skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in Brazil my personal view is that people are smoking much less, specially new generations. Ban smoking in all public indoors (clubs, restaurants, offices) or even kind-of-outdoors (no walls, but cover/roofs to protect from rain) has led me to a much healthier life.

Seriously, I spent some days a few years ago on a hostel on Barcelona where I just couldn't possibly be at the common room (where they served free dinner to socialize all the guests, a great idea btw). I couldn't survive the combination of a LOT of smokers and a low ceiling.

Smoking regulations - one of the very few society decisions I am very proud of in my country
hey I remember seeing you at noisebridge.net
glad to see the company is doing well.
All the restrictions banks give don't make the password less guessable. Lots of people can still use their birth year, or their postal code. Banks are mainly a PITA, not really "securer".
Really? Then in what ways might the Mexican slaughter of Texans at the Alamo and US plans for retribution have helped shape the Monroe Doctrine's policy that the European countries should not interfere in the affairs of countries in the Americas?

Answer without knowing any dates.

And as far as "knowing the why" of multiplication being sufficient to lay the foundation of higher math, just try to solve a system of three simultaneous equations or find a volume with double integration on a classroom test, each problem requiring that a couple of dozen little algebraic operations be done correctly or the problem gets all messed up, when you really never learned what 7x5 or 8x(-3) are, but you fully understand what these operations mean. You'll pick a humanities major when you get to college and heave a great sigh of relief when you take your last "higher math" class.
The good news, such as it is, is that most employers I've run into will be understanding and will work with you if you ask to redline problematic clauses before you start.

(If they won't, that's a sign not to work there.)
Single payer healthcare? No, only a handful of countries have it (Canada, the UK, a couple others). The majority of first world countries have a mix and public and private.
No vultr, huh. :/
vultr.com accepts bitcoin.
Because the equivalent FCC in Canada (CRTC) is effectively run by the Big Three (Bell, Rogers, Telus), which also lobby to prevent independent ISP access and by sabotaging their routes - tracert on both an indepedent reseller and one of the big three showed massive latency during peak hours due to some sort of traffic shaping.
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Hashing isn't to avoid someone guessing, but to avoid leaking thousands of passwords when you db get stolen.

Even if someone got the db, and managed to get the hash of a certain character combination, they'd need to get the exact one that the bank prompts for on the next login attempt.
I was responding to your "same price" point. If you include the bandwidth they're asking for then EC2 rises in cost sharply.

PS - Huge fan of yours by the way. You should do another AMA on /r/SysAdmin.
"Gender pay gap? Just one example."

If this really was as wide-spread as the media would like us to believe, why wouldn't companies have entire departments of women? If they have the same education and experience, companies would be able to save 30% right off the top. But this isn't happening.

From my own experience, I just haven't seen this happening. I know this doesn't prove a statistic, but I've worked at many different companies and hired both men and women and candidates in equal experience and education were paid the same.

"This just screams conspiracy theory."

Unfortunately, it's the world we live in. A good example of this is the ex-Mozilla CEO that got bullied online and was forced to quit over his personal beliefs. If the same thing happened to someone who supported gay marriage, there would be lawsuits and protests. Many people seem to be open and accepting..until you do something they don't believe in..which isn't really open or accepting at all.
Adding to this, my (limited, apologies climatologists) understanding of one theory is that global warming reduces the temperature gradient between the temperate zone and the arctic. This destabilizes the jet stream, causing bifurcation. That builds a high pressure zone over the northwest, sending weather north and then down through Canada to the eastern seaboard, bringing a brutal winter and leaving California dry.

Weather is complicated, and hard to prove anything about.
Be careful X core means nothing reliable, for 99.9% of VPS providers, they are not dedicated nor rated and could be divisible by up to 2000 guests (particularly with OpenVZ provider), at least on Rackspace, AWS, Azure the CPU performance is generally within a specific range (variability due to minor hardware config differences, and noisy neighbours, but appropriately restrained). In addition 99.5% of these providers don't have the sufficient knowledge to run a VPS operation, they purchase a few dedicated servers and copy of SolusVM and WHMCS and hope and pray for the best.
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Baltimore Ravens Offensive Lineman John Urschel Publishes Paper in Math Journal
We share half our genes with the banana.

Given that the other half come from monkeys, is this why babies try and eat their toes?
I wish I could vote up more than once, that was a solid comment, on par with the post!
I think I would like this kid.
In Bangladesh, it's always been considered a treat, though one affordable to villagers before the export market became a thing.
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"However, did you, for comparison, try setting up a similar blog, masquerading as a woman, in order to compare the experience? While this study didn't find it, I believe the evidence from other studies has pretty regularly found that at the very least women get more vicious attacks and are more likely to be stalked. Sentiment analysis on very large datasets has been pretty conclusive in this regard."

So if a women gets 10 threatening messages and I get 8, does it really matter? Who cares who gets more threats..threats are threats and they need to stop.

"It could be there was something critically different about this study that was, until now, ignored, but I don't see much reason for it to be an outlier beyond that it is so narrowly targeted (small sample population, UK only, etc.), or reason to think your perspective is more well informed than anyone else's."

The same thing happens on other Internet forums and on social media. If you have any kind of opinion that someone doesn't like, you will get threats. Even more so on Twitter where it's really easy to fire off a shitty @ reply.

If I was a woman, I don't think you would be trying to explain away my personal experiences. This is what I'm talking about.
It's worth noting that the password entropy should be estimated relative to the attacker's uncertainty about the password. An attacker, even a brute force attacker, is implicitly assigning a probability distribution or at least a probability ranking to candidate passwords: the attacker can choose what order to guess them in and isn't constrained to use "the shortlex ordering of all strings" as the search strategy.

One response to this is to use Kerckhoffs's principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle

and say that to estimate the entropy of a password, we should assume that the attacker can guess the "system" or method that we used to generate it, but doesn't know the true physical randomness that went into it. (If we seed a random number generator with the time, the attacker can know that fact and try every possible seed value as part of the attack.)

Another response is to say that the attacker doesn't inherently know the system but that the attacker's reasonable attempts to guess it still need to be part of the entropy calculation, because a prudent attacker would have some model of plausible and likely password generation methods that would inform the order in which the attacker tries guesses. So if the attacker decides "next, I'll try all sequences of three English words", you just have to figure out at what point the attacker is going to try that rule as part of the guessing process, and that lets you figure out when the attacker will succeed, which in this case is still incredibly much sooner than trying all strings in shortlex order.

I think the former method, the assumption that the adversary knows which password generation system you're going to use, is safer, for basically the reasons that proponents of Kerckhoffs's rule have given. Here it's that if we don't truly know how much uncertainty the adversary has about our method for generating passwords, it would be safest to assume the uncertainty is zero, and that all the strength comes from the randomness we fed into the system. By that measure the strength of your passwords is exactly n log₂(|d|) when you use n words randomly, independently, and uniformly selected from a dictionary d (maybe assuming that the passwords you create that way don't overlap with passwords that could have been produced by some other simpler rule that a realistic adversary would have regarded as worth testing sooner).
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Sure there is. Let Bars and other semi-public spaces decide for themselves if smoking is allowed. Maybe let the customers cast votes?

....similar to how it is done to marijuana right now.

Some will say "we tried this! and all the bars were smoking bars!" But they forget times have changed.

I can't see a reason not to allow at least 1 smoking bar in a given city. It would be really popular among the smokers.
Just read your Wiki page. The quote under "Other interests" really resonates with me. A few blog posts of mine you might like - http://mattamyers.tumblr.com/post/78764544562/profit-has-no-... and http://mattamyers.tumblr.com/post/72715425291/capitalism-and... - I'd love to hear your thoughts here or on the posts. Thank you.
Kubernetes by Google: Manage a cluster of Linux containers as a single system
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99.9% of VPS providers
2000 guests
99.5% of these providers

Where are these figures coming from?
I finally read it last year and I agree it's excellent. One of the best non-fiction books I've read.
An Introduction to Tensors for Students of Physics and Engineering [pdf]
The physics start to work if you decide to use nuclear weapons to shoot down incoming warheads.

That is why most research is geared towards having a "kill vehicle" destroy the warheads (as opposed to something like space based lasers, or railgun, etc).

An antiballistic-missle that kind-of-sort-of can destroy warheads with kinetic energy, is actually quite effective if you strap a powerful nuke onto it.

The general population would never accept having a bunch of nukes pointed to explode over their own country, but it is probably easier to ask forgiveness after defending against a nuclear strike than to ask permission before hand.
How to check if your email being track by Gmail
The Banksters Just Pulled a Stunt That Should Shock You to the Core
20 groups write Congress, no fast track without public access to trade texts [pdf]
At best this could have only only been approximation. Even between identical twins, the realisation of a person's voice an vary quite a bit, independently of those features determined by genetics.
For those who, like me, have no idea WTF that means, here is the full headline from the story: YC Graduate GiveMeTap Offers Free Water And Footfall Data For Stores, And It Helps Africa.

That exceeds HN headline limits, so the submitter had to try his hand at headline writing.
5 reasons Spark Streaming is not stream processing
In the blog post

> Pansharpened Malibu, 15 m (50 ft) per pixel. Notice the wave texture in the water.

Ugh, Brovey. There's better options available. Like MMP (really low spectral distortion but can be slow): http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6677587) or even affinity/guided filtering (my own paper, more spectral distortion than MMP but a lot faster and you can sharpen hyperspectral with multispectral or RGB): http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=7008094.
I could not imagine a worse fate than commuting from Fresno to the bay daily, let alone doing so in bumper to bumper traffic in the middle of the night.
Why is there a push for crickets, grinded-up-bug-meatballs and insect flour when there's one that people aren't actually disgusted by -- escargot?
For the people who think of REM as Old Fogey Music, the Civil Rights Movement is a foreign to them as the roaring 20s liberation was to us.
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The U.S. has a defence system against a Russian nuclear attack. It is called a "massive and devastating coordinated first strike before they ever get a chance to nuke us".

A missile defence program is actually handy, not necessarily for the actual protective power it can provide, but for the rhetorical power it can provide for a President's adviser when the next Curtis Lemay demands that we attack them before then can attack us.
Hm...

First, the slide shown in this article says "allow end user to turn off". It says nothing about "allow end user to add his own keys". If the end user can add his own keys, the end user can still bypass this mechanism; it's just a bit more complex and annoying.

Second, even if the firmware doesn't allow the user to add his own keys, there are bootloaders like SUSE's shim which are signed by Microsoft and allow the user to add his own keys for the next step (see https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles11/book_sle_admin/dat... for instance).

Of course, I wonder how long until shim doesn't work anymore (either by having its signature revoked or by Microsoft migrating to a new root key and not signing shim with it). Who knows, these Windows 10 requirements might already be using a new root key, instead of the one the shim bootloaders were signed with.

If end-users cannot disable secure boot (or add his own keys), they won't be affected at first, since the most popular Linux distributions have a signed bootloader. But when in secure mode, you can't boot your own self-compiled kernel, and often you can't even load unsigned drivers. This makes it harder to debug kernel issues (since you can't compile and install a modified kernel), and makes it hard to develop drivers for new hardware.
"Despite the growth in reusable water bottles, keeping them refilled is tough. Ironically, consumers either end up buying a plastic bottle of water, are forced to use a toilet to refill, or feel obliged to buy something from a store before asking for a refill of water."

What?
This makes me think of "I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical / From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical".
I read some of the comments here that attribute the problem to the lack of resources or the communal good. I respectfully disagree. The main problem in India is the outdated system.

Most Indian kids have plenty of resources available to them and most parents in India would go hungry as compared to not provide the needed educational resources that were needed by the kids. Also, most Indian kids are super competitive and they have to be when their parents are always asking their rank in class.

Having said that, I don't think it really matters over the long term.

Here is my personal experience:

Growing up in India, cheating was not only accepted but encouraged. I did my high school in India and during the big board exams, I was one of very few students who didn't cheat - out of 200. Why? My dad (and some of the other parents) told us that if we cheated, they will kill us. During the exams, the teachers that were proctoring the exam came up to us repeatedly and asked if we needed help and trust me, it was tempting because you don't want to fall behind someone who is cheating.

There were and are a few factors at play. One is the emphasis on year-end exams. They are the only means of determining the students' performance. No papers to write, no projects, nothing else. Teachers are rated only on the success of their students in these year-end exams. Competition is very high. Parents (admittedly not all) are willing to do anything to help their kids get ahead. If you go to a school during exam time, very often you will see parents standing outside trying to pass notes through windows etc. I have heard of people who hid phones under their turbans in the exams and all kind of other crazy stories.

Now, here is why I don't think it matters. In the short term cheaters scored better but in the longer run, the few of us that didn't cheat came out ahead (small community so I know most of the people and where they are now). In hindsight, I am very glad that my dad didn't allow me to cheat. After that experience, I went to undergrad and grad school in the US and I did see cheating - Indians, Chinese, Americans - everyone cheated, some more blatantly than the others.

It didn't bother me because I strongly believed that in the longer terms those that didn't (and don't) cheat will come out ahead. So far, I haven't seen anything that has disproved that hypothesis.
The Codenomicon team found it using a fuzzer. My recollection is that the Google researcher also used a fuzzer, but I can't find any evidence of that in a brief search.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world

It's a historical term, and one that hasn't been widely considered to be insensitive. You can argue that it is, but arguing that people using it are is just being ignorant of history.
How popular is the opinion that people over the age of majority should make their own health decisions?
Big Tobacco puts countries on trial as concerns over TTIP deals mount (2014)
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I wonder if MOOCs will reduce credentialism, or strengthen its grip...

(If I hear "You don't have a phd, you can't be first author on this paper" one more time, I'm getting the shark launcher)
How Books Are Written These Days
Traditional conservative values are relative. Western women are forbidden from going topless in public even though men are allowed. They also can't show their pubic hair but can show their head hair. The differences seem kind of arbitrary.

Pedophilia as a sexuality is harmless. It's only a desire. We shouldn't assume all pedophiles have had sex with children. Probably the vast majority haven't.

Consent isn't so meaningful when it comes to animals. Females of some species don't consent - they're forced to have sex by the males of their own species (walrusses I think). So clearly consent isn't actually something we require from animals. As Lawton said, we do far worse things than rape. We torture dogs by locking them in solitary confinement for most of their life. We of course kill animals just for fun. It's hard to imagine that rape (assuming you can't measure consent somehow) can be worse than psychological torture and murder combined.

Harm to children isn't why we don't like incest, otherwise we'd be banning people with even minor genetic problems from having children (heart disease risk, low IQ, etc). We don't like incest because it's a weird sexual deviancy which repulses us just like homosexuality does to many people.
If someone starts giving any importance to the font instead of the code quality he or she gets summarily expelled. Helps keeping the priorities right.
Interesting way to read it. Isn't that, however, what most people do (if you replace "trying to make money" with "trying to survive/pay the rent/etc")? How's the average "9-to-5" building value?
10 years to discover you have to create some kind of value to make money sustainably.... Otherwise, it's just gambling. Bit of a waste, spending that much time on get-rich-quick schemes.
How can you extend the depth of field of the eye?
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What are some examples of elegant, lean programs?
As the title suggests, what are some examples of programs that are often described as elegant, lean, and so on? I keep hearing the term, but I don't know how it looks. Help?
There Is No Effective Fiduciary Duty to Maximize Profits
djbdns - Daniel J. Bernstein's nameserver. I use it, it's quite simple to set up and configure, reliable, and far more secure than bind.
It's refreshing to hear that at least one country seems to have solved this problem. Here in the US we have a whole industry of Reverse Distributors (Stericycle, Genco, INMAR) whose job is to sort and then incinerate unused medicine.
Taxing land by value encourages efficient farming. It will make farmers want to economize on land, just like a carbon tax would make people want to have fewer emissions.

Also, the gini coefficient for landownership, by value, is actually higher than income virtually everywhere. Thus, a land value tax is actually more progressive than an income tax.

Taxing by market value also raises the most revenue, for the same reason why a rational landlord only wants to charge market rent. Charging either more or less is just leaving money on the table.

And if it is less, the difference will be pocketed by landlords. Because they know what the market value is.
Lol. I mean source code.
This. And thankfully, Rogers isn't as evil as Comcast-Verizon even though they have a quadruple play. They're evil enough, just not in ways average customers will often notice.
Ask HN: How to post using a new throwaway account without posts being hidden?
I've recently tried creating a throwaway account in order to post about sensitive subjects. I've done this twice and both posts were hidden (I could see the post when logged in, but not when logged out).

Is there any way to avoid being hidden / flagged as spam?
There's too much of a risk for MS in revoking the shim's signature.

Keeping everything the way it is is great for them. It's a PITA for non-tech users to install the certificate to try out linux/any other OS, which means less users leaving windows. No need to push it and rish monopoly-related issues, etc.
> on the basis that they filter-feed and will quite happily chow down on faeces

Just like cod, which my Hull fishing-town relatives taught me is a dirty, wormy fish unsuitable for consumption. All you can do with it is sell it to the naive land-lubbers...
People will always want to use some other OS, and some manufacturer will inevitably provide them with the hardware they need: at premium price, of course.
Noam Chomsky write in "Deterring Democracy" that Thailand once banned tobacco imports to protect the health of its people, but was forced to back down because the US Federal Government - not a tobacco company - threatened Thailand with trade sanctions.
Canada and the UK have a mix of public and private healthcare available as well... having public health care doesn't necessarily preclude private healthcare.

I guess I was caught up on the distinction between "government paying for everything" (single-payer) and public healthcare, which most developed nations besides the US do have. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publicly_funded_health_care#Var...) I'm in BC which is apparently the only province to not have single-payer. Instead we make mandatory insurance payments that are adjusted based on income.

In a "left vs right" context though I'm not sure there is much of a practical difference between public health and single-payer health. Either you give a government-determined amount of money to the government who passes it on to the healthcare system, or the government requires you to give a government-determined amount of money to the healthcare system directly. I would imagine any conservative against one would be against the other? What am I missing that single-payer health care is considered so crazy left wing?
First off, didn't it "hit" at SXSW, when all those kids get back to SF, you'll hear about it.

Secondly, you're right - "_everyone's_ using it" - is pretty subjective.