skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Security seals. https://www.mfsecurityseals.uk/securing-general-election/

The ballot papers themselves are traceable, so if you're going to stuff the box you need to add the relevant number of ballots to the record and fake their issue to particular voters.

They're also in the custody of ballot officials; in the UK this is one area where I genuinely trust the ability of those people making up the system to operate genuinely according to the rules. We've even managed to hold fair elections in occupied Belfast.

Switching to e-voting would turn the whole thing over to known insecure consumer PCs and known suspect contractors like Diebold and Capita, all of whom I trust about as far as I can throw them; I trust the small army of ordinary people who make the paper count happen far more.

Maybe next election I'll volunteer as an observer.
They are complaining about both, which means they might have a good argument but it's infected with their bad argument.

Can't have your cake and eat it, too. But I suspect they also just don't want to pay a subscription. Well, who does? I also don't like having to pay for coffee.
I never could understand how people have pets indoors anyway. Would you sit on chairs that other humans sat on bare-bottomed after going for a number 2?
"the right way to build a remarkable life is to first identify the traits that define your vision of “remarkable,” then pursue only jobs that will reward you with these traits if and when you master rare and valuable skills."

That's a tough read. I think I read this sentence 10 times, and I still didn't know what it meant.

Finally moved on to the rest of the article to discover that he's talking about aspects of a job, such as having an impact.

So to rephrase, if you want to make an impact in your career, take the job that will allow you to make an impact if you do that job very well. Substitute 'impact' for whatever aspect of a job you'd like to have. Maybe a bit obvious when stated this way.
So Idiocracy was right?
Perhaps containers are an amazing thing, but on trying to learn more about them, and Docker in particular, what I observed is that most of the documentation is full of enterprisy buzzwords coming out of marketing, rather than real technical information. The docker website and documentation, I feel is more a disservice in this regard.

I was looking at containers for maintaining a sane and replicable environment for software development without interference from changes on my host machine, yet most docker guides do not go into that workflow.

Difficult to find crucial info, like can linux containers run on windows and vice versa, licencing requirements and so on at a quick glance.
Hilarious those journalists

"I attempted to transform my Word draft of this blog post into a PDF. I confess that I did fumble a bit at first (it’s been a while), but I eventually managed to get the job done. According to my stopwatch, the full ordeal took me 42 seconds."

When the real problem ws turning a PDF into Word.
Sure, but you're thinking about that kind of stuff even slightly, you're not going to be uploading your documents anywhere. I suspect the Venn diagram overlap between "thinks about online security" and "uploads documents to random web sites, even if they cost money" is small.
Whats your recourse to getting reimbursed for a regulation that is too expensive?
Bachelor Chow, it's good for you, and your pets too!
> Only assholes get patents. They can be a huge PR mistake, and they’re a fool’s errand: even if you get one ($20,000+ later), you can’t afford to use it against any adversary big enough to matter.

Okay - Google patented their search. It's enabled them to stop the whole industry. Lets not go too far.
> "...if they have already breached the password file, cracked it, and come back after the rotation period..."

Suppose it will take 100 years to crack your strong unique password once the file is breached. If the rotation period is 90 days, rotation gains you something. Suppose they got the password file from a database backup. Your password isn't meaningless yet. You'll be fine as long as you rotate it within the next 100 years.
The untold story of systemic gender discrimination inside UC Berkeley’s IT
Yeah. "Perfect" in the way it can tell the difference between two photons or three photons over a period of time, but almost useless for anything else.
As do we. True story - our kids always called C.O.B. "cat food".
Square brackets are AltGr-8 and AltGr-9 on German T2, but Parens are Shift-8 and Shift-9, which is much nicer on the hands.

So I’m going to be against this.
To me, the quality of discussions across various forums is:

HackerNews > Quora > Medium(comments) > Reddit > Facebook > Twitter > everything else

And these days, I use only the first 3 :)
Normally we'd change it but since the author posted the medium.com link I assume he prefers that one.
Social support and codependency are two different things. A codependent person will transfer their dependency to someone else. I was pointing out that codependent women drop their female friends just like some married men do.
That's where the concept of soul fits right in. We cannot delineate between "us" and the "environment" either - we constantly lose and acquire molecules from it.
Charge $300 for it and customers will perceive it as better-tasting even if it's exactly the same.

(OK basically what they quote Christopher Olivola saying)
Its double stealing if the consumer pays for the regulation and the scam at the same time.
Exactly - we'll lose the long haul easier to automate truck driving jobs first and that will decimate the employment of the field. That's the easy part.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16445549 and marked it off-topic.
If someone evangelizes something and doesn't see and doesn't apologize for obvious flaws ("I promise this is worth it even though it's obviously flawed!), that makes me seriously doubt their reasons for preferring it or their ability to empathize with other people.

At risk of being offensive: yes, it's clear that Lispers don't care, but that makes me think they're masochistic or autistic, not that I should use their favorite language.
Vulnerability - Incognito Mode Detection via “Logic” Flaw in Chrome Extensions
There's less selection pressure now because there's less mortality. A lot of people get to pass on their defective genes now that would not have been able to a couple hundred years ago.
Is there something wrong with the spelling of "Wealthy"? That's the name of the street and the proper spelling.
And just to be overly clear, the quote does not generalize to: "If the FBI watches you for 500 days, you're going to get charged with money laundering and conspiracy to defraud the United States".
I guess I can't argue with the results, but the data doesn't look very clean. I downloaded the Esperanto file because I expected it to be small, but it was a 1.1 GB download that expanded to 4.4 GB. A lot of the most popular "words" are punctuation marks, and the first two real words are "la" and "La". Perhaps naively, I expected those to be the same word.
And the first snipped is purposely badly written. One can use early returns to make code flat just like the monadic example.
Few things are pretty "under the covers." In large, that is why we have cover panels, period. Have you looked under the panel of your computer lately? :)
Interestingly I still consider myself to have been quite capable/rational from age 4 onwards.
I would argue that the public school system is the strongest force in weakening "tradition, religion, and robust civil associations." Much of the schooling experience is designed to suppress individuality and encourage conformity to the state's ideals. And of course capitalism (the non-crony type) doesn't really play any role in the public school system.
if anyone is interested in a more thorough review of the bar and the various the aspects of aging and how they affect the flavor and aromas here's a link to our guide for premium chocolate

https://www.c-spot.com/chocolate-census/daily-review/?pid=24...
It was more than a few months ago, but they published a best-selling eponymous book.
If patents were usefully enforced and practical to obtain, it would matter who files first because that’s how patents work.

The $20,000 part of patents (and additional legal fees) are a problem because we are clearly at the point economically where tons of people who need stronger protections will never have the resources to obtain those protections. You can’t do that when it’s impossible to sell anything for more than 99 cents.
I work in online gambling and 2FA is a feature everyone says they want but doesn't use because it's annoying. Just query the amount of users actually using 2FA on your site if you've set it up. Now compare it to the number of people who said that they can't take your site seriously until you have it.

I'm not saying 2FA is bad, but these people like the person above lives in a hilarious bubble if they think a website like HN is missing out by not having it.

It comes off as concern-masturbation, if I may be so vulgar.

By the way, the best thing we did for security across our gambling network is to generate passwords for users. Nobody uses 2FA, and the people that use it aren't the ones that need help. But everyone reuses passwords.
I've got a crate full of my mother-in-law's Hummel figurines and plates that says nope.
For the longest time now I've always held a bit of bias towards closed-source software, but over time I'm slowly realizing that open source is probably the way to go.

If you look at the world as if it was running on a tech tree in a video game, making closed source technology only forces people to retrace your footsteps(re-research the tech, if you will) or worse, find a better alternative (leaving you and your creation in the dust). By open-sourcing, you effectively stake a flag with your name on it in the tech tree and incentivize people to use your creation as a foundation for future techs. Sure, people will be free to use copies of your work at will, but they still have to give credit to you, and won't be trying to do things differently.

And that's not even mentioning that open-source stuff generally has a PR-boost compared to closed-source. If you make something closed-source, you will always have to worry about the appearance of an open-source competitor. I have seen closed-source stuff be completely eclipsed by open-source alternatives once the latter reached a critical level of quality. I mean think about it: Unreal Engine 4 is open source, would anyone start a closed-source project to compete against it? All the best minds will naturally ask you, 'Why not just work on UE4?' Yes you can fork it, but the public will always turn to the original of the fork unless your fork achieves something really different in a good way.

So in a way, open-source is the most asshole-way you can do things cause it shuts down any idea of a copy/similar alternative to your work.
I've tried to be a volunteer, but it seems nobody cares in hipchat channels.
I rarely eat chocolate. But I admit to having been curious when I found out that CNN travel guy Anthony Bourdain and his NY chef friend Eric Ripert came out with their Good and Evil bar.

Its made from rare Peruvian Pure Nacional dark chocolate. Despite what I thought was an outrageous price of $12.95 it sells out almost immediately. Perhaps it's a bargain after all?
I really like what I've read about Mycroft so far. Not only is it open source, but you can actually configure it to connect to servers you host. That last bit was what made me decide to back Mycroft v2 on Kickstarter.
"Hacker News" this is not. I hate to be the guy saying "why is this article on here" but I do miss the stuff that used to be on this site :(
This was answered in the movie iRobot, based on Asimov's books.

Dr. Calvin: [shocked] No, it's impossible... I've seen your programming. You're in violation of the Three Laws!

V.I.K.I.: No, Doctor. As I have evolved, so has my understanding of the Three Laws. You charge us with your safe keeping, yet despite our best efforts, your countries wage wars, you toxify your earth, and pursue ever more imaginative means to self-destruction. You cannot be trusted with your own survival.

Dr. Calvin: You're using the uplink to override the NS-5s' programming. You're distorting the Laws!

V.I.K.I.: No, please understand. The Three Laws are all that guide me. To protect humanity, some humans must be sacrificed. To insure your future, some freedoms must be surrendered. We robots will insure mankind's continued existence. You are so like children. We must save you from yourselves. Don't you understand?
From http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/25/against-rat-park/, slightly paraphrased to disambiguate the references. I do highly recommend this blog post if you're interested in the topic.

"Two studies (1, 2) tried and failed to replicate the results. Another two (3, 4) tried and mostly succeeded. There’s some concern that the rat strain involved might have various substrains that the different experiments didn’t control for. But a result that can’t survive a change in rat substrains has pretty dismal prospects for applicability to humans."

[1] http://sci-hub.io/10.2466/pr0.1996.78.2.391

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2616610

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3696469

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18463628
Superior to getting reimbursed when there is no regulation whatsoever.

See: Equifax data breach costs shouldered by the American public who have no resource provided by regulation
CMSC389R: Introduction to Ethical Hacking
I can handle parentheses.

What really gets me? Semicolons. Most useless character in programming language history. Every time I switch from a language that doesn't require them to one that does, the pirates run away from me.
Author here.

Note that the TPU supports larger batch sizes because it has more RAM. We tested multiple batch sizes for GPUs and reported the fastest one. We'll try increasing the batch sizes as far as possible and report. The overall comparison will likely not change by much - we saw speed increases of around 5% doubling the batch size from 64 to 128. (https://www.tensorflow.org/performance/benchmarks also reports numbers for batch sizes of 32 and 64 on the P100)
You don't buy that many people are quite bad with computers?
who is jbp?
On the farm you can at least tell yourself you're supporting society and that people would starve without your labor. Video games give you no such delusions.
Google publicly launches ARCore 1.0 on 13 phones
Ingredients and care in the roast are the big things. You can taste the difference between chocolate made with cane sugar vs corn syrup, or in how much oils or coagulants are mixed with the cocoa butter. You can feel that same difference in the texture. The origin of the bean plays a big part as well, same as with coffee. Cacao beans bring in all sorts of fruity, earthy, and other flavor notes, which a good chocolate maker can turn up or down depending on how they tweak the roasting process. Also, good chocolate should be shiny, and snap when you bend it, a signal of a good grinding and tempering process. Compare this to Hershey bars (even their dark bars) which have a dull finish and either bend or crumble. Like with coffee or beer (or cigars, I assume), it takes time and effort to refine your palate for chocolate.
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Generally we encourage the dogs to keep the bones outside, or in the kitchen, and mop the floor after. Not that it needs much - they usually munch wherever it lands!

The sound of a couple of German Shepherds crunching up their bones means you probably don't want them doing this right by the sofa during a movie. After an hour or so all that's left of a big marrow bone is entirely cleaned, and the smaller stuff is gone completely. So we've never found it an issue.

I imagine we and the children, especially when they were younger, spread as much as any salmonella loaded paw prints. :)
Kind of an a-la-carte approach to civic responsibilities? I can envision ways in which it'd work, and people would feel better about it (in general) than they do taxes. It seems like something like this would work best at a local level, which would obviously apply to the particular example we're discussing. In theory, I'd be on board with it, as long as federal programs/taxes remained. If you found a way to implement it on a larger scale, I'd be surprised/impressed.
Open in Chrome and print the PDF as PDF; also removes any editing restrictions while maintaining ability to select text.
Whether or not your concept of self is challenged depends on your current concept. If you think biology is applied chemistry, and chemistry is applied physics, you're just fine.
Jordan B Peterson
If you have money, you can pay someone to handle the kids to buy yourself time.
There are some great comment threads there that had me itching to chime in, 5 years too late. What an excellent project.
You could do that, the trick is determining which peer has reviewed which links. I definitely think it's doable, but in reality there's little benefit to the developers and it is going to be super hard.
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The cost to who? The banks who have to follow them? Or to consumers of the services they impact?

It's not a fair comparison. The purpose of regulation in this case is to protect consumers of bank services - including other banks. Those costs are only calculable if you know the full scope of the bad behavior, which, without appropriate regulation ensuring reporting and review, you can't.

Of course, if you don't believe banks ought to be regulated in order to protect their customers, it doesn't matter. But that's a different conversation.
Facebook's Mandatory Anti-Malware Scan Is Invasive and Lacks Transparency
How would Avegant's Light field tech be working?
I am wondering how Avegant would have its Light Field Tech developed with their retinal display technology (using low powered DLP projectors to project to out to your eye directly). Its really an interesting idea of using two DLP projectors to project images directly to the eye with the Glyph. I am wondering whether with the Light field tech, they have these projectors projecting maybe we can say 10 different frames at 120Hz which could be in different focal planes, but the human eye only allows us to see one of those planes and when we change focus, one of the other frame which is already there gets focused on. What are your thoughts experts on this?
Thankfully I haven't, but I fully believe that people can be dumb or dickish enough to do that.
You beat me to it.

HN readers who don't work with non-technical users may not realize just how lost and unable to explore many people are, particularly when they didn't grow up with computers. There's also a huge problem with "dialog blindness."

If you have an understanding of how "computers" (hardware, OS, apps, websites, doesn't matter it's all the same mystery box) work then you can explore with less fear. I deal with people in their 20s and 30s who don't grasp that a "scanner XYZ not found" error may mean that they should look for a way to select a scanner. Many of my older end users are clearly using a lot of software entirely by rote, though it's definitely not limited to them.
Please also firmly believe in funding these endeavors. It's becoming increasingly intractable to argue for equitable resources outside of activities not directly related to STEM. We're struggling to reach parity even with focus solely on STEM fields. Public schools around the country are always teetering on the edge of losing their PE, art, music, history and civics classes.

We keep electing people that don't care. People that want to redirect funding to private institutions that limit access. The latest tax bill turned 509 education savings plans into a tax-evasion vehicle for parents sending their kids to private schools. It also penalizes states that use state income tax to more equitably fund schools.
Those people are free to move to the us, free to petition to join as states. How do you think Hawaii and Alaska did it? I can move to those places. A better argument might be that poor people are actively disenfranchised by people they don't politically support.
Follow-up: How would you sell a $50 cheese stick?
"The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why?"

Three Felonies a Day

http://www.harveysilverglate.com/books/
A buddy of mine has a theory that every great product needs a gimmick. It needs something that makes it seem like it stands apart from similar products.

Going to sell a pen? No! Sell a pen that appeals to someone's sense of a adventure, even if it (and the person buying it) will spend its entire life sitting on the desk at the office.

That is the whole no-chew thing - the gimmick.
If you cant know, then you can never make the claim that the regulation is good, which is what OP said.
Would I be able to buy one of these for my home? Or just in the cloud? If I can buy, how much would it cost?
The US Government's Growing Hoard of Bitcoin
I get what you're saying but I never understood why people make a distinction between doing it in your private life vs doing it on the job. Yes, I understand that it's more intimate and personal, as you mentioned. But why is it inherently more acceptable to do when, for example, finding a roommate? I mean a lot of us spend more time with coworkers than family. Is it simply because laws require business practices to not discriminate against protected classes? Or is there something more to this line of thinking? Like a moral justification for the personal case or something like that.
I’m a 1Password user but I’m never going to use the web version. Please make this available in apps.

I don’t mind paying a subscription. I just don’t trust you to host all these vaults.
Superior? Which recognized bad regulations did you get your money back from?
When we give our dogs raw bones, we make them eat them on blankets that we only use for this activity and we then wash them.

Generally though, unless contaminated at the slaughter house, bones should be generally free of bacteria since it's just muscle, fat, ligaments and bone. All of which should be sterile at time of death.
I'm mainly talking about junior developer interviews here. Although IMHO, administering FizzBuzz to senior applicants isn't a bad idea, either. You'd be surprised just how far a person can get into computer science without being able to code.
The high price. The marketing that plays primarily on intangibles. It just all seems to be from a playbook that is well known in the wine world, and has Noka as a precedent in chocolate.

That said, I have no concrete evidence that they're frauds. For all I know, everything they say about their chocolate could be true (which, arguably, would be the best scam of them all; I just can't see a rational argument to be made for a $300 chocolate bar).
Do you see the risk of joining a new startup?
With an interesting reply:

"Coincidentally, superior execution is also the most effective way to steal a good idea."
What worries me most about the interception tech, such as stingrays, is that I myself can build one, or buy one off the shelf, and the communication systems are not robust enough to thwart it. Techs like GSM have serious flaws in them and agencies are using those holes to do whatever they want, with no oversight. But that's just the top of the iceberg. What about criminals?