skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you give some examples where Magic+ was useful?
/!\[L TIL TIL TIL TIL TIL TI]/!\

I'm saving up for a little 10TB disk array... at this rate it will be full shortly after it arrives.

This is gonna be so awesome to go through... thanks for this!!
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I'd be interested in seeing what failed requests look like. Can't really promise to solve everything so I'd like to know what mitigation strategies etc. are used when no acceptable solution can be found.
I thought this said "CommuneKit". That would have been more interesting. :)

srsly though just read a book on your commute (if you don't drive) instead of these newsy emails that have the same content you'll read on twitter later ayway. In this day and age the commute can be the only time of day where you're forced to take some time to sit still.
Does this mean jquery will lose a significant part of its utility?
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You could pay around that price for a website monitoring service. E.g. https://datasnitch.co.uk
Yeah, Apple really sucks with respect to repairability. They won't sell spare parts, and the authorized repair shops only swap major parts (a single key cap is broken? You need a new keyboard!)

It's ridiculous that I can get spares for a 40€ coffee maker, but not for a 1000€ laptop.
the CS concept of regular expressions is not the same as the as implemented perl-compatable-regular-expression engine or posix regex which is what 99.9% of references to regular expressions are.

They are not any more a fundamental CS concept than the syntax of the C language is, or unicode encoding.

PCRE/posix regex arn't even regular expressions in CS terms (due to stuff like backreferences, and in the case of PCRE even turing completeness).
Is it really an issue of image quality? Because while the qualities are different, analog media has its own character. You have to do quite a bit of image manipulation in digital to get that "super 8" look, and it isn't always that convincing. Same with black/white photography vs. digital -- the way a digital chip reacts to light is very different than the way chemicals in film react, and some film stocks have a range and tone that is very hard to emulate with digital images. I don't think it is a question of which is "better" but rather that aesthetic that an individual wants. You have to learn lighting techniques in a new way when you switch from celluloid to digital, and a good DP's intimate understanding of how a particular film stock will respond in the shadows and highlights no longer applies when dealing with a very different medium.
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You saved money switching to Slack how?
Yes, with Linode and other VPS providers we get good amount of bandwidth quota. Also if you have 2 instances running then they combine the monthly quota for you. But, how much network capacity one can use is actually limited by the network connectivity the machine offers.

For example, the $20 a month VPS on Linode offers only 250 Mbps connectivity (outgoing bandwidth). So as soon as you saturate that, you need one more VPS to handle the load. So this leaves a lot of bandwidth quota unused. Especially since in the real world traffic tends to come in spikes. AWS is similar, depending on the instance size the network connectivity differs. This makes the calculations for estimating costs for hosting even more difficult.
Those companies that have kept running outdated IE versions will most likely still ignore upgrading.
I've had a client upgrade their IE6 machines to IE8 just a few months ago. Even their own employees were frustrated with the old equipment, but there was nothing they could do until their IT dept. finally provided the upgrade for them.
Same here. And every explanation, interpretation or clarification I see is more evidence that the licences are murky and there is no way of knowing how a court of law in my jurisdiction dealing with my cases would interpret it. Unlike my employer, which produces GPL software and has a legal department, I want something that is clear and not open to interpretation yet meets my personal goals for my personal projects. MIT fits that to a T.
Modafinil is for wakefulness more than concentration and combating ADHD. For example, USAF flightcrews use it for long sorties. When you find the right dosage for yourself it can feel a bit like a very strong, prolonged caffeine buzz.
Reminds me of a company that was doing innovation in radio and figured out a way to beam still images with the radio waves. Only problem is they were on their way to re-inventing TV if they did a little more innovation..

All that's needed now is markdown or html support...
4-day smartphone* battery, I can remember when I only charged my mobile telephone once a week.
Actually, I never understood the big deal about the plates. Why couldn't it have just been the victim's family telling him the plate number, and him calling it in to verify?

The most frustrating bit to me was the EDTA business, and how the lack of proof that it came out of the vial somehow made irrelevant the tampered evidence package that the syringe-sized hole in the tube.
How would you compare it to concierge services of Platinum+ cards? Especially when it comes to dining and travel accomodation? Do they have also access to reserved slots in concerts or restaurants?
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I agree. And the logical next step is that there will be inevitably abuses, that some of the victims of these abuses will ultimately access power, and that we will have proper privacy protection after that, like we do for regular mail or like we do for your physical home.

It is just a shame that we have to go through the whole cycle given that we just know it should happen. But in a way, the more extensive the surveillance is, the quicker this cycle will happen. And right now we are in a pretty bad place already. So let's be optimistic!
All of the things that you are describing, housing, food, energy, health care and education are significantly less expensive in terms of "hours worked to afford X" continue to drop in price, in some cases dramatically, than they were 50 years ago.

What throws things off, is that new, more desirable, and more expensive items have appeared, that make things look more expensive. That's one of the concerns regarding inequality; is it okay for some members of society to have nicer things than the lower percentile income earners, as long as that group of lower percentile incomer earners have nicer things than they did 50 years ago? Or should we desire that everyone have (roughly) the same quality of thing, even if it now means that the lower percentile would be worse off objectively if inequality wasn't reduced?

PG just assumes that the goal is to reduce poverty (as in, amount of food, health care, education) for the lower percentile - but I expect there is a not insignificant group of people who are more interested in reducing inequality, even if that means an (objective) increase in poverty.

There is, of course, a third path that he doesn't even mention - and that's reducing inequality by bringing up the lower percentile. As an American, I sometimes wonder if it doesn't even occur to him (he certainly didn't discuss it in any detail in his essay) that you can develop universal health care, education, etc... that provides the same level of service regardless of wealth - which means if the top percentile want (for example) better health care, they end up increasing the level of service for everyone, including themselves.

The essay on inequality seemed to have blinders on with regards to that possibility, though I think he gave it passing mention in a sentence regarding bring the bottom up, but didn't discuss it in any great detail.
The definition of "privacy" very much differs significantly among different generations and cultures. Compare the Dutch to the Americans, or anyone over 35 with anyone in their teens or early 20s. There is a smaller overlap in what they all consider "private" than you'd at first think.
Visa Signature concierge is very meh in comparison to the amex platinum from my experience. (I've not used a centurion concierge, though reportedly it's the same service - I find it hard to believe that they're treated with the same service level considering the requirements and fees to be eligible for a centurion card, however)

The Amex concierge team has been able to find me items at local stores when I needed things ASAP that I was having trouble finding, and also managed to snag me a limited release item that was only available at the companies' location. (That was expensive, but still less than I saw them for being resold for online. I imagine a courier service could have been used if I was familiar with any in the area, since it was basically a 'drive there, pick up, drive to UPS store, ship' type request)
I thought the point of North Korea was as a buffer zone so China wouldn't have to share a border with a potentially hostile country like US-friendly South Korea. That may be obsolete, but I'm pretty sure that was the reasoning of the time.
Mainly it's that firearms suicides tend to be much more effective. It's a generally effective technique and can be done "privately" (unlike, say, jumping off a tall building or waiting for an inevitably-delayed Amtrak train)

I don't think it is always a bad decision, either -- if someone is 55 and finds out there's a solid diagnosis of a painful fatal illness, there might be a point where it's a reasonable choice (I'd personally Alcor, but...). And I'd certainly prefer if spree killers just killed themselves privately.
A major category of IE vulnerabilities involved tricking it into loading COM objects. The Chakra JS engine moved from a COM based implementation to compiled JS. And Edge doesn't support ActiveX or Browser Helper Objects (BHOs) like IE did either. It looks like most of the COM attack vectors have now been shut down, though some components like the clipboard still use COM to interact with the broader OS.
It'll frustrate you the same way Serial did in that it's not all tied up with a bow at the end. But I did find it more engaging than Serial, while also much more disturbing since parts of it are some completely beyond the pale, much more so than in the Syed case.
I added a whole bunch of my friends from the programming community I'm part of, and generally I have interesting stuff to look at.
This was great back in college, but I haven't used it since collaborative web editors came on the scene
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I'm inclined to agree. I'd like to see more active ostracisation against software developers that have worked for organisations like the NSA and GCHQ. If we can make it a career ending job, it will dramatically reduce their ability to recruit.

However, I'd also like to see general software development think more closely about the role it has in normalising these things. Next time you start to create an account system for your project, ask yourself whether you really need it. Could you engineer around it, perhaps by letting the user store their data, or using a stored key to identify them? Let's go beyond don't store what you can't protect, and aim for don't store what you don't strictly need.
Imp looks like a great clean language. Good job!
"I see dead browsers"
Does it bother you that national highways are used by kidnappers, and civic electricity is used by rapists?

It's infrastructure, so it's all inherently neutral. SSL is used by banks, protesters, and criminals alike. You can't weaken it for one group without weakening it for everyone. It's also global: you can't backdoor an IRC client only for marijuana users in the US, for instance.

So if you get to surveil pedophiles in the US, it means that Saudi Arabia gets to surveil homosexuals. We're on the same infrastructure.

Also, it's important to recognize that illegal behavior is a critical part of Democratic change. If SSL could discriminate based on your intent to break a law so we could arrest them all, people campaigning for marijuana legalization would all be in jail, and the law would not be changingl. So would people in the 60s campaigning for civil rights, and every homosexual in the country. There is always a grey area period of time in which people break a law because they don't believe in it. That period of civil disobedience is how laws end up getting changed. Even (especially) morality laws against things like sexuality, drugs, or alcohol. It's important to a living democracy that the police are not a perfect force.
Is it because of an in-house software maintenance problem, or mostly due to being tied to 3rd party software and would have to buy new licenses / migrate?
Seconded. Metafilter is one of the best-moderated communities out there.
Forking is totally legal.
You need to do some things however.

Don't call it OpenJDK since OpenJDK is copyrighted.
Don't remove the Copyright inside the files.
License new code as the same license as applied to OpenJDK.

If that is happening you are completely free.
Have you seen the Idle Words talk, "Haunted by Data"? http://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm

Pretty compelling talk, culminating in:

I believe there should be a law that limits behavioral data
collection to 90 days, not because I want to ruin Christmas
for your children, but because I think it will give us all
better data while clawing back some semblance of privacy.
At all? Compared to what? Short of complete capitulation? Why not compare to what was happening before the cease fire?

NK falling is considered terrible by all parties. South Korea can't absorb it. China can't absorb it. It's a hot potato no one wants.
I just finished watching this series last night, shortly after I noticed this (potential spoiler) had appeared on twitter. It certainly adds credence to their documentary if it is infact honest.

https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/684373410038718464

(In the video attached to the tweet, one of the creators of the documentary claims they have since been contacted by one of the jurors from Steven Avery's trial, who stated they felt he was innocent however voted guilty as they feared for their personal safety.)
It is so true that sometimes a promotion does not mean it is good for the employee. His ability suits his current position dose not mean he can perform well in a higher position. Management level should give them an "internship period" to test their ability when making this decision.
One thing people seem particularly blind about is that private companies holding data from their own purposes is the huge point of failure for privacy.

The government can get your gmail, facebook, verizon, amazon data because those companies keep that data about you. The NSA doesn't need to spy on you, google already does. I don't think the NSA is reading my email, but I know Google is.

Not to mention that when all these tech companies are spying on your for profit, your privacy is already destroyed.
> am I rite?

No you are not. You are being simplistic and trying to make a point with meaningless platitudes.

Intellectual "shortcuts" like that will not lead you to any sort of understanding.
Not broken, paywalled.
> There are definitely enough nuclear bombs to wipe out a large fraction of earth's population, if not all.

No, that is simply not true. Not in the slightest.
How is Google or Facebook any better? They are spy agencies for advertising purposes instead of national security.

Or companies that deploy ad sense or otherwise depend on companies like Google or Facebook.
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Also like working with design, UX and frontend development.
>Think of any Ethereum usecase and you can do it with bitcoin.

Yes, but it's a lot harder. Look at for instance the colored coins project vs. implementing a custom token on ethereum.
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This is stuff he shares openly on IRC. In public channels.

Whether any of it is true or not remains to be seen. He's not ever given me any reason to believe he's lying, however.
No fear, Webkit has replaced IE, with each device using its own version of it.
I think it is a mix of lots of internally developped software which is not compatible, or at least not tested as compatible (and often this software is not developped anymore), cost constrains, and mostly a lot of bureaucracy and glacial-paced processes. I don't think it has to do with third party software.

[edit] in fact if anything third party software is forcing us to upgrade as we see some critical third party software progressively becoming incompatible with XP.
What do you like most now then?
This is exactly what Paddy Adams was talking about with Cards, and I agree strongly with both of you: https://medium.com/intercom-inside/why-cards-are-the-future-...
> Reproducibility in science doesn't mean "easy" reproducibility of experiments.

Where it is easy to make it easy to replicate, it should be made easy. Releasing source code, even in unsanitized form, allows for much easier inspection and replication.

The research world is also much different today than a century ago. Today the field is crowded with researchers who must publish or perish. The speed of papers, many of which are in fact nonsense, is churning out is unprecedented. As a result, a paper that can be verified but is hard to verified is often never properly verified at all.
But the problem is, it IS easy. Even anonymized at assets are de-anonymized trivially,using secondary datasets. You can uniquely identify more than 87% of the US population with gender, birthday, and zip code. For more than 50%, you can use the municipality name instead of zip.

If your friend uses a separate, privately maintained email address for everyone and every service, that will help a lot. Then we only know his identity because email is sent in the clear, even between his own server and home computer. Of course, everyone uses separate email addresses for everyone, right?
yeah, but 250 Mbps will chew up your bandwidth quota in a day or 2... so you already needed more quota anyways... unless your traffic is incredibly spiky.
I teach programming long-distance using tmux on a remote server. That works pretty well: http://akkartik.name/post/mu
Doctors have classes that teach them ethics early on in school/training because the vast majority of professional doctors agree on what is ethical. On the other hand, you can't even get many university professors to agree that something like collecting metadata is unethical.

The idea that we could get the majority of the industry to agree on ethics is pretty far-fetched when a large portion think surveillance is making their country safe.
The terminology is important here. If by error handling you mean usual flow control when something off the happy path occurs, that is subtly but crucially different from a condition or event that could not have been foreseen. On all the platforms I have developed on that have exceptions, exceptions are for situations that I don't know how to recover from with logic that is really part of my app anyway... This includes network connections dropping as that's not something I couldn't foresee.

Sometimes if you work with this approach you find that the designers of the libraries upon which you build have, frustratingly, decided to force you to catch exceptions to deal with business as usual, but generally I find that treating exceptions as 'cannot continue' has worked well for most code I've written in the last 12 years.
Well, since you asked, I was merely noting the ways in which digital delivery of news has more depth, breadth, relevancy, timeliness, and searchability, but yes, those factors don't matter to some people.
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If causality works like that, perhaps may mom could be also become President.
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It's probably not that difficult to actually facilitate meeting Tina Fey. There are agencies that handle celebrity appearances, and many celebrities will do appearances for a fee.

It's expensive, but not particularly outlandishly difficult.
SQL. Time for IBM to earn some well-earned royalties from all the current implementers.
Seems to me that craigslist.org has the same stated advantages plus a much more robust set of capabilities.
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IE9 support is already in a sad state. Many new websites already look in IE9 as bad as in IE6.

Chrome should spawns less processes (hold some more tabs in one process). IE spawns less processes than Chrome and therefor is less of a memory hog.

Firefox finally needs a proper multi-process implementation. Even the latest Developer edition just uses two processes (firefox.exe and plugin-container.exe) - I just tried it again with a new profile. Good luck keeping 100 tabs open (with "open" I mean "in memory"). If one tab crashes... you switch back to IE/Chrome. In the current state Firefox is great for development, but not for my daily web usage.
You seem like cool guys - I just hope you don't kill yourself working, nothing impressive about working excessive hours and not seeing your family!
But even without trash cans, Japanese people don't litter, ever. In contrast, Berlin, where I currently live, has lots of trash cans but the streets are full of litter.
> since it doesn't matter that you have a license to modify the source code if doing so means you are violating copyright on the APIs

I don't understand your argument, wouldn't using the license (GPL) imply a license to use and modify the API's? And that would mean you can create your own modified API, provided it is also under GPL.

This doesn't apply to Google's clean-room implementation since that wasn't using the GPL license.
That’s precisely how the 2nd Amendment was interpreted by the courts until the 2000s. Namely, that its purpose was to prevent the Federal government from disarming and disbanding state militias.

A personal right to own weapons is a very recent interpretation, originally advocated by a small group of activists a few decades ago, and then gaining momentum with the growing power of the pro-gun movement, who claimed it as a central justification for their agenda. It was finally settled as the law of the land by the US Supreme Court 5–4 (Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Roberts, and Kennedy in the majority) in the DC v. Heller case in 2008.

However, a shift in the Court (if e.g. Scalia or Kennedy resigned and was replaced by a Hillary Clinton appointee) could easily throw the details of this interpretation back into question.
I think it should have a built in kill switch. It knows it's own EOL date, and just wouldn't work after that.
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If your ideas can stand on their own merit, you can defend them against criticism without resorting down to saying things like "oh it's a pseudo criticism and cherry picking facts". You're the one calling it bullshit. You even admit you wouldn't want to refute specific accusations.

And then go on to call it "malicious bullshit".

So, basically what you're saying is that we shouldn't listen to this criticism (which provides very valid points btw) but listen to you, when all you've done is attack the critique in a classic ad-hominem fallacy.

See the problem here?
But would it be cheaper than just shooting Super 8?