jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Historically realipolitik works on a quid pro quo basis. If government does something for you, then you are expected to do something for the government.

Trading favors is the name of the game. One may argue that lobiying dollars are the favor Google is offering. But one may not realize that dollars are merely the cost of a ticket to participate. It is not the sole price.

There are many examples throughout history that this is the way things work. There are two possibilities. Either Google's and governments relationship works the way Assange has described OR US governments in the last fifteen years are completely different (more honorable?) than all the governments throughout the world before that.

What do you think is more probable?
If it is ransomware, I suspect the folks who do that thing made that decision long ago.
Normally you can just use

> wget --mirror --convert-links --adjust-extension --page-requisites --no-parent http://example.org

This should make a full copy of your website (source: https://www.guyrutenberg.com/2014/05/02/make-offline-mirror-...).

I don't have the source of the Wordpress plugin anymore unfortunately.
Then you're not most people. The desktop apps are faster, more reliable and more convenient for the vast majority of business users who just want it to work.
Interesting, and I agree that this is not a suitable location for running anything important!

I mostly use it for random experimentation/learning and like not having to think about starting up/shutting down Minikube on my main laptop!
this is much more likely to be a malicious state actor than uncoordinated attacks by random internet idiots
I don't understand why they don't just cut back on the number of events. Or the number of athletes/personnel allowed per country.
I live in the UK, and I wouldn't trust much the UK government is putting out about this. They aren't listening to scientists until they are absolutely forced to, and they're still underestimating the severity of this.
But if other airliners are doing it, wouldn’t this create a case for the government to let you go bankrupt since you are clearly less efficient then other airliners?
This is awesome. I'm in the list now. The whole point of Fedang is to let us follow the same person whether it be Twitter or hackernews or anything else. I might add some more adapters to it soon too so I can get one stream with all of andymorris's Twitter and Tumblr posts.
It was a pretty transformative experience - if that hadn't happened to me back then (while I was scoffing at my friend for missing classes to play EverQuest), I would probably have walked right into the WoW trap :)
Looks like a cool site - I'll definitely take a good look at it and possibly contribute if I have anything to add.
I'm going to stick my neck out and say RealBasic. Yes, the language is proprietary and costs money, but it's really easy to get some code going, it runs on multiple platforms, and you can make native API and DLL function calls where the standard library doesn't meet your needs.

http://www.realsoftwre.com/
The Chumpy is a full featured computer with Linux running on a 454 MHz ARM processor used as an alarm clock !
a recent video of a talk about mirage:

http://sna-projects.com/blog/2010/10/mirage/
I'm imagine that within 10 or 20 minutes the great firewall is nixing your cookies and rewriting your request en-route to google. The legion of internet monitors have an easier time reading your search results in chinese rather than english.
Every time I walk out of class at uni, I keep thinking about this "You dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a fucking education you coulda got for a dollah fifty in late charges at the public library. - Will from Good Will Hunting
I beg to differ. MySpace had maybe 75 million users at peak. Facebook has 500 million active users right now and is growing. That's 25% of the total Internet population. And they have a smarter distribution strategy (those widgets are everywhere), making them harder to just disappear suddenly.

It's certainly within the realm of possibility, but it's not likely for a long while.
I think jrockway is if he wants to comment. Financial services seem like one of the few industries that can get away with it.
In the article it's stated that the hashes are brute forced using the provided charset. I think you used a wordlist, which is a whole other thing.
Don't we generally report the age of objects relative to themselves (generally not in astronomy or physics)? You are not -1 or +5 in age (relative to myself).
I guess they should have never done, gmail, chrome, search, advertising, mobile OS because someone else have done it already.

As long as they are pushing things one step farther I have no problem with them entering existing or even saturated market. It pushes everyone else to innovate instead of settle for mediocrity. Chrome has done that to the whole browser ecosystem, it shaked everyone up from their sleep. They might not do it every single time, with every single product. But there is no way to know if they will change the langscape, if they don't try it.
I wrote something similar, except using sequential IDs instead of being content addressed. With immutable objects, forward references aren't possible.

This made the GC algorithm concurrent for free.

You'd take a lock on initiating a GC to record the roots, then release it. From that point onwards, you can take your time doing a mark and sweep on the database, only sweeping objects that have an id less than the highest of your root objects.

It also made generational collection pretty easy. If you bound your marking and sweeping with an arbitrary lower limit in addition to the higher limit from the roots, it would collect correctly within that range and waste no energy exploring past it.

I used this to aggressively clean up new objects without having to wait for a full GC. The project was storing Clojure style persistent hash maps on disk for real time log analysis, approximately 100gb or so.

Unfortunately, none of these tricks would apply to a CAS system. I do wonder if it would help running the speculative collection twice before taking out the lock, though.
In MacOS this is really just a feature of using Mach-O’s multi architecture abilities, they call this universal binaries.
The market price is literally there for them as a signal when to generate and when to not. That's the whole point of the market.
How do you know it is not depression? This is a very personal topic, but I never thought of myself as depressed until I fell into a hole so deep that I had to search for medical help (and then I still thought about EVERYTHING but depression: High-functional autism, ADHD, whatever ..) - diagnosis and therapy helped me tremendously and looking back there would've been zero chance for me to recognize that I was suffering from depression on my own. It's one of the hallmarks of depression to rationalize it away "don't be such a wuzz ... all is fine, you are lazy, stop doing that", so it's very risky to say "I know for sure it's not a depression" - you are probably the worst judge for that (just to make this clear: It's your life, if you feel all is fine and you just don't want to go out then it is fine, enjoy your life - my comment is only intended as a second perspective on a real serious issue).
It's not about the quality or maturity of the code I am relying on, it's about the quality of my code. I want my code to do the right thing in the simplest and most elegant way possible and part of this is knowing really well how everything works.
It sounds like the actual pre-production process is cheap ($7-20k for a book).

After reading his blog a fair bit it seems clear that Amazon is the real winner and that they pocket the savings from switching to ebooks (they take up to 70% of the sale price!).
It's definitely possible to match TeX output on the HTML+CSS stack. PrinceXML is roughly there already, rivaling TeX for an output-to-PDF print publishing workflow. Unfortunately it's proprietary and expensive. Of the open-source renderers, the browser engines are probably the best bet to build on.
Not quite the same as gridspree, but has a lot in common.

blockspring has SQL like commands in the client.
gridspree has data formatting in the client.

https://assembly.com/gridspree
> In 2015, there is less need than ever for us to all live in the same few places.

That's an interesting perspective. I've heard (and believe) the exact opposite. In 2015, there's no need to incur the (well-studied) economic, environmental, and cultural costs of low population density. Not to mention it's kind of bizarre to assume that it's clearly _better_ that having a population of only 2,000 people from which to meet people and make friends.

Your environment is what you make of it. I used to live in a smaller town and now that I live in a dense metropolis, I meet people and make new friends CONSTANTLY (not even joking, just this week I've (platonically) gotten 2 people's numbers based on meeting, finding mutual interests, and both of us wanting to hang out).
OK, I see your point :)

Here's what I mean:

Capitalism is (as democracy) not a yes/no thing. Instead, it is one extreme of a scale and every state has a value on that scale and can can be more or less capitalistic (democratic).
Less capitalistic in this context means more centrally planned, typically by an actor of the state (government, council for economic planning, ...).

The problem I see in the typical use of the word "capitalism" is that many flaws of the current system are blamed on the "too capitalistic" side while I'm convinced the reason lies on the "too centrally planned side", i.e., we have too little capitalism.

Hence my reaction to the word "post-capitalism" which sounds to me as if someone against torture wrote an article about "post-humanism" as a follow-up to "the obsolescence of human dignity" (where clearly humanism and dignity aren't the problem, rather it is the lack thereof).

So, yes, we had and have capitalism to some extent everywhere (including Soviet Russia) but plain capitalism is very hard to find and even more so in the last 50 years. In fact, even Singapore has a central bank and I bet HK has one, too.
What is the purpose of layering your chat protocol over another protocol at all?

SMTP has no "base protocol" in this sense. HTTP, nothing (unless you count RFC 822).

It's hard to think there protocols would have had the same life time if they were based on XML, JSON, or protobufs. (Yeah, HTTP over XML, that should be enough to give you nightmares. But welcome to DAV and XMPP.)
If you think that Twitter f's developers, then the question is why you are still _developing_ against twitter.

If you think Twitter is ffing the _users_, then the question would be more appropriately why you are still using it.

Twitters recent spate of outages is probably something they will get on top of.
hmm looks like i added the comment incorrectly. anyway I just wanted to share that while i learned a lot doing this, i wonder whether it still just makes sense to do things like this in flash as ie usage is around 70 to 98% for all the sites i track (usa and international).
The video should be up within a few months.
I am looking forward to the Surface pro 4 announcement. edit: to clarify - I'd like to buy a surface pro, but it is a tough call knowing they have a yearly product release cycle.
Yes but it’s not necessarily Google analytics.
For vertebrates, yes. Not all animals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protostome
Windows 7
Google Chrome beta.. check
AMD 6 core.. check
GeForce 210.. check

Im getting: To use Body Browser, you'll need a Web browser with WebGL support.

what am I missing?
Nope, they sped up to one version number every 6 weeks. Maybe they're trying to catch up to Emacs.
I have a book that tells me I can't own people. It's kind of a short read, but they keep adding amendments...
wizard,magician,Harry Potter
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=wizard,magician,H...
So has this been debunked? http://tinyurl.com/2e7c24z
sign. me. up. especially if they go core boot or similar.
This wasn't about my "argument", because it's really hard to be so unclueful as to think that a mild relation of experiences and shop talk is an argument. This was a chance for you being That Guy. But nobody likes That Guy. So stop.

> My experiences stand in stark contrast with yours. So what are you really basing your claim on? How do I, as someone who cares about this subject, resolve the conflict of what you're saying with what I've experienced?

By actually choosing to participate in discussion? By sharing your point of view and maybe everyone could learn from it? I might have been interested in your point of view if you had chosen to share it rather than being snide and dismissive. Now because you couldn't resist that I just want you to go away, and I won't reply to you again.
About a year ago a friend encouraged me to sign up for FB. "Facebook?" I grumbled, "Isn't that the New AOL?" My pal persisted, saying it really was a good way to keep up with what the kids were doing.

So I signed up, found that indeed it was a good way to find long-lost pals from my misspent youth. But other than that it was pretty much a wasteland - stupid games and crap.

Zuck's privacy policies were troubling as well. So I tightened everything down as much as possible, contributed little, and monitored the "recent news" feed once every week or two.

What do I get from FB? Mostly simply the ability to find people; it's the closest thing to an internet phone book. You're better off searching FB for an odd acquaintance than you are Googling him.

But outside of that, email works fine for me. All I need is a "white pages" service. So I'd suggest that what the FOSS community should provide is exactly that, just a white pages registry. Put your real name and email address in and await queries from the registry: "Do you know John Doe? He's asked for your email address."

Such a registry would block mass requests, or only allow so many queries a month with more than a degree or two of separation from your existing acquaintances.

Someone here start that up, okay?
I completely agree with you. I'm saddened by the number of up-votes, given the tone of post doesn't encourage continued discussion nor add substantively to the information in the comments.

What I think is particularly sad is that I bet he/she could have given a good argument that helped people understand the dangers of a Facebook-monopolized Internet.
As excited about LaTeX in general as the next guy, I think this project has room for improvement until it's ready for prime time.

As a webapp, it has its intrinsic advantage of zero-installation, ubiquitous availability, mobility, etc. However, it also inherits many problems and needs to compete with some really really nice native and free apps, such as TeXShop. It would need to include well-received features available in TeXShop and others, and add some extra values beyond the webapp advantages.

1. Targeting real LaTeX users, I think it makes sense to add some shortcut key or autocompletion for common commands.

2. Make it easy to go back and forth between source and preview PDF. It would be very helpful if it could highlight in the rendering result the text selected in the source view (or just the cursor position). It would even be better if you could scroll to the highlighted spot [see http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/317/317300.html]

3. Make it sync with Dropbox and/or Google Docs. Most of the target audience is already using one or both. I prefer Dropbox. If I can still use native app such as TeXShop when it is available and move to ScribTeX when I am somewhere else and still moving back without thinking, I am sold.

4. I am not sure about others, but I'd like to see the prolog (like \documentclass) and epilog (\end{document}) and other boilerplate code auto-generated and configurable from a simple panel and then hided nicely. Using different amount of padding to show the structure of the document (such as show \subsubsection with more padding then \subsection) would also be a very nice feature.
http://syskall.com/hn-crunch-greasemonkey-script-for-hacker-...

I hardcoded the usernames in the PHP script.
I don’t think I’m my cells or the bacteria living in my gut. Well, that’s not entirely true, I clearly perceive the cells in my hand and the bacteria in my gut as part of myself in some way but not the same way as other things.

Maybe this question is helpful: What do I care about? Clearly not my cells or microorganisms. I would be more than happy to dispose of my hip joint and replace it with titanium should that ever be necessary. I essentially think the same about every other part of my body.

I also don’t care about my DNA at all. If you cloned me after my death I wouldn’t suddenly spring to life, I wouldn’t be reborn as a baby, my clone would be a different person.

What do I care about, then? That, which says this sentence in my brain right now as I type it, whatever it is. It’s probably rooted in structures in my brain somewhere. Which doesn’t mean that I care about the cells in my brain, not at all. If there is a way to preserve that structure and run it I would be just fine. That’s what I care about.

That, to me, is the most important, probably the only really important part of me. The body matters but only in the sense of being a sort of tool.
I know, I'm a long time plan9 user, I know what it could be like.
When my dad died I felt as though I was at sea without a compass. I came to see that fundamentally we only know what we know and that we are responsible for the ship (our lives) regardless of what we know about navigation (if anything). Usually experience shows us that we only think we know, but there is a pretty long list of things that generally work that we can learn about. The loss I feel is that the trusted navigator I used to ask when I couldn't tell where my ship was going isn't there anymore, and he can't be replaced. He used to say "do the best you can, that's as much as any of us can do". Navigating as best I can honors him and pulls me together at the low points. Letting the vessel go adrift doesn't help anyone. He's been gone a few years now. I don't know that my life will ever be "back together again". It just goes on changing, and for now, I go on with it.
Ah, I revisit that once every couple of years and it is about that time, always puts a smile on my face.
> It also should be clear by now that "normalizes" means nothing by design

“Normalizes” means something fairly specific.

It is often used without ant evidence that it is true, but that is true of lots of other worss with clear meanings.
It's also illegal under the GPDR. You require positive consent to privacy policies.
The banners are advertising. It's just the people that want the money are from Wikipedia, rather than Coke or Apple.
"versus", not "verses"
According to Regulation 679/2016/EU, aka the GDPR, fines could be much higher. Up to 4% of the total worldwide revenues (revenues, not profits).

Moreover, repeated violations is expressly a parameter for higher fines. So non compliance as a strategy is not really viable.
IMHO the bottleneck is non-availability of Linux phones and tablets. Once this is sorted out people will be willing to switch to them

Somehow the availability ( I am in India) is just not there as of now.
well, firefox seems set to use a process for UI and a process for all tabs (such as in nightly right now), the consumption is still far lower.
Since reading Dune, I have been waiting for mankind to get around to making this. It was just a matter of time.
Scaling to meet peak demand is more expensive than merely meeting average demand, and when fares are heavily subsidized, peak demand doesn't pay for itself. And when every bus and train is standing room only, riders need more time at every stop to push their way to the doors. Relieving some of the peak demand should also make Muni faster and cheaper.
To be fair, Groupon did a lot of things right.

* They grew insanely fast for several years in a row.

* They had crazy usage numbers.

* They convinced VCs they would go public at a huge valuation.

* They got a huge buyout offer from Google.

* They IPOed, giving the company a $12B valuation and bringing in billions in cash while giving investors high multiples of their investment.

All of those things are tremendous successes, not worth laughing at. Now from an outside perspective, they're not a traditionally successful company. They're currently worth about 1/4 of their day 2 stock price. They're trying to find a better business model (Groupon Goods?), because their daily deals wasn't cutting it. The company was, in my opinion, a pump-and-dump type of company: not built for the long haul, but for raising the next round of cash.

Laughing at Groupon? I'd be more jealous: they were able to complete a sprint, but so far in the marathon, they're not looking like a company built to last. They look like a company that is using the IPO cash to search for something to sustain themselves, while cutting costs to extend their runway. To say that's "successful" is a bit of a stretch, in my mind. Their success was in hitting all the right metric for a large IPO. Since then, it's been a bit of a dud.
Eh. Certified Preowned and various information sources have reduced a lot of the information asymmetry risk of buying late model/low mileage cars and therefore what was effectively a risk premium has shrunk as well. I'm not a particular expert and doubtless there are individuals who get good deals if they put in a lot of legwork and buy from individuals. However, when I've looked, at least used cars from dealers weren't any particular bargain.
Wait, people connect their blender to their home automation system?

Oh yeah... http://www.plasma2002.com/blenderdefender/
what do you mean by anymore? Companies and individuals have had the option to settle or go to court when accused of damages for decades.
That's up to the hardware vendors and service providers. It's not entirely in the Android team's hands.
>You get 512MB for $19.95 and 1024MB for $39.95. If you buy 2x512MB, don't you get twice as much CPU too?

If their setup is the way I think it is, your 1024MB instance will have twice the cpu 'weight' as each 512MB instances, so, /in the case of contention/ the 1024MB instance will have twice as much cpu time as the 512.

Of course, my experience has been that cpu usage rarely goes above 50% on most VPS servers, so it makes less difference.
used to be that there were 12 or 13 DNS root servers. I don't know if that is still the case.

I don't know if the president could shut down the internet or not, but I'd like to see him try. That would be all kinds of crazy fun.
For me at least the problem is the attitude toward customer data. I would definitely try to be a good customer but there are all kinds of reasons why I might miss a payment. Even if the chance of that happening is 1% it would still be a reason to reconsider competitors even though Linodes specs are better.
That's a great model
25KW more likely
Half a dozen is not significantly more than four in the context of "number of languages known."

But when you're making an argument "in your experience" and happen to list your experiences in such a narrow band, you are not making a good argument. That was my point. I don't know why you think it is being a jerk to tell you to make a better argument.

To address your point: almost everything a programmer does is achieved through the manipulation of language. We solve problems using language. Learning a new language is learning a new way to solve problems. If you find this to be easy, then maybe that is because you keep solving the same problems.

My experiences stand in stark contrast with yours. So what are you really basing your claim on? How do I, as someone who cares about this subject, resolve the conflict of what you're saying with what I've experienced?

Surely measuring our genitals is not the solution you'd propose.