skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why 8? IIRC it is now recommended to do 10-12 (at a minimum) and since it's autogenerated, might as well make it 20+chars if the site will accept it.

Also, you are assuming that Schwab rate-limits login attempts. Given their dismal password policy, do you think that's a safe/reasonable assumption?
Yes, I think tech is one of the few places in society where being awkward and nerdy does not prevent you from being highly successful :)
Could this bay some sort of shot across russia's bow?
This is good, and I love FastMail, but the one thing that really, really gladdens my heart with this is that they're pushing it as an open standard.

Thanks FastMail. Sincerely, thanks.
However, if you're forced to pick a unique password just for Schwab, it's immune from the most common [citation needed] attack on passwords. Also, it makes the Schwab password useless for hacking other databases, making user passwords a less valuable target for hackers.

I'll give you points for honesty on the [citation needed], but your entire argument hinges on this point and there's no a priori reason to follow your assumption.

Moreover, your idea of each website having a unique set of constraints to force unique passwords scales horribly from a user perspective.

10/10 for a devil's advocate answer.
Why ASICs may be good for Bitcoin
I didn't know Alastair Campbell was involved.
It may also be analogous in that the game is rigged.

Off-brand K-cups seem to sell for around $1.50-$1.70 each in a quick search. Official K-cups seem to sell for around $1.50-$1.80 each. Obviously there may be a non-price advantage to buying off-brand cups, but it's clear that they know who they are competing against. A 5lb bag of coffee from somewhere fancy is also between $1.60-$1.70 per cup. Coincidence?

Likewise, my post-paid phone bill is $60/mo and I buy a phone every so often for $199 subsidized. $1670 over the course of the two year contract. If I switch to a pre-paid plan, it's still $60/mo (for less) and the phone is now $599, for a total of $2040. Other carriers are in the same range ($50-80), most offer substantially less for that money, and basically everyone operates right around in the same price region +/- a few hundred dollars over two years.

It may be that they're all running their businesses perfectly optimized and this is what it costs to provide cell phone service and make a profit. I'm more inclined to think that this is the cost that the market will bear, and the minor variations that exist in service prices simply serve to keep a minority of the customers churning through the market in search of a better deal that doesn't exist in any significant sense.
You can use this to your advantage. The last time I was in your position, I was totally transparent with the interested parties, and it worked in my favor. ("Yes, I'm interested, but I've got to tell you that I'm inking a contract next Monday. If you can expedite me through the hiring process and make me an offer before then, I can consider it. After that, it's out of my hands.")

Offers flooded in during that final week. People who otherwise take 3 weeks to make a decision hurried up and made their offers within days. I actually ended up accepting an offer that came in about 24 hours before my deadline.
As the original article points out multiple times, recursive descent can take exponential time, even for an unambiguous grammar.
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It's pretty well known that NK is testing nuclear weapons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_North_Korean_nuclear_test

(Unless I misunderstood your question)
North Korea's Internet is being disrupted
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> or to get a huge discount

And that's the problem right there. Americans thinking they are actually getting a "huge discount" or subsidy. You are not. You're only paying the phone in monthly payments. That's it. If anything they get more money from you buying it with this "discount" than they would if you would buy it upfront. At least I think that was the case before. Now T-mobile forced all to adopt a transparent monthly payment plan for all phones, so you can easily do the math yourself to see if buying it through monthly rates is more expensive or not than paying full price upfront.

Anyway, bottom line is you're not getting a discount or subsidy.
> "Interests" is a technical term in economics which means something different from the common usage. In short, it means things you consciously seek for their own value. Love, being moral, fulfilling duties; all of these are interests in the sense economists use the term.

So what is the "utility" (sorry, I couldn't resist) of this term? It seems to be a tautology - what else could people pursue besides their "interests"? It seems circular - by definition anything people consciously do is an "interest", because humans are rational, because they pursue their interests...
First a few nitpicks

1. Walking around a gallery and waving your arms is not enough exercise
2. Incremental progress is giving us VR through Tactical Haptics, Oculus Rift, etc. He says his thing is not VR but R or dynamic R. The distinction is unclear, sounds like marketing.

I also had the idea of talking about systems, particularly political systems through models and simulations. Having spent too much time talking about politics, economics, and computer holy wars in text, it feels like a few interactive models could have saved all that time for millions of people.

That said, simulations are widely used to communicate about financial topics, mainly spreadsheets. And the effects of using spreadsheets are pretty interesting https://medium.com/backchannel/a-spreadsheet-way-of-knowledg...

People start thinking in spreadsheets. A lot of the weird merger acquisitions since the 1980's were basically caused by them. Economists already use fancier models. And as with spreadsheets, garbage in, garbage out. Still I feel they'd be useful in casual conversation.
That presents an interesting problem: can any implementation of a communication protocol enforce a requirement that arbitrary payloads are cyphertext?
> By using the platform push channels, JMAP avoids having to hold its own connection open.

Can anyone explain what they mean by "platform push channels"? I don't understand how you can have realtime updates without leaving a connection open or periodically polling. Do they mean that they use the same mode of transport as Push Notifications?
I don't think that is consistent with preference being transitive, but I guess that's not a necessary assumption for most economic theory, only that it is cycle-free. If you model my preferences as a directed graph (say an edge A -> B exists if I can and will trade A for B), then in order to be able to use money as a proxy, every node must have a parent and a child which are both amounts of money. This seems unlikely to me.
I think I more or less expect car ownership to drop at least a little as well. That said, let me present the other case:

Car ownership is very prevalent right now. A driverless car that you can own is higher value than a traditional car you can own. Particularly, the owned driverless car:

1. Can be operated by a passenger who is not legal or safe to drive a traditional car, for reasons including but not limited to: sleepy, under the influence of alcohol, disabled, or (importantly) TOO YOUNG.

2. Can be used as a mobile depot for goods even in situations where a traditional car is impractical for such purposes (such as when parking is too much of a pain in the ass).

3. Can be more efficiently shared among a family, doing things like dropping a working family-member off at their job and then coming back home to serve the non-working family-member.

So while there may be young urban people who choose not to buy a car and instead rent it per-ride, they will be more than counterbalanced by the following rises in car ownership:

* Wealthy families who had one or two traditional cars and choose to buy two or three driverless cars, with the extra car devoted to driving the kids around when the parents don't want to.

* Cost-constrained couples who have the need for effectively two cars but only the money for one who previously chose to apply that money to public transit, but now buy a driverless car and share it.

* Wealthy urban dwellers who previously don't really like public transit/don't find it that convenient but previously coped with it because cars were so inconvenient now buy a driverless car that has increased utility in their city (because they don't need to park it/can use it when going out drinking/don't need to pay attention while in-transit). They don't go with the Uber option because they aren't cost-constrained and they like the privacy, reliability, and prestige of owning.
The best purchase I have ever made for my cat was using the expensive crystal litter. It costs way more than the cheap cardboard pellet one you can buy, but each crystal contains some kind of scent and really, I clean it once a day and it never smells that bad. They make a big mess if you don't put a mat beneath the tray though and get tracked through the house like tiny granules of sugar.

I have considered a robot litter box, but seems to me, the cost far outweighs the benefit of not having to change the litter yourself very quickly. These things are pricey and based on what I've read in this post and tonnes of reviews online, they're not particularly that great.
> And yet, Feinstein was the one who did battle with the CIA to get the torture report published.

And she's great at doing just that: throwing the liberals a bone once in a rare while, which keeps them happy (no offense meant). She had no choice about releasing the report: she was going to get booted out of the SIC at the end of the year. If she didn't release the report (as was demanded by lots and lots of people), it would have been impossible to do so after January 1.

In any case: if she hadn't released it, Mark Udall would have, since he has nothing to lose.
parent is referring to a multithreaded algorithm, not one that uses SIMD instructions, which is what is meant by vectorizing.
Sure, but then "fantastic success" can be relative to cost of living, too. You can earn an order of magnitude less and still be experiencing "fantastic success" if you happen to live in e.g. Cambodia.
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Those rumors were all BS..

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/putcall.asp

Tl;dr -- A US institutional investor bought 95% of the suspect puts at the same time they bought 115,000 shares in a very standard hedging strategy.
It's missing the one killer feature that would fix the spam problem: approved senders. If you had a "friends" list like Facebook where only people you've approved may send messages to you, we'd cut down on 90% of spam immediately. Between that and the lack of mandatory encryption this is just another tedious protocol to implement.
Genius ranks very highly for many, many searches. Even without adding 'lyrics' to the search.
Write your own article then, moron.
This looks fantastic and is a huge, long-overdue breath of fresh air in the protocol space. But realistically, what will it take for major vendors like Apple and Google to start adding support for it?
To be explicit: what is there in the pace of the French acknowledgment of its actions during the Algerian War of Independence that makes you think that France would now be in an uproar about the actions of 2001 and on?
If hypothetically you could have secretly ruined votes for Bush for Palm Beach county - would you have?

Assuming your logic has merit, the benefit for you not committing voter fraud is surely outweighed by the benefit of not letting the Great Evil Bush get power, making voter fraud the best viable choice, no? Why would voter fraud be "bad"? Surely even the worst case of spending a couple of years in jail is worth the future of not having Bush in charge, right?

Are you ready to commit voter fraud for what you think is the greater good? Are you ready to torture for the greater good?
That's not a practical feature in the real world. Sometimes you need email from unapproved senders. Spam filtering is better accomplished before or after delivery, not during.
I think you might have mis-understood what we do. My fault (you're not the first).

In short, we're not a software company.

We manage the live chat for website, so they don't have to. We're a service business.
Let the SEO-friendly client-side JavaScript framework wars begin!
IMHO the big outstanding problems with email are spam and the difficulty of using public-key cryptography (both key distribution and mail client support). Write a dead-sexy mail client that makes the crypto completely invisible and uses either a public key directory or some kind of OAuth-ish thing, and you'd solve the latter. Better, if you made finding someone's public key take time and/or money, and simply refused to deliver unsigned mail, you'd take a big step toward killing spam.
You make the best choice with the info you have. If the choice isn't clear then you make a judgment call. Good points on McReynolds and Ventura. I presume that Ventura wasn't polling way below the other candidates, like Nader was in 2000. If he was, a voter couldn't be blamed for voting for someone else deemed viable.

If we had vote ranking at the national level, like Minneapolis does, this wouldn't be an issue.
Most of my actions do not achieve goals in themselves. Example: I don't work for its own sake, nor do I work for the sake of money. I work because it is one in a chain of actions I take to satisfy my actual values.
Well, if I had to hazard a guess, I would say the main factor is the high cost of living, especially rent/mortgage expense. I have several friends who moved out of Tokyo to have kids for financial reasons (but usually not without some regret).

Tokyo is pretty awesome, but you do have to be able to afford it. I would assume it's a lot more expensive to live here than Austin, TX, but I know it is cheaper (and IMO way better for raising kids) than say, San Francisco.
having cats is not free. and there are tons of entertainment options, the vast majority of which don't shit, smell, scratch, bite or significantly increase the chance of children or the unborn being with infected with a mind-altering brain parasite. but yes, agreed, cats can do cute things, petting is fun, and feeling them purr is great. just have to weigh the trade-offs and beware of alternatives.
First CRC16 is in fact used as a "perfect hash function"

It must be implemented by all clients too, so it needs to be simple and readily available.

open to an attack by image by a malevolent attacker

That wasn't one of the design goals.

if you have a tolerance for faulty storage,

There's always the problem of storage corrupting only the checksum even if your data is okay, leaving you in a pretty pickle.
It is a propaganda film.

edit -

Propaganda [mass noun] Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.

Lots of films, many I particularly like, are propaganda films.

Pleading comedy or satire doesn't prevent something being propaganda, and featuring the slow-motion fiery death of the leader of a country that you have bombed and not yet made peace with, I think qualifies.
There's good level of scientific evidence on differences in risk preference, the importance of status, thinking styles(abstract vs concrete), levels of attachment and child care abilities - at least between average males and females. Sorry for not linking papers,but a good start would be this debate[1] between pinker and spelke.

And it's clear those things impact participation in startups.

[1]http://edge.org/event/the-science-of-gender-and-science-pink...
> Thanks for missing the point entirely

Please don't be personally abrasive in Hacker News comments, even when the other person misses a point.
One I don't support your claim that people are in support of torture. Two if they do support it, _they_ also need to see bringing the participants of torture to justice. Popular polls replacing laws? What country is this?
There's nothing preventing an unapproved sender from requesting contact privileges, but once denied, their messages and further requests would be ignored by default.

Each server and user would have their own identity management concerns.

Basically someone can send a "friend request" and if approved by a human (the recipient) they may communicate freely from that point.
There is a movie made about this...

The Assault
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1793239/
I'm still undecided but I'm leaning towards the only issue here being that the DRM isn't up front. If people know what they are getting into then I see no reason why such a deal between two private parties should be prevented. Tricking someone into a deal and then jumping out "gotcha!" is of course shitty behavior.

I'm sympathetic towards the cell phone issue but I think it's being brought up far too often here. In the United States you have three, maybe four, choices. It's easy for them to collude and price fix. The fuckers certainly did when charging $20 a month for text messages. It costs billions of dollars to enter that market so they could this easily. Pretty much anyone can enter the kitty litter box or coffee maker marketplace. Dozens of companies already have. I'm all about consumer choice and as long as there is choice if someone wants to offer a shitty deal then I'm perfectly fine with that.
Not pigeons right in front. But the driverless car often sees dangerous spots (like debris on the road, or an accident site) before any human can see. So they might stop or slow down earlier.

(I think I learned that in one of the tech talk videos about it.)
Would also be possible to use the dns_deploy tool one of my team mates wrote (https://github.com/codeship/dns_deploy/commits/master) or by extending Terraform (https://terraform.io/docs/providers/dnsimple/index.html)
South Korean nuclear power plant hacked as North Korean Internet goes down
in some cases the checksums are persisted, so future checksums must be computed in the same way.
Well, NK likely does not have the best
electric grid. So, maybe the problem
was just their electric grid! Or maybe
the problem was someone clicking on the
wrong icon or push button in some system
management software, maybe written in NK?

But if the outage was from a DDoS from
the USG, then I have to regard it as mostly
a publicity stunt: That is, I have to
believe that the NSA and CIA have
much better control over, penetration of,
NK computing than just a DDoS!

I mean, NK has, what, bootleg, never updated
copies of Win 95, Win 2K, Win XP SP0, really
old IE with lots of ActiveX pages, really
old FF and Flash? The place has to be
a computer version of a fire trap without
a firewall! NSA and CIA
rootkits have to be tripping over each
other all over NK like rats in a
garbage pile.

Oh, did someone compare NK with a garbage
pile? Oh, how pejorative! I mean, how
could one regard that pinnacle of fashion
that gave the world the unique haircut of
the Great Patriotic Leader, Jr.?

Besides, their girls nearly all look
so young, that is, small and thin,
possibly because nearly everyone there
is thin. Maybe they get a lot of exercise,
aren't very warm in the winters, and
don't eat very much, or all of those.
Samsung Milk Music now has free live broadcasts of College Basketball games
Samsung updated their Milk Music app today that allows listening to live College Basketball broadcasts (incl. pre- and post-game shows) for over 100 NCAA Div I schools incl. Kentucky, Duke, Arizona, Louisville, Virginia, North Carolina, TCU, Texas, and many more. The dial can also display the latest score, half, and game clock information.

The app can be downloaded and used for free on selected Samsung Galaxy devices from the Google Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samsung.mdl.radio

Some screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/cB7qB

The broadcasts are from radio affiliates of IMG College, Learfield Sports etc. so they often feature the hometown broadcasters calling the games (and some users especially like using DVR to sync the TV broadcast to the app audio).

Disclaimer: I work for SportsLabs, a Samsung partner on this application, and I'm happy to answer any questions you have.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/prosecute-full-ext...
Of course, "there are bad people in the world, and hard, tough men like ourselves have to take care of them, even if it's unsavory to weak-minded civilians who just don't understand" is what the leaders of ISIS tell themselves to justify beheading reporters, Putin tells himself to justify shooting down civilian airliners, and Cheney tells himself to justify anal rape and murder of innocents as instruments of public policy.

All of them should be imprisoned to protect society from their machinations.
Android, iOS, (Windows Phone, Blackberry, etc) have services where a server application can push a small data packet to a specific device. That device wakes an application in response which can then do things.

We use this right now in our mobile apps. The apps respond by calling back to FastMail to check for updates.

More info:

http://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/02/dec-3-push-it-real-good/

https://developer.android.com/google/gcm/index.html

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Networ...
> I don't think that is consistent with preference being transitive

Its certainly consistent with preference being transitive (since it is intimately tied in with cardinal utility, which is a much stronger position which includes transitive preference.) Transitive preferences in a poset aren't sufficient to support money-as-general-utility-scorecard, however.
Go home humans. You are drunk.
There are (at least) two kinds of people Google needs to convince. First, people who will sit in a self-driving car; and that's already done. Second, people who share the road with a self-driving car. You are right `unthreatening' is the better word than the ambiguous `safe' here.

PS I think you are too American there. They don't drive tanks on the road in every country. But I see your concern.
Why does anyone think this is the same people, though?
Customer service confirmed AmazonAssociate sites down for last 3 hour
customer service confirmed @AmazonAssociate sites down for last 3 hour. status update would've been nice O-o #AmazonDown
There's heaps of problems to solve in the email world for sure. JMAP isn't trying to solve all of them. It's trying to make one very well defined part - the communication between end-user device and server - a whole lot better.
Theory of Problem Solving
> Isn't the very point of having a representative government to avoid the Tyranny of the Majority?

No, that's the point of limited government in an otherwise democratic system.

The point of representative democratic government is to institute popular sovereignty while allowing most citizens to do something other than full-time government oversight.
>The best purchase I have ever made for my cat was using the expensive crystal litter.

expensive or not, getting correct litter is the key. And the mat of course. And feeding good food to your cat - that would significantly take care about smell, consistency, frequency and other important characteristics of the output product, not even mentioning overall health and well being of the cat.
> You mean Marxist-Leninists, Marxism in and of itself doesn't require violent revolution.

Well, maybe not require, but

In depicting the most general phases of the development of the proletariat, we traced the more or less veiled civil war, raging within existing society, up to the point where that war breaks out into open revolution, and where the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie lays the foundation for the sway of the proletariat.

Marx/Engels -- Manifesto of the Communist Party