anyone else.

This is different from investment banking, where it's my impression that they get paid these huge fees because CEOs hire their friends and pay them with shareholders' money.
Whoever taught this thing what an asparagus is really screwed us all.
It's there, it works, you haven't looked at it in years. Apple may or may not care about it, but apparently neither do you.

Automation probably gets us excited about ideas to streamline our lives, but nobody ever gets around to it. I certainly hope it remains well-supported because there are people who actually need it (accessibility comes to mind). Also because I did actually just use it in a toy project.
But let's red-team it for a second and think about who you would go after if you were Russian and wanted to hand the election to Trump. There's a lot more people on that list worth going after than the folks that "Guccifer" did manage to get a hold of.
That's a good point, I didn't consider that. (Obviously!)
> The editor application itself has remain essentially unchanged over the past decade.

In what ways does it need changing? What improvements do you have in mind? I can only think of autocomplete, but the object browser/dictionary helps in its stead.
Things in very low earth orbit will re-enter on their own, if left unattended, from atmospheric drag.... At orbits of 450-600 km or less the lifetime of any satellite is very much finite. Satellites in much higher (like the MEO O3b satellites) will not re-enter due to atmosphere drag even on a 500+ year time scale.
It's often quite stunning how quickly posts showing malpractice by Google disappears off the front page of HN. I wouldn't dare speculate as to why, but it's pretty common.
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The C# team are very lucky to have F# as a reference implementation on how to implement ML style features on the .NET platform. I'm certain many more features from F#/OCaml will be added in forthcoming releases.
So from the Reddit discussion it seems like 200 launches is about a fair guess for the total deployment of this system. It seems like a perfect way to derisk the notion of reusable launch systems while providing a native-to-SpaceX revenue stream (orbital internet provision).

Assuming that they can achieve the success rates they've been aiming for, demonstrating lowered risk and cost through their own deployments will provide about the best advertisement you could possibly imagine. Waiting for organic outside demand to fill the launch roster to the same point would take time that Musk clearly does not want to waste. It seems to be a Keynesian approach to the slightly Chicken/Egg problem of commercial space.
We could call it... a credit card number.
That really depends.

Some banks dont require a code at all for known contacts.
Some banks dont require a code at all for small amounts (under 50).
Some banks send you a plain SMS with a one-time-password.
Some banks send you an SMS with some additional information (receiver, amount) and a one-time-password.
Some banks ask for a one-time-password from a dongle.
Some banks ask for a one-time-password by entering a challenge code into your dongle and then the dongle generates the new one-time-password.
etc.

What I am trying to say is, there is no real standard. The best method I've come across so far is a device in which you insert your debit card, enter your pin, then scan a QR code on the computerscreen and the device will actually show you the receiving IBAN + amount. After pressing OK you get a challenge that you have to enter on the website.

Also in the Netherlands the banks have an API they can use called iDEAL which does the same as "SOFORT" but instead of having "SOFORT" log in to your account, your actual bank immediately transfers the funds and sends an OK to the vendor.

It makes me really angry that bank security isnt standardized and that good systems like iDEAL dont find international adoption. Luxembourg is trying to develope its own version of iDEAL e.g.
Great idea. Thanks for suggesting!
They have conclusively demonstrated that relying on a small number of satellites in the small number of launches concentrates too much risk. Unfortunately the demonstrated this accidentally blowing up a satellite.

In the long run though, success at scale with a system like this relies on the typically guaranteed losses. A certain percentage of rockets will fail, a certain percentage of satellites will fail, a robust system will be designed to accommodate this.

(Of course, and this is probably the topic of a totally different thread, the tolerance for this must change dramatically when there are people in there.)
No, they don't. They are completely insane aswell. They are like smart cards, but with the secret printed on them, visible for the world. If you want to clone them you don't need a highly advanced lab, you can just remember the number. You also share said "secret" with everybody you do business with.

Of course you constantly get your money stolen. You just don't notice because the loss is distributed evenly. That's why they are so expensive.

I'm suprised people use such a low tech system. I wouldn't even accept such authentication system for my throw-away reddit accounts, let alone for money.
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Ask HN: Is Whisper App criminal?
Recently I installed the Whisper App on my iPhone. After deleting and re-installing it, I noticed that the account was completely restored by default. This was already suspicious, since Apple doesn't allow devs to access programatically the handset's unique ID. The implication was that Whisper was using another technique to generate a fingerprint that was unique to my handset.

Later, I installed Whisper on another iPhone I owned. Oddly enough, the App asked whether I used it in the past. Answering "Yes", I was presented with a short list of usernames and asked which one was mine. Sure enough, the username I used on the first iPhone was in that list. Consequently I was able to easily restore my profile on the new device. The profile included my posts, activity and private messages.

Here's the truly upsetting part: in the same list, there was another username, which I had used 2 years ago, on an iPad (I deleted the iPad App over a year ago).

After some googling, I found this blog about the App[1]. The post links to a separate article by The Guardian, equally shocking.

I know that The Guardian article at least has been posted here before, and the consensus was that it was unacceptable what Whisper was doing[2]. This was a few years ago. It seems that the team at Whisper has since become even more competent at bypassing several of the protection layers implemented by Apple.

My question is, at which point does it become criminal behaviour on the part of the App developers? I feel what Whisper does cannot possibly be acceptable. What can be done about this? What should be done?

Here's one last fascinating bit about the App: The only way to delete your account is by e-mailing them the request (using your e-mail address, duh!). Furthermore, "deleting your Whisper account will prevent you from joining the Whisper community in the future on your device." That's crazy!

[1]http://bit.ly/2g0qD67

[2]http://bit.ly/2fH5pJd
There are plenty of discussions on HN about this, including references to talks and writings by Peter Thiel, if you're interested. You could probably get a pretty good idea into why he did. Two references off the top of my head that would be particularly on topic would be his keynote at the RNC and the National Press Club interview.

RNC keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTJB8AkT1dk

National Press Club interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob-LJqPQEJ4
That benchmark stinks of in-memory vs persisted | IO starvation.

What workload in cassandra has no scaling with more nodes?
There are services that give you programmatic access to bank accounts from multiple providers. Plaid and Yodlee are examples of these.

Not sure exactly how they services work under the hood, but it wouldn't be too dissimilar to just screen scraping.
The way I handle this is, I have a dumb checking account which I transfer money to, when I do such transactions. This is more akin to giving a lame email address to websites you don't care.
Ask HN: Why hasn't Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes resigned?
Given the claims leveled against the company seem to be widely corroborated, how has Holmes managed to remain CEO?
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Thanks, I had not realized that! Fortunately I registered under a fake address, but still, didn't want that published either.
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It's even worse than you state -- those are just percentage points off, not full percentage off.

To restate:

Wisconsin last poll 41% for trump, Wisconsin result 49% (~8 percentage points off, or 20% off)

Michigan last poll 42% for trump, Michigan result 48% (~6 percentage points off, or 14% off)

North Carolina last poll 45% for trump, North carolina result 51% (~6 percentage points off, or 13% off)

Florida last poll 45% for trump, Florida result 49% (~4 percentage points off, or 9% off)
Does RHEL sign the binaries or embed a signature somewhere on a per-customer basis to determine if you're redistributing?
You're justifying the administrator's actions based on a priori notions of what Wikipedia is or was "meant" to be.

This allows you to ignore the actual consequences of actions.

What's the point of a rule if it doesn't lead to positive consequences?
> Being able to panic on OOM won't go back in time and rewrite stdlib

I don't see how that's relevant? If you have to deal with OOM you're probably not going to deal with it at a fine-grained level, you'll have one high-level panic catcher somewhere that handles this and all other panics.

Given that overcommit exists as well, this makes the cases where you want workable Result-on-OOM quite niche.

(And there is work -- lower priority work, but it exists -- for pluggable allocators which will let the stdlib eventually abstract over more of this)
With that filter I wonder if we could combine tabs and bookmarks?
Isn't the launch roster way beyond full already? http://www.spacex.com/missions
Ask HN: Dev annoyances?
What are some things that you hate about being a developer? I always get annoyed when I have multiple terminals open and have to hunt down the correct one.
Interestingly strange they wouldn't just choose an existing open source font that got along with their license. I guess even you've got Google's wallet behind you it opens a lot of doors.
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It's incredibly difficult and time consuming. I've found that a good compromise is to buy a domain name (or use one you already have), and pay for a reseller hosting account with a reputable service provider. You'll get a level of customer support that is far above a standard hosting account, full control over your email settings, and you'll have full root/WHM access to your account. As a bonus you can spin up a website whenever you want for testing or production, and make back your monthly fees by selling webspace to a single client. It sounds like a lot to just have good managed email, but I only pay about $15/month for the reseller account, barely more than a regular hosted account.

I went with A Small Orange, they have incredible support and they stay on top of abuse reports so their emails servers never get blacklisted. I've also used Tiger Technologies in the past and they are superb as well.

With that said, I'm still considering replacing Gmail with something like Fastmail even though I'm satisfied with the email service from ASO. Having a web-based account outside the reseller hosting umbrella makes two-factor auth a lot easier to manage.
it drove me off reedit entirely
I haven't read any textbooks on the subject (I don't mean that facetiously) - what would this look like? Because it seems to me that to such an algorithm virality ~ legitimacy.
But would it prevent launching any more?
When you consider the scale of wikipedia, it's easy to see why governance does not take the form of polite exchanges. There simply isn't time. You want a conversation with an admin, but that admin isn't being paid to moderate, so their time is already donated. The tedium involved with politely speaking with every abuser (and OP is most certainly an abuser) would require a full time staff. That doesn't even consider the different languages such users speak.

Wikipedia is no longer a scrappy little community of people who like writing essays. It's a walled garden of information and the only way to moderate is with an iron fist.
> By default anything stuck into a USB port should be sandboxed

Yes, suppose you have a mac mini and you plug in USB keyboard, oops it's sandboxed and does not work.
Here's what I tell my devs:

Yes, "you might not need jQuery". But, the first time you have to log real hours fixing a cross-browser bug that the jQuery team already took care of, I'm fucking firing you. Choose wisely.
Where did I disagree with the existence of trade-offs? What I find invalid is the idea that all trade-offs are equally good. The Rust scheme has certain advantages and certain disadvantages. I believe that the advantages don't matter much and that the disadvantages are worse than other people think. The advantages and disadvantages of the conventional C++ and Java model are better for a general purpose systems language.
Why can't you just wrap your drone in aluminium foil around the outside - I don't mean the top and bottom, you need the top and bottom open for air flow.

Wouldn't aluminium foil stop that microwave?
I completely echo this sentiment. I like Ember, but have found that the learning curve of a React/Redux app is significantly smaller than that of a similar Ember app.

Small sample size for me (2 Ember projects, 6+ React projects), but the entry level engineers to the senior level engineers seem to grasp React/Redux MUCH faster than Ember.
And now at scale. Illustrates the old saying "quantity has a quality all its own".
This fonts are pretty cool. But I don't understand why they just used Roboto or Noto fonts.
They cut off access to a COPY of a users content. They didn't TAKE anything from a user. If, in 2016, you're relying on a free service as your only copy of important data, you're a fool.

Countless governments across the world could literally, without any notice, delete all of your data at the drop of a hat on ANY public service. See: megaupload. It's not the job of a free service provider, who literally makes 0 promises of data integrity, to provide you unlimited access to your data until the end of time.
It helped a lot to see it in action. I got lot of help from the Ember Global Meetup[1] and live coding with buddies at the Ember Community Slack group.

[1]: https://www.embermeetup.com/videos
This is a great way to scare pro users after a lukewarm reaction to the latest MacBook Pro's.
No, sites would be better off spending that extra effort on non-cryptographic security like protecting their DNS registration, internal spearphishing, etc.
> You'd need to use Qt to build an extension framework that exposes document contents in a way that all extensions can customize their display simultaneously -- and at this point you're just creating an ad-hoc, less well-understood DOM.

QtQuick with QML and their scripting engine?

It has a full DOM, scriptability, and extensibility.
Guess who pays for them. It's not the merchants.

But you are right about credit cards, it's not that much.

Right now I'm more or less fored to use paypal. They offer a very similar service. I'm paying a tiny bit less than 10% of my income directly to paypal.
Yes because selective enforcement of rules really worked for them before.

The new right doesnt even seem worried, they seem keen to build their own platforms and shut out badthink too.
Yuck, the monospace font feels too dense, and dislike the serifs.
Author here. The post was put together in a bit of a rush - I've updated it based on a number of the queries I've seen.

Overall, if attention to this issue can stop one other company doing this, I'll be pretty happy.
I don't mean that it's full from a financial perspective, but full in an argument-ending "this is the way of the future" sense.

Edit: There are ≈80 missions listed on the link there, 200 launches for their own missions would provide ample opportunity to derisk their customers by reusing launch vehicles beyond their currently marketable mileage and proving their safety (I can imagine that one would want some pretty steep discounts for a rocket that's been used 5 times given current success rates).
Equating "copy of my data" with "my housing situation" is even more silly. Google isn't TAKING anything from you by locking the account, they are simply destroying what should be one of many COPIES of your data.
Exactly the same case for myself. It was up for over a year before I realized too.
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I'm using Safari. It says, for the GlobalSign Domain Validation CA - SHA256 - G2,

This certificate has been revoked

Both Chrome and Firefox work fine. How should I troubleshoot this problem?
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> What can we do? Upvotes/downvotes? Won't work at scale, because likes/shares have a connotation of legitimacy.

I think you just explained some very popular subreddits, in addition to a lot of the extreme political fake-news issues on facebook.
Maybe her cult of personality is the only thing holding the company together. Or she's prioritizing herself over the company.
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Sure, I don't dispute that credit cards are technically very simplistic and basically don't have any security.

The huge benefit of them is that almost all those security risks are externalized. If someone uses my credit card fraudulently, I don't pay any of the costs. Basically every alternative (Verified by Visa, etc.) is about shifting those liabilities back to the consumer.
When I put on my rose-colored glasses and look back at the past (1950s??) it seems that lying was very much looked down upon. Not so much any more. Seems like it's 'anything goes that you can get away with'. Is this because we're not teaching ethics in school? Decline in churches? Apathy from feeling helpless?
Way too many weasel words. I could easily say that nation was ecuador because they kept assange safe.
I'm sure it varies wildly from state-to-state and country-to-country but I believe where they are required to send a representative that's an employee they can send a lawyer that that they have on staff since they meet the requirement. That said I'm not sure what advantage they'd have since small claims is a very different beast. Not to mention the costs to do so would almost certainly exceed the judgement. Might even be cheaper to simply default than deal with the back-and-forth of settling the matter outside of court.