skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't ever suggest a Michael Moore production as suitable for increasing one's knowledge on a subject. At best the man is an entertainer, nothing more. His works have about as much claim to the title "documentary" as does reality tv.
Unfortunately it is very common. The approach a lot of companies are taking to telephone agents not knowing user's passwords is to ask for only three letters of them - the agent on the phone needs to type these in to have them verified - and this is not possible if the password is stored after processing with a salted hash.

The reason this is done is that it reduces reply attacks which is a significant concern for over-the-phone authentication. Using the three-characters-from-your-password method someone listening in to your call won't be able to call back and authenticate as you unless they have listened in to enough calls to piece together the whole password.

The usual method is to store the passwords in a strong but symmetric encoding which is no more secure than plain text if an attacker can get both the stored passwords and the key(s). the risk can be mitigated (though not completely removed) by making sure the keys are never stored anywhere near where the passwords are stored, but at some point in the process the key and the encoded password must meet for at least a brief moment.

Essentially this becomes a problem of weighing one risk against another: is the potential loss of security if the account data store is compromised justifiable when considered against the likelihood of successful replay attacks if you must hand over the whole password each time?

One suggestion I've seen is to store (salted and hashed) each combination of three characters without any external indication of which combination each hash represents (so for abcdefghi you would store encodings of 01a02b03c, 01a02b04d, and so on, meaning 720 stored hashes for that ten character password). That way you can check any combination by checking that the resulting hash value exists in the set. This is probably not a good solution though: if an attacker gets hold of the hashes then if they also know the salt they only need 46,656 attempts to derive the content of each hash (assuming a mix of numbers and single case letters is required) so 33.6 million checks would guarantee revealing a 10 character password instead of 3.6 thousand million million - reducing the processing requited by a factor of 100 million. I say "probably not a good solution" as I've done no analysis of this complexity compared to the relative non-safety of passwords stored in a reversible encoding - though I assume the fact I've not seen any such analysis from a trusted source either indicates that it isn't a solution relevant experts feel should be taken seriously.
Thank you for sharing your these cool links Josh!
The Python bindings are reasonable, much better than Vimscript.

I've been switching between Vim+python and Emacs+Evil for a bit.
Ah, the resolution part is great ! The traditional OO crowd loves their metrics visualizers, so you can be on the vanguard of a new fetish in js-land :D !
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I am in Bangalore and don't have medical insurance. Paid Rs 300 fee to General Physician for a consultation another 1500 Rs. for a bunch of tests. In my hometown in Bihar the same thing costs Rs 150+500 with excellent doctors. It's not all rosy but it's not that bad.
This is FANTASTIC! I am quite excited about the whole proposition. Wish it were there when I was in college...

So I quickly contacted several of my friends here in Delhi, India and got them many of them interested. Now we have: http://awesomefoundation.in/

Anyone in India/Delhi, who is interested in joining this, hit me up at paras1987@gmail.com
I imagine that the supporters are equally emboldened. If they can get away with this, what else can they get away with?
He mentions those in relation to his own pet theories but in no way does he address GP's argument.

What his theorem boils down to is:

1. Let A be a formal system capable of describing the natural numbers.
2. Assume A is inconsistent. It follows that there exists such Φ that A ⊢ Φ and A ⊢ ¬Φ
3. ?????
4. A is consistent!

At step 3. he appears to conflate A⊢Φ ∧ A⊢¬Φ with Φ∧¬Φ and use it to refute the assumption in 2. But Φ∧¬Φ is not generally true outside the context of A and therefore the refutation does not follow.
I think not many people realise that Lua has been around for so long, born around the same time as Python.

I think it's a remarkable achievement for any software project to live so long, and still remain relevant, and with a good quality codebase.
Al Qaeda may not even exist. FTFY
I have used Keepvid.com before, it is simple and works good. Sometimes it requires the use of an Applet (which seems very suspicious to me) so I deny it access.
I'd like to point out that the price difference is most likely to do with the marked conditions of the health care in general, and has nothing to do with the quality of the operation itself.

There is a big problem with health care in most countries that I've been living into for extended periods of time (France, Italy and to a lesser extent Germany).

Anything sorrounding "medical" and/or "health care" has a 10x-100x price blowup, for absolutely no reason. I'm not even speaking about surgery, I can start by phisiotherapy consumables, such as elastic bands. Elastic bands are used in phisical rehab. They are dirt cheap, usually, if you buy them inside a child play store. But behold, if you buy the same stuff from "Thera Band", which is officially sold to hospitals and clinics, a couple of meters of the stuff will cost you 20-30 times more. I worked as an assistant in a phisical rehab clinic for several years, and this kind of bullshit is amazing, because it goes for everything (air balls, plastic rods for balancing excercises, and so on). The price inflation goes even higher with actual machines.

There is a machine which is called "Rehab 3xxxx" (produced by a clinic around here which I helped develop, so I won't disclose the details), which is just a linear actuator which moves back and forth. Literally, nothing more. There is an embedded controller which allows to tune the extension limits, and a couple of ABS plastic accessories that hold to the knee, wrist, etc.

The idea is just to move the articulation, and/or rotate it, over and over. You would think that there is something "fancy" about it, to name a few details which I wished this machine had:

* force feedback to stop the motion (right now the machine will just twist your arm as configured, no matter the force)
* speed regulation (who needs it? just one speed is good enough)
* some sort of patient-id so that you don't need to reconfigure it each time

But not really. Like I said, this is just a dumb linear actuator, with incredibly cheap ABS plastic accessories and a fancy name. Price? 30k euros in the basic kit.

The funny part: for anything medical, you have to demonstrate that this machine is effective somehow. So we had a trial in an hospital, wrote an article about the effectiveness (or lack thereof) and did some paperwork. The idea is that you just have to demonstrate that it doesn't hurt. Of course, a physiotherapist will be twice as effective, but it's more expensive on an hourly basis, so that's why clinics love to buy the machine and just let patients sit on it.

I'm literally disgusted, but I can see everything around "medical" equipment having the same issues. All the economy surrounding hospitals, doctors and equipment is essentially broken, because there's essentially no competition, assured money (by the state in this case) and a lot of corruption going on within the clinics and medical companies (unfortunately).

edit: english.
Best not to look a bit foreign when it comes to anti-terrorism stuff in the UK.
This is driving me crazy. I've only a 1mbit connection, so I frequently used to pre-buffer as much as possible of a video. And I could watch the video without hitches and pauses at a good quality as it was already downloaded.

Moreover, the little that is prebuffered seems to behave oddly, you skip forward well within the indicated area that have been buffered, yet the player seems to reset and start re-downloading that part -> unueably slow.
I don't think depopulation is even on the agenda.

More realistically: the next business opportunity, the next contract, the next sale, all of these things are very much on the agenda. Lots of short-term decisions leading to long term catastrophe.

Then again, in the long term, we are all dead.

Innit?
Because unlike other common forms of nationalism, it's based on a sense of self-determination rather than a sense of superiority (e.g. American, historic British, Italian and German nationalism etc.).
Reminds me of "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" [1]

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844471/
Those aren't the only two options. If you want to incentivize outcomes and efficiency, fee-for-outcome is an obvious option.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_scie...

From that I'm pretty sure that wiki page that 'global cooling' was not the only concern.

also
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-c...
The proof offered in the abstract demonstrates a simple link between consistency and the validity of proof by contradiction. It shows that if mathematics is consistent (ie. ⊢Φ and ⊢¬Φ is impossible) then mathematics is consistent.

This is NOT a self-proof - it is a meta-proof. Taking arithmetic as an example, a self-proof of consistency would be a derivation of the consistency sentence (ie. "I am consistent", or "¬◻(0=1)") from the arithmetic axioms. That is not what we have here.

The existence of a proof of the consistency of a theory does not put it at risk from Godel's 2nd - for that we require that a theory prove its own consistency.

As far as I can tell, Hewitt begins with a proof that consistency and the validity of proof by contradiction are equivalent, and then proceeds on the grounds that consistency is proven internally to the theory - which it is not.
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This is definitely happening in Eastern European countries, too, and probably even some of the western ones

Careful here. I live in London for several years now, and from my experience Eastern European doctors are much better qualified then Western European. I'm originally from Poland, and medical studies are really hard, and people spend whole 6 years cramming just to become an apprentice to the doctor (it's Bachelors and Masters degree combined). On the other hand in western countries you can do undergrad degree in anything and only then apply to med school.
I'm not convinced that an independent Scotland would be able to get rid of Trident. Any independence will be negotiated and as the armed forces belong to the crown it'll be down to the armed forces and monarch to largely decide what happens with Trident. If Scotland were to become a republic, then I can see that changing but I suspect that separation wouldn't be an immediate and overnight thing and that armed forces would continue to operate jointly for some time following independence.
The author has moved to Aerospike. Here are some benchmarks a few months back
http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/04/NoSQL-Benchmark
You should use case insensitive matching for filtering, if I put "K" on the "begins with" it shows nothing
Why should I learn Haskell? Will it help me professionally, or help me being a better programmer?
Sometimes you do not need a conspiracy which is articulated at the intellectual level. Sometimes a conspiracy can be implicit; emergent; driven by the biology and the natural drives of the authoritarian, power-seeking mind, driven to reinforce their own authority; to proclaim and strut their status, and to demean and chasten their "inferiors". Power is sex, and the domination of an elite over a subjugated population is rape. No intellectual conspiracy here; just an accumulation of drives; an institutional lust for power and control; and a human sexual power dynamic playing itself out on a grand stage.
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There was also the option floated of keeping the Sub bases in Scotland as sovereign British territory if Scotland goes independent.
just ported cityhash's test program over to Go and passed!!

Type casting like this makes my brain hurt.

b = uint32(int64(b) * int64(c1) + int64(int8(v)))
I made it up of course... I was trying to be funny.

I suppose she's nutty enough to actually say something like that, and so isn't really a good joke eh? People might actually pass on the quote.

This was her a few weeks ago:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/20/sarah-palin-global-...
You're not going to notice any lags if you use Emacs to work on toy projects. Try a non-trivial operation on a repository of respectable size, like linux.git: if you don't classify those operations as being "completely unusable", you're living in the dark ages.

Incorrect. Several proprietary IDEs use real parsers. Which is precisely why they're able to provide all sorts of magic functionality like "refactor". And no, regular expressions don't "work well" by a stretch: even the common modes like shell-script-mode, perl-mode (cperl-mode is slightly better), python-mode are riddled with bugs. If you look at the relatively new js2-mode, you'll notice that the parser is an Elisp port of the Rhino parser. Also, Semantic Bovinator from the CEDET project was recently merged into emacs, although it doesn't have major users yet. Precisely because regular expressions aren't "good enough".

The reason everything is implemented in Emacs Lisp is because there is no alternative: Elisp doesn't have an FFI to speak of. Otherwise, I don't see the problem with using existing parsers; unless your "point" is to take everyone back to the dark ages.

No matter how you look at it, there are more alternatives to Vim/Emacs than there were 30 years ago. A lot of people are happy with TextMate, Coda, Visual Studio, Eclipse. It's not like there's something special about the year 2013, but what I meant is: Emacs will become extinct, and that is inevitable. And yes, I'm hoping for some kind of programmable editor to take its place soon.
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I think there is a HUGE market for this ;)
I am about to throw in a small amount I can afford... But why do they have to shut it down today itself? What's wrong with waiting for more time?
I've only ever played arcade games as an adult, a few years ago. They seemed very exploitative to me, tiny play times for gigantic costs.
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Not sure why it has a end date. Guess it is just the nature of those campaigns
I'm not sure I would consider a flaming stick as flying under the radar.
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You're making good points but it's missing the underlying current that OP was building. I was being facetious about it and the "us" was just to poke you a little bit :)

In my view Apple is a premium product and the quality gap is closing in quickly. We've already reached a level where non-experts don't see any real difference or at least not enough to justify the price bump.
What's the difference with capistrano?
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Since you seem to server your site (parley.co) over https, you might want to accept signups over https as well -- it's a little disconcerting to get a warning message of information being posted in the clear from a page that is all about making it easier to communicate securely online:

<form action="http://parley.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=NN&amp;id=NN" method="post"

Other than that it'll be interesting to see your implementation -- I've been considering the idea of key storage for a while, and I also think so long smart cards aren't ubiquitous (and usable with all clients, such as phones as well as PCs) -- pass-phrases is unfortunately as good as it gets.

It's unfortunate, because anything based on shared secretes (directly) makes key revocation tricky.
I know - anecdote!=data. But here's an anecdote:

We recently had a baby (in Aus). Our Indian neighbour (been in au for 7 years) was amazed at how little medical intervention we had. His comment was that in India there was much more incentive to recommend drugs, c-sections, etc.
Whatever. He did apparently kill Osama within 10 years of 9/11. Indian government is still unable to even locate Dawood Ibrahim after 2 decades of terror and mafia attacks.
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Another case: I live in Poland and needed a knee surgery (arthroscopy). Costs:
-visit to a doctor and diagnosis (30$ per visit)
-MRI of a knee (135$)
-surgery + one day stay in private clinic (1k$)

So now I wanted to pay for everything without help of our health care system because that would mean waiting. When I tell people in US MRI costs 135$ in Poland they just can't believe it and this is in commercial clinic so they make money here, it has nothing to do with national health care system as I didn't use any refunds.
You're probably right that 'brainwashed' is a term used lightly, yet with some people if you challenge their views, they go flat out into denial so that their world doesn't shatter. I probably should call them brainwashed even though it's just simply the way they grew up.
My understanding is that if proof by contradiction is allowed in A, Φ ∨ ¬Φ is a true sentence in A, so if you try to include the sentence "A is inconsistent" in A, it follows that A ⊢ Φ and A ⊢ ¬Φ, therefore in A Φ ∧ ¬Φ is true, but this contradicts Φ ∨ ¬Φ, therefore A is consistent. In other words, it is impossible to show the inconsistency of any system that includes the law of excluded middle.

This is really trivial in the end. Inconsistency is "Φ ∧ ¬Φ", law of excluded middle is "Φ ∨ ¬Φ", so in the assumption of law of excluded middle is hidden the assumption of consistency. That's what he means by

The above theorem means that the assumption of consistency is deeply embedded in the structure of classical mathematics

Edit: I agree with you in the end, the proof is valid, but the conclusion does not hold in A, but one "level" above, so it does not contradict Goedels theorem. Am I reading this right?
>It has been postulated, I think plausibly, that the commonality of such language is one reason why this gender disparity continues to exist.

The idea that "the commonality of such language" is the reason, is like the idea that video games and action movies create killers and criminals.
Depends on what exactly do you mean "your control".
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Notebooks are very useful for analysing data where you want to create a cleaned-up record of what you've done.
I definitely think the police should wear them or something similar - but only as long as the video is not being handled by the police. It should be a 3rd party.

Excuses like "I shot him in the head - twice - because I thought he had a gun" shouldn't work as well then.
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Flashlight, if you'd prefer. Personally, I think a flashlight sounds like something you'd use to illuminate your goolies when indecently exposing yourself at night.
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thats quite a narrow minded comparison. Theres a significant difference between bodyshopping IT employees because western companies want to save money on IT and consider it commodity, & training surgeons. Having lived in both India and South America - I found the quality of healthcare in India significantly better. You need to think a bit before making comparisons! Besides - learn how to spell ;)
You could Google that exact question. It has been answered a lot of times on StackOverflow and other sites.
I really like the amount of nonsense.)

It begins with head is a mistake! It should not be in the Prelude. Other partial Prelude functions you should almost never use include tail, init, last, and (!!). From this point on, using one of these functions on a homework assignment will lose style points!

And here is a proposal:

data NonEmptyList a = NEL a [a]

nelToList :: NonEmptyList a -> [a]
nelToList (NEL x xs) = x:xs

listToNel :: [a] -> Maybe (NonEmptyList a)
listToNel [] = Nothing
listToNel (x:xs) = Just $ NEL x xs

headNEL :: NonEmptyList a -> a
headNEL (NEL a _) = a

tailNEL :: NonEmptyList a -> [a]
tailNEL (NEL _ as) = as

Dear sirs, a List is a recursive data structure by definition. Non-recursive List is an unimaginable nonsense. What was made here with a name of safe(!) NonEmptyList is some ugly Pair with lots of syntactic noise.

How could you get the last element from your NonEmptyList? How could you tell how many elements in it?)

But, of course, never ever use these ugly unsafe lists - they might be empty! Use safe NonEmptyList because in Haskell everything is safe. And never try to think what the fuck you are reading.
I wrote a little OS dev 'starter' for Nimrod which might interest you: https://github.com/dom96/nimkernel
As a parent of young children, I very much appreciate this option!
It's completely meaningless to compare mortality rates. It's also not clear that if a patient had a CABG in India, went home and dropped dead within 30 days, that this data would actually be captured rigorously.

Anyway, you're drawing the wrong conclusion - it's astounding how close the US mortality rate is to the Indian, which attests to how good the US system is at operating successfully on more complex, elderly patients. Of course, you could argue that the US has optimised the wrong thing, at great expense...
Yep, it should only become the default version you get from PyPI when it's a final release. I think PyPI/pip can handle pre-release versions without making them the default - in that case, we might put betas up.