jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
See also servo-shell, a stripped-down related project that runs in Servo today: https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell

The goal is to eventually grow Servo's functionality to be able to run all of browser.html.
It seems the proxies are filtering by URL but all requests to any part of a flagged domain go through the proxy and so the sites see all subscribers of a particular ISP appearing to come from the same IP address. Hence the "your IP address has failed the Captcha too many times" type of messages. The Wikipedia/IWF 'edit ban' debacle was exactly the same thing due to Wikipedia limiting edits from any given IP address to prevent abuse.

Incidentally, I'm with BeUnlimited and it seems uploading.com always thinks that my IP address has exceeded some download limit:

"Sorry, you have reached your daily download limit.
Please try again tomorrow or acquire a premium membership."

This does not happen when browsing from a cheap Linux VPS box, looks like Be/O2 are proxying too, except from curl -I output it looks like it's a fully transparent proxy.
Your contention is that "one of the few" refutes "almost invariably" but is compatible with "not that rare"
>"In most natural and technical systems, however, particles are nonspherical, and

their structural dynamics are determined by translational and rotational degrees of freedom.

Using confocal microscopy of fluorescently labeled core–shell particles, we reveal that suspensions of ellipsoidal colloids form an unexpected state of matter, a liquid glass in which

rotations are frozen while translations remain fluid."

Related: The nematic phase of liquid crystals:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_crystal#Nematic_phase

(PDS: Also, intuitively, there should be some relation between phase of substrate and its ability to conduct either electricity, or (if not electricity) some other electromagnetic wavelength/frequency... and of course, the relationship to diodes, transistors, semiconductors, etc., but I don't know what those are at this point in time...

I claim the 5th Amendment coupled with Socratic Ignorance at this point in time! <g>)
If you want to go specific, the blogs got it from Trump's team, then trump got it from the blogs, ignoring whatever his team told him directly
Awesome! How was the experience like? We've tried multiple products. This is third pivot. Took two months to build this.
They know the Facebook Mafia does, but non of their network is moving to alternatives
I feel like you're not communicating well here. What does checking an attack off your list mean to you? If it means you're safe from it now and in the future, then obviously you're wrong. I feel like that's a strawman and not your actual argument though.
Fox has both been for and against Trump throughout his presidency. They have, however, been pro-Republican for 2 decades, which is a separate issue.

Older Trump fans are mostly getting their info through FB now. Look at FB's top shared pages/posts. The younger ones are on spread out on FB, reddit, reddit clones.
32-bit Windows software is actually supported through WINE and works in Rosetta.
After seeing the behaviour of public health professionals during this pandemic, I have concluded that they know something about health but nothing about the public, and that they refuse to talk with people who actually are experts about the public.

Your entire analysis is a guesstimate based on sociology/behavioural economics/anthropology/ and not medicine. WHO has no competence whatsoever to judge on that basis, and as far as I know they haven't consulted with anyone who does.

If they had bothered to consult with actual experts, they'd tell them that humans can be communicated with if one picks the right words. Even now, in no place with a mask mandate has there been an increase in human contact. It turns out that the public can process some mixed messaging (and that diseases are really scary and that lockdowns reduce contact). Experts would probably file your analysis under 'elite panic'.
Donate! Then you are.
Talk about hacker news... no?
Apart from what others said, I guess you can't do much wrong by starting with Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson and Sussman, which is also available for free.
"Just like you're beginning to do now, in fact, by making this post."

I was a bit reluctant to post-didn't want people to know I struggled.

Maybe pride really is a deadly sin.
Take a bunch of useful services away from poor people. No Gmail for you, poor person!

Nice.
IntelliJ sort of has this for Scala. Scala Worksheets. They are more useful than a REPL, but not quite to iPython in terms of features (mainly because they aren't browser based). But they also have some advantages over iPython (like integrating many of the IDE features).
You may have been interested in meta-glasses back in the day(1) I had high hopes for them - especially the hand tracking and being able to manipulate virtual objects. Alas, it wasn't to be...

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7I7JuQXttw
Sure, but it's also possible to write a word out to memory and then read something different back. There are probably many DBs that fail to meet their requirements when that happens. My sense is that time errors are much more common, but I'm interested in actual data surrounding that.
Valve listened to Garfield, who was telling them that the players not liking it were wrong because he had data to show that the game was fine. He treated players like computers and ignored that the game had a lot of feelsbad mechanics, but he ignored the feedback because statistically it was very balanced, therefore he thought the players shouldn't dislike it. A Star Wars TCG he made failed for the same reason, but apparently he didn't learn.
We never remove HDCP. All our components that touch the HDMI feed are HDCP certified.
Right now I'm gathering up as much cash as possible to buy throughout this downturn. I'm loving the cheap index funds. Then again I am saving it mostly for 10+ years from now.
Re interest rates:

If you look longer term, after WWII there was this cycle of recession and recovery, but each recovery was at higher interest rates. This lasted until 1979. Then the Fed, led by Volcker, changed policy. Since then, each cycle has been at lower interest rates - but higher unemployment.
I'm Google's public liaison for search. Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and our apologies for the inconvenience caused. This was indeed a bug that our engineers have explored, and it should be fixed now.
You think having depression is a moral failure? Do you know, or perhaps even love, someone with clinical depression? I do; we've been married more then 20 years, so I see it up close every day. It isn't a problem of morals or character.

To see her suffering and struggle daily and to have some internet expert claim she has a moral deficit is more than a little aggravating.

Something has gone wrong in the control loops that keep her a healthy balance point. The brain/body connection is real, not some new age woo.
In Canada we don't have those rights. But we do have mineral rights in northern regions where anyone can stake a claim on private property for mineral rights. It's as simple as marking around the area.
Wouldn't the exiting and entering of companies have a negative effect on the index holder over time (as they are selling the exiting companies when they are valued low and buying the entering companies when they are valued high)?
Yes exactly. I'm about to complete a PhD in physics. I've never once needed a graphing calculator from the beginning of my bachelor's until now. It's a complete waste of money.
> The sleeve hardens to form a continuous plastic liner along the old pipe’s inner walls.

I didn’t finish reading the article, but this sounds amazing. Isn’t plastic one of the least reactive materials we know about and an excellent choice for this? It seems like maybe the issue is in the curing process.
same boat here -- migraine / cluster / photophobia sufferer and need to reduce as much as possible the volume and amplitude of light coming into my eye --

in truth, I don't think I'd be able to do my job at all without dark-mode text editors / terminals
A few years ago I was surprised that in some states it is illegal to go out in public without an ID in the event a cop stops you and asks for ID. Seems completely contrary to everything we were taught growing up.
I've had to use Teams on linux. The first time I started early to get it setup, installed and get in the meeting. I was actually pretty impressed. It just worked.

Fast forward 2 months or so later and I have another Teams meeting on my calendar. It worked last time, so I'm expecting to just hop on. It took me 30 minutes to get into it. I have no idea how it went from working fine to the steaming pile that it is, but I hope to never use it again.
Yeah this is literally found to be the case with back injuries I think?
> ...the people in charge, the government and the media, seem incompetent to a degree that beggars belief.

Not exactly true, two important things intersect:

1. Running a country is much harder than it looks. The machinery they maintain is older, hoarier and covers more diverse topics than anything and they are constantly being lied to about whether it is working. It is a point I struggle to get across to people as a small-government proponent, but the people in power physically cannot understand the levers they are pulling and the effects the pulling achieves. Most of them aren't even numerate and the complexity at work here is beyond any human. They're flying blind and often setting up bad systems with bad incentives.

2. The goals of the polity are not your goals. The swing voter, in the moment that they vote, appears to be a different and much simpler creature from anything that turns up in normal conversation. The politicians have to deal with that swing voter rather than do what the politician may think is prudent (which, to be honest, is a good thing even if it sometimes throws up terrible results).
I think it's what he calls "fat tails" : events happening at low frequency at the tail of the probability distribution, but which have a significant impact.
A coworker and I were once stuck in an office building for an hour or two. We were working as consultants at a client's building and ended up working rather late. Not particularly late by software programmer standards, but clearly exceptionally late by the culture of the client company.

At some point in the evening all the exit doors, including the front door, became armed, and this was conspicuously noted as when we packed up for the night and tried to exit to the parking lot, we realized we couldn't open the door without an alert being sent to the police (not just the security company). There should have been a guard at his station (desk, CCTVs, etc) in the entryway, but we found none.

We waited for awhile. Then we walked up, down, and through every corridor and restroom of that 4-5 story building, multiple times, looking for the guard. When that failed, we called the security company to ask them if it was okay to open the door. They swore there was a guard on duty and asked us to wait a little longer in case he was doing rounds. Despite knowing that couldn't possibly be the case, we obligingly passed more time waiting in the entryway. Then we walked up, down, and around the building again, but this time splitting up and shouting. Nothing. Nobody.

We go back down and inform the security company that we weren't going to wait any longer and that we'd be triggering the silent alarm as we left. And guess who exits the elevator just as we were about to open the door.... Apparently he had been sound asleep in a cozy nook somewhere in the upper floors--presumably in a conference room or more likely a private office, the former being something we inspected in passing (glass walls), the latter we didn't feel comfortable opening and entering, and both being the last place you'd expect to find a security guard. IIRC, he wouldn't admit it outright, but just played coy. We weren't mad. A little tired and frustrated because as consultants we still had to get in early the next morning, but that was mostly offset by the sheer absurdity of the situation, and by the fact that he seemed quite elderly.

Anyhow, you may assume too much if you assume the security guard actually maintains some kind of useful presence. I guess these days it's more common to have electronic way stations to log a guard doing rounds. I dunno if this building had such measures (this was circa 2001-2002), but as the sole guard he probably was expected to spend most of his time, if not all of his time, manning the security desk, providing ample opportunity to be doing something else, instead.
Unrelated but how does one sign up "anonymously" to twitter these days? I tried one of my twilio phone numbers, one of which even worked with facebook but they're being rejected by twitter. Is there a way to sign up without a phone number?
If it's just for video conferencing, have you considered getting a dedicated device/smartphone just for teams ? Would free your main computer and let you work efficiently when you don't need it.
But this "clarification" post just continues same story. They "don't want to leave" but they still want to transfer data out and if Europe doesn't allow them who knows what might happen. There's no direct wording that they might leave but there is very much an indirect implication from Facebook similar to that, which might have backfired very strongly.
As someone suggested in the comments, a $10 per app charge would probably fix this.
And here's me thinking the Brits were stuffy. Good logo!
Page 81 - #15,
PREDICTION: There is a strong trend towards
the geographic separation of work groups. People
are successfully working together despite living
and working in different places.

Kurzwell gives this a correct, I'd give this an "Essentially Correct" - for whatever reason, the most successful teams seem to work together geographically still. There is some movement towards separating things like QA, Manufacturing, Packaging to separate geographic regions - but for some reason, teams still tend to work better together.

The exception to this would be the myriad Open Source software projects in which the teams never come together - but, for each one of those, I can point to an Agile development team which harnesses the "No Cube / Open Workplace" environment (Facebook, Zynga, Atlassian) to accelerate their work.

I'd say "Essentially Correct" - Kurzwell should note that there continues to be value to the Geographic collocation of teams.
I didn't understand until I saw one of my professors, who lives in vim, work on some code. It was mind-bending. I can only imagine that when watching me type code (at the time) he must have felt how I feel when I watch my parents use the internet.
Yahhh...you are pretty right..

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http://www.newbingosites.org
Is anyone else confused by "1 worker and 4 workers"?
Can there be a way to combat this, short of curation?

The name could be changed, the binary modified, the images and descriptions trivially tweaked... the closest you could do is block the developers, at which point they just create new accounts. About the only method I can think of is to require a bank / card number, and block that internally - and they can always get new ones.
That's true, the best stories come from the middle or the bottom. The top guy says he'd make less, but would the bottom guys wind up making more? It's a potentially interesting business dynamic. Would you have more horizontal than vertical management structure?
For some reason i always thought URLs have a max length of 1024. Is there anything about it in the HTTP standard?
End users are given bit.ly URL with a hash.
I used my phone as a boarding pass once, scanned fine, they just marked my baggage claim slip.
Which was inspired by Robot Battle on Windows, which was inspired by Robot Wars on the Apple ][.
> Even if it's off by some margin, I don't think you have enough traffic to score $6K from ads like Adsense.

Indeed. Not by a long shot.

> I already took the survey, but I think you should register people who are looking to know more about the book and not only affiliate marketers.

I agree with you. When I designed the survey I was mostly checking out if there was any interest in the book. Now that I know I'll go through with the plan of writing the book, I'll create a dedicated landing page and mailing list for people interested in it, even before the book is ready.
More info to be found here: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=209439802416684
http://www.amazon.com/Gulag-History-Anne-Applebaum/dp/140003...

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

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stalin-Court-Simon-Sebag-Montefiore/...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Whisperers-Private-Life-Stalins-Russ...
"The issue of testability has been lurking for a decade."

I guess he means it's become too big to ignore, for one of the things I remember about string theory when I first learned of it in the mid-late '80s was that at that time the string theorists couldn't conceive of a way to test it.
In the same vein Xiki may be of interest:

http://xiki.org/
How can you not tell the difference? Look at the "Humor, empathy, resilience", the characters 'r'/'i'/'n' are damaged.

There are more in the fourth column.
Testosterone has affects on ambition, as I understand it.
In the age of information this is how an overpowered super power gets "nerfed":

By "targeting" its information gathering capabilities by providing information about its activities.

Information is power.
Reminds me of py.test http://pytest.org/assert.html#assert-with-the-assert-stateme..., which is a rather good thing :)
> so would simply use the information to compose a list of
> people to watch for slip ups

How would they 'watch for slip ups' though? One would think that they would have to justify to a judge why the person was under surveillance in the first place.
Gmail dint use https by default for the longest time. I remember getting an email from our department while at school about this too. Its default now and can be toggled from Settings -> Browser Connection.
Encryption requires a secret to work; anything else is just obfuscation, and wide open to anyone who knows the algorithm being used. You don't have to exchange long-lived shared keys, but alternatives (RSA, OTP, etc.) tend to require a preexisting trust relationship and/or secure channel.

Furthermore, the only way in which WEP or WPA improve real security is by keeping folks who don't know the key off the local network. Since most shops freely give away their network keys to anyone with enough cash for a cup of coffee, and seldom if ever rotate keys, it's an awfully weak level of protection.

If you assume that other network users are potentially hostile, and/or that the coffee shop owner (or its ISP, or someone who "hacked" their Linksys router via an unchanged admin password) can't be trusted, your only real option is routing your traffic over VPN to a trusted host elsewhere on the 'net.
A comprised web browser or operating system gives the attacker your email credentials, which by proxy gives them the rest of your life. You're trying to argue that an untrustworthy browser/OS is not as significant as an untrustworthy Tor. There isn't such an argument to be made. Browsers and operating systems require trust.
>Apple's most underestimated strength is their continued march towards vertical integration

... maybe ... Markets swing back and forth between integration and disintegration. Apple was very vertically integrated in 1995 and paid a heavy price for that when the PC market exploded into a million models with multiple operating systems at low prices. Integration is usually best when innovation is lowest since value chain segments are mature and cost reducing and you can integrate the value chain, squeeze out waste between segments, increase coordination between segments and capture a nice profit. Innovation all throughout the value chain is very high right now, so this does not seem like the time to vertically integrating.

An interesting aspect of the RIM versus Apple thing is that they are both pursuing integration strategies, but RIM seems to have focused on integrating the wrong things for 2008 and then had an deeply integrated ball-and-chain around their leg just at the moment they had to be nimble. Apple seems to be in a similar spot w.r.t. Android: using the iOS UI is terribly frustrating after using Android 2.2 for a while (no back button?!); Apple's terrifically integrated, dogmatic approach leaves them little room to respond to competitors.
I use Perl for a lot of my scripts, so the Expect Perl module is great for automation without having to switch over to TCL.

https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Expect/Expect.pod

The regex matching features of the Perl version make it extremely useful to match and extract interactive results.
This is awesome, and it will become more prevalent as the generations that grew up with computers start to get older. Your body may get weaker but you can at least stave off the same happening to your mind by doing brain stuff. And there's a childlike satisfaction to coding that I reckon everyone enjoys, a new challenge whenever you do it.

I certainly hope to still be able to do it in my old age.
People who don't think Epstein killed himself, and promote theories that there was a conspiracy to kill him, are literally the textbook definition of conspiracy theorists.

Look, it's fun to think about, but at the end of the day he had very rational reasons to kill himself. He was about to go to prison for the rest of his life and, given that it's the US prison system, could realistically expect to be violently murdered there by his fellow inmates.

He signed his last will and testament two days before his death, it's pretty solid evidence that he had an exit plan and was putting his affairs in order.
That's not opression but rather inconvenience. Control all begins as a convenience (credit cards, smart phones) or inconvenience (airport searches, face recognition).
A specific accounting of that would be several blog posts long I think, it's quite hard to get specific without cherry-picking particularly bad parts.

I continued to read through 5th grade math curriculum, and really I think it's completely the wrong approach for how children should learn the material. It's hard to summarize everything I dislike about it in just a few sentences. Mainly I think the process should be much more natural. This isn't something that really has to be taught, through 5th grade at least it all comes naturally in the right environment. So the approach is backwards; it's not 'here are the list of skills which should be taught and mastered at each grade' it's here are the ways we foster learning over this 6 year period.

The whole approach of setting these micro-goals, the whole thing is far too low level. When a spec starts at such a low level, it becomes a prescriptive checklist, not a spec.
Part of the problem is affordability of $100 calculators for both the students and the educators. That problem remains, and is worse, if you want to get them to buy and use computers.

However, this was partially addressed in the article. Phones (if students have them) have apps which make solving the math problems too easy, scan the problem and the steps and solution are displayed. So teachers can't permit them in the classroom if they eliminate the learning objective entirely.

With regard to computers, though, Desmos [0] was spoken of in the article. They have apps for computers and phones, and they've made some headway with making the computer program available when students have mandatory tests that are already on computers.

I don't think your judgement really makes sense, the education system is adapting. But it's a long process and the problem still remains, if educational materials and curricula require the use of technology, and the teachers and students can't afford it, then it's still a failure or sets up classes of people to fail due to lack of economic viability.

[0] https://www.desmos.com/