skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's less shocking when you recognise that these are simply sites to tell patients when surgeries are open etc. As I said, you can say exactly the same about other informational sites too like hospitals, universities, etc:

http://www.gosh.nhs.uk/
http://www.cam.ac.uk/
http://nyp.org/
http://www.highlands.state.nj.us/

It would not surprise me to find similar vulnerabilities in all of those picked at random, given the budget they are typically run on.

I agree it's far from ideal and a situation they should sort out given these are hosted on .nhs.uk, particularly as we move more and more of our lives online, there need to be clear rules about which sites are secured and safer and which are less important.

However, these sites do not host patient data.
Krita 2.8.0 Released
“The whole point is that we’re not a quick scam," Nathan
Gudmunson, the chairman of the Worldcoin Foundation, told
Ars. "Our coin is clearly not that, and we’re trying to
build up a payment system around it.

...well that didn't turn out too well. Gudmunson and several other (now former) Worldcoin Foundation board members started an exchange/payment system called Scharmbeck. Scharmbeck took large amount of investor money by selling "fee shares." Scharmbeck shut down shortly after. Gudmunson and several other members were removed from the Worldcoin Foundation board, the cryptocurrency collapsed and has never recovered. Investors holding Scharmbeck "fee shares" will likely never see a return and have lost almost all of their initial investments
No. I work for companies that have lost silly amounts of time because big businesses screwed up management of DRM'd systems and locked us out of things we had paid a lot of money to purchase when they shouldn't have. And since I also happen to own those companies, that behaviour directly cost me a lot of my own money. I understand why they do these things, but given their staggering resources, paid for by those high prices, I have absolutely no sympathy if they screw things up and the people who were harmed as a result call them out for it.
Haven't seen the movie, don't watch TV so missed the marketing, but I have to say that Lego would have to do something SERIOUSLY wrong to cancel out the sum total of my positive childhood memories of their brand and product.

I mean, goddamn, I almost want to have a kid just so I can justify buying more Legos.
There are legal controls in some places. The EU has had Data Protection law since 1995. There was a lot of history in Europe of organisations (usually countries) collecting massive amounts of data on people.
Breaking News: 300 Arscoins just stolen.
Film at 11.
But is it not awkward to try and have a conversation with someone wearing headphones, even if they are off?
So in the end each of us will have our own crypto-currency who's value is determined by how popular we are.
Would it be possible to randomize the (non-vendor part of) the AP's MAC address periodically to defeat this? Perhaps getting AP manufacturers to add this as a feature would be difficult, though.
Writing puts seems like a free money, if you think about it as possibly owning your favorite stock at a discount in worst case scenario.

Problem with this is that sometimes the price might dip for irrational reasons(let's call it technical reasons), which is the good scenario.

However, sometimes price might dip because of fundamental reasons(let's say company announces that their CFO has misstated results for last 5 quarters).

Even worse is writing Covered Calls without any thought. There was that guy on Reddit who sold Covered Calls on his McDonalds stock. It worked great for a few months, collecting premiums while the stock stayed stagnant. Then the stock dipped in such a way that writing Covered Calls at the original strike price was not really worth it anymore, while writing at a lower price than purchase price was even worse. The protective puts(which he did not have) would not have been triggered either as the dip was not low enough.

So again, there is no free lunch.
"If I had before me a fly and an elephant, having never seen more than one such magnitude of either kind; and if the fly were to endeavor to persuade me that he was larger than the elephant, I might by possibility be placed in a difficulty. The apparently little creature might use such arguments about the effect of distance, and might appeal to such laws of sight and hearing as I, if unlearned in those things, might be unable wholly to reject. But if there were a thousand flies, all buzzing, to appearance, about the great creature; and, to a fly, declaring, each one for himself, that he was bigger than the quadruped; and all giving different and frequently contradictory reasons; and each one despising and opposing the reasons of the others—I should feel quite at my ease. I should certainly say, My little friends, the case of each one of you is destroyed by the rest. I intend to show flies in the swarm, with a few larger animals, for reasons to be given."

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23100/23100-h/23100-h.htm
Imagine the possibilities for somali pirates!!
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religion: the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power.

So his definition that Buddha never claimed to be a god seems to have led him to that idea. I don't know myself if buddhism is completely void of supernatural ideas.

But your consternation seems a little exaggerated.
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What the people who don't use Snapchat don't realize, is that you still have to trust someone if you're sending compromising photos. The benefit to Snapchat is that you don't have to worry about the recipients future negligence exposing them.

Snapchat is not a replacement for trust.
That's rediculous and ugly. How about a website where we can submit our BSSID to a blacklist.
I've been following redis sentinel development for a while now, and I can't wait for it to go stable. Has anyone here tried it out?
ATTN Google TV Developers here's another "game changing" device for you to develop for.
Would it be possible to mount a miniature deployable parachute on such quadcopters, and keep the fly time mostly intact?
> No data from the network is logged

Nowadays it shouldn't, no, but Google's had some lawsuits where their Streetview cars accidentally scooped up random bits of data crossing over the wifi lines. This measure was added afterwards, iirc.
You lose your password, you lose your device, unless you know how to hack it or can pay someone to do it. If it costs you more to recover your device than it's worth, tough shit.

That's fair enough, as long as you also prominently advertise the fact that ever forgetting that password will render your device worthless, so that everyone is fully aware of the limitation before they choose whether or not to make a purchase.
I think there's two kinds of value. A short term (definitely less than a year, medium of exchange), and long term (saving for retirement). Clearly the long term value is questionable given there is no scarcity; that would seem to be a necessary but not sufficient requirement.

So yes, you hit the nail on the head. I have pointed out the same thing before, that there is an infinite supply of crypto currency.

If you ask me, I'd prefer south sea shares for long term saving. No, just kidding, I'm a tulip bulb guy - those are at least finite.
Legos are manufactured to an incredibly high standard. Lego knock-offs just aren't the same; they don't snap together and stay together as well, and they are easily deformed.

Source: I was a child once.

Later on, I learned Lego manufacturing tolerances are measured in micrometers.
Except for that one small time in Europe when they "accidentally" captured live traffic en masse.. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2010/05/17/google-admits-s...
In the same way an iphone can be good enough for your wedding photos?

These are high quality cameras, that have to work in large range of weather and lighting conditions. This cost might also include the software to OCR and store the details.
If I wanted my daughters, or if they wanted, to play with LEGOs that had fire fighters then I would buy the sets that had fire fighters. I just don't bother to say that set is for boys while that set is for girls.

One of them loves Transformers and Ninjago, we get her those toys with no mention of boy versus girl toys.

I just don't understand what the problem is with needing specially made toys for girls to offset some perceived injustice when they can play with the boy toys just as well.
What about _mapmeplease to opt in.
> The dollar is said to be "elastic," as the Fed can increase or decrease the money supply at any given time essentially by telling the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to simply print more money using fancy moneymaking machines and crazy-complicated inks and textiles.

Or they could just tell them to conduct open-market operations and buy an existing US Treasury bond from the lowest bidder on the open market. Which is what they really do to manipulate the supply.

(To say nothing of banks creating money with loans...)
Maybe she left something on there that the family would like to know about - like unsync'ed photo's, surprise notes that she left thinking the kids would read them later, and so on ..
true...wouldn't pass for particularly insightful advice on a day trading forum, never mind Hacker News.

The very first thing, volume is the cause for price, is only true in 'normal' markets, until it isn't. When there's no bid, prices drop massively on no volume, see e.g. Russia this week.

Go read Schwager, John Train, Buffett, Graham, Bernstein, Malkiel.
Given that Apyhr's investigation in the blog post you cite does not involve anything implemented or planned for Redis, I'm not able to reply to the question. Maybe you fell in the mediatic trap of considering that discussion about Redis turning into a CP system using the proposed algorithm. If you re-read the post, Aphyr itself explains that this is not Redis Cluster.

If you are curious about what triggered the post, is my claim that WAIT per se as a primitive does not mean CP or any other kind of consistency, but that it is defined by the rest of the system. To prove my point, I orchestrated a toy and god-driven distributed system where WAIT turned into a strong consistent primitive. The point is that you can replace the "God" part with other stuff to get it real-world.

Apyhr modeled it and found that if you don't read the same way you write (via agreement) the system is inconsistent when you consider reads, but I think this was common knowledge. Every CP system in the base case needs to follow the same path for writes and reads. However most of the times you can invent optimizations to speedup reads.

p.s. Redis replication is asynchronous by default. The WAIT primitive in Redis unstable does just what it claims, that is, to return an acknowledgment when the specified number of replicas received some data. The practical effect is that you can make writes safer for a (big) latency cost.
What's interesting about this? Am I missing something?
Can you explain why it feels heavy? I would love to know more.

Polymer's entire stack is a la carte:

* platform.js - polyfills if you just want to use vanilla web component apis, today

* polymer.js - build declarative custom elements that use data-binding, touch, property observation, inheritance

* elements (ui/non-ui) - if you don't want to write any code at all :)

Sugaring libraries like Brick and Polymer that sit on top of the native web component APIs will, of course, be opinionated and do things a bit differently. However, the workflow for consuming components will be similar across the board. Something like `bower install brick-carousel polymer-tabs`. Then use the elements in your pages.
Dang! I'm sure they'll discontinue it soon, seeing as how there's no point for both Zite and Flipboard to exist under the same company.

I stopped using Zite because it didn't allow you to read things offline, and I think they still haven't added that. But if mobile data isn't a concern for you, I like Zite's interface better than all the rest. It's just so...not gimmicky. (I use Taptu now, which is alright.)
Flipboard buys Zite
hmmm... thanks I was looking for that.

I still don't understand how this is enforceable. BUt at least we know have a ballpark range for the unlimited license.
Damn, I really liked Zite 100x better than Flipboard.
With these things, there is someone you can talk to that controls the service. If you lose access to your online bank account, then you can call up your bank and have them manually reset it. Since they have alternate trust channels for alternate ways of doing things, (you can check your balance and make transfers by phone in most cases) you can just reuse them to regain access. (God help you if you lose your Gmail account, though)

Apple's devices are fully in your control after you buy them. If you lose access to a perfectly working device then it's your own damn fault. It's your own damn fault in the other cases too, it's just that the nature of the services provided mean you can go also go through a person.

But if you buy a safe, lock it, and subsequently lose all normal access to it, don't bitch to me when you have to ruin it to get back in. It's just doing its job, and you failed to do yours. Suck it up, buy a new safe, and be more careful next time.
It sounds reasonable to me. They have provided evidence that the woman has died, and that she left an iPad. Apple is asking for a legal declaration that it is this iPad and this iTunes account.

"We've provided the death certificate, will and solicitor's letter but it wasn't enough. They've now asked for a court order to prove that mum was the owner of the iPad and the iTunes account.

The survivors are balking at the £200/hr for the solicitor to make that happen.

So it appears there is a path for an executor to gain control of an iTunes account and iOS devices, but it requires a legal verification from the courts. Anything less would be open to abuse.

Note to self: make a mechanism for my survivors to unlock my keychain, because that is really going to suck for them in my case.
"Males born after December 31, 1959 must have registered with the Selective Service."

This caught my eye. So does it exclude US citizens who have never registered with Selective Service ? For example, what if someone is a naturalized citizen but got the citizenship at the age of 30 ?
Yes, I shall submit "linksys".
Note: I wasn't trying to be snarky with the "scare quotes"...I saw this job posting on a mailing list, in which it was described as "technical lead", which seems more inviting and seems closer to the actual role and responsibilities, even if the official bureaucratic title is "IT Specialist" (which, maybe it's just me, seems inextricable from the connotation of "person who fixes the fax machine")

Edit: In the email, the sender says this:

> I think this position will be incredibly important in moving open data to the next level, you'd get to work with one of the creators of the open 311 standard, and you'd get to open untold amounts of information to the public.
Why do you choose to play the game then? Who is forcing your hand?
Don't worry, we will!
What purpose would have been served by imprisoning this person? Is the general public better off / safer if he's behind bars? Is he a threat to the welfare of others? Was anyone injured (physically, monetarily or otherwise) by his actions? What benefit are we achieving to counterbalance the cost of imprisoning him?

"We need to enforce the law because it's the law so we need to enforce it" is shitty, circular reasoning. This is the exact reason we have judges and juries in the first place: to interpret laws so they don't get blindly applied in places where they don't benefit us.
U.S. law has moved away from that idea:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural

But it should still be straightforward to make laws saying that the tags on a vehicle are a particular type of information and then restrict the way that businesses are allowed to use it.
Ah, i didn't realize that you were referring to a completely different article. I read that one and have to say i think you're not seeing the subtle differentiation he is making. He is not against shareware altogether.

He's slightly annoyed that the game doesn't outright explain that it's a shareware/demo/whatever, which is a reasonable complaint when you keep in mind that many other games do this by having their demos labeled "Lite" or similar.
You're right that there is a big social aspect to mathematics that has bitten people in the butt many times throughout history.

But to say that an "observation of reality" should have any effect on existing mathematics is silly. Though mathematics might take inspiration from the physical world, it is removed from it by design. When some observation of reality disagrees with mathematics, that usually means the mathematical framework in question needs to be generalized or specialized, not altered.

This has happened over the years, for example, with measure theory, Fourier analysis, Lie theory, computational complexity theory, and many others.
I have always wondered that why we cannot make intangibles like happiness, emotions as a currency. Even though they are more often than not treated as the real wealth a person can have, we have never ever been able to count these intangibles and store them.

Of course this seems to be an absurd idea at first. But, lets try to think about it, doesn't matter how ridiculous or implausible this might sound.

My mind goes back to the movie "In Time", where time was treated as currency, something on which your life depended, literally.

Can't the smartest people on this planet, think of some thing absolutely fascinating, that may let us, mortal people gather our happiness and maybe able to trade it.

Consider for example that someone who helps people out, people who may not have enough money, but who have the intention to bless that person. Can't that person count/take the blessings and become rich in process.

If this is possible, their might a big motivation for everyone to do good, help people out, get their genuine blessings ...

I know this all sounds really crazy!! Just wanted to dish my thoughts out :)
Stop broadcasting a unique identifier unencrypted on a public unliscensed band into the middle of your street, then.

Google is doing nothing wrong here.
> And how will that help if someone dies suddenly?

I've sorted my affairs out. I have a keypassX database and master passwords listed my will.

I take it you read the rest of my last post -- I have dealt with this.

Most people amble through life and never ask the question "what if?". If they do ask it, they light another cigarette rather than put mitigation in place. That is naivety and people need to snap out of it, pretty damn quick. The world is a big and complicated place and if you don't want to leave a pile of pain and suffering for people if you do decide to walk in front of a train or something then you need to sort it out.

No excuses.

Sorry.

As for Apple, they have no obligation to do anything. The device is an asset (tangible) and the will probably states about transferring them and the contract and terms are with the person who signed it. In this circumstance, they will cause themselves problems if they act and say yes here you go or no chance. I'm sure the Apple Account which is the issue wasn't even mentioned in the will or signatory's asset declaration.

Doomed either way.

Apple chose the right answer: mu (i.e. no answer).
How about you "fuck off". This opt-out shouldn't even be an option, listing public APs is well within everyone's rights.
No. If there's someone on the street outside my home whose lost and can't get a GPS signal, I want them to stay lost!

Even though I'm happy with my AP broadcasting it's identity in the clear, the idea that anyone else might find that useful is just wrong and infringes on my privacy or something.

Screw those guys!
CrowdProcess, browser-powered distributed computing platform.
I keep my SSID hidden. Not sure if that "blocks" Google from using it or not.
I think it's interesting because it's a position for ostensibly advancing the U.S. government's open data initiatives, and the skills they foresee as being necessary (Python, Postgres, PHP, among others). Besides that, I'm kind of curious as to what it's like to be in a non-traditional tech role in the government, and one that almost seems likely to cross into political territory.
What's with the scare quotes? Are you suggesting it was not an accident?
If a normal person would face unjust charges and a famous, powerful person doesn't, equality isn't achieved by enforcing unjust charges on everyone, it's achieved by not enforcing them on anyone.
Easy enough with DD-WRT I imagine, on most NICs you can set an arbitrary MAC. Sadly didn't work for the pile of Chinese ones I have that all use the same one.
Fair enough. I tried in my youth to solve every problem I came across. There were many I couldn't solve. It took a while before I developed the wisdom and discipline not to solve every problem no matter how long it took. By a while I mean decades. I sacrificed the possibility of family life, have stopped talking to my uncomprehending stepfather, and have kept my social interactions to an absolute minimum to pursue my consuming interest. (I mention this as a point of pride.) I find myself continually astonished by the ingenuity of solutions I probably could never have imagined after years of work. Perhaps, after a lifetime of effort that must be continually maintained, I have attained the level an entering freshman at Harvard. At this stage, I may be reduced at best to connoisseurship of some aspects of mathematics.

Now for some reflections on attitudes. Mathematicians sometimes act as if they believe that expertise in mathematics transfers to expertise in mathematics education. Suppose you are a sensitive student, lacking in confidence. You open Korner's beautiful book on Fourier Analysis, and the first thing you are greeted with is "This book is meant neither as a drill book for the successful student nor as a lifebelt for the unsuccessful student." Korner does not mention other references suitable for the successful and the unsuccessful student. You take this comment to mean that Korner would let the unsuccessful student drown. There is no implication, but this is the psychological import, the implicature. Why mention the unsuccessful student at all? Why not say who the book is for, without planting this gratuitous image in the reader's mind? It would take some time to return to this book, to get past the wonder at a mind capable of such an incidental, dismissive, off-handed acknowledgement of "the unsuccessful student."

You could say this is "overthinking." Such remarks, microagressions as they are termed today, "perpetrated against those due to gender, sexual orientation, and ability status", are sometimes revealed in the asides of mathematical authors [1].

And now if only mathematics educators would evaluate their students on the state of their confusion!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microaggression
Should this technique technically work for the failure of two motors too (assuming the remaining motors are opposite)? Or would it be impossible to build up the inertia for a stable spin? If motors could rotate, could it even fly on one? ... so many questions, maybe I should just build one.
I was going for the use of "run" in a non-exclusive manner on another platform.
Don't Twitter frown on auto-following? To the extent of banning developers who implement it, I thought.
That would be semi-trivial seeing as how changing your mac is easy with Linux and many of the access points run Linux. The hard part would be reconnecting all of the clients each time you change the mac address.