skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You could also trip in a staircase and die. I'd wager the outcomes are about equally likely.

This is actually quantifiable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort. According to this article.

6 miles by motorbike, 17 miles by walking 10 miles (or 20 miles, there seems to be disagreement) by bicycle and 230 miles by car are all approximately the same risk of death. Stairs isn't mentioned specifically.

Also I think there's a pretty good argument for stopping with a helmet. I don't have any data but I strongly suspect that it's the single best thing you can do to decrease risk of death.
It also noted that currency conversion is the most sophisticated issue in unification as the exchange rate would be largely conditioned on political negotiations and social consensus.

Somehow I doubt that currency conversion is the most sophisticated issue. The nuclear-powered dictatorship is also going to require a few brainstorm sessions.
As someone with over 14 years of experience in the industry, as an affiliate marketer and then the maintainer of the most widely used open source tracking and analytics software for affiliates, it's surprising to me how many startups choose to not leverage the affiliate marketing community as a powerful traction and growth channel.

I don't post much, but based on what I see here, many startups would be 10x more likely to succeed if they knew how to correctly leverage the affiliate channel for traction and growth.

One of many things Teespring did right was to build features into the platform that enabled affiliates/marketers to profitably test, optimize and scale their tee shirt campaigns.

For example, the ability for marketers to easily place their Facebook conversion/retargeting pixels on the Teespring site, meant that affiliates now had the visibility needed to profitably spend their own money promoting Teespring campaigns via paid acquisition channels (mainly Facebook ads).

I'll agree partly with you and say that there's a segment of the affiliate community that you want to stay away from, and I'm sure Teespring has their share of trouble affiliates. Unfortunately, the rotten apples are usually the most visible and make the whole community look bad.

Here's what I see is needed to help solve some of these problems:

1. More transparency into the affiliate marketing channel. Startups need to feel comfortable knowing that they are not working with affiliates that use unauthorized marketing methods and messaging.

2. Affiliates need to be more comfortable knowing that they are not going to be cut out once a business sees the successful methods being used by affiliates to drive sales, leads, growth etc. Teespring's model actually does a lot to protect affiliates and the designers that use their platform because the interests of both parties are closely aligned.

3. Startups need more education about the affiliate marketing community and the best ways to leverage affiliates as a traction channel. It's unfortunate, but the comment from @dsugarman is a perfect example of what can go wrong while Teespring shows what can go right. They basically turned every single person who designs a shirt on their platform into an affiliate, and gave them all the tools and support they needed to succeed.
This is why PBKDF2 would have made more sense then. They can centrally authenticate, derive a secondary token from the original pass while specifying the max limit for each of those services. Best of all, this means the mail, UNIX login etc... need not have the same login token.
For those who wonder why, this seems to be a decent explanation of the issue:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-Septe...

So you can have ZFS pools with 4K blocks, it's just if you've chosen 512-bytes at the start, you're going to struggle
I don't hate it, but I'd love to just have Lucida back.
Everyone is guessing if they are storing in plaintext or not. But that isn't the actual issue to learn from their mistake. They have publicly asserted what they are doing (which is great information for a hacker), and chose a bad way to attempt to force users to reset their passwords because of a compromise. I would feel better if it was an email directly to mcgill faculty / staff. If you are building out a user management system, you need a way to disable accounts and force a password reset.

You never want to convey any information about the usernames, password, or state of the account _ever_. This is true for error messages during login, but can be applied to any messaging.
Oddly it seems there is an obscure language called THP

http://www.byteflex.com/thp/thpmain.html

although the THP in the article seems a typo of PHP
Just the US military mission in South Korea costs $1.1 billion a year. Dealing with the North Korean situation would make most of that spending completely unneeded.
Ensuring physical security of CA private keys is expensive. This requires things like sturdy padlocks, closed-circuit security cameras, and up-to-date hardware and software.

These are the things you pay for when you buy a certificate from a CA. In fact, I would be 100% opposed to obtaining my website's cert from a CA if it were free-of-charge, because I know good physical security is expensive. However, I already trust the EFF and the Umich researchers (and their assurances of physical security), so I'm absolutely happy with obtaining a free certificate from them.
As to my knowledge, most industries became obsolete after reunification, since they only built and developed state sanctioned products that wasn't needed after that event.
What the OP is probably trying to say is that politicians will push for mandatory helmet wearing, all in the name of safety. Some cyclists will comply, while others will stop riding altogether resulting in less cyclists on public streets.
EFF Statement on the Senate Failing to Advance the USA Freedom Act
What a sensationalist reaction to a sensationalist article.

> These people are scum. Uber was a neat app, but I have PLENTY of alternatives these days.

You won't consider them only because alternatives exist? What are you trying to say there?
Do they also design their own components? Because that's what we're talking about here.
Same here, it's idiotic.
Uber is quite ok and i have not felt any of the problems which any of the news articles are reporting.
I posted an identical post about this 12 days ago, check it out:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8565400
Do you think that with public key pinning self-signed certs begin to make sense? Also, do you feel that CAs and the PKI system do provide appropriate authentication (this being a cost-benefit rather than a 100%-correctness analysis)?
> JS the language of the future? Why? It has probably the worst gotchas of any language I've coded in, it's verbose, and weird scoping. Nor is it especially nice to optimize for/with.

You're looking at it from a technical perspective, and from a technical perspective JS is an awful language.

It may be a turd. But it's the only sandboxed-by-default, zero-install, reasonably-fast, free, preinstalled-on-every-machine turd that we have.
Even without the flow analysis and better typing, incremental compilation is a huge improvement over TypeScript, which re-parses type declarations on every compilation. That quickly leads to large compile times when you have type definitions for third-party components (even though you may only be using one definition in the file, the entire definition is parsed).

The existing available definitions from the DefinitelyTyped project is a huge productivity booster. Apparently Flow also has similar .d.flow files, but it will probably be a while until they exist for common projects.
That's what the helmet is for! ;-)

I used to reach out my hands when falling, but now I tuck them in and lead with my shoulder. that was my first major fall, but it's something that I would repeat to myself in my head while riding. In the aforementioned case, I was falling sideways and forwards. I suppose if I were leading with my head I would try to break the fall with my hands. I don't know; it all comes down to muscle memory, subliminal reaction, and how bad I'm freaking out at the time.
We are using https://github.com/go-pg/pg for Postgres with some luck, but I think the standard is https://github.com/lib/pq. We are also developing a driver for Orient DB with the goal of it being production ready.
As far as I can tell, once you've downloaded the 64-bit app, you can launch it instead of the older version and it's an exact drop-in replacement. For example, all my open tabs were restored in the 64-bit process, as they had been in the 32-bit one.
RubyGems.org gets a fancy new design
this is in no way more secure.... there's a bijection... any password that an attack wants to try they just double so instead of bruteforcing [aab, aac,aad] just [aabaab, aacaac, aadaad] the only reason this makes sense to do is to annoy users into changing their password
Netflix confirms Australia launch for March 2015
It's customary to give the option when there's an option. If you go to the Chrome download page, there is no longer any option to download the 32-bit version.
http://pando.com/2014/11/17/the-moment-i-learned-just-how-fa...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/11/18/sarah-lacy-ube...

All this overreacting and exaggeration is getting to me. Such terrible writing and she really is going overboard with all this.
> Where do people buy things? Where are all the stores that aren't little shops?

They buy them at the little shops.

> and lack of overall consumerism.

Feature, not bug.
I think you might be able to do that with this: https://github.com/schreiberstein/lucidagrandeyosemite
The North Koreans already accept reunification.

Except that they assume South Korea will be unified into the DPRK under the leadership of Kim Jong Un.
Even without North Korea, I can't imagine the US giving up a military base within spitting distance of mainland China anytime soon.

More American troops are stationed in Germany than in Korea, and Germany has been united for over 20 years.
Reminds me of some of the ideas in Snow Crash (spoiler alert.) To boil it down with some minor edits:

> "Bear with me. This language--the mother tongue--is a vestige of an earlier phase of human social development. Primitive societies were controlled by verbal rules called me. The me were like little programs for humans. [...] The Sumerian word for 'mind,' or 'wisdom,' is identical to the word for 'ear.' That's all those people were: ears with bodies attached. Passive receivers of information."

> "But Enki was different. [...] He was, actually, the first modern man, a fully conscious human being, just like us. At some point, Enki realized that Sumer was stuck in a rut. People were carrying out the same old me all the time, not coming up with new ones, not thinking for themselves. I suspect that he was lonely, being one of the few--perhaps the only--conscious human being in the world." [...]

> "Some probably did [die]. Everyone else had to use their higher brains and figure it out. So you might say that the nam-shub of Enki was the beginnings of human consciousness--when we first had to think for ourselves. It was the beginning of rational religion, too, the first time that people began to think about abstract issues like God and Good and Evil."
So, in other words, this is an elaborate prank?
Could someone give more background on this? Is the reunification something that's on the table now, is this just planning and hoping? It would be great to see that happen, it'd be great to hear from someone who knows more about this issue.
> Please throw away your helmet and get a new one; they are only rated to be in one accident.

Other than Reddit style white knighting why did you say this?

You are basically defaulting to the OP is to stupid to know helmets are one use only, which is common knowledge.
If you know you can't get suitable replacements, it's an easy problem - copy the data to a new pool and retire the old one. In this case, since the part number didn't change, there was no way to know.

Sector size is a pretty fundamental property of a disk drive.
Back in my day (old man grumble) the system would force you to change your password on next login. Simple, effective.

This approach is just a dumb prank.
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for the love of God finally!
NSA Reform Stalls, Rand Paul Votes No
> But by the same measures you can claim bicycle helmets are important, they would be just as important for walkers as cyclists.

Because, of course, walkers are elevated and moving at 20 to 30 km/h on an inherintly unstable platform.
Strange that nowhere in the article does it mention that LHR only has two parallel runways. Compare to other hubs. E.g. Atlanta's ATL has five, and Dallas's DFW has seven.

As Wikipedia puts it [1]:

With only two runways, operating at over 98%
of their capacity, Heathrow has little room
for more flights

It's hard to be "the" hub airport until that problem is solved.

Edit: just looked up Amsterdam's AMS runway situation. They have six. It's hard for me to understand how someone writes an article like this without understanding such very very basic facts.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathrow#Regulation
I don't wear a helmet in my car because I drive the speed limit. Race car drivers wear helmets in their cars because they go very fast.

It's a matter of degree. Many random accidents could probably have been prevented by helmets, but we do not advise pedestrians to wear them.
Most of the industrial production means was sold to western capital in the early 90s by the Treuhandanstalt (trust agency), and the companies were closed.

Edit: this was of course one of the biggest waves of privatization Germany has seen. The English Wikipedia has a bit more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treuhand
A public defender of my acquaintance has a client who's in prison for a murder he definitely did not commit, because the police showed him a bunch of entirely falsified evidence, snowed him into thinking he'd gone crazy and then forgotten afterwards, and took down his bewildered "I guess I did do it" as a confession.
> Troll harder.

Please don't bait other users, even when they seem to you to be trolling.
I've been devoting myself for a while now to an approach to thinking that seems along the lines of Grothendieck's project (as described in the blog), where difficulty should only come in defining the framework to work within, while work within the framework is easy.

In defining a framework, fundamentally you are coming up with a set of types and describing how things of these types are able to interact with one another; if it's a framework that's easy to work with, the number of types, relations, and operations is small (relative to other formulations). If this framework is concise, but the universe of things described by it is large, then the types must be very general. Therefore, using an approach of finding an elegant framework, rather than mastering the complexity of an inelegant framework, relies heavily on one's ability to generalize.

My issue with spending a lot of time thinking this way is that it gives me a sort of uneasy feeling... What are these super abstract generalizations? From what I can tell, this mostly comes from wondering whether with all this 'zooming out' we are getting closer to truths about the universe, or our own minds—and the latter possibility feels a little suffocating.

Anyone know any books, essays, whatever taking up that issue?
> I can substitute/add/send...

Only if you control any of the infrastructure. If you do, then you can make my life a misery anyway, encrypted or not.
Transparent money.  With an allowance
He mentions it's only in some pool configurations. I imagine there might be configurations where 512b or 4k makes a difference and isn't compatible.
Looked like there were a lot of motion detectors on the Apple Watch. Any guesses on whether they'll expose that in the SDK soon?
You're correct, and I didn't mean to make it seem as though it was an intentional process.

But historically, when one aspect of the ecosystem goes unchecked, something usually comes along to take advantage of plentiful biomass, one notable exception being humans.
Agreed. For all the hoopla, this is basically just like any other CA (but free). Until we have a truly distributed (namecoin-esque) and accepted CA structure, signed certificates may as well be pipes directly to the NSA.

That said, not having to pay some jerk for sending me an email and having me enter a code is really nice. The current CA system is a pitiful excuse for identity verification, and not having to pay for it will be nice.
Walkers hit their heads all the time. People die from it. And seat belts do not prevent brain injuries.
> If this was Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, or some other similar company? No.

Interesting. I'd say the companies you've mentioned have a better case for sharing the full story since they all are publicly traded. Reddit, on the other hand, is a private company.

> But Reddit is run on donations

Although I feel a discussion is starting to go downhill the moment it focuses on semantics, I disagree that reddit runs on donations. Reddit gold is not a donation scheme; it's a "premium membership program" [1]. There's a clear list of benefits tied to a reddit gold account. Compare this with Wikimedia Foundation donations which offer no intrinsic benefits for donors. And it's true that reddit community is responsible for keeping the company afloat. But if you think of them as loyal customers who buy a premium membership service, it's not really different from other companies.

Plus, reddit doesn't rely exclusively on premium memberships as their revenue. They also serve ads and sponsored links, and they have redditgifts Marketplace.

They indeed talked about opening ownership of the company up to their users. It hasn't happened yet, but if it will I can see how the users deserve to know the details.

As of now? I don't think they owe the users the full story.

1 - https://www.reddit.com/gold/about
The Day I Lost a Sh*t-ton of Money, Part II (trading/stock Market)
> There are 24 million people in the north. That's a mere $2,000 per year per person.

No, it's $20,000 per person, which, if spent wisely, is more than enough to give someone a decent education.
What about if you had pages open that you don't want to lose (literally hundreds of tabs)?
Ask HN: Why is the used car websites so much like 1999?
People still list on Craigslist, with dealers around. And it's incredibly hard to search on it. 3 years ago there was some "Show HN: Hipmunk for used cars" but the website is long dead. What caused this? What forbid nice and easy to use used-car-website to be build?
Because the comment was totally off-topic /s

This is a post intended to tell people to wear helmets in the first place. I don't think the target audience is likely to be aware of that tidbit either.
Wow, where I am, anything over $600 US would likely be a racing-style or mountain bike (or electric-assist or something).
Bill to Restrict N.S.A. Data Collection Blocked in Vote by Senate Republicans
I've been twice to North Korea on tours and I just don't see a true reunification happening anytime soon. This isn't like West/East Germany where both sides were still similar. North Korea is a fundamentally different country to South Korea in almost every single way. Any comparison between the two situations is stupid and naive.

There are plenty of opportunities for economic integration. But how exactly do you plan to reunify when significant parts of the North Korean government are actively against it i.e. they are doing well under the current regime. Or when the narrative has always been reunification under the DPRK banner ?

The only way any of this is happening is if China stops supporting North Korea and the UN Security Council/Agencies puts much of the government in jail for crimes against humanity. Then South Korea would effectively just take over and Pyongyang would be turned into a tourist attraction.
Last time I used Perl it went badly, but it was a typical hacked up mess.

For someone mainly in the Python/Java/C++ world is Moose something worth looking at as a mind expansion exercise? Your description makes it sound appealing.

And, dare I ask, what about Perl 6?
This is really clean and modern definately an improvement so awesome job rubygems team!

Only thoughts, I'm missing the ruby crimson color. Try document.body.style.background = '#AD141E'; orangish just doesn't say rubies to me.
Familiarity. I know its quirks inside out and therefore know which mistakes not to do. If you point me to Python and say "build a secure web app," I'm going to need to spend a lot of time researching.
or TP-Win vs Turbo-C-Win. Pascal compilation was "don't blink, or you'll miss it" vs "go get coffee...".

Go reminds me a lot of TP with garbage collection, dressed up to look like C to avoid bruising Bell Labs egos. (OK, closures and multiple return values are pretty cool, too, as are associative arrays and array slices)
Language that value strong type-safety guarantees won't respond to a request for "1" + 1 by quietly coercing one value to the other's type and moving along as if nothing strange happened. They'll generate a type mismatch error because adding an integer to a text string is undefined operation.
This looks really good. Sleek and friendly at the same time.

I just wish there was a way to bring the old dock back, then I might upgrade.
You are correct - for UX reasons you don't want to be causing people to change password unnecessarily, so a check at login for length is the obvious way to do it, informing people on an as needed basis that their password is too short. I just don't think they want short passwords on their system any more. Hence there is nothing sinister about what they are doing and how they are storing passwords. The evidence fits the scenario that they say it is.
> Phishing + guessing. I know someone who gets about 2-3 emails a week asking to enter their login info into some site in Brazil or the Czech Republic.

I think it probably has something to do with this.

https://www.mcgill.ca/it/channels/news/email-subject-interna...
> under threat of confinement

In the area of taxes, nobody is making such a threat.

As I said above, "confinement" (jail) is the one thing that that would be the one thing that can't happen for only inability to pay.

> hides the money

See, that's not what I'm talking about. By attempting to hide what would otherwise be taxable money, you are committing a different crime, which is really a type of fraud (or possibly, if a court was involved, perjury).

After facing whatever penalty there is for fraudulently filling out tax forms[1], someone who evades taxes (any way) would still owe the outstanding back taxes.... which cannot result in further jail time.

So yes, the government will make your financial life hard if you fail to pay taxes. They can (and do) coerce your property very harshly. The government should only start using coercive force against you (instead of just your property) if there are other related crimes involved.

{ For the record: this is not legal advice, see a lawyer for better information. Especially see a lawyer before attempting some sort of scheme to move money around in the hopes of hiding taxes. That is getting harder and harder to pull off in the modern "big data" world and and clever analysis techniques[2] }

[1] note: lack of filling them out still counts, as the IRS simply files a substitute tax return in your place. Obviously, they will not be filling it out in your favor. Their minimal filing doesn't even include the "standard deduction". So

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law#Accounting_frau...