skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most people are smarter than this discussion is saying they are - it's just they don't optimize for the things we implicitly assume here. They don't optimize for the truth value of their beliefs, but for their direct usefulness in life.

Most of the scientific facts don't have a direct impact on your life, so you don't get rewarded for getting things right, nor you get punished for getting them wrong. Different criteria thus become more relevant. How a belief fits your image of yourself? How does it help you strengthen your ties to the groups you're in? How it positions you against the groups you dislike?

Note that in situations when getting things right has direct impact on one's life - like, when it comes to money or job - people suddenly become very rational.
> people are far less likely to default on a car rather than a home because in suburban America, you need your car to keep your job, regardless of where you live

Also, it's a lot harder to repossess a home (i.e. foreclose) than it is to repo a car. Although, some of these advance repo methods are coming under closer scrutiny.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-06/another-a...
In USA, with the Federal Arbitration Act, it seems to be the case (IANAL, etc).

This discussion seems relevant - http://kluwerarbitrationblog.com/2016/02/25/consumer-arbitra...
What documentation? The only info they've got is transferred in the transport payload.
Golang: Why you should never test private methods
> If I'm providing a REST API, then I'd prefer a token string that I could pass as a header value rather than forcing the use of cookies

Aren't cookies just strings passed as HTTP headers?
In Firefox it shows it as an invalid rule, but you're not able to switch it off.
Interesting, thanks! I bet it's international ? The french transmissions were also following this patterns.
Thank you for understanding my point.

What other folk here fail to consider is that I was speaking from experience.

I was that ignorant when I was young and I was surrounded by others who were also ignorant of the possibilities around them. I was saved by someone when I was seventeen.

It's not an indictment to say these people are ignorant. It explains their apparent laziness. It's not that they refuse to better themselves, it's that they don't know why they should or how they could. It's obvious to us why and how, so it's hard to imagine someone not knowing.

To clarify, they're not actually lazy, they're directionless which can appear to others as laziness.
I used to not believe this happened. Then I saw saw several instances of taxis refusing to pick up blacks in New York, and realized that racism was still hiding below the surface.
Payments cover 79% of the ride cost (if we assume that the ride cost should covers the driver's cut and raises Uber's EBT to zero).
Knowing John's work at various investment banks, I would venture to guess that Spreadserve will be a top-notch product. Scaling Excel is something that has been needed for a long time. How many times have we, in IT, gotten complaints from traders and quants about Excel crashing with a large number of calcs?
> Note that that particular go implementation is prone to deadlocks.

Any more information on this? I'm curious to read why.
In a way this gives a new meaning to the term "live music". Especially since this is an existing style of music: anywhere from Bowie[1] to more niche bands like Public Service Broadcasting[2] and Lemon Jelly[3].

[1] David Bowie - Space Oddity

[2] Public Service Broadcasting - Go!

[3] Lemon Jelly - Space Walk
I used it as such under DOS (wrote 6800, 6809 and 8088 assembly language and C with Microsoft C 4.0).

I wrote this emulator to allow me to use CP/M wordstar in Linux:

https://github.com/jhallen/cpm

Screen I/O just uses the terminal emulator and does not open another window. I'd like to see a DOS emulator that works like this.
Pokemon Red/Blue Virus 2.0
> unlike all these shady Kindle/Kobo/Nook/whatever they don't have any notion of DRM, they are just a device

You're wrong about the Kobo line. It's the best choice for hackers: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=247
> Like me, many people I know do not use social media (...) but virtually all of us use WhatsApp to keep in touch, share photos, locations, media, and even to create groups to discuss, meet, organize events.
>(...)
> The reason we use wa, is because wa is not a social media.

It seems you are confused about what social media is. Social media is whatever you use to socialize. Email is the long standing king of social media even before the term was coined as a marketing ploy. Whatsapp is simply one of the newcomer. So you are indeed using social media by using whatsapp.

Another hint that whatsapp is social media is the fact that they got bought by facebook for a hefty sum.

Sorry if I burst you bubble.
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1 stone is 14 pounds. I had commented earlier about stone being a unit of mass; this twinged my mind and I looked it up. Turns out I was conflating "stone" with "slug".
Very beautiful and serene. Thank you.
Fat cells do replicate when they reach capacity. It's possible that he might need 2x or 3x the regular amount just to maintain them. If you cut calories, the fat cells might starve the rest of the body.

I'm not sure how he gets to needing 10x, though.
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Every non-throwaway project involves communicating with another human, which includes yourself in six months.
This is awesome. Excel is such a valuable tool for its ease in prototyping and testing calculations, but the "classic" challenge is when/how to operationalize it.
Deep learning models to identify clickbaits taking content into consideration
Seven SEO Steps to Improve SERPs Ranking and Customer Retention
How would you feel if Donald Trump removed your right to vote, and then instituted a bunch of experts with whom you viscerally disagree?

If you think some people are not educated enough to vote, then persuade them that they need to be educated.
Thanks, very interesting.

I wonder, though, if there might be an argument from Lyft to the effect that, since both sides are waiving their right to the courts, that the clause does not cause an "imbalance in the parties' rights", and is therefore not "unfair".

It might be clearer if the protection was not couched in terms of "fairness", but simply declared mandatory arbitration clauses invalid in all circumstances.

This is all merely idle speculation on my part though, I have absolutely no expertise in this.
Yes, it's called arbitration. You can contractually agree to settle disputes arising out of a contract in arbitration - where an arbitrator decides instead of a judge, the rules are abbreviated, and certain remedies (usually class actions, for example) are unavailable.

It's a lot faster, and a great way for sophisticated parties to handle disputes arising from their negotiated contracts, where they would otherwise spend years litigating in court.

In the consumer context, it's a bit more worrying - it usually appears in terms-of-service-type ageements that aren't negotiated (called adhesion contracts) where one party has no say in the matter. There are concerns over fairness - you don't have the same rights as you do in court, like you generally can't allege a class action, so small but systematic abuses go ignored because no one individual claimant can afford to sue for their individual injury. The drafter of the contract may also pick where the arbitration takes place, what the rules are, how the arbitrator is chosen. There are concerns that, since the corporate side may send an arbitrator a lot of work, the arbitrator may lean that way.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/shopping/the-arbitration-...

http://www.consumeradvocates.org/for-consumers/arbitration

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Arbitration_Act
I would like to strongly recommend https://hackr.io as a great collection of tutorials and courses for learning CS completely online.
> Even 72, 84 months is insane. If you need to finance a car for that long to afford the payments, you need to buy a cheaper car.

Not sure I agree with that. My 72 month car loan, clearly not subprime, is 3%. I have better immediate uses for my money, I'm sure most folks can beat 3% returns over a 72 month horizon as long as your not paying 2 and 20.
Too broad a tool for such a specific search. With that being said, they should have the data if merchants submit them via their product feed api. I too have always found google's product search capabilities to be lacking.
I hope someone can explain to me in practical terms difference between a session cookie string on a request and a token as header value.
fucking please, you don't know the story. "guaranteed housing" and "food every day", wtf are you talking about.

That's funny how people with US/Canada/EU citizenship and English as first language and western culture as first culture, love to seek excuses.
It's called Poe, available on the windows store, and there's more info on http://getpoe.com

Written in WinJS. I'm working on v2 at the moment which is a complete rewrite and brings in rich-text and a bunch of other things. Then I'm going to port that to electron to go cross platform.

Yeah then I'll totally write a book
The domain is recycled from a former game site. Its shut down announcement might be worth reading along with the HN discussion:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121117004246/http://www.glitch...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4786514
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There was quite a significant amount of social pressure and manipulation to achieve this "we gave it to them". Voluntary servitude has been going on for centuries.
The article very clearly is about the standard, not a particular JWT library.

Server-side session tokens stored in the database worked fine ten years ago, and they work fine today. No need to muck with the load balancer.

Stateless tokens are great too, and use two-factor auth when you need that extra layer of security. No need for newfangled standards; HTTP Basic remains a simple and effective way to convey that token.
Clojure? It certainly has more syntax than many lisps, but still quite small. (And used in the mainstream world).
> Also, religious people have been mocked, enslaved, imprisoned, tortured and killed en masse for what? 6000 years now?

Frequently (though of course, not always) by other religious people. I don't think that argument holds a lot of weight.
well you can use JWT + Cookies...
JWT request to https://api.somewhere.com/token-signin to get cookies for https://api.somewhere.com

(of course you 'can' but I'm not sure if this is recommended or not.)
Very nice! Where did you found the ISS radio feed?
I recently finished "Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked", which I thought was an important read given my role in designing apps and products.

One argument the author makes is that generally it's not that people merely lack willpower, it’s that “there are a thousand people on the other side of the screen whose job it is to break down the self-regulation you have.” And you could certainly extend that to food.

I'm reminded of one of my very intelligent friends in school who practically disappeared one year from all social activity and academics... because he got addicted to WoW. I have a very addictive personality with regards to games, especially RPG's/adventures, and have refused to ever play WoW because of the fear of addiction.

As much as I love computer games, I also recognize that video gaming have irrevocably resulted in stunting my social and personal development. I don't blame video games so much as recognize my vulnerability to gaming. Just like how alcoholics can't just have a sip, well neither can I. I know that if I play even a simple game like Hearthstone, I'll go down a rabbit hole that will take months to crawl out of. I'll stop doing certain regular activities, like studying, seeing friends, pursuing my long-term career, exercising, meditating, etc.

We talk about substance abuse and deride the addicts, but we also have a growing number of people who have behavioral addictions to their smartphone, games, news websites, e-mail, social media.

These addictions can arise when a person can’t resist a behavior, which, despite addressing a deep psychological need in the short-term, produces significant harm in the long-term. Deep gaming sessions for me tended to correlate with a certain unhappiness, specifically loneliness, and lack of fulfillment in my life. For one of my friends, gaming is a drug that placates the fact that for years, he has hated his job and has had issues finding a new one.
"Euler" is pronounced "Oiler", which makes the domain quite amusing if you share my childish sense of humour.
Title misleading: JSON Web tokens should be avoided <FOR PASSING TO THE USER AS A SESSION KEY>
When I originally heard of this it was explained as restricting capillaries costs energy, and when the energy runs out the capillaries cant help but relax - meaning they simply get tired and give up.
> or being able to ensure a particular event takes place on a certain page number...

I find your level of organisation intimidating
I don't think anyone with experience hacking kindles believed it was a permanent solution. Unfortunately, most of the technical expertise in that area is fleeting.

I'd recommend an older Kindle if you want to get root easier. 5th generation Paperwhite and older models should be cheap and have various exploits.

Probably would recommend a Kobo or something else though. Kindles are awesome pieces of hardware but they do try to keep them secure. Not the best choice for an open platform.
That very much depends on how charitably one interprets the law.

If banning an AR-15 doesn't infringe my right to gun ownership, then in the same way, a ban on gay marriage doesn't infringe my right to marriage. I can still marry anyone (of the opposite sex) that I choose.

Like I said, I'm not arguing on behalf of those who would ban gay marriage -- I think it's a very wrong-headed position to take, but that dosen't invalidate that it's quite a common position to take, and that the infringement of rights we don't like is a ritual practiced by left and right alike, and that the exploitation of the democratic process to effect those goals is not only common, but _routine_.

The point is that despite democracy, the constitution and its provisions against being able to impose unconstitutional whimsies on populaces we don't like are supposed to encourage a tolerant society. The tolerance to let another person live their life in a way that you don't approve of is a pre-requisite to America functioning correctly. I'm not a historian, so I can't say if we've forgotten it, or we never really knew it, but it's definitely a lesson we need to learn or re-learn as appropriate.

Tying back to OP, at least one manifestation of that ideal is perhaps not in routinely making fun of the whole rest of America to which you don't belong. Of course, it is your right to do so, but disparaging ideas with which you don't agree (as opposed to making substantive arguments through engaged civil discourse) is perhaps not the best strategy to prevent against the continuation of those routine infringements.
I don't understand the problem, could you please elaborate?
Fine, then - to rephrase, it conveniently combines claims with an assertion that the user has been authenticated and authorised. You can do it in other ways too, but it's convenient and a designed part of the make-up of JWT.
IMO sessions for authentication is fine as long as we don't store any session variables. In the end someone's going to be keeping track of the number of GET requests made by each API consumer on each endpoint, and practically it's not breaking REST as long as that state doesn't affect the information GETable by the client.
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Just saying "horrible jerks who do really rotten things for a variety of motivations" might be more effective in helping people ascertain risk.

YES.

(OT, this was one of the things I most appreciated about Star Trek: Into Darkness — Cumberbatch's character sets off a large and destructive bomb in a government building, with much loss of life, and is then pointedly referred to throughout simply as a criminal. A heinous criminal, certainly, who must be dealt with — but a simple criminal nonetheless).
What's yours called? We should form a club! I suppose every developer of writing software must start out as a writer.
This is shit. Ruby wins usability, really?
>plug a headset and listen to the music that is played during the conversion. When the music stops, the conversion is finished.

Bad UX but I guess it works,

I would have preferred an LED, on the Raspberry Pi GPIO ports to indicate ready, processing and finished.
It looks like most people like the GET parameters approach, so I guess it makes sense to just opt for that.

I seem to be alone in caring if it looks good or not (rightfully).
Encrypting single values in Ansible
Ah yeh this was an old-ish DSLR (Canon 450D) that has seen better days so I didn't mind too much about running it for a few hundred pics every few days - it's on its way out anyway :)

I had a similar concern with my dog experimenting with the camera setup - luckily he managed to resist the temptation!
I wonder if the 6 million digits cover all possible 6 digit year and time combinations, I guess it wouldn't be hard to bruteforce check.

Edit:

I just noticed for the time digits, it seemed to be reporting something like -2 a few minutes ago.

'133343' doesn't seem to be part of the digits, which would represent 13:33:43. Unless I'm misunderstanding.
I can buy a USB stick with 32 gigs of memory for a couple of Euros and fill it in minutes. My friends can read the stick in minutes, without having to install software.
It's not a stupid question at all. Here is my layman understanding of it: fat cells actually don't have the same size, they get larger or smaller as the effect of caloric surplus or deficit. You can create new fat cells (something called hyperplasia) in some extreme cases of obesity, which probably happened in this guy's case, but that's in addition to the growing fat cells themselves. Nature has a short news on the topic here: http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080505/full/news.2008.800.ht...
No, I do not see.

I'm 41 now, have two kids and wife, and still work at nights, exploring python/ML stuff and writing my own OS X app for interactive plotting [shameless plug removed].
How do you not notice the lack of sense in what you say ?

If everyone was browsing the web the way RMS does it, not only there would be a web (what would everyone be browsing otherwise) but there would a full blown market catering to it.

Of course this web would be different to the one we currently have and given the current state and direction, it would probably be an improvement.
Here, here, don't be frustrated, we've all made wrong choices in our life, you'll get the chance to use NoSQL for the right purpose someday.
You have to keep in mind that even the humans on HN are robots or robotic in nature. Wanton externalizations of emotional states is undefined behavior and simply treated as noise by the hive mind.
ben, did you get the video? Seems like the video is the cause of the CPU load, and i'm actively moving away from the video.
They could add button "Report discrimination" for rejected potential renters and then ask them what type of discrimination they want to report. Then they wouldn't need to guess anyone's race.
Building houses is hugely dependent on local regulation, building code, and also climate. This project has home in the UK, so it probably is adapted to UK regulations, weather etc?
Why P3? It is better to go directly to Rec. 2100 with HDR which is more future-proof.
Let's crash the integrated browser in Facebook
Hmmm, using a database (eg PG) for the authoritative information, with memcached in front sounds like it would be practical for most uses.
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> they publish their modified Qt sources, so you can even rebuild the UI framework without much effort

Really? AFAIK, only parts of the distro are liberated, here:

https://github.com/kobolabs/Kobo-Reader

Most notably, the user interface itself ("Nickel") is completely missing from there: this makes it really hard to develop extensions for it. Some people have gone through great lengths to try and improve the firmware image, see for example this guy who went as far as writing his own QT plugin for the UI, basically bruteforcing his way through undocumented APIs and missing source code:

http://blog.ringerc.id.au/search/label/kobo

He gave up in 2011.

I did my own share of fooling around with the Kobo. It's true that it's very easy to hack: just drop a `KoboRoot.tgz` tarball in the `.kobo` directory, and you basically overwrite any part of the filesystem, which gives you a lot of freedom. I wrote a tool to sync my Kobo with Wallabag here called Wallabako:

https://gitlab.com/anarcat/wallabako/

But there's no APK, far from it: the Kobo suite is developped in typical proprietary fashion of keeping the secret sauce to themselves, not a collaborative way. And even though they are less hostile than Amazon in trying to keep people out, nothing says they will keep on being nice like this.

What we really need is a liberated hardware e-reader. There are some examples elsewhere in this thread that are interesting...
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It is a video and the secret is 'clinical depression'
Check out https://www.quantopian.com and in particular their community forums.
I wonder if unskilled immigration has the same effect on unskilled wages...
Would not epoch time then make the most sense?
4chan has administration, moderation and rules. I think most chans are pretty well-moderated.

/b/ is the best known and least moderated board of 4chan; only child pornography and brony stuff is removed.
I'd feel as though nothing of significance had changed. But that's rather beside the point, don't you think? We're arguing the merits of democracy, not those of Mussolini- or Hitler-style dictatorship. While I concede that the one has frequently been seen to lead to the other, I'm not sure that that's in the scope of the conversation at hand, save as a particularly ugly failure mode.
Yes, but even at that high default rate you can make the math work. 100-31.45 X 1.15 = 78.83

so if you can sell the $31.45 worth of repo'd cars for more than $21.17 (100-78.83), you have broken even. 21.17/31.45 is 67% recovery rate. high, but doable for sure. even more so when you consider loans with 31% default rate probably have loan rates much higher than 15%
Maybe a little tangential- but with all the talk about Progressive Web Apps, what should we expect to happen with web/native hybrids like React Native? Mobile computing power is at the point where there shouldn't be much problem using simple Javascript and (gasp) jQuery to build an app, then wrapping it with PWA functionality.
I've been a "code starer" for 30 years and emphatically wouldn't do it differently. I want the model of the program in my head to be so faithful that I can, and do, spot bugs by 'running' it there. I'll happily stare at code until that's the case. That state of things maximizes the speed I can work at relative to the stability of what I write. It's not at all uncommon for me to write code for weeks without even compiling once. And usually when I finally do compile and run, there is very, very little to debug.

This approach also answers (to my own satisfaction, if nobody else's) the old question "how can you refactor confidently without unit tests?" Because I can prove the equivalence of any refactoring in my head, the exact same way I can recheck an algebra problem and known it's right. To me, code is a math problem. I don't mean the arithmetic in the expressions. I mean the whole structure of the program is one big math problem.