skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peter Pettigrew was a Gryffindor.

The "prosperity gospel" people make me ill. It's almost the exact opposite of Christianity, in my opinion. The combination of black-white morality and a belief that some divine agency guides the fortunes of mortal humans results in a twisted view, wherein bad things happen to bad people, and good things happen to good people.

If a bad thing happens to a good person, well they must have done something sinful to deserve it. It's just sick. People like that always blame the victim.
it still is 8.4% more than it should be.
I don't know why you think that. I think the safest assumption is that being dead will be exactly like not being born.
The sequel to Avatar, the Legend of Korra also continues in the same vein, with more of a flawed hero and some villains whose motivations are very relatable.
Would this affect the outcome for InTrade?
Most health insurance companies do but not all. And of Non-life insurance companies (property, car) there's generally not such a bad perception. But I'm not based in the US so can't say. At least in Europe, most people are not the biggest fan of insurances but they recognise the need for them.
Has the Netherlands, a country which has been closing prisons and even importing convicts from Belgium, faced any significant lobbying from the prison industrial complex and or any law enforcement organizations in favor of harsher sentencing? Or is this a uniquely American problem?
I can't remember but I was probably too swamped back then, I should do it though.
This is super interesting. Seems like the real ruling is that the federal government can’t compel states to implement/enforce non-federal laws. I wonder if that will affect things like the drinking age...
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If you use `-C target-cpu=native` (Rust's equivalent of `-march=native`) you get code that uses `mulxq` in order to avoid `pushf`/`popf`. https://gist.github.com/Vurich/5cb83c773e90fc7a463ccb58e1dad...
Interesting, thanks - I am in a very similar situation.
Just wanted to say that
Aren’t modern ciphers checksummed and authenticated blockwise? If so, you could just abort the moment you see a broken block. Anything before that block would not be under the attackers control and harmless.
Sure there are many - differences otherwise it wouldn't be an original work! Christian mythology is just one source of inspiration. But are you disputing there is some amount of Christian allegory in LotR?
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This is the best crypto attack of the year. Anyone calling it "cringy clickbait" is saying more about themselves than about the work.
I never quite understood the objections to this. As long as someone isn’t using credit cards, and there’s maybe some limits on how much they can bet per day, so they don’t totally sell the house, I don’t quite understand the objections or restrictions on sports betting. I never quite understood the objections to this. As long as someone isn’t using credit cards, and there’s maybe some limits on how much they can bet per day, so they don’t totally sell the house, I don’t quite understand the objections or restrictions on sports betting. Potential revenue for states, not to mention for some of the gamblers, I think far outweighs the risks of abuse.
I think the really broken thing is not using authenticated encryption ever. In 2018 no one should be using a non-authenticated cipher for anything except teaching about bad ideas.
> Either approach will work. There may be others.

This was a pithy summary. Yes, all the languages discussed (Ruby, ObjC, Java, Haskell) are all indeed Turing-complete and hence can express what any other one can express.

What the article didn't discuss is ... basically everything there is about the "nullness" discussion going on in the software engineering community.

I use nullable languages a lot (Ruby, Java, C#, Clojure, Common Lisp, etc.) and null-free languages a little, but for a long time (Haskell, more recently others). If I absolutely want to make correct code without writing more tests than code and using extensive code coverage tools and other external support, I'd rather do it in Haskell. Then I don't have to worry about nullness except when I want to, and then the type system handles checking that I properly checked for it.
V for Vendetta springs to mind, depending on how young the kids are. Although it's too clear early on that it's the regime that's bad not our bad guy hero.

Grendel, Grendel, Grendel[0] Superb children's animation from the 80s. Though you might be very hard pressed to find it. A retelling of Beowulf from the monster's point of view whilst paying homage to Monty Python. He's big, bad, misunderstood and ultimately dies when our human hero Beowulf ambushes him. Never full of Disney shmaltz and cute, deep enough to give you plenty of talking points.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082478/
I wonder what happens when there's 10 implementations of the matrix spec controlled by different groups. Being able to indicate where the implementation gap is seems like a strength rather than a weakness.
I like the idea of a property tax on IP after a certain period of time. Maybe something based on revenue of the ultimate rights holder. Would be hard to escalate that tax from disuse however since you could trivially do something.
ForceNap: Forces macOS applications into AppNap to save battery life
Or marriage iguana !
I'm on the public Matrix.org server and I recommend new folks to sign up on the public server unless they're 100% sure they're willing to commit to the devops burden of maintaining their own homeserver.

I also know at least a halfdozen people who immediately said "yes" to the devops burden of maintaining their own homeserver (and reportedly, it's actually really easy).

Different strokes for different folks. If self-hosting it was a pre-req for using it, I'd still be saying to myself "yeah, I'll do that riiiight after I get my closet k8s cluster just the way I want it", and, well, I know myself better than that, so I use the public one, and I'm happy.
Then why are they (and you after witnessing this) still there?
> Real question is whether they’ll make a version that makes no sparks so it can work in flammable atmosphere environments.

Can't you "dress up" the robot?
FiveThirtyEight's non political year value just skyrocketed
That sounds like a perfect place doe waste. Just pump it I to the mantle. Put this stuff back in the ground where it belongs. Better than in out air or floating around our water.
A Guide to PGpool Part Three – Hints and Observations
Here’s an alternate proposal: don’t add any kind of weapon to it, and use it to replace the police in everything but the most extreme situations. This way people don’t need to feel their life is in danger during regular interactions with police.
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It's not. The MDC-stripping attack on PGP is very well known --- it's obvious from the structure of the protocol. The paper you're citing uses it to build a direct plaintext recovery attack similar to a padding oracle. Today's paper uses ciphertext malleability to inject active content that exfiltrates the plaintext.
There was already a federal exemption because of the way daily fantasy was constructed (it was considered a game of skill not tied to the win/loss of a sports team, since you had to pick individuals from different teams). However, several states made it illegal.
multiple cursors... runner up is that cut/copy work on the line when there's no selection.
The article says the off-meat days included eggs and cheese, though, so not quite the same thing.
The Burnout Crisis in American Medicine
<Black Mirror Spoiler> If you consider using a knife as a weaponized appendage and launching exploding balls with mesh-networked long-distance tracking-capable shrapnel pieces which embed easily in skin "casual" then I'm almost afraid to ask what you consider less mundane.
If you're considering bathtub usage, you'd also have to consider how many people park their cars in enclosed garages and how many of these cars lack safety features to prevent you from leaving it on.
The article said that the average lifespan was 31 but if one lived to 20 then the average was 48.
Proof of Wash Trading!
Well, iOS, right? or Android? or are those not "Computers" ?

If I had the money to bet, I'd be betting on AR as the next major paradigm, though. I think the idea of OS changes a lot when you get rid of the "slab of glass with a terminal" model. If computers are fundamentally ubiquitous, then what an OS does will need to be quite a bit different. I'm not sure it replaces a legacy computer, but I genuinely hope to have AR be a completely alternative option for most applications.

If I had to guess where the funding for that salesforce will come from, I'd guess: Softbank, and other mega-VC funds. if you do successfully create the next wave forward for computing, and you can provide the systems to enable it, the rewards are likely commensurate. I think this is why everyone is so interested in AR. Magic Leap is the darling, but Google, Apple, and Microsoft all agree that this is a critical turn, and are putting in the dollars to win.
This sounds terrific, thanks for the tip!
Everything is legal unless there's a law against it. States would not legalize gambling, they would repeal laws against it.
>The private prison issue is one of reddit's favorite topics to blow out of proportion

I've never seen such thread on reddit.
The “sell the house” scenario is already possible with any other gambling. No reason sports gambling should be different from that perspective.
That Objective-C behaviour is called Message eating nil (or null in other languages).
"Science-denying is not helping us out, nationally or worldwide. Lets stop."

That's exactly why I take my time to shut down articles like this. [Written by a climate-change skeptic, to point]

I've spent quite some time researching pesticides and if you're unaware of the sordid history (how large a proportion have been pulled for saftey reasons, and how long it takes to discover most pesticides aren't actually safe) then I encourage you do so yourself.
IOTA and CAP-Theorem explained
Oh, that's great. Does anyone know how much .223 ammunition it can hold?
Asking for a friend by the way.
This nifty site lists all hot cryptocurrency meetups in your area
+1 for serverless. Have also used it extensively for building python applications on AWS lambda.
Encrypted mail that only works when attackers can't intercept your mail might just as well not be encrypted.
I think "21 = ok to drink" is ingrained enough in American culture that it's not going away. Only time will tell, though.
That's a bit off.

The question in this case was regarding a federal law that "prohibits modification or repeal of state-law prohibitions."

In short, "we are making a law that says you have to make a law." It's not about using the states to act as enforcement of federal laws, or to comply with federal laws - it's about commandeering their regulatory authority. And, I'd say correctly, the regulatory powers reserved to the states belong to, explicitly, the states. SCOTUS was quite correct in breaking this in half.
Will this have an impact on bringing back companies like Intrade?
It does contain comments, though. Like this: https://github.com/arialdomartini/morris-worm/blob/master/wo...
i've built this site, so if you have any suggestions for other locations, meetups, just hit me up here
Listen, listen, forget this entire topic for a moment and let me just say: thank you for linking me to those lectures. You just gave my brain the candy it's been craving lately in abundance that may even be too much.
Designs That Convert – Process grows your product
Hi, and many thanks for your comment :-)

Currently the search engine we offer with HardyPress is very simple: we index the site content during the deploy process and we provide APIs to retrieve results (or you can use our native modal box with no additional coding).

You can read more about this here:
https://www.hardypress.com/guides/hardypress-site-search/

Regarding plugins, currently about 90% of the plugin we reviewed are fully compatible, because the do not have any dynamic behavior on the frontend. If your site use some plugins marked as "incompatible", our system suggest you an alternative to replace the plugins behavior.

I perfectly understand your concern about HardyPress being a new "hosting provider", but HardyPress infrastructure is entirely built on the cloud, currently on Amazon AWS and the static generated sites are hosted on Amazon S3 Buckets that we use as pull-zones for the CDN, so your websites are really unbreakable and they'll stay up, no matter what!

You don’t need to trust us to feel safe!

If you want to have full control of your data you can always download your static generated site and host it somewhere else as your wishes. In this way you will use HardyPress only as a Static Site Generator plus the benefits that we will proxy your contact forms, and we'll make the search work!
And this is exactly how you end up with an overbuilt system which is difficult to comprehend because some "architect" decided you need to be able to change cloud providers on a whim. You pay for that decision every day and 99.9% of you are _never_ going to switch providers.

Web development is full of engineering astronauts who think they need 8 levels of abstraction to solve relatively simple problems. Oh, and for that 0.1% that does actually switch, they soon realize they're abstractions weren't as good as they thought they were and they have to reimplement every interface anyway.
Private prisons may be under 10% of inmates, but they still constitute 100% of some companies' income streams. The influence those companies wield is a function of their investment in lobbying and other persuasion tools, which is not necessarily correlated to marketshare.
Yes, but that happened in the movie as well.
Surely this would result in the high temperatures of the mantle burning the waste; the air pollution associated with this must make this a poor option for waste disposal.
It's still doing it, but now it uses `lahf` + `sahf` instead to (re)store the flags. These are better than pushf + popf for sure, but they cannot be used in general code because some early x86_64 chips forgot to implement them.
Religion is a perfect example of guerilla marketing, multilayer marketing, grassroots marketing and a pyramid scheme. They advertise by hooking guilable people looking for easy answers, the churches convince their local populace to give them money, those churches then pay up to larger regional institutions and so on.

The people need to be presented something to believe in before they can pay money for it or else they wouldn’t know it existed and therefore wouldn’t be able to put their money where their mouth is. Getting the word out is the most important thing. missionary work and preaching the gospel is a main tenant of Christian theology for example... because they understand advertising and marketing is important. This is why the Catholic Church covered up the molestations of children, because they understood bad PR would hurt their bottom line.
Show HN: Idly-Gl When OpenStreetMap Met Mapbox-GL
On the main page: "evoke" should be "invoke".

This reminds me of the old Ubiquity addon for Firefox. Was that an inspiration or is this something different?
These video calls charge around $2/minute as well.
It didn't always seem to be this way though: https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-pop-culture-obsessed-with-batt...

And it's not necessarily just because of the shape of post-WW2 society either: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/03/beware-covert-war-mora...
For what it's worth, the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 was upheld by the Supreme Court in South Dakota v. Dole (1987), a case referenced extensively in the more recent NFIB v. Sebelius, the Obamacare challenge.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Dole

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Federation_of_Indepen...
It's too late now in any case. Removing them is cute, but in terms of security credentials can only be rotated now. Removing them doesn't help when someone has already pulled that history previously.
I've been round and round on the "pure RDBMS" issue, and I have to conclude purity makes little practical difference. Systems and data already have so much "noise" for other reasons outside of technology that cleaning up that corner won't change anything. Some purity-centric clauses and changes could be made to SQL if it really mattered, but it won't be the silver bullet of productivity and accuracy that purists claim.
It's big for them. When you signed up for, and logged into DraftKings (or FanDuel) you would have to list your state/it would detect your state. I was never in a state that barred sports gambling, but I suspect it would block access if you were.
That's been litigated already. If I recall, the drinking age is tied to a state receiving federal money for its highways. And the Court has blessed the power of the federal government to condition the receipt of monies on the state enacting certain restrictions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_...

Plus, it doesn't seem like America is politically interested in lowering the drinking age.
> It's not like this is impossible without containerization, but having formal security boundaries around them (both in process and systems), gives you guarantees instead of well-intentioned guesses.

Containers are ran on VMs. Most of those VMs are ran in a cloud operated by the same providers peddling the container is new cloud. AWS/GCP/Azure building block is not a container. It is a VM. VMs are not hard. VMs can be treated like containers. Use them. Tool around them. You would be amazed how less crufty your stack would be when you don't use abstraction on a top of abstraction.

Containers gave us a rise of super flaky software architecture. The one that theoretically should be horizontally salable but is not.

Whenever people talk about how containers did the same to the apps as to shipping i tell them they are absolutely right. There's a pile of hard science(tm) used to properly load containers on the ships based on the content of individual containers and the trip they are going to take. That's hard science is sorely missing from the app level container management
Not only is this a perversion of Christianity, but it's also a perversion of Calvinism. (not arguing against your point, but of the people that hold these views)
I’d say that Android and the iPhone OS count (or maybe that didn’t fall under the definition of computer) the difference here is that there was a new hardware interface driving the development of a new operating environment.
The Pirating Elephant in Uncle Sam’s Room
one state is indefinite and the other is not.
At least these guys are trying to clean up the mess others did.

https://www.theoceancleanup.com/
Organic foods are an absence of specific herbicides, pesticides and narcotics; not all of them categorically.
There's no cloud. It is just someone else's computer.
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Ask HN: US-based affordable dedicated hosting provider?
Hey there,

I'm looking for Hetzner kind of service, but in US and with similar pricing.

Do you have any recommendations?

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Modern AE schemes are designed to make it easy to quickly abort the whole decryption operation as soon as an error is detected. But the PGP protocol is from the 1990s, and uses vanilla CBC or CFB and then tacks the SHA-1 hash of the plaintext to the end of the message in a separate record.
Dude...that sounds a lot like a "no true scotsman" line of argument. if by "real computers" you mean devices for programmers to train ML models, then yeah, Apple is pretty lacking, if by "real computers" you mean devices which operate end-user facing software, well, the spectrum widens enough to show you why Apple is approaching a trillion dollar market cap.

put another way, a lot of the _reason_ that companies like facebook and google are doing any computation in the first place is because of the level of data and interaction that people are doing on devices made by apple. You are welcome to make a distinction between a Cray and a MacBook pro, bu it is kind of pedantic.
No obvious solutions? Many enterprise companies have a workflow management product. Adobe has one which it makes quite a bit of enterprise revenue from.

https://www.adobe.com/uk/marketing-cloud/experience-manager/...
> Spinning an obviously false narrative that somehow still ropes in more and more people.

Simple explanation: it's not so obviously false.

If you believe in the supernatural, what is basically a supernatural proxy war taking place in the background isn't so unbelievable.
There is no technical force to states having a +21 y/o drinking age. AFAIK they "simply" lose a good chunk (currently 8%) of federal highway funding if the drinking age is <21, according to "The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984" [0]

[0]https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/23/158
This feels like a pretty weird ruling that is all about the details of how the federal law was enacted, rather than the intent, i.e. if the folks writing the 1992 law were told of this ruling they probably could have written a law that achieved the desired results and not run afoul of this ruling.
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> Seems like the real ruling is that the federal government can’t compel states to implement/enforce non-federal laws. I wonder if that will affect things like the drinking age...

(IANAL).

IIRC, that's done by allowing states to set their own drinking age, but withholding federal funds for highways unless the drinking age is at least 21. So any state could set a lower drinking age, legally, but they'd be on the hook for making up the difference in funds from their own budget.

That said, the combination of this decision and the ACA ruling that the federal government couldn't withhold funds from non-participating states may provide ground for a challenge to that law.
> If I have your key, I can send you an encrypted GPG message, without you needing to know who am, or for any kind of message from you back to me. HMACs require a shared secret.

No, they don't. I described a naive RSA+AES hybrid cryptosystem here that includes HMAC authentication without a pre-shared key: https://paragonie.com/blog/2018/04/protecting-rsa-based-prot...
A few years ago I did a "hard hat" diving experience that gives a teeny, tiny view into what these divers experience, and wow did it increase my respect for them.

It also included being compressed in the "pot" down to 50m and getting narked to hell. Any UK bods fancy trying the experience lookup "York Diver Training".
Ask HN: FPGA Projects
My degree is in computer engineering, but outside of hobby projects I've spent most of career developing for early stage web startups. I've been keeping the hardware skills alive with personal projects, but want to pursue this more earnestly and find a job in this field. More recently I've started working with FPGAs with the goal of finding a job in hardware, thinking this could be a good entry point.

That said, hardware community in my area (Boulder, CO) isn't as easy to find as the Ruby group.

- Any recommended FPGA open source projects to get involved with?

- Has anyone made the jump to hardware?

- Any advice from someone currently working FPGAs or hardware?
Magneto has always been that type of character for me. Considering his back story and how you happen to view the world yourself, you can very easily see him as being the good guy against the hateful and prejudiced humans (and Xavier as being too pacifist and unable to enact any "real" change).
I’d place my bet on driverless and personal assistants as the next OS platforms. VR will be part of a personal assistant OS.
Let me ask you a question:

How do I abstract this unique idea of IOPS that AWS has?