skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like what? What has she said that's much worse than this?

im going to come to your house and violently rape you in front of your family

RETWEET ME OR I WILL BOMB YOUR HOUSE AT NIGHT!

your one dumb cunt and am going to doxs you then going to come to your home and kill you slowly
> "magic values"

Actually you can make something that checks for a magic value without encoding the magic value in the microcode. Triggering a buffer overrun in software often requires very particular inputs, but those inputs are not explicitly encoded in the binary. If you were clever, you could make microcode that looks correct, but backdoors under the right conditions.
"English-language conquest is not more efficient than polyglot science – it is just differently inefficient."

This seems to be the main thesis the article is trying to prove, yet there's no real clear analysis of the actual tradeoffs.

The argument that having multiple languages has some vague "multi-cultural" advantage over a single unique language is far from evident. The only real argument I can think of distills down to a sense of inequality that some people have 100% of major science article written in their native tongue (English), and all others have 0%.

The segway into the long history of languages in science seems like a non-sequitur for the article key thesis. But it does bring up a point that seems interesting: if one language is so efficient why did scientists fail to coordinate for so long?
Ross actually lived above me in college. Very surreal to see this all going down.
I've had an even mix of Java and Python the last 3 years. Go seems to be a solid mix of both: static typing that codes as easy as a scripting language.
That's really my problem -- that they're leaving their victims to speculate.

It's great that they "made every effort to close the security vulnerability". How's that going?

They hired Mandiant to "evaluate our systems and identify solutions based on the evolving landscape." Is "evolving landscape" CEO-speak for "Oh, god, we're still leaking customer data like a sieve, make it stop!"?

I'm just going to keep speculating, because if Anthem's not going to bother speaking plainly, I'm just going to assume the worst.
Almost seven years and still no fix for a KDE bug that eats your files
This is absurd. I think you really underestimate the intensity of training that dentists must undergo, at least in the US. Dental school is just as rigorous and all-consuming as medical school.

There are reasons to advocate for the sort of DIY kit discussed in the article -- cost and time being the main ones. But thinking that you are somehow going to be more proficient at this sort of thing than a very extensively trained orthodontist is not one of them.
COBOL used packed decimals, not rationals; fixed precision BCD is quite different from arbitrary precision rationals.
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Also take into account the much bigger amount that is needed to grow crops and feed livestock; you may be able to use graywater for that, but definitely not saltwater.

Also, water needed by industries and water spoiled by pollution.
If it is strictly "to friends" in a way that is not legally to the general public, possibly not (but if you are soliciting people in public places, then its probably public sales.) For public sales of food, you probably need both a business license and separate health clearance for selling food, if your state law even allows selling food made in a home kitchen (California recently adopted a law allowing this, with very narrow limits.)
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The naturalistic fallacy is not the idea that "natural things are better". It is a criticism of deriving ethical principals from natural/physical facts.
You could argue that their entire holiday promotion is really an exercise in marketing, and that they've already written off any profit from it as part of their marketing budget. Their business is selling the boxed card game, rather than gimmicky promotions.
For those not aware, Anthem is also the insurance provider for the entire University of California system (http://www.ucop.edu/ucship/).
pretty excited of the thought of this, not just for our company but for all of the applications that were halted as a result of this, and the new opportunities. A savvy programmer will make it rain.
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I prefer Python's explicit approach to decimal types:

$ python -c "from decimal import Decimal as D; print(D('.1')+D('.2')-D('.3'))"
0.0

Or if you prefer true rational numbers:

$ python -c "from fractions import Fraction as F; print(F('.1')+F('.2')-F('.3'))"
0

$ python -c "from fractions import Fraction as F; print(F('3.1415927'))"
31415927/10000000
This is actually kinda what united is doing with their in-flight entertainment system. It's a limited selection of movies that you can stream. I am assuming it doesn't need internet to stream them.
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And I bet if this new Chinese policy were implemented in the US, a lot of you would reply by no longer posting comments. And not much else would happen.
I disagree, I think they did this in order to capture more users. Not everyone uses Twitter. I believe Twitter is shooting for the "everyone" demographic, not just kids, the media/artists and tech-savvy people who got into it "before it was cool". If that is true, that means they are attempting to leverage Google, which everyone's already using, in an attempt to boost their legitimacy as a source of real-time information and get more exposure. Twitter's a media company, after all, so they are looking for more and more exposure whenever they can get it. It wouldn't be surprising to see your strategy implemented at Twitter after this deal has come and gone, if Twitter is playing their cards right they will have actually used Google to steal at least some of Google's search traffic away from them.

That said, I also don't believe Twitter's long game is search. I think they're trying to re-invent how we access information. Instead of searching for something, what if you could subscribe to a topic and just get information handed to you constantly?
You are abusing flagging by using it because you are "sick of articles about X". The flag is not a downvote button and the "opinion of the community" is measured with upvotes.

For someone who starts off lauding "diversity of opinion" I'm not sure how you reconcile that with a mentality where everyone flag kills what they don't like.
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What? Is this DMCA takedown a claim that someone owns the copywrite of the Popcorn Time code? Surely if people hosted something that broke copywrite regulations (potentially a torrent app or pirate bay source code), they cannot take it down right?
don't forget the hipster enterprise programmers (aka the contractors)
> Creating common ground is the actual job of politicians.

That's not an unreasonable view, but the actual structure of the US electoral systems creates disincentives to do that job.
Symmetry is not cultural but part of our genetics, some cultures care less because they have more important issues when looking at attractiveness like food and shelter security.

Should burns victim who are healthy be able to get plastic surgery. Most people would think so.

Genetic issues is no different to anything else that cause unusual looks.

Where does it go from acceptable i.e. burns to the face, to it really shouldn't matter i.e. perhaps breast enlargement from average to larger than average, is hard to say.

But I have no problem with a society where no one has looks that make them stand out in a negative way that they don't wish to have.
>It's great that they "made every effort to close the security vulnerability".

I love that quote, they try to cover their asses by saying we closed the vulnerability. My question is why did you wait till it was taken advantage of?
Well, there is at least another source with better visualizations AND explanations of bezier curves. So I'm not impressed at all.

The ultimate guide for bezier curves including great animations to explain the concept is from pomax:

http://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/

I would go as far as to call it a bezier reference document. I learned both geomteric and numerical approaches to calculate, combine and draw bezier curves from this source. I am still amazed by the beauty of de Casteljau's algorithm.

The document has been submitted here before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8804691

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5714842

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7997706
I absolutely don't want to invalidate your goal or desire, but I would ask, knowing what you know now, was there anything you wish you could have done differently after sixth grade that would have resulted in a better outcome for you and your wife (short of total avoidance)?

I bring this up because I've seen people embrace homeschooling (with mixed results) as a way to right perceived wrongs in their own childhoods. I sometimes wonder whether their experiences might be better applied in teaching their kids the lessons learned from their time in a school system rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater and just avoiding the system altogether. After all, you survived and ended up in a position to make and have this choice for your kids...so all was not lost.
P6 is a sick as fuck name. They need to do this.
These transactions would be half money laundering only if the buyers only came from illegal activities and they were avoiding deposit in a typical bank. It's not laundering by the author as he is not involved or aware of the buyers' money's providence. I don't see how it would be money laundering more than say, buying $3000 of gold from a local gold and silver shop.
I'm hardly an expert in... Anything, though. If you care to explain that would be lovely.
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For me it was never hard because I started as a kid, on my own, so I was exploring this new world at my own pace and terms, and it was amazing and fun. That's how kids learn. Learning the grown up way is on the other hand harder and takes time. For coding you actually need to master 2 separate, non-trivial skills: first to learn how to think/solve problems in a certain way, and second to learn the particular language. I think the main problem is that people don't give themselves enough time for the first, and concentrate only on the second.
The only thing I didn't like was, the text over the graph paper. It was a little hard for me to read. But its a cool idea, I like it.
An obvious place for a backdoor is in remote management CPUs embedded in the network card.

http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/csw-trustnetworkcard.pdf

Network cards which support RMCP/IPMI protocol are obvious points of attack. They can reboot machines, download boot images, install a new OS, patch memory, emulate a local console, and control the entire machine. CERT has some warnings:

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-207A

If there's a default password in a network card, that's a backdoor. Here's a list of the default passwords for many common systems:

https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2013/...

"admin/admin" is popular.

The network card stores passwords in non-volatile memory. If anyone in the supply chain gets hold of the network card briefly, they can add a backdoor by plugging the card into a chassis for power, connecting a network cable, and adding a extra user/password of their own using Linux "ipmitool" running on another machine. The card, when delivered to the end user, now has a backdoor installed. If you have any servers you're responsible for, try connecting with IPMI and do a "list" command to see what users are configured. If you find any you didn't put there, big problem.

CERT warns that, if you use the same userid/password for multiple machines in your data center, discarded boards contain that password. So discarded boards must be shredded.
I've actually had the exact opposite experience. Security Engineers at most companies have no idea what they're doing beyond running the scanner and parroting whatever it spits out.

"The scanner says your server is vulnerable"

"Ya, we patched that vulnerability weeks ago"

"The scanner says it's vulnerable"

"OK.... looks at scanner - oh, it's just reading the banner, and not taking into account that the major rev didn't change, it's patched"

"The scanner says it's vulnerable"

"OK... so what if I change the banner so it doesn't pick it up as vulnerable?"

"The scanner says it's secure now, thanks!!"

The guys who know their stuff in security generally have a desire to actually get paid well, and have time to do legitimate research. They don't really have a desire to sit in a corporate job dealing with the mountains of bureaucratic bullshit that goes along with security in a corporation. Do you really want to be the guy who gets thrown under the bus because you had to disable strong passwords because the CEO was angry he needed both upper and lower case letters in his AD password?
Yahoo never staffed up to build a search engine. That would have been noticed in Silicon Valley. They hired a VP for search whose previous area of expertise was negotiating with Microsoft.
Their development roadmap could easily change after the acquisition. More importantly, Microsoft already has plenty of people who have a lot of experience adding enterprise features to products. It makes far more sense for them to buy the calendar company that is best at the things they don't have, rather than the one that has more of the features they can straightforwardly add.
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Yes, you really do. Just not the American versions of those things, because Americans screw those things up, not Government.

Look outside your country and those things are very good successes.
Exactly why I am going to have my brain put into a robot body. An Adrienne Barbeaubot.
App calculates how likely your plane is to crash
Learning to code isn't hard at all. Learning to solve problems computationally is a different matter. There are tomes of knowledge one must acquire that is usually application specific and in potentially narrow fields. For example, if you want to write a RTOS you need to study and learn OS theory. Want to work on GPS code? Well, there's some math you need to understand along with a pile of other stuff. Want to work on search? Better have a very good handle of a range of algorithms and know how to implement them efficiently. Automation? Hmmm, you can't set an output and expect the machine to respond when there's physics involved. Aircraft control systems? ....

The point is that coding is easy just like understanding the basics of running a milling machine is easy. Being a machinist is far more complex than knowing how to turn the wheels. And machining highly accurate objects in exotic metals is multiple levels above that. Learning "machining" is easy. Learning to be a machinist is hard. Same for coding. Learning to code: easy. Becoming a software engineer: Harder.
They're saying that only the internet connection portion of "triple play" services will be affected. The cable companies that offer landline telephony over the same coax as the DOCSIS internet service and television are using VoIP behind the scenes but only exposing POTS to the customer, and they're not changing anything about that.
I wonder if rather than a pure software solution, there's an opportunity here for Disqus to provide a hybrid software-human moderation solution. It's clear that good moderation can revitalize a community (hi @dang), while bad comments are a vicious cycle that drive out the good ones. IOW, moderation is very valuable. But it's hard to hire for and do right if it's not already part of your org's thinking. Disqus could sell moderation-as-a-service, according to the customer's parameters, and take care of all those hard parts.
Firehose...more like a sewage pipe.

God I hope there will be a Chrome extension to block this mental diarrhea from reaching my search results page.
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>If it wasn't a good deal, Twitter wouldn't be doing it.

People make bad deals all the time. Surely the issue isn't that more people need to discover Twitter, but that they have to make more money from those who are already on it?
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Sophisticated attack == SQLi || "someone opened a PDF with malware" ?
Easypost launched roughly 2 weeks before a competitor did. The competitor received 16 upvotes on HN. Easypost's Show HN had 157.

Perhaps if Jarrett had waited until he found that perfect .com name he wouldn't have launched first, and as a result would have had less initial exposure. Less initial exposure means less initial traction, and that might have lead to easypost not raising their first round, or raising on much worse terms, both of which could easily be worth more than $15k.

On top of that, finding an available .com isn't easy. You essentially end up using a non-english word, mashing several words together, or use something like geteasypost.com (which easypost owned prior to making this purchase).

Non-english words are harder to say and recall, and could ultimately affect word of mouth growth. Mashing words together puts you in a similar situation, and nearly every company who owned get<company>.com or try<company>.com ultimately ended up buying <company>.com if they were successful. Dropbox did it. Facebook did it. Easypost just opted to get theirs earlier in the company's lifetime.
What is going on with the timezones in that email exchange? First one is in -0500, second one doesn't specify a timezone and third one is in +0000
Oh cool. I'll have to check this out. Thanks for the link :)
"On Numbers and Games" is a great book but it can be tough. "Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays" by Berlekamp, Conway & Guy is a gentler introduction to surreal number. It's also very fun.
At first i thought, you were comparing against only the mobile divisions of Google and Microsoft. But after some search, I found that their profit is really massive!

Now i really want to understand the forces in play, that help the iphone reap such gigantic profits :)
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easypostapi.com and geteasypost.com were $10 each. Something tells me you wouldn't have made the sale :D
I wrote a recent blog post about this exact problem. Google search results have become increasingly fragmented in an attempt to try to give some hint to where the actual result is. For example a search on Ariana Grande will return a list of sites, some knowledge graph info (from Wikipedia), some news and YouTube links, and now some Twitter links. I put this down to a limitation of algorithmic search and, at least to me, this behavior indicates that Google is not good at determining what the question is. http://newslines.org/blog/googles-black-hole/
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My dad's an orthodontist. He's seen good results with Invisalign (and bad) but says that it has a relatively small sweet spot. He's skeptical of the braces-by-mail approach for anything other than the simplest cases and the most conscientious patients.

> Dr. Son Tran, the creator of CrystalBraces and a Dallas dentist who is the sole reviewer

Many people don't know that in the US general dentists (GPs) can practice most specialties without advanced training, while specialists (orthodontists, oral surgeons, prosthodontists, etc.) must complete an accredited program/residency after dental school and limit their practice to their chosen specialty.

Invisalign/Align Tech is in San Jose, btw.
I think one of the remaining advantages of medical marijuana in WA and CO is that it is significantly cheaper than recreational, because no tax is applied.
Actually you can't ever learn to play a violin properly unless you have an ear for music. There is a threshold of minimal talent that you can't jump over just by practicing, you either can hear it or not. While there is no such obvious threshold for e.g. math or programming (for a person with an average IQ), I think we could talk about a kind of a threshold defined by the concentration and willingness to invest time and effort into the learning process. Theoretically anyone should be able to do it, but in reality not everyone is mentally capable of that, simple as that. Just like running a marathon or something, most of us will never be able to do it, although in theory it's simple: you just need to follow the proper training for long enough. Losing weight is also dead simple, just as quitting smoking or getting off drugs, but many can't do it. Learning is no different, it takes certain minimal level of power of will to be able to make it.
I think this may be a play to make Twitter more valuable for SEO. Google is relying more and more on third party social. This may be an attempt to make marketers more excited about buying promoted posts etc.
I have to agree that one of the things that made Metafilter's moderation more successful was being able to moderate without alienating the users. Moderation often devolves into simply ejecting all but one "tribe" from a forum so that nobody's left to have a disagreement; MeFi avoided that trap far better than many places.
ObjectLayout [1] should help with that but its not in standard Java.

[1] http://objectlayout.org/
> they'd have to try pretty hard to mess that up

I agree, but I also think Microsoft stands ready to meet that challenge, if recent history is anything to go by.
Do any of the rules that would have made sense then apply now?

Yeah. Rule 0: deliver the packets. Optional: reorder packets according to customer QoS, but never without customer request.
Isn't that a hash? Shouldn't python version be: dog['head']['ears'][0]['hairs'][123] ?
at present, it's certainly a lot less user-friendly to get up and running than adblock plus or adblock edge.

i also wonder if they risk running into the conflict of interest situation adblock plus ran into where people start paying off mozilla to unblock their tracking.
Literacy and education have never been as high as they are today.

Poverty and sickness rates have never been as low as they are today.

Sure, there's a lot of room for improvement but it's undeniable that over the past century, humanity as a whole has been getting a lot better year after year.
`rake routes` will output the routes and paths. Appending _path or _url to the path will generate appropriate methods.
They stopped taking automatic credit card payments ~3.5 years ago, so even that last bit isn't much of an accomplishment.
What is needed is more orthodontists, increase supply.
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THAT is some clever detective work!

To give 'em the benefit of the doubt-- perhaps perhaps perhaps they needed that particular domain in anticipation of some other instance where they dropped the ball but your conclusion is more compelling.
Do you have a spec or something publicly available? :)
That would be very relevant to my interests! ^_^ Thanks.
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Also, don't forget that "everyone must rebase"...
They could of also gone for jury nullification.
> Multiple device support and history synchronization between devices really are table stakes to me

I know where you're coming from.

We're working (well, it's just two guys for the moment) on the first version and we're planning to launch for early feedback soon. I'll be posting it as a Show HN, but in case it gets buried I can put you on our notify list - just shoot me an email.
I had metal braces as a teenager, and now about 20 weeks into Invisalign as a 40 year old to close a gap from a lost tooth, and my god, the Invisalign is wonderful compared to the metal braces.

Almost no pain, super convenient, and eating is normal. I remember all the times I used to have to eat by smashing food against the roof of my mouth with my tongue, because my teeth hurt so much from newly-tightened metal.