jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I would actually disagree; handguns and semi-automatics are designed to be able to kill humans, but that is not their purpose. Their purpose, like that of many other offensive technologies, is deterrence (i.e. cooperation in iterated prisoner's dilemmas).

In other words: if you know I have a gun, the weights on what strategies you will consider for selfish gain shift away from those where I would shoot you with the gun, and toward those where I wouldn't. A gun can "do its job" while never being fired once over its service life!

The game theory of guns is basically a smaller-scale replica of the game theory of nuclear weapons—except that it's actually really easy, in the modern day, to ensure a power imbalance (no non-military force has a military level of gunpower), so you don't end up in the particular nuclear Nash equilibrium of everyone having the best weapon and nobody using it (you used to, though; "mutually-assured destruction" was previously known as "a Mexican standoff.")
As ~linksbro points out, hidden sites have a huge amount of churn. In fact, back in the days when I used to frequent the darker side of things most hacking forums would change addresses monthly/weekly/sometimes daily. A lot of various hidden sites are ad hoc communication platforms, put up and taken down as needed. And yet, even still, there is a large amount that are incredibly well hidden and require several jumps/prior knowledge to get to (i.e. not just hitting a certain url).

Ignoring all hits that went to sites dead after six months (an eternity for hidden services) is akin to the weight loss studies that throw out the data points representing people that dropped out when they didn't lose weight. Almost blatantly dishonest and shows a pretty superficial understanding of that which they are trying to study.

Beyond that there are still so many statistical fallacies and logical leaps going on in this article it's pretty astounding... for instance the author editorializes that:

>>> What they may instead show is that Tor users who seek child abuse materials use Tor much more often and visit sites much more frequently than those seeking to buy drugs or leak sensitive documents to a journalist.

Completely ignoring the possibility that these pedophilic sites are comprised of images, which could artificially increase the amount of requests (i.e. one person looking at 10 images = 10 unique hits in the study). I could go on and on here, but I think this money quote from the study principal sheds some light upon the true objectives at play:

>>> “Before we did this study, it was certainly my view that the dark net is a good thing,” says Owen. “But it’s hampering the rights of children and creating a place where pedophiles can act with impunity.”

Edit: In my mind, the real takeaway from this article is that the FBI/Interpol seem pretty content leaving these sites up for extended periods of time while they go after the drug marketplaces, carders, and counterfeiters
Did you look at creating a user-space audio driver instead of the kernel one? 10.9+ only, but if you built this recently it probably makes a lot more sense.
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/samplecode/AudioDriv...
true that. I tried to look something up on Baidu once (from Germany) and gave up after it loaded for a full minute
I'm from the US but I lived in Argentina for about 5 years (2013-2018). It was a great lesson, and I'm seeing things in the US now that I used to see in Argentina. At the bank recently, they had a sign about the national shortage of coins. That was common in Argentina. Sizes of products getting smaller in order to keep the price the same - "inflacion escondido" (hidden inflation).
Did it say something like “not for use in totally enclosed luminaries”? I’ve seen a few of them get melty in enclosed lamps. Also makes led bulbs fail much faster than people expect.

(Not blaming you or whoever installed it) it seems like one of those bad cover your ass disclaimers
All those ads...
I think the bigger problem isn’t so much the traffic type as it is traffic destination. As long as there are only a few hosts or domains providing speed test services (and there always will be: upload speeds are expensive) ISPs will be able to whack-a-mole with their whitelists.

I’d say that this needs some sort of regulation, but as long as ISPs are the gatekeepers, they can cheese $Government all day long too. This word gets overused perhaps, but the closest I can come up with is a decentralized monitoring setup with random speed test hosts (especially hosted @home style). Care would have to be taken to avoid how-are-these-still-legal data caps though.
> Actually hooking into the API was very straightforwards, and didn’t take more than an hour to set up.

I have learned that if this is the case, I'm doing something wrong with my AWS setup.
No SSL? Even for login? What year is it?
I much prefer this style too.

Every time you have to go into a nest, you have to maintain state in your head of what the condition is. So by the time you're nested 9 or 10 levels deep (I've seen this before), I can't remember what all the conditions are that got me there.

I remember reading the single-exit mantra was the result of hardware and speed optimization, rather than readability and maintainability optimization, but I could be remembering wrong.
Interesting! I am in Springfield,MO. I am not looking for a job, but how can I keep up with what your startup is doing? Could you send me info on what your company is about? Thanks!
I liked the article, but the part i found most interesting was the comment.

I just want to point out a flaw in your individual count calculation. Although normal person would have just 40 contacts you forget that some of us call very common number and that lets NSA to connect even more people that 19mil. Even I never met this article author, we are probably connected in less than 3 hops :). If I called Verizon support and author called Verizon support, we are connected. And if some suspect called Verizon support, our phone call history is in that “corporate store” where NSA can query any way they want :). You are absolutely right – evil is in details…

so this is a huge loophole. i think every one i know and people i don't have called verizon or comcast. so if someone that is a foreigner makes a call to verizon or comcast, i am now able to be collected on? welcome to the party everyone. i'm in a terrorist bin at the NSA.

EDIT: also, i was just thinking: if i want to track someone and all i have is the phone number, why can't i just have someone i know that's overseas call them once? they are now able to be tracked. isn't that a flaw to the system? there is no way this kind of power can be contained.
All this criticism odd. Having an open source and a paid premium product is very common in this industry.

Over the last week or so been learning about nginx as a possible solution to serve up compiled JS apps. Rails asset pipeline is just too slow - especially on heroku.

I've been working on my first real open source project - an nginx buildpack for Heroku/Dokku/Flynn optimized for static JS sites: https://github.com/cpursley/buildpack-nginx-js
Why is node magic?
Many NordVPN IP addresses are detected by IP2Proxy service and make it hard to use with streaming service.
I really think you are mistaken. Do you have a source that says that's why the case was dismissed?

The Top Gear review was essentially accurate, at least IMHO.

Tesla argued in court that it was unfair to mention the car's disappointing range on the test track because most people won't be driving on a test track. A strange argument, especially for a sports car. Note that they did not argue that the range number cited was wrong -- just that it might confuse potential buyers.

The judge ruled that: "no reasonable person watching the programme could understand that the performance on the track is capable of direct comparison with the performance, including the range, on the road"
> The story is ridiculous

I agree that there are both high and low cost options. The author seems to trying to sensationalize the story. [1] But it is true that the cost of living in the Bay Area is high. It's affecting things like home ownership, income levels, homelessness, public transportation.

[1] VentureBeat's audience is probably reasonably geographically centralized here, where we understand, but I can see how someone from the Midwest would be completely surprised by $4 toast and think that those prices are the norm. (It's the same reaction I get when I explain that yes, there is a slide in the Google office, but most people take the stairs like normal human beings).
Just google for Nikola Kavaja.
1. Needs to be automated (look up sunset time like Instapaper)
2. Needs to be part of every browser (for the blank page).
We should give him the death penalty or life with no parole. We can't rehabilitate these types of monsters.
> While in some places you have 70% in other communities you have 2%. (and those with 2% act like there's no coronavirus, see point 2)

I've come to notice this over the last year. We now effectively live in two completely diverged realities. In one, coronavirus is a serious danger that affects our behavior and dominates every aspect of life, where we follow the news of new vaccines and declining case numbers with gratitude and relief, hoping to god that life can return to normal some day. In the other reality, COVID is just a flu. Maybe you might get it but it's not a big deal. Life goes on as normal and you are happily taking advantage of deals on travel, low crowds, and you get annoyed at being reminded to wear your mask. Meeting with friends, going to church, eating at restaurants. All of this is fine because you've convinced yourself it's no big deal.

It's bizarre, and it has torn many of my personal relationships apart. I'm not sure how we ever fix this.
What exactly was so sophisticated? From what I read earlier, a backdoor access was compromised and that is about it. Anyone has more info?
The crate doesn't perform plotting, it only does a ureq HTTP call to the author's web service for data visualization.
> “Life is too short to be around negative people,” she said. “I need people around me who care about me and are appreciative, and see the world as a glass half full, not half empty.”

That is the key part to me, and it is good to be reminded about it once in a while.

That is also the reason why social media can be great or downright awful: you get to meet new people *really fast*, and might end up wasting a lot of time surrounded by negative people before you notice the trap.
I would suggest that tagging these articles would add a great deal of value. The chronological list is good, but adding tags or categories of some sort would make it easier to navigate.
If you want to explain this to a nontechnical person…

Let's say Aunt Marge clips coupons. She clips a lot of coupons, so she keeps them in one of those index files with a slot for each letter of the alphabet, by product name. When she goes looking for a coupon, say for coca cola, she goes to the "C" slot and flips through the slot looking for a coca-cola coupon. If while flipping through she pitches out expired coupons then she has infringed this patent. (if she does it "with a computer")

Edit: This is just claim #1, there are more variations claimed.
If you have any questions, or suggestions about how this could be made better, I'd love to hear them. The goal is really to build a collection of articles that are useful to the early startup founder.
Isn't the term of that patent up then anyway? What's the term on a software patent?
This is really impressive. I wasn't expecting WebGL to come on this strong, this quickly (game engines using Canvas have taken much longer to reach this level of maturity). I'm not sure I see the advantage of NaCl now. This runs flawlessly in Chrome.
€45K = $65K = £39K

In my eyes that IS a really good salary. I earn £36K (€39K) with 6 years of experience in London.

It's certainly enough to have a quality of life in the region better than most. Personally I think you're lucky to get the opportunity to travel and experience another lifestyle.
No, they're still up and running, they're just less publicly visible now. Friends of mine are still working on that team.
Haven't seen the video yet, but I'll take a shot at your question. To my knowledge, the original motivation of a "quantum computer" was to simulate quatum mechanical systems (leading back to Feynman's lectures on computation). Simulating quantum (or other kinds of random) events with classical resources (conventional computers) is a hard problem in the sense that it's exponentially more complex than a classical problem.

Conversely, a quatum computer is very useful to solve such problems, think of: genetic algorithms, Monte-Carlo, etc. It is expected to do way better than classical computers. That doesn't necessarily make the simple problems easy on a quantum computer. Asking it the sort of question you did is not a measure of it's usefulness.

Since I'm not an expert on this, my aswer might be a little loose, but that's the basic idea.
Apologies, but Harmattan (aka Maemo 6 aka ‘MeeGo Instance’) is still my favourite mobile OS, and even though it was released in 2010 it still easily keeps up with the standard stuff on Android, iOS and Windows Phone (no voice recognition à la Siri, though).
I love approaches like this: instead of butting your head against the same limits, look at the whole problem, find a re-frame the problem with a new trade-off that actually the whole problem.

Arguably, this is what Clayton Christensen is talking about with "over-shooting": making your product better than it needs to be in some particular dimension, just because that's the way you've always been making it better. But like doing your shopping in a Ferrari, maybe increased horsepower isn't what's really needed.

Here, they'll saying that bursty usage (they call it "sprinting") is what is actually needed. I noted this with word-processors - most of the time the PC is idle - and wondered how those cycles could be harnessed. Instead, they say, turn it off.

This might be an alternative to many-core - just boost it x100 faster. It can also go the other way, having a much less powerful processor, just super-boosted for when needed. Cheetah would be a good code name for this project.
I don't even think you need the french press. My method for making fantastic coffee is simple
Buy fresh-roasted beans
Grind, then immediately..
Throw in a standard drip coffee-maker.
Have my morning shower.
Enjoy
I am guessing his objection is that the title does not mention that the targets would be conspiracy theorists. That is a fairly reasonable objection but on the other hand, how many online discussion venues don't have discussions about conspiracies? HN sure as shit does, as does reddit, slashdot, facebook, 4chan, twitter, IRC, bodybuilding.com's forums...
I misread this headline as "NSA".

Time to take a break from HN, I guess.
> GitHub has taken off like a rocket

I think this is in part because they charge. I like this model. Its simple. You want to use GitHub for free then you have to make your code freely available. You want to keep it proprietary then you have to pay for your account.

Where this doesn't translate well with SourceForge is that it was designed from the start to be of, by, and for Open Source projects. So the vast majority of projects would be non-paying.

However, they may be able to add some features that appeal to proprietary projects who are willing to pay and use that revenue to offset any losses. It would be hard work but ultimately I think it would be be better than the appearance (if indeed it is just that) of distributing malware.
Kudos, man. That's probably the best response to a middle brow dismissal I've seen to date. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. :)
In this case, it is not Mt. Gox who is stealing money, it's the US government.
I am expecting big things from the Micro Four Thirds cameras. They essentially replace lower end DSLRs with a much smaller form factor, and they have the intelligence and ease of use beginner DSLRs lack (such as detecting faces and focusing on them).
Thank you, I'm glad you like it. It's not really comparable to Instapaper, its purpose is different (I use both).
Thank you. I've found that paid users actually provide the most revenue at this stage, as the advertising model needs a bit of scale to work well. I think it does have great potential to work in the future, though.
It turns out to be a much more enjoyable experience than my first impression.
Ahh, yes this would be a problem on GitModel. I was thinking of Git at a lower level, since you can't update objects without also changing the SHA.
Consistent and impartial law enforcement is rare. You are probably counting America among “saner countries” but I can tell you that numerous cities, particularly west coast cities that are practicing “restorative justice” or declare themselves as a “sanctuary city”, are definitely not practicing consistent, impartial, or sane law enforcement.

What India is experiencing is more of a general lack of law enforcement period rather than partiality. In poorer countries this is especially true for “low level” crimes - like littering. Although it is fashionable for social justice types to decry “broke windows theory” it is definitely real in countries like India, where the allowance of some crimes really sets a broad cultural tone that numerous crimes can be excused or overlooked or normalized.
Ignoring prior art, like generic types until 10 years later. Basically it's the evolution of java repeated; the second time is farce.
They are not wakes, but speed indicators. I guess there was a choice to represent speed with length bars, as opposed to with color or numbers. Although I would expect length bars to be a natural choice made by a data scientists who is used to think of vectors as a bar with a length and a direction.
The author is missing his whole point and go in a tangent about how school is inherently bad, instead of focusing on why kids may not enjoy it. No it's not because we are "put into slavery" that we don't enjoy school... I will skip that whole argument that feel more like a conspiracy theory about being slaves, and concentrate on the "kids don't like school".

Kid still have school... it's just in a different form. Maybe it's a form that the author would have preferred (and I agree that this form may be better for a subset of students, just like the previous form is better for another subset), but it's still school and it still something that I would have hated. The part that we hate is the teaching, and maybe there's a form that I would have enjoyed while being kid, I never experienced that until way later in my teenage years, so I really can't know if that's even possible, but whether it's remotely or in person, I'm pretty sure I would have hated both.

I don't know if the author even tried to take a full day of class remotely too. The first time I had a 3h+ meeting remotely, I understood how much worse it must be for kids that need to do it remotely right now. I had my fair share of 3h+ classes in the past, I was fine, I may not be the best student, but I was going through them, but that 3h of remote meeting was so awful.

So kids may hate both form of teaching, but why would it be better for them to be able to go back to class. In a few word, to make friends. The author may have had difficulties with social situations, I'm sorry for him if that's the case and I hope he got better at it with time, but we all had recess, there's no way anyone can believe that it's the majority of people that had that much issue making friends. It's that part that they are missing.

Sure there's others ways of making friend remotely, but it's not as easy as it was in school. It's a thread I see from time to time on Reddit, how to make friends now that we are no longer at school and the answers are always much harder. Sure you can be social on some video games, but again, not the same. We tried with my friend group, watching movies remotely, a bunch of games, but it get so much boring so quickly.

That means that the bad part of school would have been even worse for me, and the only good part would have disappeared...
That doesn't read as him accusing you of being that person, but of repeating an argument someone else made.

He literally links it and writes "et seq" ("and the following") ie: read this person who agrees with you and then my reply to them.
Success or failure of financial asset is independent of their current price, otherwise Bernie Madoff was providing a valuable financial product in 2007.

It’s individual trades that depend on the price because they have finite endpoints. However, assets are owner independent and therefore based on their long term value proposition.
I'm a graphic designer but started tinkering in Unity about three or four years ago after work as a hobby, and am currently working my way through Watch and Code to learn the basics of Javascript.

In general I find HN to have more interesting articles and a higher quality of discussion than other news aggregators (such as Reddit, which I also frequent).
Wine shouldn't be elitist. There are rich people playing stupid games for stupid prizes, which is tiny but highly visible because it lets people tell a story they want to tell.

The vast majority of wine drinkers simply drink wine. Those who really enjoy it may search out something interesting and distinctive for special occasions. Those will be rarer and more expensive, and the experience is difficult to convey, as any purely sensual experience is difficult to convey.

You can enjoy wine without participating in any of that. But don't be misled by the people putting on airs about it. That's just people being voyeuristic about the wealthy and seeking out snobbery to feel superior to. It's not about wine at all.
What's a mixed-replace update?
Stuff from Dwelling of Duels[1] (Video game covers), artists that mix classical instruments with rock/electonic (like Sarina Suno or Yoshida Brothers), or movie/show soundtracks (Hisaishi Joe) - anything with lyrics is too distracting. And that's only if I know what I'm going to write, if I need to sit and think about something, I need silence.

[1] http://dwellingofduels.net/
I'd say currently 'we' have lost quite a big part of it, unfortunately. And while I would never wave the white flag, I think we can agree that a lot of people, businesses and 'hobby projects' are kind of 'screwed' when Facebook makes their pages or content disappear.

And just to make that clear: I never liked Facebook although I have been active in many many online communities throughout the years. But Facebook just feels too corporate, serious and overall 'not cool' to me, meaning it's hardly any fun. I just want to express that they have got a lot of influence these days and the way they are going on about certain things can cause serious damage.
I can definitely see Facebook being an additional tool, the same way buying ads on AdSense is. I just think that if one is losing all of their traffic and community because something happened to their social networking element, they're doing something seriously wrong. The goal of the Facebook presence should be to funnel people into the real service or community or information on the real site and not to supplant it (and once they're on the real site, not to have all your services like forums handled by Facebook Connect service widgets which places you in a similar situation, too).

I'm speaking from limited experience, of course, and with a service that established itself long before social networking even existed. I think the premise is still sound, though.
What I really want to know is when is someone going to buy memepool and post something new?
Linking to a site does not involve accessing any other computer. The terms of service can show that certain access is unauthorized, they can't make unrelated activities into computer access.