skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the randomness of the paths. With URLs coming from a limited set of websites - yes, there would be some savings.

With a set of random strings, for alphabet with 64 chars, there are 16M different 4 character prefixes, so the savings from overlapping prefixes for 128char long strings is likely less than 3%.
Yeah there's normally a negotiation via pins being grounded or through the level of resistance on that pull up which tells the device what spec is being used. That goes on to tell the device how much power it can pull without causing a power droop. If the pins are missing most devices won't try to pull more, like my phone won't... but I have a cheap external USB HDD enclosure that will pull what ever it needs from the line regardless of the pin setup. Most Mother Boards actually put out 1-2A on those lines so I can run the thing as normal, but the drive comes with this add on extension to hook it up to two USB lines to get around the 0.5A limit.

So it'll depend on how nice of a device you have.
That's spam, not useful data. No one upvoted that hypothetical offering of data. People did find this article interesting.

And hey, maybe I am interested in learning that language. Assuming your forum was appropriate (say, at a Galician convention), that could be a useful thing.
Sure, but the government is subject to popular pressures. They can't imprison or otherwise hassle even a substantial fraction of the population in any meaningful way. Corporations are not subject to popular pressure. They can hassle millions of Americans and get away with it.

As a practical matter, you have a lot more to fear from corporations misusing your private data to deny you jobs, mess up your credit, etc, than you do from government misusing your private data to shut down your anarchist political movement.
Have you thought about putting the source and scripts into a github repo, and taking community contributions? I'm sure people would pitch in to get later volumes converted.
No Bread, Beer or Biscuits: How I Lost 63lbs in 100 Days
From my observation and knowledge over time I think your statement "prone to addictive behavior to begin with" is correct.

That said I'm not reading what you are saying the OP is possibly suggesting at all.

He says:

"One of my relatives, for example, managed to get herself off of drinking and smoking completely and was in counseling. The addictions, and the kinds of behaviors that come with maintaining addictions (all kinds of dissociative, anti-social, manipulative weirdness) were ruining her life. Strange thing was, after removing the substance, the behaviors persisted."

I don't see anything that suggests that the initial addiction caused further addictions at all in the above paragraph.
I imagine they would drop obvious "hints". From my friends who've gotten laid off most of them said they could "see it coming".

I am not sure if that's being transparent though.
Brazilian here, and I repeatedly have the same problem. To complicate matters, my documents have my middle name as a first name, which means officially I have two first names. When I went to get a driver's license in WA, the system would generate a bad license ID because of that, and they had to do some manual patching or something to make it work.

I also have two last names, which makes it a pain every time someone asks for my last name. I always have to explain I have two of them and sometimes people are puzzled by that.

If I stay in the US indefinitely and eventually get citizenship, I think I'll change my name and drop one of the first names and one of the last names :P
Am I the only one who wants to know how it is pronounced and what the meaning possibly is?

I'm with her on this one but I am curious how a government would handle an ancestral name that has glyphs.
Wow, you put that better than I did. I didn't know the term "namecheck" but that is the perfect name for it.
Yeah, I forgot the admin password on my Mac and lost the CD...
I'll look into it, but unfortunately this isn't up to me. Convincing the publisher to let us put up an online version was hard enough.
Yes.

And I'm sure that you'd fully reciprocate. You know, give me a heads-up that sales were down this quarter and you're considering laying me off? So I can be adequately prepared? Because that would be VERY PAINFUL.
If a language developed as a runtime, and no standard has yet been defined for exactly how the language will behave, then that runtime IS the spec. See Perl.

In the meantime, if HHVM doesn't conform to some version of the PHP runtime, it doesn't conform to the PHP language (of the same version). The community could change this, either through defining a standard or accepting HHVM as close enough to be considered a PHP dialect, not a different language with similarities.
sudo apt-get install cowsay

Cows are installed to /usr/share/cowsay/cows
Are you really comfortable casually indicting the whole enterprise of charity? Was that an uncertainty that really needed to be sown here? You don't think the world would be a better place if people had fewer qualms about parting with tiny amounts of cash now and then?
Parent is refering to public key pinning. Chrome for instance has been doing it the last couple years [1].

Also see Moxie's comment in this very thread. [2]

[1] https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/05/04/pinning.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6381673
WPS is enabled by default on practically every wifi router sold in the last 7ish years.
Well anything that goes to this type of excess will be a problem though:

"a puzzle game on her phone that she would play obsessively* -- forgetting to eat, sleep, show up for work, having basic human interaction and even requiring physical therapy at one point for the muscle strain of sitting in the position to play the game for hours on end."

What we are probably dealing with here is more than a simple addiction (to which your suggestion is good and would definitely be in the right direction). What we have is a mental problem that includes addictive traits.

After all the DSM is fairly arbitrary (as are medical definitions).
I was just thinking that if you want to choose your service provider by how transparently and trustworthy your data will be treated, they both disqualify anyway.
What about names like Sarah Saint John or Sarah Saint Clair? And I'm not sure the abbreviated versions (with St.) are any easier to deal with.

Or how about Joran van der Sloot?
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unless you have passcode
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Why secure systems require random numbers
If anyone from Watsi is reading, your auto-replies for Contact Us are still saying this:

"Thanks for the message! Our entire team is currently in Nepal and will be slow / unable to respond to email until Wednesday, 9/4.

Looking forward to connecting with you."
There are various ways to do this, none of them perfect. Online searches suggest that "htlatex" (for HTML output)and "xhlatex" (for XHTML output) are pretty good:

http://tug.org/applications/tex4ht/mn-commands.html
Here in semi-small-town USA, I hear a couple traffic stops a day with spaced double-lasts on my scanner. They're quite common, and don't give the cops, dispatch, or the Washington State DMV any trouble at all, even in the company of a middle name. Why would you expect something so mundane to be problematic?
You are correct chrome pins the authority, not the cert. And at least as for 2011, they don't just pin their own sub authority, they include a couple of real authorities who's keys the NSA might have.

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/05/04/pinning.html
clickys: http://pgp.mit.edu, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-rema...
Ooh, have any examples?
> Can you state this in a mathematically precise notation?

Big-O isn't meant to be precise. The entire point is to roughly describe algorithm behavior.

> 'Implied +C' is pretty much nonsense.

Implied +C is built in to the definition of big-O notation. As n increases towards infinity the influence of C becomes negligible, so it's left off. Read the first chapter of any algorithms book.
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It depends on the size of the capacitor. And even with smaller capacitors, any device which is capable of producing a signal strong enough to overcome even a simple passive 3dB filter well enough to get through the USB handshake, let alone actual device operation, would almost certainly be quite large as compared to a regular charger.

Adding an inductor would screw with things, but if we're being really paranoid here, active circuits can measure the resonant frequency of the line and overcome it. Or, even if we're not being paranoid, you've now given someone a nice RCL trampoline to bounce a nice high current into your phone's USB data lines.

There are a few ways to protect against all of that if you want to be really paranoid. To start, you could go with a higher order active filter built from a cheap op-amp circuit.

More complex varieties could include the use of a tiny 8-bit uC programmed to control a digital pot on the protected side, and an optoisolator somewhere in there just in case there's some weird failure mode which causes a signal path to short from protected to unprotected. The benefit of something like this would be that the controller could also control a light or buzzer to alert the user when a signal is detected on the "unprotected" side.

Cheapest and most reliable might be to pump the output of a simple RC high-pass filter into a simple RC low-pass filter (translates to DC bias) then feed that to a comparator which latches the signal lines open (and sounds an alarm) if signal is detected. Or better yet, make it normally open and close only when signal isn't detected.
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Not knowing in advance that limiting the last name field to too-short strings is acceptable.

Blaming the user whose name is too long for that field rather than the mistaken assumption in the design of the system is not.
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My suggestions for dealing with names are:

1) Names are context-sensitive, so ask for a person's name by giving the context you intend to use it in. Something like, "How should we address you in an email?" or "How should we display your name to other people on the site?".

2) Do not apply any sort of transformation to a name. Don't parse it, don't truncate it, don't lowercase it. Treat it like an opaque string and use it verbatim.

3) Databases do need limits on the length of a column (unless you use a blob...) so be generous with the width of the columns. The longest recorded name is 746 letters long (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfe%2B585,_Senior), so make sure it's longer than that.

4) I think the no-name case (#40) and the not-in-unicode case (#14) are fairly obscure, but if you want to handle them then then make names optional but require an avatar if they do not provide one.

5) Allow a person to change their name at any time.
> You cannot look at data in a vacuum.

I never said you could. We're not discussing the philosophy of objective statements that don't require context, we're discussing whether true facts are tainted by subjective elements around them. By definition, they can't be.

If the content is good, it doesn't really matter why it's there. But if you believe the context implies that the data is incomplete (aka, biased) or actually wrong, that's obviously relevant.

Especially if something was an ad, who cares? The data speaks for itself. You just need to verify the ad is correct and isn't mis-representing itself. In this case, the data is fairly objective, they aren't comparing their product to someone else's, just pointing out an action that a product was able to help perform, and that action produced interesting data about another service.

The article didn't come off as an ad, either. My main gripe was that some people complain over any mention of affiliated services. (People also gripe about non-labeled affiliate links by independent-millionaire, popular, respected bloggers.)
> Because he was unprepared.

Only if you stretch the term "unprepared" beyond what people understand the Park Ranger to mean.

Maybe "less than optimally prepared" for the scope of what he was trying to do, but "unprepared" is not fair. "Unprepared" basically puts him in the same category as people who die from hypothermia because they wear cotton clothes.
I agree—awkward as it is, there reaches a point where it's just unreasonable to accommodate it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNoS2BU6bbQ&noredirect=1
No questions but a BIG thank you
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"to people in a hopeless, brutal war"

Exactly. Because it's heroin combined with other shit going on that almost certainly causes brain changes and chemical reactions on it's own.

So heroin in combo with war is not the same as heroin while visiting disney world on a nice summer day on your vacation (clearly my hypothesis nothing to back this up).

(There is by the way another "addictive" type behavior that starts at a time in ones life that, while not at war, is a time of deep changes in personality as well as hormonal changes. My hypothesis also suggests that this would add to the addictive nature of this activity as well in some people.)
Once you have cowsay installed, you can invoke them with cowsay -f.

For instance: cowsay -f kosh "Understanding is a three-edged sword."
Instead of blocking the DNS, you are much better off running an intelligent HTTP proxy that can just filter out the bad stuff. Try installing 'privoxy' - it's available packaged for most Linux distributions. You can then use dnsmasq to push it as the recommended proxy for clients, or set up a few firewall rules to turn it into a transparent proxy.
She appears briefly towards the end of BBC's 'Micro Men' as the barmaid in the Baron of Beef:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9MM...
It's ridiculous on the face of it that this was some whimsical choice. A whimsical choice wouldn't have chosen a major brand.

When I first heard of it, the thoughts through my head were "sellout" and "product placement"… in contrast to say, OSX or Windows project names like Tiger, Longhorn, Mohave, etc. which really don't reference something that can be nothing other than an artificial manufactured product.

What the hell was wrong with Key Lime Pie?
I'm using Jason.app[1] on OS X which does this wonderfully (as desktop app).

[1] https://github.com/tbrannam/Jason
I don't have much of any experience with Dutch names, is "van der Sloot" the entire last name?

My example was meant to be "the final word and all preceeding lowercase words are considered the last name."
I don't know if that is necessarily true. At least amongst my peer group, men would place a high weight on non academic factors in university choice. As long as the the university offered a course they wanted and had enough prestige to match their perceived social standing and families expectations factors like distance from home, cost of living , party reputation and where their friends were going were the big factors.

From my recollection the women tended to be more conscientious about their studies too and often had added pressure from being the first woman in their immediate family to have attended higher education.
That is basically the point of Ecclesiastes. King Solomon had access to everything, being king of one of the most powerful kingdoms of the time, worked his way through that whole list, and then at the end decided it was all pointless. He was a smart Paris Hilton, just with more money and absolute power.
Not to mention that the survivable g's are not scale invariant. At the size of an insect it would be easy to survive 400 g's, but at I mile tall, one g would probably kill us.
It's still a taxonomically better article than the press-release regurgitation from TechCrunch, and I seriously hope you agree that it is important that companies, especially those concerned with charity, are subjected to scrutiny.

Ideally, Skepticism >>> Concern >>> Regurgitation, and at least the article places itself in the middle category.

It's a decent article by normal standards, and a great article by standards of tech writing.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned so far that the 3rd most popular name in the US is "Shamwow"
Eventually we will find out enough about what the NSA can do that the entire internet is as good as screwed. If they can get away with MITM against just about any secure site then how does the internet economy function any more?
Bearing in mind that you're an abstraction to me and not a real person, so there's a limit to how personally you should be able to take this comment (I don't even know you by reputation on HN):

(a) Have you recently given to something like Watsi and (b) were you already trying to involve yourself in real social change for the rural poor? Or are you like the rest of us, mostly concerned with "first world" problems and in no meaningful way already engaged with the problem? If it's the latter: better that we should get you to cough up some bandaids.
This is bad advice. Business is business no matter how many times you claim your team is like "family" or "friends". One place I worked at was very friendly and supportive. One day the founders, who are still my friends and mentors, faced an extremely lucrative acquisition offer that resulted in firing half of the team, myself included. They announced and completed the whole transaction in a matter of days, and I don't blame them - if they announced too early, people would have fled or leaked the negotiations, failing the deal of their lives. So when time comes, even the friendliest management will not give you any warnings, why should you? There is nothing to gain.
Sometimes, the Cloud Brings Rain
clickys: http://blog.ringerc.id.au/2012/09/postgresql-packaging-on-ma..., http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12472988/postgres-could-n...
'Brown people' hospitals will just raise prices if they know patients have 'white people' funds. So this has the potential to make medical care inaccessible to those not having 'proper connections' to 'white people'.
Yeah, reporting the two halves separately is extremely bizarre. It's like they bent over backwards specifically to add a security flaw for no obvious reason. It's surprising that nobody noticed it before it was standardized and shipped.
I don't know the particulars of the case you're talking about, but sometimes even if you're working at a place that you like and you aren't actively looking for work, other work finds you and you wind up with an offer that is far more attractive than your current place.

This is why companies should always be proactively adjusting compensation, perks, etc to retain the people they can't afford to lose, though very few actually do this. In the end though, even if a company does keep up on the retaining side there are lots of reasons (eg. more interesting technical stack, new project instead of maintaining old one, etc) why someone who is mostly happy may still leave a job for another.

Having said all of that, it sucks that the dev didn't show up for the last day. I hate exit interviews, but I'll still do them.
IPhone, I Could Quit You for Phonebloks, a Lego-like Smartphone Concept
This doesn't really protect you from a more subtle attack: setting up a femtocell access point for your phone to connect to.
Peter Thiel: Bitcoin has a 20% chance of success
Hmm, this doesn't specify which models, gently used or not. I have a first week release iPad 1 in really good shape that's sitting in a drawer somewhere :)
Woot's Founding Launches Mediocre Laboratories To Experiment With E-Commerce
clicky: http://titanpad.com/pC1Yyrl4H1
I think it's part of the "awesome".
These are great. Not just the content but love how they are presented. I wish all the lectures in colleges were as rich an immersive as these.
Why all the NSA crap in this thread? You don't need to add in a government agency to make this treasure trove of passwords valuable or dangerous. One day, this data will leak out, and then there will be trouble.

Just having a reliable set of millions of real world passwords is invaluable - they'd be useful for brute-forcing other hashed password files.
The videos that were essentially transcribed into that book are legally available to watch online.

http://vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8
In looking up at-will employment for Georgia I realized that's pretty much every state FWIW. Luckily it's a two-way street. You can fire me for anything but I can also leave for anything. A two-weeks notice is just something I do out of the goodness of my heart not at all a requirement for literally any state. To that point, it shouldn't be frowned upon if for whatever reason you simply don't or can't (i.e. the offer is too good and they want you there yesterday) provide one.

Also regarding your "rage quit" and "try to change jobs when we're in a slow part" doesn't always work. Sometimes your job never slows down and you're pushed to the very point of a rage quit.

I'm not saying all this to promote ill behavior as a life choice. I generally want to give 2 weeks notice and not be in a position where I feel rage but that can't realistically apply to every situation and I should never feel terrible if I chose either. If I made a habit of it? I would have to seriously question my ability to acquire jobs because you shouldn't want to rage quit from every place you've ever worked...
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I wonder if a first nations person in Canada can have the syllabics[1] put on their ID?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Aboriginal_syllabics
Oh brother, just have a happy _programmers day_.
Great idea except you don't namespace anything! I like namespaces because one library or css import from another won't ever stomp on each other. I've seen 'ui', 'button' and 'red' in several other packages and places. They're going to conflict. The one with the greatest specifity is going to win and cause untold hours of frustrating debugging.
Related:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

tl:dr; Rats given access to their choice of clean water and morphine water, and placed in two enclosures: Rat cage and rat park. Rats living in a miserable rat cage will develop a morphine habit. Rats living in a pleasant rat park will avoid the morphine. Rats moved from rat cage to rat park easily kick their morphine habit after a brief period of withdrawal symptoms.

tl:dr;tl:dr;

Rats self-medicate with morphine IFF life is crap.
Effects are not necessarily positive/negative. I would say that most effects are of the sideways sort.
Thank you so much for doing this!
Watsi doesn't take loans, and focuses entirely on healthcare, from what I understand.

I think the narrow focus is part of the charm of Watsi.
A solution could be to have a sort of tenure track for employees. Probably not as strict as university tenure, but still enough for neither side to worry about things changing unexpectedly.

That would let employers fire "mistake" hires (whose faults are obvious within a couple months) while getting stability in the long-term.
Requiring people to remember their ID numbers reeks of prison and/or Hitler; that would be substantially more offensive than asking people to do business under a name that can be entered on a keyboard and matched without cutting-edge image processing algorithms.
It's been added to Scribd apparently:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/167971960/Modeling-Reactive-System...
The average density of the universe is the same as 1 hydrogen atom / cubic meter. Pretty damn empty.