skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are either completely ignorant of the situation in Estonia or deliberately spreading misinformation.
A simple check on Wikipedia would show you that the majority of people in Tallinn are Estonians (with Russians being 37% of Tallinn's population). In the parliament, Keskerakond, which is the only party which could be called pro-Kremlin (and even that is a pretty big stretch), only has 27/101 seats and is not in the government.
I might as well stand in front of someone's house and begin taking pictures in a suspicious manner. I'm not harming anybody and it's perfectly legal.

And then when the owner asks me about it I answer "this is legal, I'm not doing anything wrong, I have nothing to say, now go away", then be surprised when the owner calls the cops.
I'm aware of what it is. I'm pointing out that, despite procedural differences, the effect, curtailment of due process, is the same.
Those are the successful extortions. The article doesn't say how many other people sensibly decided "Fuck this blackmail" and refused to pay up.
Gone. See dang's answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9314604
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> If my theory is true, then I can also say that the consistency of the data backs up my own experience and belief, which is that Atoms aren’t using sick time inappropriately or with selfish intention. If they were, I wouldn’t see such a high degree of conformance of the data to a natural log model.

I don't think that necessarily follows: it might be that willingness-to-cheat/malingering/hypochondria is distributed in such a fashion as to generate this log model.
> First, you need to be persistently connected so that you don't miss messages when you're not actually at your computer.

I consider that a feature of IRC myself. I don't need to be wired in at all times and read eveerything everyone says. If I'm not there, I'm not there, and if there's something important I really need to hear, I'll hear it when I'm there. If I don't hear it, it never was important.

There is memoserv in many IRC networks that does relay messages when you come back online. I have seldom had important messages relayed that way either. Most conversations are not that important.

I don't see IRC as something that should follow me everywhere across all devices. It's like radio or TV. Turn it on, turn it off. Not on all the time.
It's simple to be mean on HN. You just have to hide it in some layers of passive aggression and snark. I guess now you need to add another layer. Yay.

HN has got an army of people with overinflated sense of self and importance. I guess people calling them on their self-delusional bullshit is "gratuitous negativity". What a bunch of assholes.
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Unfortunately this enables someone to coerce or bribe you into voting for a certain candidate, since the coercer would be able to demand to see your receipt and verify you complied.

Here's a rather long but very interesting tech talk about electronic voting schemes which maintain the secret ballot property: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDnShu5V99s
I ended a debate with a local firebrand Baptist with a simple question. He insisted atheists are immoral, so I said: "It sounds like you're saying I'm immoral."

"It does sound a little ridiculous when you put it that way. You seem like a decent person, if a little more sinful than average."

Apparently he was so used to talking exclusively to other religious people that he assumed everyone shared the same concept of morality, which for him was tied up in religious law. It didn't occur to him that alternate morality frameworks (like humanism) could exist, so he assumed atheists were immoral.
Yeah but go to any RSL club or pub and you'll see keno, greyhound racing and the trots on every TV in the family bistro.

We don't really have a moral high ground here.
The Estonian E-voting system is incredibly broken by design as you can see in this CCC lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY_pHvhE4os ( by J. Alex Halderman )
If it's the flu, it does make groups sick, in sequence, with a couple of days of difference.
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One of the problems with the price angle here is thinking that credit card companies can't compete on price or are at the minimum amount they can charge profitably. Visa has a net profit margin of like 50%. They could even restructure to require banks pay them a chunk of interest payments and offer merchants 0% fees if they wanted.
All the thousands of cryptocurrencies are different blockchain artifacts and blockchain cannot exist without issuing a 'currency' the way that TCP/IP cannot exist without issuing 'message' to and fro.

It feels as if your real problem is that I am not using technical jargons :)

I understand the meaning of 'protocol' vs 'algorithm' but this is a special case where the protocol is also the algorithm. Suppose you invented making tea and wrote down the recipe for doing so. This constitutes an algorithm for making tea for people who don't care how the ingredients came about, but this can also be called a protocol for making tea involving many algorithms like sugar-making etc.

If you'd say that tea making is strictly an algo and not a protocol then I'd simply agree with you to use that term and move on since whats happening here is more important to me than the technical jargons.
I hope the order in which these comments lead to yours will stay this way in the future.
for reference: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xh6gdqlm8jargi4/Screenshot%202015-...

Why?
They perfectly highlight what's the "good common-sense reply" is like, how we should measure with each other opinions and how to handle disagreements.

HN might as well included the conversation as an example.
I owned a Xerox 1108 Lisp Machine from about 1982 to 1986. It was an amazing software development platform, and as a business rode the wave of defense industry investment in AI technologies.

I paid for my 1108 by selling a simple expert system tool for $5000 per machine license. While I felt good making my toy sort of cost free for my company, I didn't feel great about selling something simple for $5000.

I continue to be surprised how much of my consulting work in the last 15 years has used a Lisp (either Common Lisp or Clojure). From my perspective, Lisp languages are thriving.
>On the one hand, why bother voting? It's a pain in the ass and my single vote has such a negligible effect. On the other hand, if everyone like me has that same attitude, then I and others like me lose our voice in the election. So should I vote, or not?

There are going to be final poll numbers. Do you prefer that they be an accurate statistical sampling of the population, or a biased one (perhaps biased towards whatever causes some people to vote and others not to)? Your decision on whether to vote, and whether to encourage others to vote, and which others to encourage to vote, is determined by this preference.

There are a couple of simple Nash Equilibria here, as well. Assuming you want your ideology to win the election, you want everyone who agrees with you to vote, and everyone who disagrees with you to stay home. Therefore, you engage in vote suppression against your political enemies and vote recruitment for your political allies. The Equilibria are:

* Negative Nash equilibrium: the piling-up of voter suppression activities of all types causes election outcomes to be determined entirely by who's better at keeping their enemies from voting. Since this is a zero-sum game played against the enemy team's vote recruitment efforts, all teams should notice they've been sucked into a zero-sum, zero-net-productivity black hole, and pass regulations against the worst forms of vote suppression (such as mislabeling polling places or election dates, removing "enemy" demographic groups from the voting rolls, etc.).

* Positive Nash equilibrium: everyone spends lots of effort on vote recruitment efforts, and the actual election outcomes are thus a very accurate statistical sampling of real population preferences.

* Genuinely dangerous and subversive Nash equilibrium: some limited number of political parties consolidate power and trade it back-and-forth, either allowing each-other to win elections or drawing elections laws/boundaries so as to ensure each of them can confidently plan their next round of office-holding. Elections become play-acts of real political contest, and the population's real preferences are increasingly ignored.

You decide which of these we see in different actual democracies right now.
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Discussion of the ESP286 here on Hacker news seems limited. Looks like a great alternative for low-cost use. It's a $5 microcontroller board with WIFI which now can be programmed with the Arduino development environment:

http://makezine.com/2015/04/01/esp8266-5-microcontroller-wi-...
Please care to explain the tone. Is the word fuck banned on here? I wrote 'fuck bitcoin, blockchain is the thing' where I got just a little passionate and really meant 'forget bitcoin and see blockchain'. Even then, my comment wasn't rude in anyway.
Because institutional users are far more likely to want to build on something they can have some control over.
I assume reprocessing is verboten because spent fuel could be turned into weapons grade plutonium, but I'm a bit sad.

We really need non-weaponizable nuclear power if we're ever going to break our dependency on fossil fuels and for interplanetary expansion.
Deleted a comment because you don't have time to argue on the internet, and then proceed to argue on the internet?
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My wild guess is processing costs. With the amount of traffic they see, encrypting every page of every item someone looks at could potentially be very costly.
Institutional users aren't regular consumers, but institutional users are more likely to benefit (in the short term at least) from the programmable money aspects.
I don't think the community at large has had any faith in the foundation for a long time so I don't think this is any surprise. I mean Oliver was largely voted in on his promise to destroy it from the inside.
I've noticed a big improvement since dang took off the invisibility cloak. All the famous attempts at replacing HN tried to solve community problems technologically (like public referral trees and user-based discussions), but they all fall short of just having a visible and active moderator.
An attacker can also replace an https:// login URL with an http:// one on a page sent via unencrypted connection. The http:// page can then be manipulated in any way.
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Thanks. The next time a cop is gruff with me, I'll know why he's frustrated.
Well, it'd be easier to get hashpipe into all the typical package managers than to get every piece of software ever into them (though that way would of course be preferable).
Perhaps some notion of entropy would be useful here? Normal information theoretic definitions of entropy usually rely on "bits of entropy". I.e. if you are given information in the form, "Should I compare %s to a summer's day" then how many new bits of information are we actually getting? In this case, it is unbounded, because what we are calling `name` can be arbitrarily long.

But what about if we define entropy in terms of something like parts of speech? Then, the computer can only change one part of speech (the noun phrase to which we compare a summer's day) whilst maintaining the context of the sentence, so in terms of that metric, entropy is low.

With this parts of speech entropy metric in hand maybe we could declare the output of a computer to be "written by a computer" if the entropy in its sentences approaches that of a human writing about the same topic.

Disclaimer: I spent about as much time thinking about this as you did just reading it, so I don't expect this is in any way a fully formed or implementable idea, just food for thought.
This is an orthogonal issue. Arrays are clearly partial functions. The Try[.]-vs-exceptions issue is to do with the question whether failures should be reflected in types (the Try[.]-option) or not (exceptions). There are good arguments for and against both options, but both options go well with the understanding that arrays are functions and indexing is function application.
With the QuickLisp package manager I would argue that the Common Lisp platform is evolving and thriving. Even though my (consulting) customers seem to favor Clojure now, Common Lisp is still a solid choice for some types of projects that benefit from rapid prototyping, image based development, and very fast runtime.
That is my point though. Institutional users may be more likely to benefit from that but they aren't going to want to give up control. So that leaves only regular users as a driving force behind it.

There is a reason IBM, UBS, etc are building blockchain research centres and not just throwing their weight behind bitcoin itself.
He's trolling. He stresses that he had a "printer" make the pads for him. It is implied that the content of the pads was printed, when it was not. Everything he says is true but you are meant to believe these are fakes that "meet government specifications". Of course they do, the government made them, but that's not what he wanted the audience to think.
That's not true at all. Keskerakond does hold a lot of power (in Tallinn), but you're overdramatizing it way too much.

The reason why you're saying that there's "two political parties" is because Estonians' votes are spread out between 3-5 parties, whereas Russians only vote for 1 (Keskerakond). So yes, in the end, there's two main big parties (which is the same for a lot of countries), but saying that there's "basically 2 parties" is completely ignorant. Estonians' views are spread out, whereas Russians feel like they have to vote for Keskerakond to have at least some political power. Also to note, a lot of elderly Estonians also vote for Keskerakond (my grandparents for example), so Keskerakond is not just a Russian party.
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I read it, I don't see where you addressed it.
One problem is we don't know if it's actually toxic. It's black and ugly, sure, but is it actually harmful? The modest radiation figure he quotes (3x background) is not particularly worrisome.
Hmm. The librarians I know are among the most determined defenders of personal privacy you can imagine. They've even worked out ways of letting people know if they've been hit with a "PATRIOT" act demand. Still, you're right that a relentless agency could grab the data.
Slightly off topic, the sickest I've ever been was working in a large open-office with people who frequently traveled. I didn't travel as much, but I was almost constantly unwell. It was also a highly stressful job. The combination of dedicated workers, open floor plan and travel seemed to bring in just about every kind of transmittable disease possible. The high stress seemed to suppress my immune system. I think at one point I spent a solid 6-7 weeks up and down with some kind of cold/virus/flu/infection.

My last job had me working from home most of the time. In two years I think I took sick twice for a couple of days.

My current job has me in a shared office or in a shared team room (at my discretion), very little travel, stress is far lower and in the few months I've been here I've only taken sick once, for just a couple days...and I think it was my wife who gave it to me (picked up in her open office full of high stress frequent travelers).
"Russia trying to subvert and destabilize the baltic states is publically known as well." What a crock of bullshit.
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Python 2.7.3, the normal one from the current Debian stable.
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Right, but you get a redirect to the https login page with an http login URL.

An attacker can attempt phishing with HTML/JS injection on a HTTP page but an attacker cannot get a user to be looking at Amazon's real login page over http.

I think the problem here is the term ``SSL stripping'' was used and it may be kind unclear what MITM attacks is actually encompassed by it.

The OP wrote ``An attacker can easily steal passwords with SSL Stripping''. If OP meant he can easily steal passwords by basically a s/https/http on all urls on the page, OP's wrong. The attacker needs to create their own fake login page, present it to the victim, and hope the victim falls for it
I use Reddit Enhancement Suite to collapse all child comments by default, then open interesting top-level comments in a new tab to read the full discussion. I probably miss a lot of good discussion on HN because it doesn't support something similar.
Oh, ok - I get it now. I'm just a little sensitive to inflation calculations where people say a $200 PC in 80's is just as affordable as a $500 PC now - which is bunk given people's situations and frankly demonstrated by the $99 price point for cellphones and other electronics.

I dream of getting rich enough to build a modern Sinclair / Atari / Commodore that could be sold in retail stores. Something that a kid can write a program and then share it with other kids without purchasing a developer account. One can dream.
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May be I misunderstood something, but dropping dependency on glibc doesn't imply static linking.

Of course reusing C library means linking with libc and reusing C++ library means linking with libstdc++. But in a long perspective those libraries should be implemented with Rust to have all advantages of the better language.

And using rust without libc might help with some embedded use-cases, where people don't want to put unnecessary stuff. Rust as a 0-cost systems language theoretically could be used there instead of C.
"the looks of HN have helped protect the community against trolls."

Trolls just use the add-ons. Trolls will put in effort that normal users would not. A lot of online communities design based on the idea that trolls are lazy, and I think that has not served us well.
If you're the only one using daisy wheel printer then it won't be hard to figure out where the daisy-wheel-printed document came from.

Also, it's hard to print convincing counterfeit currency using a daisy wheel printer, which is the main thing the government wants to stop with these tracking dots.
The gift tax exists to prevent estate tax avoidance. Is your view that on principle estate and gift taxes shouldn't exist? I am philosophically against inherited capital accumulation, so think it should exist.

FWIW, only those who have given over $5.43 million of gifts in their lifetime pay the gift tax in the first place. Woz is by all accounts a generous person. While generous, this also reduced the size of his taxable estate by quite a bit.

In addition, each parent can give a child up to $14K tax free (now; $10K then). Spouses can give gifts to each other tax free. If I read it right, each of Woz's children probably received up to $20K in a year without paying gift taxes, though he only mentions the $10K from him personally. This gambling win would have been on top of that $20K.

It's hard for me to be concerned about 12 year olds making 20K/year tax-free.
Possibly glibc itself, but not a libc in general. While it's true that Rust can make system calls itself (though inline assembly isn't stable yet), we're not interested in re-implementing all of that.
Even within the US.
The Pi works differently from other computers I've seen, in that the GPU is responsible for booting the system, and so it always needs the binary blob to start. Think of it as the equivalent of the BIOS on a PC, except it runs on the GPU instead of the CPU, and it's stored on an SD card instead of ROM. But as far as your own OS is concerned, how you communicate with it if fully documented. So you can do modesetting, and you can do hardware acceleration and whatnot. I believe the only thing you can't do on non-linux OSes is video decoding, but I'm not exactly sure.
Excel makes a great UI for sophisticated users, I don't see how it counts as a negative
Although impressive, this quiz's content seems cherry picked for situations where bots can do well.

On the one hand we have highly informational content such as the one about the earthquake, earnings report and sports game. Reporting on this kind of information can be done in a context free way. Sentences and paragraphs can be self contained and need not reference each other or greater contexts. I only missed the sports game in part because I'm not an American and was not familiar with the game involved. In hindsight the earnings reports stands out from the others since much broader connections are made then just reporting the raw information itself.

On the other hand we have poetry, which is often so hard to parse that nonsense and genius are hard to tell apart, especially for short excerpts like these. I missed the poetry app one because although it read like nonsense for me, as a non native speaker much of these Shakespearean poems do on first sight. I don't know exactly why but "True Love" and "Absurdistan" immidetly stuck me as fake and real respectivly. For example I thought it was weird to be that her nerves where strained as two tight strings, and that someone would make her drink hot wine. Also the "True Love" excerpt seems very factual and deseperate where "Absurdistan" paints more of an atmosphere.
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Um, and then totally nobody will be able guess that the daisy-wheel printout originates from you? :]

Or did you actually already mean it as a joke? :)
What do you mean "we have new rules"??

Where are those rules? Where the fuck can I see them? Who the fuck made them?

Edit: Ok, I can see the link on the first page - hadn't seen the announcement.

On the announcement: Where does it say anything about reducing the number of fucks in a post? It talks about gratuitous negativity. How does saying "Fuck bitcoin" or "Fuck money" involve gratuitous negativity? It's not directed at anyone.

Seriously, if this place becomes some sort of Political Correctness bubble where swearing is discouraged in this way, that's an amazing distortion of the hacker spirit.

Sam's article talks about not directing gratuitous negativity at people when you're arguing with them. That has very little correlation with your use of words like "fuck" or "shit". Seriously.

The OP wanted to express a point about money and about bitcoin. It was best expressed with the word "fuck". The word "forget" doesn't get it across to me at all. That has nothing to do with the person he was responding to.
Ciudadanos is just an offspring of the current ruling party (PP) that will probably die like the last offspring did (UPyD).

They want to retain power by creating new parties which (supposedly) repulse corruption.
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Some information about the counterfeit bills can be found in a article by Brian Krebs that appeared last year.
Related Hacker News Thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8203885
> For example I thought it was weird [...] that someone would make her drink hot wine.

Hot wine is very much a thing (and it's delicious)! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulled_wine
"'We will need 0.6 gallons of water to grow one head of lettuce in this process,' says Adams. 'In California and Arizona, where most lettuce in the U.S. comes from, it takes 365 gallons of water to grow a single head.'"