skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article mentions competitive parity in the NBA, but that's not true at all. There is no competitive parity now, and has never been. You merely have the same teams passing the title around.

In the last 30 years, only eight teams have won a title. Seven teams combined for 29/30 of those. The same teams are winning over and over and over. So examining the last ten years is meaningless when that is what's happening, you'll get a false sense of parity by seeing it shared among six teams in ten years (as though six different teams win every decade).

The bottom 15 to 20 teams in the NBA can never, and will never win a title under any circumstances. There is zero competitive parity. In 30 years, only one team has won a solo stand-out title, and that's the Dallas Mavericks.

One other problem with this article, they say that U.S. sports gambling has been estimated at $800 billion (it hasn't), and then they link to an article that doesn't say that at all. That number doesn't even come close to passing a common-sense test. The link is referring to world-wide sports gambling.
Exactly! That's what i thought. Mailing a password to a user on changing it is maybe not the safest, but it does not mean it saves it plaintext to the database. They can just send out an e-mail when updating the password to the database and then never use the plaintext version anymore.
The case where you get your new password by mail when you just changed it does not necessarily mean it is stored in plain text. They could keep it around in memory just long enough to send it by mail.

Doesn't mean it is a good idea though.
Reminds me of this youtube clip that gives an example of exactly what you mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ4c54rCJ_k
It's exactly what you'd expect:

"The 2010 World Cup generated $3.66 billion in revenue for FIFA while expenses equaled just $1.30 billion according to their own financial documents. That is a nice little profit of $2.36 billion, up 7.3% from 2006 and 22.8% from 2002."

"If the 2014 World Cup shows a similar rate of increase, FIFA will profit approximately $2.61 billion from the tournament."

http://www.businessinsider.com/fifa-profit-world-cup-2014-6
How to Stop Facebook From Selling Your Browser History
"Ceiling Unlimited", by Rush.
Search and rescue missions? People could tell the drone operator how to help.
Scrape all the URLs from that website. Then write a browser extension that looks up the current tab's URL and turns red if it matches one of those domains. Use PRs to manage addition/subtraction of offenders to the list. Now even grandma knows when a website doesn't save your password safely and shaming them will have more impact.
RunPee – Because movie theaters don't have pause buttons
I don't even think intelligence itself is understood.we have very few things to compare human intelligence to. And there's many known cases of "less intelligent" species accomplishing things that "more intelligent" species cant. (Eg. Humans cant organize like ants can, though ants cant do calculus as far as we know)

So without knowing how to measure intelligence or what high intelligence is. I don't think I can have an opinion on if intelligence is fixed.
Just use a unique password every time and rest easy.
For all the crap they do, they still deliver a better end product to the fans than what we have here in Greek football. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_league. Just look at the statistics section. Why bother being a sports fan if the outcome is so easily predicted? Parity between teams should be the goal of all league head offices.
> People are worried about credit rating but medical bills are excluded from that.

This is dangerously wrong misinformation:

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit/will-unpaid-medical-b...

It's also worth noting the major proposed legal reform for the medical debt / credit score issue, the Medical Debt Responsibility Act is primarily about removing paid medical debt from credit reports:

http://consumerist.com/2013/03/28/consumerist-readers-make-t...

AFAICT, it doesn't change anything with respect to unpaid medical debt.
"The further you get from the government’s original data, and the more consumer facing the forecasts, the worse this bias becomes. Forecasts “add value” by subtracting accuracy."

As interesting as this is, isn't it obvious that the further you get from the primary source, and the more consumer facing a report is, the less accurate it's going to be? This is the only opportunity for interested parties in the info-chain to massage the data to suit their own ends (Not necessarily nefarious, just selfish). If it's going to happen, this is where it will happen.

After all, we take the news we see on TV with a cellar of salt, so why would we believe the weather?
At one click distance for any Mac developer:

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...
There are some ways to do that sort of thing safely, for some value of 'safe', but they're non-trivial. Sticking the plaintext passwords in a database row is trivial. Which do you think is more common? :-(
Swede here. As far as reconciliation goes, from my understanding it's basically just making sure whatever's listed in the app and what's on your internetbank matches up. YNAB does this quite well, letting you edit transactions if something does not match, and marking a post as reconciled (i.e. it matches up to your bank statement). Good summation here: http://www.youneedabudget.com/support/article/how-to-reconci...

Also, we went to school together :) Good job on the app, congrats on HN first page!
C++ design goals in the context of Rust
Boss tunes...
Best practices for distributed teams
It would have had more of an emotional impact if I hadn't checked in on it now and again over the last few years, and essentially "grieved" already by realising how uninteresting it had become. Largely because I have so many other channels to discover interesting stuff without the chaff of a new version of yet another irc client.

Also, when they tried to transition away from "Freshmeat", I pretty much accepted it was over...
It seems that most of these just send you your password as confirmation (or a temp one after requesting password recovery). Even assuming the best case scenario that these are just password confirmation emails, it still bothers me that my password would now be in my email as plaintext.
Seems very nice (congrats on shipping!) but for the love of god please change the app icon.
And simple interface waiting for improvement [here](https://github.com/radubogdan/node-offliberty)
Also, proactive mass surveillance, combined with a legal system that ensures that virtually everyone is guilty of some crime, combined with prosecutorial discretion, gives the government the ability to avoid due process while on the surface appearing to be following due process. And note that the United States has all three of those requirements.
Its a little scary how big that list is.

My concern is that this is a great source of websites with poor security for potential hackers to exploit.
You can still do Integration Testing with the system as a whole, although it is supposed to be done after Unit Testing. The disadvantage due to absence of Unit Testing will be that it will be difficult it isolate bugs found during Integration Testing. For websites, we use Selenium all the time.
Ohloh might be good alternative if it was not so focused on tracking metrics and contributors rather than information more interesting to users.
Of these people you know, how would most of them react initially if they received an unexpected letter or phone call from the IRS?
Search is a feature missing on the brew website.

Speaking of search, I wish there were a brew search on the project description instead of just the name of the project.
I noticed if i imagined hearing. "they can't if you should sell her, is that the next step" instead, and told myself it was that. I went through similar mental processing. This probably fits into the memory/prediction model explained by Jeff Hawkins. the mind is a layer of interpretation over the world but also fills bits in.
As I understand it, the policy is that only emails that should be permanent, official records are supposed to be saved - and the judgement of what those are is left up to the individual employee. If you're someone investigating that employee, you're not going to trust that judgment. You'd want to see all of the employee's emails - even ones about lunch plans and carpool arrangements. Not to mention going through thousands of of paper emails is likely to be even more labor-intensive than the electronic search and review so far.
Amazon Fire Phone: Does it really kindle fire?
It's more: you can only see how simple it really is once you understand it and it seems incredibly complicated until you do.

And that's incredibly frustrating for both sides of the student/teacher relationship.
There's already a Chrome Extension for it if I'm not mistaken.
Hey guys, I'm @omervk, one of the co-founders and the maintainer of PTO. Always a pleasure to be featured on the front page of HN.

You're welcome to ask me questions, though we've covered most on our about page (http://plaintextoffenders.com/about). The one we haven't is usually "Is there an API/better search/new site coming?" to which the answer is that we're both doing this in our spare time and though we really want to create something better to host this very important content, we can't spare the time. If you've got time and want to volunteer to create this new site, please let me know. :)
Its a fair point; the Amazon app is perfectly suitable for showrooming, but i think the Fire handset takes it to the next level and opens opportunities for tech based on visual identification, sizing and comparisons. Already, there are apps being developed that use the depth perception functions to size the users shoes, and apply these dimensions to the sizing categories of various manufacturers, abstracting the sizing differences between brands. With 4 front-facing cameras, this kind of app will only improve.
There's also a theory that a period of non-standard warming at the beginning of a glaciation period will possibly cause a faster eventual cooling, and possibly a more severe glaciation, especially in Europe. Mostly due to altered ocean currents such as the "Great Ocean Conveyor".

Pretty sure this has been modelled, but it's still being debated.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/05...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermohaline_circulation#Effect...
Are you sure? I read that the majority of Americans was pro Marriage Equality, for example.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/support-for-same-sex-...
I thought everyone knew this was happening and that it started shortly after 911 when there were some Anthrax postal attacks in the US - hence all the insistance on people including a return address on all mail and mailrooms being cautious about mail with no return address.
OK, I don't get it, at all.

I have tried to paste random URLs and they all return "Offliberating this URL is not possible yet."

What is this for? Am I missing something?

edit:
Now I pasted this link

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/even-as-marijuana-gai...

and it returned links to two random PDFs from the article.

I still have no idea what is this for. I guess it's not for me...?

edit2: Oh, now I got it. It's for ripping videos from youtube. I guess.
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Because the Miami heat and the San Antonio Spurs were such great teams back in the 80's and 90's?
From Wikipedia: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NBA_franchise_post-se...
"Of the 30 current NBA franchises, 13 have never won the NBA championship. The oldest such franchise is the Suns (46 seasons), while the Royals/Kings and the Hawks have even longer championship droughts (63 and 56 seasons, respectively). Only 7 franchises have never been to the NBA Finals, the oldest of which is the Braves/Clippers (44 seasons), and again the Kings and the Hawks have appearance droughts that are even longer (63 and 56 seasons, respectively). The longest a franchise has gone without appearing in the playoffs at all is 15 seasons: the Braves/Clippers franchise from 1977 to 1991."

Only 7 teams have not been to the finals. That's not awful.
I disagree, because simply having a government database of this ostensibly public information is still not a threat, if the government will not take any actions which would be unacceptable regardless of whether the database existed. To use an extreme example, say there is an advocacy organization which the government decides they don't like. I'll use the ACLU just as an arbitrary familiar example. They could use their postal database to find all the people that have written letters to the ACLU, and target them in some way. It could be something extreme, like throwing them all in jail, or something more subtle, like using the IRS to audit them. Now, I think we can agree that this action is unacceptable. But the thing is, this action would still be unacceptable even if they didn't have or use the database. If they simply sent a government official to your house, asked you if you were involved with the ACLU, and arrested you if you said yes, that would clearly not be a violation of privacy, but it would clearly be unacceptable.

So I don't really see the scanning of the outside faces of letters to be a privacy issue. But I reserve the right to be appalled at the things the government might do and probably already does with this information, independent of how they acquired the information.
That was #&<%ing awesome!
How is it a straw man if your leadership announced the intention to make deeps cuts in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program?
How Kunal Bahl's Snapdeal scaled a valuation of $1 billion in two years
Amazing. Orwell was just wrong about WHEN we'd all be under government surveillance.

OK, maybe its not that bad yet. But when we realize its as bad as he predicted, it will be too late.

Relax, chicken. The hot tub you are in isn't boiling you yet.
Why is any terrorism not just "crime"?

Call it what you want: if we have no records of where mail was sent from and where it got delivered too over a medium-scale timeframe, we are seriously limiting any ability to deal wit this type of activity effectively.

The term "letter bomb" is a real thing that was and still is really done.
That's not completely true.

I have personal knowledge of a Children's Hospital taking the home of the parents of a 13 month old infant who received a liver transplant and had ran up at 3 million dollar bill in the hospital.

A little backstory -- I love to volunteer. Fire/EMS, STEM, Kids, you name it, if it's a cause that I support, I'll generally be there with a bell if I've got the free time. One of my non profits that I do a fair amount of technical and 'feel-good' work is a foundation that caters to small children who have terminal or other serious illnesses and helps their family out.

One night in 2013, a rather distraught woman came in saying that Children's had placed a lien on her home because of the unpaid medical bills; apparently, they had moved, civil service sucks in Ohio, and had a default judgement against them. New collections company comes in, finds this family, and then places a lien on her homes, car, and gets a court order to garnish their bank account.

Ultimately, it took a pro-bono attorney about 80 hours to get the entire mess cleaned up. Today, the little guy is almost 4 and the family has a clean title on their home and car, and as long as she keeps less than $2K in her checking account at all times and only has the one home and one car, Children's will never come after her for the money that is owed, and in 3 years, they'll wipe away the debt.
Hi, I'm @hmemcpy, @omervk's partner in crim^H^H^Hplaintextoffending :)

One of Such Volunteers (wow!) made a Chrome Extension that scrapes addresses from PTO and shows you a red banner if you're on a site that's featured PTO!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/plain-text-offende...
And pay no tax! Thanks FIFA!
I'm sure this isn't the first chess site that is accessible to the VI, but it would be useful to see feedback from other visually impaired people who are using the site.
Do terrorists put a correct return address on the mail and use a local mailbox?

Or do they forge a return address and use a distant mailbox?

Mail data didn't catch the unabomber - has it caught anyone?
Apart from the secrecy yadda yadda yadda ... is there anything in the content that might be of concern?
Israel Gets Its First Bitcoin ATM
Drone.vc, request for companies, and the first problem posted is "better audio". Seriously? No one is working on it because there are approximately a million and one drone related problems that are actually worth solving!

Solve the perching problem, or the loss of control channel problem, or better image tracking or make them quieter or smaller or bigger or faster or can fly higher or can carry heavier payload or...

But what do I know? Clearly it is the sound that is holding back drone companies from delivering VC level returns.
Are you trying to make some baroque point that I'm missing, or am I giving you too much credit, i.e. you're actually just ranting incoherently about climate change conspiracy and Randian selfishness-as-virtue?

Or, option 3, are you just trolling?
Look at it like this: if you need an IDE to get code written, things have gone off the rails. Most Android developers would be absolutely useless without code completion ..
At the top right of the document:

"""Declassify on: Five years from entry
into force of the TISA
agreement or, if no
agreement enters into
force, five years from the
close of the negotiations."""
I've tried three different URLs and none of them seems to work.

What's the catch?
There's an interesting book called On Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins, which tries to explain how intelligence works based on the "memory-prediction framework" (see Wikipedia). It's a very accessible book, and well worth a read if you have the time.
It seems to let you download MP4s from YouTube moderately easily (I determined this from the node-offliberty package, in the comments below). Beyond that, I have no idea. I think this could be a candidate for the worst explained and executed web site to hit the frontpage of HN in a good while.
Interesting concept although I would make it clearer on the homepage who the target audience is - 'for your business' is a little generic.
I have never seen evidence that fly-aways area used by anything other than basic misuse, namely, not verifying that there is a GPS signal before flying. Granted, I think software changes could mitigate this, and I think I remember hearing that DJI released an update along these lines).

Still, misuse of plenty of things can have a probability of killing someone. Automobiles are the most obvious example. Bicycles are a great example, since they can be had for similar prices and similar restrictions (i.e. basically none) as quadcopters. Even a baseball propelled from a bat can kill someone at least as easily (and I would argue much more easily) as a DJI Phantom.
Even if it's not stored at their end in plaintext it's a security issue that it's emailed in plaintext.
Clickable: http://leadify.in/
The linked article does say "cervids tend To follow an extremely regular cycle of consumption, rumination and defecation (Oldemeyer & Franzmann, 1981; Dinerstein & Dublin, 1982), pellet group counts inevitably provide some indication of the habitats utilized regularly by a species". One of those references, "Oldemeyer & Franzmann, 1981" spends a large amount of time discussing how they correlate the "pellet count" with the actual defecation amount, and it's not as simple as "Caribou defecate where they ruminate, not standing on the snow.".

[1] http://alcesjournal.org/index.php/alces/article/viewFile/117...
I suppose the only downside is the list of reformed sites using improved password security appears to rely on user verification and submission, so the list may not always be up to date - but it's certainly better than not knowing at all. Kudos to the extension maker.
Yeah, I found that out too, by googling the name of the website.

It probably works for ripping videos from other websites, too.

I have no idea why is this at the frontpage.

edit: yep, it works for ripping the videos from wapost too.

pasting

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/national/shiite-turkmen...

links to the URL of the mp4 file. Well, I guess it's kinda useful.
Well, strange website! It seems to work only with YouTube or Dailymotion (and similar media sites)?? It gave me links to mp3 and mp4 files.
FYI the normal spelling of that word is 'gibberish'.

Seems odd that that site would let an article through with a repeated spelling error, but it's an easy one to make.
If you have enough written content that you've placed online, the US government can identify you anyway. A person's writing style and specific use of function words is their handwriting for the digital time. Creepy/cool linguistics.
Exploiting Wildcard Expansion on Linux
Leaves blow around in the wind. If water was not being repelled from the underneath of the leaf, it would gain added weight, and have the potential of anchoring the leaf in the wrong direction. Repelling water from the underneath of the leaf keeps the leaf light, which allows the rest of the plant structure to support the leaf in the proper orientation.
Why not index preprints, which are generally available via OAI harvesting?

I'm not following the field closely at the moment, but I'm pretty sure PLOS at least has an OAI interface too.
It doesn't change anything about the fact that only eight teams in 30 years have won the title, and seven have taken 29 of those. That's an extreme dynasty system. They clearly have nothing but an illusion of competition in which the radical majority of teams can never win.

Compare it to the NFL of the last 30 years. 16 individual teams have won Super Bowls during that time.

Or compare it to the MLB. 17 teams have won the World Series in 30 years.

That 30 years represents the modern NBA, since the merger, Magic and Bird sent ratings soaring, and Jordan + the rise of global media changed everything about the league.

Now you've got Chris Paul shuttled off to LA in a market-stuffing trade, you've got star players like Melo eager to join up with dynasties like the Heat, and other players like Kevin Love that can't get out of the backwater fast enough. They all know how the league works now.
Does it matter? Don't forget that existence is essence!
But that has nothing to do with the fact that just because the site emails you a password doesn't mean that they store the password in plaintext. The catch here is that if they email the password upon the user having entered it (made an account or changed their password, or had password generated for them, ...). If user requests a lost password and it's returned in plaintext, then one can be sure that the password isn't being stored in proper way.

HN does this too, by the way. If you request a new password for an account, it's being sent in plaintext. No problem here, what comes to storing it.
I tried it with facebook.com and it returned an MP3 file , that when I try to download it , it says file not found, the weirdest website ever .
I had to laugh
Have a look at http://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-models.htm (there are many other links available, but that one has a nice graph of the data from "The Copenhagen Diagnosis" [1]).

The correlation between the recorded satellite data and the previous 9 years of IPCC predicted data shows that the models are, if anything, conservative.

There's more up to date data in the IPCC 2014 report [2] as far as I know.

EDIT: Please note that IPCC web resources are terrible for searching. They have linked powerpoint documents and PDFs, but it's very hard to just search the data from their front end. Does anyone know of a nice HTML version of all of the IPCC resources?

[1] http://www.copenhagendiagnosis.com/

[2] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg2/