skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No because judges are smart people and not easily tricked by games like that.
Below is a slightly-modified comment I wrote 59 days ago on benefits of Duodecimal (Base-12) over Decimal and Hexadecimal.

Sexagesimal takes the benefits of Duodecimal further by introducing a nice factor of five into the mix, though at the expense of 48 extra digits.

Base-12 is a nice sweet spot for having high number of divisors vs the number of digits in the base.

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I was about to post that in my opinion base-12 is superior to base-10. But someone beat me to it. In a sci-fi novel I'm writing, an advanced alien civilisation uses base-12.

As to your question specifically regarding base-16 instead of base-12, it depends.

Decimal itself is just a bizarre choice, most likely due to humans having literally ten digits. In decimal we can represent exact fractions of 1/2, 1/5, and 1/10 (without repeated decimals like 0.33333 for 1/3). Counting by fives (and twos) is very easy.
But choosing prime factors of 2 and 5 is a strange choice in itself. Why skip 3? Why is it more useful to easily represent fraction 1/5th as 0.2 instead of 1/3rd? How often do we use fifths?

Hexadecimal in one sense is easier, all prime factors are two. So we can represent 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, and 1/16 exactly.

Duodecimal (Base 12) is very convenient for having a high proportion of exact fractions. Eg - 1/12, 1/6, 1/4, 1/3, and 1/2 can all be represented exactly. I'd argue in everyday use we're more likely to consider 1/3rd of something than 1/5th.

Counting by twos, threes, fours, and sixes is easy. Watch, let's count to 20 (24 in decimal) by different amounts.

By 2's : 2, 4, 6, 8, A, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 1A, 20.

By 3's : 3, 6, 9, 10, 13, 16, 19, 20.

By 4's : 4, 8, 10, 14, 18, 20.

By 6's : 6, 10, 16, 20.

And conversely counting to 1 exactly by different fractions.

By 1/6th : 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 0.A, 1.0

By 1/4th : 0.3, 0.6, 0.9, 1.0

By 1/3rd : 0.4, 0.8, 1.0

By 1/2th : 0.6, 1.0

Base-12 offers four handy subdivisions (excluding 1) instead of two for decimal or three for hexadecimal. That beats hexadecimal using fewer unique digits. It beats decimal by two using only two extra unique digits.

And I think it's these reasons it was chosen for various historical subdivisional units (inches per foot, pence per shilling).

The other item to consider is the relative number of unique values per digit. I'm not sure of the utility of having 10, 12, or 16 here.

At one extreme, while binary is useful for discretising signals in digital logic, using only zeroes and ones becomes cumbersome for daily use at higher numbers.
Once we're at base 10 and higher, I'm not sure how much here extra digits help or hurt.
Other reasons:

- Prisons are known to make criminals. You don't want to risk converting a non-violent addict into a violent one.

- The psychological effects on the addict's children when visiting them. A rehab home for non-violent addicts is a actually a nice place, in a way that most prisons simply can't be.

- At least in Portugal, prisons are actually not a very difficult place to get a fix. Rehab houses can be, since they're usually much smaller and isolated, not worth the dealer's time.
Nothing forces the accused to testify about anything.
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Actually I rather pick a Swing or JSF project over any modern HTML 5 one, if given the option.

Now the latest Web framework trend is to do start headless browsers to do server side rendering.
We do? I've seen chip + signature all over the place, but I don't think I have a single chip + pin credit card.
Nope. Most of the really important decisions can't be quantified in that way. Any most senior executive do have basic math and spreadsheet skills. Plus they have analysts on staff who can help with the more complex math.
Microsoft doesnt manufacture those microcontrollers, they are off the shelf Microchip/Infineon parts.
This isn't comparable. The odds of hurting someone else when youre driving after drinking are ridiculously high.

If someone is driving after consuming a drug throw the book at them. But if they're just chilling at home that's a completely different matter.
I heard Kleiman interviewed on some public radio show a decade ago. It was so refreshing to hear a rational, skeptical view in favor of measured legalization, minimizing the potential public health harms yet with a realistic assessment of the economic forces at work... it was one of those "stay in the car and finish the radio show" moments.
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> In politics, very often, there are no strictly enforced rules, there are groups of pressures pushing in opposing directions.

All power is ultimately politics, not rules. People can use politics to change the rules, which happens often through lobbyists, influence, or even force.

Powerful actors operate on the level of politics; they write the rules. The plebeians operate at the level of rules. If I'm unhappy with something a major corporation does, I can operate within the rules and complain to a regulator or take the company to court. If the corporation is unhappy then they get the rules changed, for example by having laws passed that prohibit my lawsuit, eliminate their liability, or hamstring the regulator. It also happens in smaller domains, such as among employees of a business: those skilled in politics get the internal decisions and rules made in their favor.

The exception is, broadly speaking, more common than the process described above: The issues most people deal with in their everyday lives aren't important enough to motivate political action.
Most software don't have to choose between giving up DRM or not using web apps. I'm not convinced at all that their choice would be the former, especially since their clients already use native apps heavily.
"The reason payment cards the world over still have a mag stripe is because, until a few years ago, chip cards were simply not a thing in the U.S. "

So let them have it, why should I care and endure security risk? I've never been to USA nor I'm planning to (at least not unless they fix that gestapo-like border control), but still my every card has a magstripe waiting to get skimmed. If I ever need to go to USA, I'll get a suitable card.
Military procurement is indeed not the most perfect process ever invented, but it's not quite the insane caricature this and other comments make it out to be.

The costs-plus accounting scheme is meant to save money. It can just as well be described as "the manufacturer charges the costs plus a fixed (single-digit) percentage of costs. This limits the contractor's margins to the agreed-upon percentage."

And of course the contractors' accounting is routinely scrutinised and all costs need justification.

Remember the famous quote from the Apollo Program: "300,000 moving parts, all supplied by the cheapest bidder". NASA procurement, especially back then, was closely modelled on the military–and the contractors were largely the same as well.
The chip was to avoid skimmers like this...

When implemented there was a liability shift. But as always the US is far behind the rest of the world.

In Denmark the chip was added in 2004, and fully adopted 4-6 years later.
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Being given a moral reason as for why they're bad. No argument I've had person to person about PEDs has had that. It always starts with "OMG you evil monster, PEDs are evil" and ends with "fine, you're right rationally, but that's how it's always been, and it's like sports or something"
What is the purpose of something like this? Camping?
What people don't get is that EME sets a strange precedent in the history of HTML.

Web browsers have always been very hackable. HTTP meant you could always look at the traffic being exchanged. And because there was little point in obscuring anything, web browsers allowed you to look into and modify everything:

- view/modify document source

- view/modify DOM

- debug script

- and so on

This is how CSS was defined too. It was supposed to be a compromise between how the user liked things styled, and how the vendor suggested styling the content.

EME brings something new to the table: locked LOGIC. This not a bad thing per se but takes html in a completely different direction than what it used to be.

The main concern is not DRM. The main concern is that this is a step in a direction where web browsers become unscrutable virtual machines running code that cannot be looked into. It's basically a step turning HTML into silverlight. This may happen for instance if the gaming industry decides that they need EME for in-browser games.

And most importantly this is done for all the wrong reasons: EME cannot stop anyone from copying the rendered content. And it certainly doesn't prevent anyone from downloading copied content.

So EME is just a stupid thing that technology-dumb media dudes are imposing on web developers for no reason and that may have far reaching consequences on the future of html... That's what's worth talking about.
Summary of the study available here:
https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/09/19/to-type-or-not-to-type-q...
Wow, I wish all of my college professors were that interesting all the time.
The type of a curried function in Typescript is just something like:

(a: number) => (b: number) => (c: number) => number

Sure, the parameter names and parentheses are a bit annoying, but I wouldn't call that "very verbose". Comparable concepts in C++ or Java would be a nightmare to type out.
Per-minute billing makes more sense to EC2, given the reason above.
As a foreigner who travels to the US on occasion - and therefore doesn't actually have an US zip code - what's up with that? If you have a keypad installed anyway, then why the hell not accept the chip reader with pin code? Not complaining or anything, but it's quite baffling. Nowhere else in the world that I've seen, they don't restrict payments to locals....
I am, but that does not mean further sorting is not needed at the recycling plant anyway. It is.
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I'm an Aussie too :) I didn't expect to see slang popping up in Chrome DevTools though haha.
Where did you find 10% raises? I'd love to know.
Is the language refrence at http://coffeescript.org/#language completely up to date with CoffeeScript 2 or only partially?

Edit:

http://coffeescript.org/#whats-new-in-coffeescript-2 answers this I think.

> The biggest change in CoffeeScript 2 is that now the CoffeeScript compiler produces modern JavaScript syntax (ES6, or ES2015 and later). [...] There are very few breaking changes from CoffeeScript 1.x to 2 [...]

So probably that means that the language reference is up to date.
Gas pumps are going to be among the last places to use mag stripes because they might not have network connectivity. Pretty much everything else is moving to chip'n pin or tap.

I look forward to having banks issue cards without any mag stripe on them.
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Here's a representative Kleiman article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-kleiman/six-undeniable-fa...

The bullet points:

1. Cannabis prohibition is broken and can’t be fixed.
2. Cannabis is an abusable drug, and the rate of
problem use has been soaring for two decades.
3. Legalization on the alcohol model is likely to make
cannabis extremely cheap.
4. Cheap cannabis is a threat to public health.
5. The interests of the industry conflict with the
public interest.
6. There are many alternatives to current laws, and
the differences matter.
Yet you're also arguing against the points I've made, when I've made clear to distinguish that morality/ethics is concerned with abiding by the rules rather than the use of PEDs. I think some people tend to conflate the two, which is understandable given that in many (most?) cases we rationalize our moral intuitions.
But this is an unhealthy sentiment. You should be able to move up and get where you want to be even if you work a normal 40 hour workweek.
Depends on your goal. If it's to reduce mortality, yes, decriminalize is good. But it will increase usage.
So what's the benefit to consumers if streaming services abandon the web? I know of one such service - NowTV, that insisted on me downloading the native app on macOS instead of watching within the browser. Personally I preferred Netflix's browser version, DRM notwithstanding.

DRM is the price that content providers ask of Netflix. Netflix is fine with that, because the alternative is less content. Browser makers are ok with that, because the alternative is fewer people on browsers and more people on native apps. I'm personally ok with that because I dislike installing apps and I prefer the browser, although most people don't have a preference.
The Xbox 360 wired controller is a great piece of kit, easily the best controller ever as a balance of price, reliability, and simplicity of use - the API has literally two functions, "what buttons are pressed" and "set vibration to X". The initial Xbox One controllers were a clear regression, although the recent Xbox One X are much better again. However, for use cases such as the submarine in TFA, wireless is a liability, not an improvement.
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There's only one solution. The director needs to resign immediately
To type or not to type: quantifying detectable bugs in JavaScript
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Sad. Facebooks involvement by utilizing PHP and pushing the language by extending it was a good sign for the PHP community. Would have loved to see that they align with PHP7 or even further, push their engineers into improving PHP itself. PHP has such a huge ecosystem. I wouldn't risk to bet on Hacks future.
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Get rid of the magstripe and bad actors will steal your card info using cameras (pretty much all the info in the magstripe is also printed on the card, that's how online shopping works).

It would be good to raise the bar, but it won't be an end-all solution.

At the end f the day, it's going to take quite some effort to move the entire payment industry to something more secure.

The current state of affaires is good enough in terms of cost for the banks vs loss from fraud.
"Gas pumps are going to be among the last places to use mag stripes because they might not have network connectivity."

Again, that's US-centric thing. Here in Europe, there's >99% cellular coverage (the remaining 1% is usually deep woods and mountains), so it's not a problem. What I don't get is why the rest of the world must still have magstrip and be open to the related risks, when virtually nobody uses it. I've never seen anyone using magstripe over here or see a place accepting it, but I hear about skimmed/cloned cards and emptied banks accounts regularly.
That's the non-classic keyboard.
If you believe the universe is discrete, this becomes stronger than a mere analogy - configurations of matter and energy are in fact numbers.
"Get rid of the magstripe and bad actors will steal your card info using cameras"

Even if they see my PIN, they can't clone a chip, so what they are going to do with it?
I just wish we could do away with having to get the prescription in the first place and have the pharmacist be the gatekeeper. You keep a medical history on file so they can quickly figure out if the medication you want is likely to cause complications. Then I don't have to leave work and meet with my doctor every few weeks/months to get another prescription which I then have to take to the drug store and wait to get filled.
I really wish AWS would allow users to cap billing. Something that freezes all AWS services if the monthly bill exceeds X would make me a lot more comfortable when experimenting with AWS.
What annoys me is that DRM could be great for consumer privacy. I could have chat windows that are encrypted streams rendered fully in hardware. There are numerous legitimate reason to want to avoid data being generally accessible. But DRM seems to focus exclusively on content.
Apple and Google also have platform-level frameworks on their OSes.
>But it will increase usage.

Not necessarily. When people really want something they will eventually find a way to get it anyway, it's not because you criminalize it that its usage drops. Just like IP infringement has not significantly dropped since they can put people in jail for it.
I recognize that sales for VR headsets have been underwhelming, but why wouldn't great software help sell more hardware?
Didn't I used to be able to buy mp3s from amazon - no DRM? That was before spotify and other streaming solutions of course.

Do people want DRM-free media, or do they want ease of use?
> DRM'd content raises the bar beyond most people, so it cuts down on piracy.

All it takes is one individual to make a "DRM" free version of a movie and begin to torrent to the public - and then the bar is lowered to the average consumer / pirate..
Why is anything against Telegram FUD but anything against Signal is clear sailing.

I'm dubious about Signal, it has the same issues as most other encrypted communication channels (metadata leakage) but surely competition in this space is good.

Being "owned" by Facebook for me is a large red flag, as Facebook have an incentive to gobble up data- not saying the same is not true for telegram either- the only messenger I actually trust is iMessage but that's purely for reasons of: "Apple has no incentive at all to snoop".

It's not FUD to criticise Signal.

It's not FUD to question Telegrams crypto.

Holding Moxie and Durov to account for releasing servers that can actually be used would be a great help in being able to independently assess their claims. And even then, I might still err on the side of Durov purely for the fact that after doing what he did (telling the Russian government they couldn't do anything to Telegram) he fled the country, lost most of his fortune, his company. Etc.
Use it for online payments.
Over the last 5 years I've learnt to set the default sound level on my computer to "mute"
What is sarcasm to you people?
> Given HHVM is already being dropped from PHP packages because of its lagging compatibility, announcing that they're not targeting PHP compatibility any more might be the nail in the coffin for HHVM (and thus Hack) as a viable “upgrade” from PHP for existing codebases.

They're dropping PHP5 support, but it sounds like they're not actively trying to be incompatible with PHP5, so I doubt that gets worse right away. There's no existing codebase that's PHP7 already that would consider Hack, is there?
I don't have an answer to that.

If you are really concerned about having your card skimmed, you can take any simple magnet and erase/scramble the data by waving it over the mag tape.

You can check that things worked by swiping before and after at some place where they'll let you swipe (or by making/buying a reader).
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You need a valid address for that too and it's not on a card.
The high caffeine intake is still quite bad for your heart. And it's bad for your teeth. Just googling shows that the scientific results have been quite mixed. By that I mean that scientists have found some positive correlations, and some negative ones.

From my layman's perspective, I would think a doctor would say there isn't a consensus on whether coffee is holistically healthy. In other words, it's good for some things, bad for others.
Regular PMs by qualified staff with a certified spare available for the down time and a service contract to cover them both. I think its more in the + direction.
- drug cartels run dry if you can just farm and distribute narcotics through regular, taxed sales channels, just like alcohol.
Almost every post about drugs on HN has the obligatory bit about Nixon starting the war on drugs. It's like a Shibboleth or something.

Nixon probably tried to make political hay out of it sure, but the war against intoxicants has been going on probably since people started using intoxicants. No shortage of earlier historical examples. At most Nixon is a chapter in the ongoing saga. So please, for all that is holy, stop with this repetitive "Nixon started" thing. Just because people might think Nixon is a bad guy doesn't give the point about drugs any more validity.
> If you have to ignore your colleagues you have far worse problems than Slack not having an "ignore user" feature.

Try working at a large enough company. Or, try using any number of bots. I'm in a few mandatory channels of zero relevance (ok, mute) and a few of high relevance that are punctuated with lots of bot chatter I'd like to ignore. And, sure, there are a few coworkers I'd prefer to ignore.

Even IRC will let you manage notifications with more granularity than Slack will.
Try using a pump in Israel. I had to ask for help every time. Not only is Israel still using mag stripe, there's also some sort of national ID # you have to enter into the pump. And the license plate # too I think. I think tourists are supposed to be able to use all 0, but I couldn't navigate it.

This is from 2012 but seems pretty close to what I dealt with there last year: https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g293977-i1733-k5730382...

Which is to say: every country has its weird thing. :-)
> So let them have it, why should I care and endure security risk?

Because banks the world over are notoriously slow about doing anything that might nudge even a fraction of a percentage of customers over to a competitor. If they removed magnetic stripes (which, in the short run, would cost a bank money because that's a specialty card) and said "just contact us if you're going to the States and we'll overnight you a States-compatible card, no questions asked," nothing would stop a competitor from running adverts that say "why wait 24 hours and worry about not getting your card? We issue cards that work in the United States from day one!" Now the person who made the decision to delete the magstripe from cards issued by the first bank is out of a job and so now you see why his or her interests didn't line up with yours.

It's the same reason why chip-and-PIN isn't primary in the United States; chip-and-sign is. Over here, customers have been trained that entering a PIN means the money comes out of a checking (draft/demand/deposit) account while signing means it goes "on the card." Trying to get that mindset changed is more costly than just eating the potential stolen-card-being-used-before-being-shut-down fraud for most issuers.

(Some credit unions, primarily catering to people who travel overseas, and smaller banks that want to differentiate themselves are issuing PIN-primary cards but they are definitely in the minority. I happen to have cards from three of them--First Tech, Spokane Teacher's, and Target--for reasons of security and international use but I am also in the minority. Amusingly, it's large merchants who want PIN-based cards because it puts the onus on the cardholder, not the merchant.)
Sometimes those nails are doing just the opposite, they're holding the foundation together, and if you try and pull them all out the whole thing might collapse.
> the idea of compiling, transpiling or any other kind of piling of javascript just rubbed me the wrong way.

Well, this is how a lot of JS (if not most) is done today anyway.
Agreed. Right now you can set billing alarms, but not actually freeze billing. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/...
You cannot avoid the nasty social effects of drug prohibition (crime, violence, contamination, etc) without making distribution legal. If you want to live in a world without homeless junkies breaking into your car, or a world without running gun battles in the street, or a world without your wayward kids accidentally ODing on their next batch, you need drugs like cocaine and heroin to be sold openly and affordably at the corner Walgreens.

"Help the addict but punish the dealer" feels good to say but the world just isn't that simple.