jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I know a lot of working class people, and their views are just as valid and often they are smarter/more well informed about some particular low level details of the way the economy/society operates. But without a college education in today’s complicated world its really hard to be a sophisticated consumer of information (even with one many fail) so working class people are more susceptible to manipulation by propaganda, oral information, conspiracy theories, availability heuristic etc. Being able to google something vs being able to search skeptically and critically are two different skills.
I got my acronyms confused, when I say ISA, I mean the ARM board equivalents of the Industry Standard Architecture[1] that preceded PCI.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_Standard_Architecture
This is a legitimate issue. There are people who grow up never owning a laptop or desktop. I don't care how good mobile gets or speech-to-text, writing clean documentation, code, and using a keyboard/mouse will not be replaced anytime soon for high productivity work.
That specific paragraph is a lot of weirdness.

But once you have the domain, somebody who knows what they're doing with DNS and SMTP absolutely could set up proper email services on it (forward-confirmed rDNS, SPF, DKIM signing, DMARC), and send spam with it. It's functionally equivalent to any other domain. Particularly if the intention was to be a one-shot approach that would "burn" both the domain and the hosting services, such as in the days leading up to an election.

A really smart bad actor would use some IP space from an ISP that traditionally has not been a source of spam. Eg: Not an ISP with a lot of low-dollar-value VPS/VM/hosting customers.

There's still some totally "clean" /24 IP blocks out there in the various RBLs and spam listing services if you go searching.

If I were an evil person and did this, I'd try to get the domain at least a few weeks in advance and try to generate a moderate volume of totally legit looking emails, destined for the top 20 major destinations (office365, gmail, etc) and verify from a bunch of sockpuppet accounts that the mail was actually getting delivered. Then I'd turn loose the fire hose.

Should a person want to be really evil, they'd do something like the reverse of what happened to the City of Baltimore with the cryptolocker trojan. Find a list of municipal (water, sewer, gas, electrical, property tax) bill payers and email each of them a plausible looking invoice, with cryptolocker attached. The likelihood of people opening it would be high.
When you support a compiler you get a massive stream of users complaining the at at the compiler has a bug, though in most cases it’s the user’s bug.

Of course there are also good reports where the user actually has found a bug in the compiler.

Though of course most are weird corner case or bugs in new features, there are a surprising number that make you think “wow, how could any program be successfully compiled which this bug in the tree?”
Old wealth also spent lavishly, just on things more beneficial to the public. Imagine the costs with constructing an ornate art deco build today, vs. another 6 story wood frame box. At least with the pricey art deco building, the luxury is enjoyed by everyone who uses the space. Not to mention old wealth often donated huge fortunes to civic endeavors.

There was good reason why the working class resentment of old wealth was minimal, it was because they weren't only hoarding it for hedonism or a lust for power.
Please excuse the format of this reply, but this analogy is the best way I can think of to offer a different perspective to the one you are expressing:

"If you feel strongly about human rights violations in a democratic country.... you know maybe actually run for elected office and not just wine about it? This is why people stop becoming political candidates, these type of people with their weird feeling of entitlement exercising their right to free speech."

To be clear, my point isn't that we should solve all data collection problems with legislation (although that might be beneficial in some cases) or that automatically checking for software updates is necessarily a human rights violation. My point is that it's unreasonable to expect everyone who cares about any feature request to write software to satisfy their needs, especially if the upstream developers would refuse their patches. It's even more unreasonable to demand that people who care about certain issues never try to raise awareness of those issues with other people who might be affected or might be able to do something about the problem.
Ha. Around that time I was working for a company that sold a digitizer for the Radio Shack Color Computer (CoCo 3). We were a small outfit, so engineers also did customer support.

To this day I remember the address of a woman who was so proud that she finally figured how to use it to digitize a photo of her daughter that she printed it out and mailed it to me as thanks for my help :-)
Well, "highlevel" from aiohttp perspective -- it has had very lowlevel server API before 0.10.

And yes, we have websockets support but it's not integrated into 'highlevel' API yet -- will be done in next release, we are working on it.
Nim: http://nim-lang.org/

https://nim-by-example.github.io/
Here's the original in scanned PDF format amongst with some other versions:

https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11-fltplan.htm
F# and Rust.

Why F#

http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/why-use-fsharp/

Why rust

http://www.rust-lang.org
I'd guess it's a remake just based on the fact that the filename has "reformat" in it, and common sense
Well, this is a shame.. Apparently the sample rate of the AudioContext (for some people 48 kHz) isn't definable (it should be 44.1 kHz here), which makes this a tough thing to fix. For me, it works in osx but not in windows 8 (bootcamp).

I found this: https://github.com/WebAudio/web-audio-api/issues/300

Apparently it's not implemented yet?
You might want to read the discusson from the last time this was submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1307571
This is slightly susceptible to result intervention - algorithm not doing too well? Drive a tractor slowly down the inside lane until reality matches your prediction!
Embarrassingly, I always though bucket shops meant something else. (I thought that this is what you call brokers with heavy flow that could cross much of their traffic internally without going to the exchange.)
You know what, you're right. I saw a video of someone testing that a chip had been soldered on correctly with a multimeter, but he was testing for the lack of a connection. Testing for a connection would not be done this way.My bad.
Crowd supply link here: https://www.crowdsupply.com/inverse-path/usb-armory

I've been watching this project for a while now, and the possibilities are really endless.

One thing he mentioned that sounds really interesting is you could run a transparent proxy, and use it to replace "p@ssw0rd" on login pages with the actual password from a password manager on the device. Of course you'd have to set up SSL interception with a self-signed cert, but AFAIK most (all?) browsers will let you add a custom CA. You could also add ad blocking and malware scanning as well, assuming the device is fast enough and has enough ram.
Regardless of what service (AWS, Linode, Rackspace, OVH) if you leak keys or passwords you have the potential for costs incurred by malicious users.

I have not used OVH, but a quick perusal of the OVH API[1] suggests that you could invoke plenty of commands that would incur costs.

[1] https://api.ovh.com/console/#/order
Try to add an int and a float32 using 'Try go' on http://glolang.org - I get this error:

prog.go:13: invalid operation: x + y (mismatched types int and float32)
[process exited with non-zero status]

I'd have to cast one of the variables to get it to work. Casting is unnatural - Maybe it's not so bad in this case, but in many cases it isn't desirable.
Given other systems that systemd has enveloped, like udev, and insanities that they've pushed into kernel space, like kdbus, I'd blame quite a bit of that madness on systemd. Systemd is a symptom of the pervasive lack of engineering hygiene in the linux world that has pushed me away from linux and makes me dread having to work with an OS I used to rather enjoy.
Agreed, and this point is often misunderstood by gun control advocates in the US (it's completely unfathomable outside of the US). Saying "I don't like that guns are used to kill people, therefore I'm okay with guns meant for hunting but these guns designed for people should be regulated or banned" completely misses the point. The Lockean philosophy behind the 2nd amendment is that individuals should have the means to protect themselves independent of (and even from) the state. We need guns in case we need to lead another revolution. Similarly, the state should always be aware that its citizens have the capacity to revolt effectively. We know that having this right means bad things will happen -- guns will be available for criminals to use, for example. If you believe in Liberal gun rights, you think that the evil that happens when guns are freely available is an acceptable price to pay for an important freedom.

In the same way, that's why we need Tor -- because citizens need to be able to communicate and organize absent of government surveillance and interference. Tor is not important "even though" it can be used to avoid law enforcement. It is important "because" it can be used to evade law enforcement, because one day we may have to.

I mean, of course, a purely hypothetical revolution. I am serious when I say, however, that the framers of the Constitution wanted future US governments to be constrained by the power of the citizens, and so they gave the citizens guns. They also guaranteed the right to assembly and free association (1st amendment) and the right to be free from search or seizure (4th amendment). Inter-citizen communication free from government surveillance is implied there, I think.
> Stallman's endorsement of Chinese hardware illustrates tho' that he values software freedom over, y'know, political freedom, which puts him on dodgy ground IMHO.

Show me a laptop or desktop computer not made wholly in China, or at the very least, containing a majority of parts not made in China, and you might have an argument here. The fact of the matter is, non-Chinese-made hardware meeting all of his requirements is scarce to the point of extinction. Maybe (maybe!) a couple of Korean phones and tablets have no DRM, no NDAs attached, no hidden features, no binary blobs required for full utilization.

Or in other words, if you're so worried about political freedom, you'd best throw out that smartphone, that laptop, that desktop, that gaming console, that car stereo, and so on. Dodgy ground indeed, isn't it?
One neat thing you can do with monads thats useful in your setting is coroutines/generators as a library. You get to write code that looks like its regular sequential code and behind the scenes it gets expanded into the "callback hell" you would have had to write if you decided to code the things in event driven style by hand.

Anyway, I do have to say that the Monad abstraction is not that useful outside of Haskell because you kinda really need Type Classes to get monads "right" and most languages don't have that. What you might end up is with specific monads like promises in JS but then the monads are just a design pattern instead of being a concrete abstraction like they are in Haskell.

In addition to that, in Haskell monads are the only way to do sequential computations with side effects because by default the language is Lazy. This means that Haskell programmers have to learn this abstraction whether they like it or not while in other languages you can avoid it better :)
I love simplenote too, replaced my notepad.exe.
There's another aspect to consider:

When people express themselves in a creative way, they do so so that other people (and themselves!) can appreciate it. We create art for other people - we don't create for animals or plants or robots. Other people can appreciate our art because it may express an emotional and/or psychological state that resonates with them.

Now if we avoid the question of whether or not an AI can be considered creative if it does not express itself voluntarily, how can we judge the "quality" of its art? If it's doing so because it evokes a favourable internal state whenever it observes it, could that not be considered art?

(When you listen to a piece of music and it makes you feel good, would you not consider that a good piece music?)
A Seinfeld game huh.Not that there is anything wrong with that.
My first tech job was 38K a year, 17 years ago.
looks great, monitization?
Your product looks very good. But from a browsing 'around' I can't tell how it's different from Medium (and others).

I would focus on that and try to make it clear to the clients (=the ones who pay not consume the content).

Good luck.
This is fourth (different) site in the last week that displays "foo.bar" as "foo . bar". What is happening!? Am I going crazy???

edit: hm, ok, so some extension was doing it, I'm glad I'm not going insane.
There are thousands of employees there, right? Surely you wouldn't recognize any significant portion of them on a given random walk in the park.
Most automated penetration testing tools show what known vulnerabilities a target system has, and can help piece them together into a complete exploit: they do not find new bugs.
I find dh-make-perl quite useful. Lets you build Debian packages from Perl modules:

apt-get install dh-make-perl
dh-make-perl --cpan Some::Module
cd into the directory the above made
debuild

Now you have a .deb of Some::Module.
This has been discussed here before in 2012 and the linked version is not different from the one before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3871463
Title should be updated to include (2012) when this was originally released to the public, following a pervious leak.
oddly, the term is "uninhabitable".
The answer is to have a shitty bike with a good lock, been using a $200 beater for 4 years and it still got everything except the saddle got stolen once
It will, once we have a process that can produce it at an industrial scale which appears to be forthcoming [1].

[1] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100119111057.ht...
FYI, my comment got 6 upvotes...
I only thought once.

The del.icio.us API would allow them to grab pretty much all of it anyway. I've already migrated mine out to a couchdb-based clone: http://xlson.com/2011/01/13/out-off-delicious-and-into-your-...

This has the nice benefits of always being local and being impossible to take away from me. :)

(well, I did break my couchdb build with an experimental branch on an experimental OS, but I'll sort that out later)
They're probably using the local ephemeral drives for Cassandra storage rather than S3. I'm guessing they're then moving snapshots into S3 or elsewhere.

http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg110...
Nope. I think art's purpose is to change and mature you, if you let it.

It's just that the Internet is home to a lot of people that believe rationalism is the only valid way to perceive the universe, when in reality it is just one way to do so. Personally, I found myself unhappy when I restricted myself to it. The universe seemed cold, empty, and cruel. I think a lot of people hit this stage and then just give up completely.

It's really sad.
Jansens's talk of genetic code is just an artsy guy gushing, which I don't mean to detract from his marvelous accomplishment, but it does plant the seed of an idea. In principle you could integrate cad/cam, a physics simulator, genetic algorithms, and a 3D printer...
As if they won’t arbitrarily lock your account and force you to enter a phone number because of “suspicious behavior” anyway...

You could already disable SMS 2FA after enabling TOTP, but removing your phone number completely used to disable 2FA.
I only see examples of classification. Regression? Time series?
Or capture the methane, upgrade it and run generators/cars/busses of it. It's existing tech

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogas
Stealth bomber on wheels. I love it
WhatsApp (and thus Facebook) has three ways to monetize the service: (1) Charge everyone a small amount; (2) Charge a few users -- businesses mostly -- a large amount; (3) Sell and monetize your data with ads.

WhatsApp's founders were inclined to go with #1. Mark Zuckerberg appears to prefer #2 and #3.
>This thing is absolutely fugly.

Fugly is in the eye of the beholder. To me this is an outstanding design, with crazy cool cyberpunk inspiration, and finally a fucking bold design move -- 99% of cars looking the same shit, even sports cars like Lamborginis sticking to the same designs since the 80s...

I've had to see such an interesting take since the DeLorean....
That young student's name... Albert Einstein.
There's a Dodge Ram parked outside my door (Paris). It only moves on the weekend...
So he invested time in building up his straw-man before tearing it down?

The problem with being in such a rush to confirm your own worldview is that you don't learn anything from anyone else's. The 'worse is better' philosophy is about valuing simplicity over completeness, specifically in the context of UNIX/C vs Lisp machines back in the 80s. How do you think most of those people feel about, say, the STL?
Wow, the comments here are overwhelmingly negative.

Keep in mind that this is from pouet.net, a site dedicated to Amiga-style demos. Of course this demo is irrelevant to modern web design. It's a technical feat more than anything.
At no point will I ever have to write a post like this, because I know I(and my family) will be covered. I don't care what your laws say, the fact that someone is in this type of situation at all just isn't right. Especially in the richest country in the world.
You must be new here.

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YMMV- I had a card go bad after not ordering more on it.
Fair enough. I only had time to glance at the original analysis, and I definitely saw "test of runs" in there, so that's what I assumed the analysis was based on.
That's very cool :-) I think rvirding would approve ;-)

Did you ever check out LFE afterwards. to compare your approach with Robert's?
Given that the bug in Android 4.3 was fixed in Android 4.4, which AFAIK is available to all manufacturers, how much blame should accrue to the manufacturers for being chronically months or years late in pushing out version updates?

I can see arguments both ways.
thomasfl's comment did point out Northern Ireland, whose communities were so segregated there's a mini Berlin wall in part of the city ("Peace Line"), and where there's plenty of firearms and also high explosives.

Disarmament was a critical and controversial part of the peace process.
I read Bernstein's original post a couple days ago, and followed up by reading the wikipedia arbitration.

The real crux of the problem is that there's a mismatch between the broad scope of what Wikipedia's rules try to prevent against (biased editing) vs what gamergate is using Wikipedia for (a tool of harassment).

So the question is whether Wikipedia's rules are sufficient to prevent fiddling with the site and its purpose in order to harass people and are simply being misapplied, or whether Wikipedia is just structurally unable to prevent obvious coordinated campaigns of harassment.
By breakthrough they're sadly not talking about a scientific discovery, but about a trade agreement.
Among many other things, reform of the police with firm commitment to even-handed policing. De-escalating the police and military response to fears of terrorism. Involving the Catholic/republican community in the political process.
Sheez. So when the broken code in question is over 2 years old, and is hard to fix, then Google just washed their hands of it? Google is a big company with substantial resources. How about they support their customers beyond the "new and shiny period" like many, many other companies do?
Good to see F# on hackernews.
The issue is that when you give the police an inch, they beat you to within that inch of your life. The system in place in most countries sounds horrifying when put into the context of the American policing system.
Do you know who else was told that the product they were dealing with was completely safe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls

The group who would come to be known as the Radium Girls. They were told that Radium was safe if ingested, and many of them would lick the tips of their paint brushes, or paint their teeth and nails with the substance. Soon after they began suffering radiation poisoning, but were discredited of their claims by the company publicly defaming them as contracting syphilis.
I would say that after 5 years (possibly sooner) nobody cares what class of degree you have.
Didn't they just shut down a service that did the same by blocking their twitter api access or am I mixing stuff up ?
Honestly, most people simply dont want to know. The problem with learning dirty truths is that for former "true beleivers", the truths can take a huge toll mentally. Even for a rational and logical person, the cognitive dissonance and compartmentalization that can be generated can be a large burden to work through.
The point of view of the author is left-depressive. Maybe that's the reason why the comments get into depression issues

Having an easy job-opportunity as a delivery-person, or Uber-driver or freelance-(anything) is a good thing, not a bad thing. If you enjoy doing shopping maybe is a good thing that you can make shopping for others as a living.

Who is a happier? The person cleaning the apartment while you're working or you?

If you're getting home at 1am, stressed, unhappy, already thinking of tomorrow's work, and he/she is getting home to share a nice family dinner... Who is happier?
Over the line? Why did they have to bribe a bank to accept their business? That's crazy! The liberty to conduct everyday business is the most important liberty we have. It's what puts bread on the table.

The fact that they had to bribe a bank to open and use an account is really really sick.
Eh, I think it's relevant to delineate e-readers like Kindle from app-centric tablets, "tAPPlets", like, say, the iPad.

E-ink readers are great on their own for obvious reasons and don't have to compete directly with the iPad. I don't know how well an app-centric Amazon tablet would do against Apple.

Amazon probably has the money to dip their feet and fail, but how well are any of the competitors doing by comparison?

They also obviously have an absurd customer base to tap, and they already have Kindle, on-demand video and rentals, but I don't know if that is going to cut it. If they focus on being cheaper, maybe, but good luck with that. It would be interesting if they partnered with Readability, at least just as a cute "fuck you" to Apple.

They'll have to focus a little differently or frame their device in an interesting way. Time will tell.