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The world is eating software.
>But i don't want to be forced into investing through my tax dollars. That is not the role of government.

The world is more complicated then that. If those subsidies suddenly disappear, guess what. The US is a unique nation and first with no equals in projecting both its soft and hard power. Like it or not, we are the police securing the global commons which is essential to functional, consistent global trade.

If you really don't want to invest your tax dollars and are approaching this from a selfish standpoint., incorporate yourself. Contributing productive activity to society generally exempts you from all number of taxes. If you want to pay no taxes, become extremely wealthy. That's the lesson this country teaches you :)

> We should focus on killing externalities like you said,

That's nearly impossible. We generally do a piss poor job of capturing the true price of things. Externalities are often times diffuse and not acute. Most externalities exist because of our lack of knwledge about how costs and benefits are shared between individuals, firms, and societies.

>stop the abuse of our tax money.
I've just come to accept that governments are not hyper-efficient economically and never will be. Our government is a nasty, messy thing at times. Honestly, if everyone's taxes were suddenly lowered in this economic environment, it would cause inflation so there'd be little actual benefit
Looks nifty. :)

As a thought, it's probably a decent idea to add the Libvirt binding to the their bindings page:

https://libvirt.org/bindings.html

Should be pretty easy to do, as the Libvirt team are pretty responsive. Ping them via mailing list maybe?
They're certainly not doing English to Portuguese by way of Spanish or anything like that.

However, you could almost read the paper as "We can translate something from a natural language into a high-dimensional representation, then turn that high-dimensional representation back into (another, possibly different) natural language. "
Industrial engineers are trained to study how people work and then design efficient workflows and tools to perform that work. How come IEs don't seem to be bigger players in UX?
I'm not sure I'd be overly eager to hang my hat on either number. Here's the FBI's stats on property crime in the US in 2012 [1], which they claim is higher than $341M.

[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
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This is just the Dems casting doubt on the legitimacy of Trump's presidency because they can't believe it. The converse on the Reps side was casting doubt on the legitimacy of Obama via the birth certificate. The breathless articles in the MSM pointing out that Clinton got the majority vote are driven by the same psychological motives and just as irrelevant (i.e. the president isn't elected by popular vote).

To be clear I am not saying that the Dems (nor the Reps) are intentionally casting doubt as a planned strategy but that that is the normal psychological reaction when something bad or impossible has happened to you it is normal to look for a "rational" explanation. Once the left gets through the 4 or 6 stages (whatever those are) of grief I am hopeful that they will be a fine opposition party to Trump's buffoonery and the nation will carry on.
> So how would the hackers, who were obviously highly motivated to achieve their desired result, decide that a 7% tweak in a few counties would be enough to get what they wanted?

Hypothetically, let's say that you're a foreign state and you want to work together with candidate A to pull off a win. You might:

1. Utilize your existing intelligence and hacking resources to expose one or more secrets about candidate B to take advantage of their secretive nature and undermine what would seemingly be their greatest strength, their experience, by leaking info about mishandling classified information.

2. Manipulate* the public in the weeks prior to the election when the undecided are making up their minds by having the FBI director indicate that they had found "more" emails they would have to go through about candidate B that could be a smoking gun of mishandling classified information. Then afterwards have the director state that the emails were the same ones they had already analyzed, such that this would seem more legitimate.

I would think in such a situation, you could reasonably ensure you have a close lead, even with two unfavorable candidates.

In such as case, possibly a 7% tweak could be enough, because you've already done much more than 7% via other measures. Maybe you don't even need to do anything more.

* - I wouldn't have thought that a late game stunt by the FBI director would have been that big of a factor, but anecdotally know of some that were planning to vote for Hillary, but changed their minds and voted for Trump in the end because Hillary came off as too shady.

The point here is not that this is what actually happened, but that this could happen. Foreign states can influence elections in a lot of ways.

And, I think we should have statisticians get involved in trying to restore faith in democracy via giving more credence to the election. It's a good exercise.
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No STL at all? That's the best part of C++!

OK, don't use iostreams, or stringstreams perhaps, and use boost very sparingly.

But not at all?
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I have a Thunderbolt display from Apple, it also powers off the USB devices when it goes to sleep.
Nobody is proposing that the government decide what is "fake news" in the US. Thinking that developing such an algorithm for China (a massive market where censorship is a requirement) is a beta test for a similar tool in the US (where attacking "fake news" is a minor problem) has their priorities out of whack.
This is kind of a big deal. Regardless of whether or not you agree with the President-elect, this could lead to impeachment if no blind trust or other equivalent instrument is established. It could be decided that an abuse of power has taken place for something as trivial as a foreign diplomat inadvertently being comped for a room in a Trump hotel by staff. While this scenario is highly unlikely, it's a surprisingly low baseline for the type of risk that he's opening himself up to by not actively mitigating conflicts of interest.

TL;DR You can't defeat a special prosecutor by calling them 'sad' on Twitter.
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I beg to differ. I had an encrypted USB HDD hooked up to Thunderbolt display, and lost all data on it because it does indeed power down its USB hub :)
Submitted 16 times already: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=History%20Tells%20Us%20What%20...
Hackers in Orange County
Is there a hacker community in Orange County? Particularly around the Tustin area would be nice :)
Couldn't read the article, but I think the issue is that doctors aren't directly more qualified to call for drug policy reform than anyone else.

Hear me out: Doctors are aware of the side effects and dangers of drugs, and the harm they cause people who take enough drugs to require medical help.

However, a doctor isn't specifically informed about the cost of prison, the damage imprisoning someone does to their families, and their communities, and their prospects for rehabilitation.

Drug policy reform calls for a comparison of the impact of softening drug law against the social impact of imprisoning the people we enforce drug laws on.

There just isn't a profession with credible authority in that specific area. It's sort of like what a public policy think tank should make a recommendation based on. But I don't think any corporate interests align with the message enough to fund that sort of research/lobbying.
Election results may have been hacked in three swing states
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it's "fake" for whoever pays or can influence the most.
"Presently this is stalled because it is too counterintutive."

No, it's supply and demand. Plenty of humans can physically rearrange stuff but only a few can (or are authorized) to perform legal services. I also wouldn't bet against the white collar incumbent's ability to make it illegal to replace them.
Even if you assume weak passwords, there's no comparison in effort when you involve stretching.

No salt means you can precompute the hash for the 1,000,000 most common passwords. That'll take maybe an hour or two with aggressive stretching. Then you check it against the million or so records in the database for any matches.

Salt means FOR EACH RECORD in the database, you have to compute those 1,000,000 passwords. That means you're talking about decades of computation time. That's a heck of a lot more expensive. And importantly, you have to start that computation AFTER the breach, because that's when you gain access to the salts.

Salts are not unimportant.
Are there any open source alternatives to Facebook similar to what GNU Social is to Twitter?
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Computer scientists urge Clinton campaign to challenge election results
I don't want Bing, though, I want Google.

Ignoring the whole hacking incident, does Google pulling out of China actually improve the world in some way?

I think "giving customers as much of what they want as possible" is a morally good reason. On the other hand, I don't see any morally good reason for them to pull out of China, other than holier-than-thou moralizing?
I use passwords from https://www.random.org/passwords/?num=4&len=8&format=html&rn...
I wonder why NY in general has a negative trend.
I feel like anyone reading this, on this news site, should be telling every friend and family member they have to abandon facebook, if they aren't already. We, the "guy/gal I know who's really good at tech stuff" need to be the example here, and show in very simple terms why facebook should not be trusted with our information.
Something to consider when judging C++ on the basis a Scott Meyer article is that he tends to find the dark corners.

He is an excellent writer and an excellent language lawyer but he has

> not written production software in over 20 years, and I have never written production software in C++. Nope, not ever.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9425083
This call seems problematic.

Doctors suffer from a kind of bias-- not sure the name of it-- but they only see people when they have problems. The only time doctors encounter the human experience of LSD, magic mushrooms, etc. is when something has gone wrong.

Unless the doctor has spent a lot of time at music festivals, burning man, etc. they

Sure, alcohol is a very dangerous drug, and causes all kinds of ill health, chronic conditions, emergency room visits, accidents, etc. But, because most doctors have had a typical experience with alcohol, from trying it as a teenager, binge drinking at college, and now social/casual drinking, they think it's safe, because they've had lots of experiences that didn't end with someone going to the hospital.

I'm not sure what the best route is for this, but asking doctors to take lead on this doesn't seem like an effective campaign.
Okay, what then is the purpose, or benefits, of our vote counting for president elections and when does it stop being a democratic republic and instead a democracy?
I still don't really see your point. OP is saying that they are censoring. Yes, they are legally allowed to censor whatever they want on their site. But it's still censorship. Just because they are allowed to do it doesn't make it not censorship. And it can still be morally and ethically wrong, but legal.
Same here. Plus my email uses a different strong password I remember, so if worse comes to worse, I can just reset everything.
I once visited a Ford factory in England where the manager told us the night shift workers were paid very well (more than London front office in their first two years at Goldman Sachs) because their life expectancy might be shortened by as much as 20 years.
This also assumes facebook is a net good, which I don't believe it is. Take away even the guise of freedom of speech on it, and it's absolutely a net negative, in my mind.
I would much prefer to standardize on paper ballots, and then we would not have to mess around with statistical analysis and audits of software code.

I think votes should be recorded in a way that any set of adults could easily check for themselves with minimal tools.
>three-way decoupling

The trouble is that it seems that nearly every internet corp sees "decoupling" as an existential threat.
Fascism isn't really "far right" in the same way socialism and communism are "far left". Fascists believe in a mix of typically far-right and typically far-left ideas. You need more than one dimension (probably at least three or four) to fit fascism into the political spectrum.

So if one of your axes is "economic protectionism", another is "level of state intervention in the economy" and a third is "nationalism", and fascism is pegged to the max on all of those, it's not too unreasonable to call it "national" (because of the first and third axes) and "socialist" (because of the second).
> Currently you cannot run Python 2 inside the Python 3 virtual machine. Since I cannot, that means Python 3 is not Turing Complete and should not be used by anyone.

I stopped there.
Python was one of the first languages I've tried I actually enjoyed programming in.

I hope to continue leveraging my investment in learning python by using it for a long time.
So far I haven't been forced to use Python 3.
I've tried a few times but always found it easier to just go back to python (2.7).

I figure eventually I have to use Python 3 but at this point, my life has been fine without upgrading to python3.
No one has managed to get induction working reliably for natural language tasks in any way that is generalizable enough to rely on.

So that is new.
Good point. Upwork loves illegal activities.
I came here to post this. What?
+1 for GoF - still relevant as well despite people moving against "patterns"
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On the other hand, I never suggest Learn Python The Hard Way or Codecademy to any new programmer, because I don't want them to ask me down the line "why you directed me to an obsolete Python course?". I think I'm not the only one. So I'm not sure what's the net result of those decisions made by the two sites, do they really help in keeping Python 2 alive?
A programming language "is said to be Turing complete or computationally universal if it can be used to simulate any single-taped Turing machine" [1]. This author doesn't seem to understand this concept properly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness
I was going to comment on the article and idea of multilingual NN's in general since, as I'm learning Russian currently, I'm having a hard time seeing how you can get a good automated translation without some editorializing or awareness of what's going on in both sentences. Your comment on NN's "... not doing Pushkin justice" stood out since it's something I've been wondering how NN could handle a language like Russian that traditionally doesn't use the verb "to be" in sentences, much like the E-Prime idea that exists in English for clarity of description.

Just trying to re-think in terms of a Russian sentence instead of an English sentence has also proven difficult, and I'd be curious how you can automate it on NN's well. My colleagues (russian natives) are all able to spot auto-translated messages from me nearly instantly since it messes up pretty rudimentary grammar rules or just doesn't phrase the sentence like you would in native Russian.
I just skimmed the content, but I really appreciate that you have beginning content on how computers and the Internet work. I've seen too many people learning to code who start with 30K LOC of bootstrapped code, before they ever learn what the basic roles of a web server, browser, and an HTTP request actually are. Starting simple is a very good thing.
Reminds me of the Sean Ellis 40% survey:
http://www.startup-marketing.com/using-survey-io
This election really bugged me. A lot of people are complaining about right-wing news right now, but the left was spouting off some terrible stuff and presenting complex issues as clearly one-sided.
Here's the story from another source:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-air-transport-sr-strike-id...
That's great! Have you got a link?
I know twttr was the original name, but does he always refer to it that way?
> THERE IS A HIGH PROBABILITY THAT PYTHON 3 IS SUCH A FAILURE IT WILL KILL PYTHON.

I stopped there.
I thought browsers store password s encrypted. I use Firefox sync that encrypts and uploads passwords. Do u mean this is also vulnerable? Thx
and most importantly the book Learn Python the Hard Way only supports python 2.
From the abstract:

>>But the effectiveness of prohibition laws, colloquially known as the “war on drugs,” must be judged on outcomes. And too often the war on drugs plays out as a war on the millions of people who use drugs, and disproportionately on people who are poor or from ethnic minorities and on women.

>There just isn't a profession with credible authority in that specific area. It's sort of like what a public policy think tank should make a recommendation based on. But I don't think any corporate interests align with the message enough to fund that sort of research/lobbying.

You don't need a particular profession to label the war on drugs an abject failure. Just examine the results. The war on drugs has not made one dent in the demand or the supply. It has led to ever more potent drugs with lower prices and profits going to violent criminals. It's a joke
Without the censored Google, search experience in China, monopolized by Baidu, has been stalling, even deterioratig for years. Lack of competition does so much more harm than censorship. I as an internet user in China applaud Facebook's rational effort to bring more competition and social connectivity with the world to China.
I also can't run Python 2 by passing it into a C compiler. Man, I should publish a paper on this- they thought C was Turing-complete, but I proved them wrong!
I'm curious as to why you think it's such a major issue. The question asked is not "which states are the best at attracting people to their universities", the question asked is "which states are worst at keeping a student as a longer-term resident once the student has completed university in that state". And to answer that question you must report the results the way they have been reported here.

The issue really seems to be that you want a different question asked. In which case feel free to do the research to answer your question!
Conceivably there could still be fraud in counting the ballots.
Somewhat agreed. There is a difference between "has no procedural effect" and "meaningless" - it does speak to popular opinion slightly more forcefully than other polls.
One theory is that New York's schools are more attractive to people looking to start college than the state's job market, conditions and amenities, and cost-of-living to retain those people after they graduate.
Yes, the author doesn't know what he's talking about.

But people talking about Turing completeness in a real programming language (usually in the form of "x is Turing complete, therefore you couldn't ask for more") almost always haven't got a clue.
IanCal's comment about setting the alpha is a good one. Another easy option is to make a heatmap of 2D bin counts. Since you're using R already, you can use ggplot for this:

http://docs.ggplot2.org/current/geom_bin2d.html
As a writer of "quick n' dirty" webapps for internal use, I use python3 because philosophically, I want to help the world move forward, and the standard library has more stuff in it.
And if he doesn't understand that concept should he _really_ be teaching anyone programming?
How many passwords do you actually remember? 10, maybe 20? What do you do for everything else?

In my password vault I have over 500 logins, each with unique password. Unless you are reusing passwords it doesn't seem feasible to have a unique password for each site (or you have a much better memory than me :D).

In terms of your fears, I remember unique passwords that aren't stored in the vault for things like my main email account and banks. Everything else goes in the vault - if it gets lost, at worse I can reset the password via email, and if it gets stolen at worse they get access to my Spotify account.
> Review apps being complete

Thats amazing. I was just thinking this morning on the bus that I needed to build something like this myself for our setup.
While I agree with you that the democrats are wrong to be pushing this type of conspiracy stuff, I totally disagree that it wouldn't be "mainstreamed" if the tables were turned. Fox News is mainstream, Rush Limbaugh is mainstream; it's totally plausible to see this kind of nonsense being "mainstreamed" by the segments of the media that favor the narrative of the story.
"Python 3 Is Not Turing Complete"

... Not only is this blatantly false, but the author acknowledges it as such and seems to think that it is still OK to write this sort of sentence. Backing a pure falsehood with anecdotal support from "actual Python project developers" does nothing to change its veracity. I can't respect anything else in this article after seeing this kind of sensationalism.

Perhaps the author doesn't understand Turing-completion (I'll give the author the benefit of the doubt), but even if so it's inexcusable to throw around this sort of technical language this casually.
On what grounds do you assume these statisticians are Democrats?

If the fact that they want to do a statistical study is the sole proof of their political alignment and then any request to do an analysis by someone of that political asking is invalid, I would suggest there is a serious logical problem.
Try Yousician. It's an app for learning the guitar (I think they are working on adding the piano lessons). There are some theory lessons with practice sessions. I tried learning the guitar by tabs and accords of the songs I liked, but did not get too far. Yousician shows a clear skill progression (easy melodies->hard melodies) and provides some foundation for further learning and improvement. If only I had more time to practice :)
I'm pretty sure this was a tongue-in-cheek way of stating the true criticism.
By someone who pays a lot of attention to security matters, and who is trusted by a lot of people here. I recognize (and called out) that it's not nearly as good a source as might be available, but like I said I happened to have it at hand, and it's certainly better than nothing.
The rotation guidance is partly to address employees who've left the company, vs generalized password cracking attempts.
Ditto.

Then I read more for laughs.

I kind of feel like I could fix py2to3 if I have a sed and awk layer in there.. maybe a fun project.
I have tried to do this quite a bit, but they are all reluctant to be that person. Interestingly social proof seems to be unimportant in my industry, but it is a pain I can’t do case studies on my customers.

One of the more amusing things is different divisions of the conglomerate that owns my main competitor are among of my largest customers. I am always amazed how little internal communication there is within large companies.
Well, it seems to me like that's the whole "may kill Python" thing he's talking about.