jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ah, alright.

Yeah, seven is just coincidental. But, it appears that you are correct in one respect: seven seems a bit high to me. I don't have the time to do the probability distributions out, if someone cares would they do the calculation and check?

EDIT: The salt 'sV' occurred 215 times. sV39Fw5at18zo occurs seven times. Assuming that there were only 300 possible passwords each of which occurred with probability ~.3% (the probability of '123456'), then the probability of seven passwords hashing to the same value is incredibly low. Less than a thousandth of one percent. Does anyone know why this is? Or was it just the case that Scorpion's assumption that the distribution is very non-random is correct?
I use this service for creating RSS feeds from sites that don't have one:
http://page2rss.com/
Sure. But if it came down to lots of time alone or lots of time with forced contact, which would you pick? They both sound bad to me (what do you expect from being incarcerated?); the baked in assumption that what's bad for most humans is bad for all humans is what bothers me.
Murdoch paid around $330million for MySpace, MySpace is doing annual revenues of 400m+ with a staff of around 1000. General estimate of MySpace's current market value tend to be around the $5 billion point.

Murdoch did get an amazing deal.
My citation for the Seznam claim is "I read it on English Wikipedia". I have no idea if it's accurate. Sorry.
Looking at the prices of the kindle editions of the below books,

Distributed Algorithms ($100) - http://amzn.to/glJVKv
Algorithm Design Manual ($61.72) - http://amzn.to/f9G0KD

They are about $10 less than the physical book. Doesn't it cost them far less to produce, store, transport a digital version? I wonder how much of this goes to the author.
Related: I've jokingly said that I'm going to create a "glasses app" where you tell it your prescription number and it warps the camera's image so that you see it properly.

I don't think it would be very practical, especially since I think it would be hard to make it work without dictating the exact distance from phone screen to eye and from camera to object being viewed. But it would be cool.
My God man, do you want people to overdose?!
I doubt running your own server is always the right solution.There are pros and cons for and against hosting yourself. A small company without dedicated security team may get hacked and all customer data exposed, for example.

Contrary to what this article insinuates, the vast majority of companies do not have to worry about violating the terms of services of cloud providers and other external services, because they don't offer services designed to violate besaid terms of services.

As for Parler, of course they should have seen that coming. It's pathetic that they didn't. They should have looked at sites like the Piratebay for how to do it and prepared a bit more.
> Those who want to experience a lower "functional high ground" should switch to Ubuntu and discover how much further ahead OS X is.

I did exactly that (12.04 LTS), and am not going back. Configuring some things (I'm looking at you, Silverlight) is a pain, but most stuff is pretty painless. OS X looks much shinier, granted, but in terms of usability I prefer Ubuntu.
Blathering about science and medicine still doesn't make your made-up proclamation about the cause of depression any less made-up.
> MS has weird issues where you have to re-install the entire OS just to fix things.

That's a) too vague and b) I know my org runs a 100,000+ install base of Win 7 and unless people do something stupid no one reinstalls their OS ever. The reason you might not see much Mac and Linux calls is people aren't doing the same things they do with Windows in a business environment. Try installing a ton of 3rd party stuff, add a bunch of old software, expect it to work with any hardware you throw at it and you'll find Mac and Linux fail miserably beyond your normal browse/email/code/publish workflows.

If you are talking Enterprise - there is nothing that even comes close to what Windows does - ton of hardware, ton of backwards compatible stuff, ton of manageability stuff and so on. Try doing all that with a Mac or Linux. I guarantee you won't get too far unless you run a startup with people doing just coding and deployment. Windows in Enterprise is an entirely different beast - that it works so well is in itself a miracle. Mac and Linux won't even compete beyond the basics.
This kind of discussion seems irrelevant once you move to the immutable deployment model. A new deployment means a new server that the load balancer switches to. Discard the old server. Obviously this doesn't work as well if you are not on the cloud or otherwise not operating in a cloud-friendly (don't write to the filesystem unless it is something like ceph) way. But I have no idea why people are still updating cloud servers instead of replacing them.
In terms of media? I used to be subscribed to both Economist and WSJ but eventually found WSJ to be better.
This is an ill-informed opinion.

He correctly reject quite a number of language, but probably not for the right reason, given the criteria of using it for long-term projects.

What languages will be still usable in 50 years? A language like perl, that was popular a few years ago, but that nobody use anymore? A language like java or C++ that's changing every few years (because it's so limited or ill-designed)? What guarantee do we have to be able to compile our current C++ programs with C++2060? What would you bet? Even C's evolving.

On the other hand, there are a small number of candidate language that withstand the test of time:

- Fortran and Cobol (somewhat specialized languages),

- Lisp, notably Common Lisp which is still able to run programs 55 years old (that's my personnal bet, CL programs written today will be still runnable in the Lisp of 2060), and whose ANSI standard has not changed for 20 years now.

- probably Smalltalk. Perhaps Ada and Eiffel.

All the other languages are too recent or evolving too fast to ensure any perenity for long term projects, AFAICS.

For example, while Haskell is the current fad in purely functional programming languages, I could count at least half a dozen of rather popular functional languages invented since I was in University, for an average of lifespan of a few years each, not much more. If I wanted to write a long term project in a functional style, I'd still choose Common Lisp to do that...

http://longnow.org/
How is the new Anabasis?

I love that book but can’t recommend it to non nerds because it doesn’t flow quite right for a modern book. Education of Cyrus similarly. I LOVE these books but they take a little patience. Ironically, the Socratic Dialogues of Xenophon read easier than Plato’s.

Now, Golden Ass (Apuleius- trans. Robert Graves) reads like a modern book. Amazing.
I’m not sure the question is whether legality completely extinguishes a black market for the goods or services in question. After all, there’s still a black market for individual cigarettes (“loosies”) in poor neighborhoods, even though cigarettes remain legal. It’s a question of whether the situation is substantially and incrementally better in those places where the conduct is lawful than where it isn’t. So if there is less trafficking, I’d say that’s a net win.
"Sorry, we'll have to hold off on the job interview until your github resume stops erroring out."

People: have a backup plan.
I know. It's happening to me right now.
> speedtest-cli ... can't seem to ever report higher than 300mbps.

I routinely get 700-900Mbps reported using speedtest-cli from centurylink fiber. My bottleneck is the CPU on my router running openwrt.
What are some examples of these crazy liquid assets?

In the past I've spent extra money on tools, a house and some gold and silver (as I have a goldsmithing hobby). The house is difficult to unload, at least mentally, pretty good market. The tools have kept their value, but finding a buyer is difficult. The gold and silver are a similar story, but tend to fluctuate in value rapidly.
I presume you're trolling but I much prefer my life to my higher paid US colleagues lives. I don't work a second more than I'm required. I get more holidays. Better parental leave. Can't be fired at will.

Also requiring help from the welfare state has nothing to do with a persons intelligence. Sometimes there are massive recessions + unemployment...or global pandemics. Shit happens and when it does knowing that I'll be taken care of is worth a lot.
> It means “I would prefer the human race dies off rather than reproduce”.

Who is saying this?!

Regardless, there are 8 billion humans from a population pool that may have at times dropped to as few as a few hundred. So risk of human extinction is far less than the (very real) risk of making lives of future generations much shittier.
what I see right now is that people are choosing fewer, higher speed, more expensive and more power hungry cores over more, slower, cheaper and more efficient cores. Anyone who uses Xeons instead of the new 8 or 12 core opterons has made this choice. Sure, the Xeons kick ass when it comes to single threaded performance, but as far as performance per watt or performance per dollar go, the new socket G34 opterons kick the shit out of the Xeons. For the cost of an 8 core Xeon, I can get a low power 8 core opteron, 32GiB ram, and a nice SuperServer to put it all in.
Already had it in my Amazon wishlist, from researching this problem. I think I need to put this up on my wall.

Thanks.
Go to page two of the article, there's another comic that was accepted that has implicit sex and a nipple showing.

"On a Picasa page, he posted some full pages from the original book, as well as one page from another comic book (from Kick-Ass) of a heterosexual couple. Apple apparently didn't have a problem with that image. Kick-Ass can be bought, uncensored, on iTunes through the iVerse comic reader."

http://www.thebigmoney.com/blogs/app-economy/2010/06/11/it-g...
You're not being negative; you're being brutally honest. I'm the same way with others. It's needed.

I've already started, but the gruntwork is like a Roman phalanx in my path. Guess I'll just have to shut up and fight.

Excellent, helpful response. Thanks.
I am not US based but still need a decent payment processing system. All existing payment processing companies are US-centric. Any luck for us?
I have the same questions. The most frustrating part of shopping around for these types of services is trying to figure out whats included and what isn't. Perhaps its just the nature of this market, but the fact that I have to purchase and manage additional services just to someone's special 'payment subscription service' is a pain.
xfinitywifi is provided by Comcast, you need a valid comcast login to connect. He is a Comcast subscriber himself, and thus he has a valid Comcast login.
I'm sitting a little confused here. The WHOIS for torrent-finder.com lists an address in Egypt. But comments that I've seen so far express anger, but are explicitly tempered by the fact that this is happening within the US and we haven't crossed any lines yet. Didn't we just cross lines?
Hacker News is really not the place it used to be.
Open Twitter, allow anyone to be a Twitter server, and sell their services to Twitter providers who don't want to deal with Twitter nuts and bolts, as Disqus does for comments and Google does for gapps.

Be an expert in Twitter and sell training to implementers and users, as GitHub does for git.

Have free and paid levels, as GitHub, Disqus, Dropbox and countless others do.

Have all paid services, as old school businesses do.

There's probably more else that I haven't covered.
Meeting people isn't always easy. I think that events and social experiments like this can encourage interaction in a new/fun way. At the very least people at the office will be talking about it, which will likely lead to new fruitful interactions.

Certainly it's not more creepy than FB
Being privately funded, they have much higher chance of satisfying obscure customer request. Once companies are loaded with VC funds, they generally focus towards 'big-picture' features etc to impress the board members, VC's.
You need to be fairly technical to disable javascript. That or there's an administrator doing that for you (like in some company).

So, besides companies which restrict javascript (very rare?) there's only those using noscript (very rare?).
Cdma phones don't do this.
Bassdrive.com is always good
The article consists of a link to something informative from NASA -- http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/04... -- plus a negative amount of further information.
Right. They said they use SIP for this, which does require an account. I assume Apple/AT&T are automapping phone numbers to SIP accounts.

SIP video phones have been on the market for years already.
I wonder if the memory carousel itself is not so much a survival mechanism, but rather it's a side effect of a survival mechanism. In layman terms, the brain goes into overdrive as it tries everything it can to eek out some minor optimization in your movement, that might help you dodge an arrow. As a side effect everything else in your brain also gets stimulated like never before and for the parts of your brain that we relate to consciousness, the experience is one of explosive recall of memories.
No; in the US, for example, Part 15 devices are, I think, limited to a maximum of 1W transmitted power at 2.4GHz, and 4W of EIRP (effective isotropic radiated power). i.e. maximum antenna gain of 6dBi at full power.

For fixed, point-to-point installations there is a special rule in effect: you can get more EIRP by having higher gain antennas as long as you back off the power; e.g. you can drop down to 22dBm (159mW) but have a 30dBi antenna and get 52dBm (159W) of EIRP.

A 30dBi antenna at 2.4GHz is, by the way, something like a 1.5 meter diameter parabolic grid.
I hope CFexpress replaces SD card slots on laptops. I’d love to boost or swap the storage in my in mine but sd cards are so slow and.
Not being surprised is not the same as being defeatist/conformist. There are things I would love to see changed that don’t surprise me, and there are things that surprise me that I see no reason to change. One does not imply the other.
Don't forget that some people enjoy such things. Not every thing has to be reduced to a cost / benefit analysis.
Technically the AArch64 instruction set and the memory system are the only parts that are 'hardware accelerated'. QEMU handles everything else in software.
I thought they were too busy Snapchatting themselves with their gold iPhone 12 pros in diamond-encrusted cases with ruby-encrusted selfie sticks.
More precisely, the B in LGBT:

> And in Generation Z, bisexual people make up an even greater share of the LGBT community - 72% said they identify as bisexual. [...] In comparison, about half of millennials who identify as LGBT say they are bisexual, while in older age groups, identifying as bisexual is about as common as identifying as gay or lesbian.
> The definition of inflation is that asset prices go up.

The definition of inflation is typically that consumer prices go up due to there being "more money". The only kind of asset that people consume is housing, and even then they don't really - housing as an asset (purchase price) can be disconnected from its consumption price (rent). Besides that, you can't eat stocks so you don't get poorer when the price goes up.

Assets can actually increase in price because of deflation. For instance, technology getting cheaper has made all the stockbrokers drop their transaction fees and add fractional shares, so now everyone can bid up the same stocks.
Sure, but that's always the tradeoff. If we know in advance what the data will be used for, we can choose an approach which allows that; although it may prevent subsequent 'fishing expeditions'. Note that GDPR already requires the purpose and scope of personal data collection to be specified in advance, so it's not an unrealistic requirement.
Don't get me wrong, I am not talking about myself here. I am still an absolute curious fellow. I just started learning woodworking, I am 37 years old now. I start learning something new each year.

I meant the current trend of digital products which are, in my opinion, more like a TV than "computers".
If you believe in "labor theory of value", Bitcoins require investment and labour to be created. All these computers from home CPUs to ASICs require some noticeable amount of work to be done to get assembled and then mine blocks.

Same thing with gold or anything.

Except, of course, labor theory was always wrong for a simple reason: the labor is expended because of expectation to satisfy a demand. So the value must already exist (or be anticipated) in a form of demand. Just because I waste my day and money doing some software won't create any value. There should be other people out there who could do something useful to them with my software, regardless of how much time I spent on it.

Costs and rewards are highly correlated on the market because of competition. If you make big profits, more people will go in and compete on the price with you. So it may seem that costs determine price, but it's the other way around. You expend work only in expectation of being paid for it afterwards (with some profit).
I happen to agree with the premise, but really, this is not a well-stated case.

But thousands, if not millions of people commute to work every single day.

Come on. Thousands, if not millions? They say that the number of people in Manhattan alone increases by a million during the day. More importantly, though, this has absolutely nothing to do with the 8 hour workday.

You still need to travel from wherever you live to wherever you do your work; the only way to solve this is to move those places closer together (maybe even to the same place).

In fact, I’m willing to bet that most people aren’t doing anything for 40% of the working week.

Assuming that this is true, there are a variety of alternate hypotheses. For example, this problem is pretty much exclusive to knowledge workers. Perhaps knowledge workers need "breaks" just as physical laborers do, but because the culture discourages it, they invent their own "breaks".

Today, human creativity is at an all time high because less and less people are working in offices.

This is self-contradictory: either human creativity is at an all-time high, or it's reduced by working in offices. After all, there was a time when nobody worked in offices. I'd wager that the proportion of humans who work in offices is actually increasing, even if you only look at Western cultures. Of course, I'd hardly say that human creativity is at an all-time high either (even for Western cultures alone, that was during the Renaissance).
I have noticed that recently the Chrome web inspector has gotten much better at working with pseudo classes. Maybe it is just the nightly version of Chrome, but when I inspect one of those links, I can see and edit the a:before pseudo class.

It's a really nice upgrade, because in the current version of Firebug and older versions of the Chrome inspector it was not possible to modify or even see these properties.
Clearly, he does not have any kids...
I've worked 7-4 the last 3 years and it helps a little in the mornings but the afternoons are about the same (Los Angeles traffic). It's still worth it to have the office to myself for 2 hours in the morning.
Also let's not forget labor camps. Some big industrial projects (especially in Siberia) such as dams, the Trans-Siberian railroad, factories, power lines etc., were built with slave labor.

I am not sure of the %, I imagine it is not terribly large, but it is still there.

Other projects were built with student labor. University students were encouraged to provide volunteer work on such projects. They got on a train and traveled some place wherever help was needed. My father said it was quite fun. He spent a summer in Khazakstan, then another in Siberia.
It is WAY easier to scale (up AND down) over several nodes. So if you've got BIG amounts of text that you have to fulltext-search, Riak might be the better option.
This is the same guy that has proposed the internet filter in Australia and is attempting to legislate much tougher regulations on how web companies do business here than the rest of the world.

It's really worrying that someone who has this kind of power doesn't understand the basics of how data is transmitted securely online. By his logic couldn't any intermediary router on the internet read your banking details?
Cassandra has Hadoop integration.
The OCW versions that captured Fall 2002 (http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/35804) with a MIPS target and Fall 2005 (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...) with a x86_64 target are in Java.
I'll second Evernote. It's the best place for dumping anything: links, notes, photos, etc.
WA is so deeply ingrained in the Dutch society, we even have this all over the place: [0]

At this point it's just a lost cause. I have some friends on Signal and use NextCloud talk (my own server, yay, still waiting for federated chat to chat to other servers), but so many "official" things are on WA, children's birthday parties, school announcements, sports related announcements, neighborhood announcements. We are really too dependent on WA, and you know, based on WA's original promises this wouldn't really be a problem. Now it is, although I fear I'm one of the very few that sees it that way.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=whatsapp+buurtpreventie&t=ffsb&iax...
A dead woman on the floor with blood pooling out of her head sends a weaker message in this respect than an appropriately-decorated piece of cloth being raised? I suspect you may be a little too shaken by recent events to be thinking clearly. Thoughts and prayers, my friend.
> That means you have bad middle/upper management. Large tech companies have heard of the Peter Principle and don't promote this way; they have separate technical tracks.

Relevant: https://www.spakhm.com/p/parallel-tracks

"Why did all major software companies settle on parallel career tracks? To keep engineering managers from developing loyalty to engineers."
They should have treated his personal Twitter account like any other, no white glove treatment.

If he wants to tweet in the official capacity of the President of the United States of America, there is an official Twitter account for that.
You can also lose by being content-neutral infrastructure that is used for organized violence.
Don't remember the source and probably misquoting, but I like this truism: there's software that people complain about and software that nobody is using.
This lens looks interesting but I think I'll wait until Ken Rockwell reviews it before I decide if I want to buy.
I use Signal to chat with my family and friends. I use sms or an in-house service to communicate with colleagues. I only use WhatsApp with my gf. I don't have fb or Instagram. What effect does this policy change have on me? Obviously, fb will receive some data on me and my communications with my gf, connecting me to her (extensive) network on fb, but how worried should I be ?
There should be more sides.
There's potential, sure, but at the same time, animations like this don't come cheap - it takes a lot of knowledge, time, effort, and artistic insight to build something like that, which is a rare combination in any one person. But mostly time, and time equals money, and money is something a lot of people-facing companies aren't willing to pay for visuals like these.

Even if the could, that is. I can see gaming companies investing in visuals like this to enhance their game's web pages, or even delegate parts of the game's UI to a browser. Battlefield 3 (and probably 4) does this for its server browser, removing the need for a large chunk of UI from its game, and removing the need to update the whole game in a patch if they want to make changes to their server browser. No fancy 3D effects or animations in there though. At least, not yet. iirc, they've outsourced development of that server browser to a third party.