skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What, just a week after we hear of Craig Mundie wanting the same thing?

There's also that same underlying idea about the internet never being intended for the public, and anonymity being an unfortunate, undesirable side-effect of the way it grew out of control (whereas it's really a wonderful side-effect that both greatly expands what the internet can be used for and means that there's not all the stifling red tape briefly mentioned in this article).
I think that if you find yourself banned, and then change your MAC to get back on the network to continue the abuse, that constitutes being asked to stop.
I don't think I said or even implied any of these things.
Why did you consolidate?
How many such decks can be expected to exist?

Well, there are 52 possble cuts, including "no cut", giving us 52 possible scenarios the dealer must win. Assuming naively that winning one scenario does not affect the odds of winning another scenario, the probability of the dealer winning all scenarios is (1/n)^52, where n is the number of players. There are 51! possible decks (given that the deck is cyclic under cutting and we may hence assume the first card).

Thus a naive expectation for the number of ice cold decks that exist for any n is 51!/n^52. This has the following values:

2 3.44e50

3 2.40e41

4 7.64e34

5 6.98e29

6 5.33e25

7 1.76e22

8 1.69e19

9 3.71e16

...

10 1.55e14

11 1.09e12

12 1.18e10

13 1.84e8

14 3.90e6

15 1.08e5

16 3.77e4

17 1.61e2

18 8.25

19 0.49

20 3.44e-2

21 2.72e-3

22 2.42e-4

So the odds of such a deck existing are very strongly in our favor in all of the non-silly cases. Indeed, it appears likely that we can get almost all of the silly cases, too, especially if that assumption about the scenarios being independent was wrong.

Finding them, now . . . that might be more work.
You are dealer once an orbit. You have one extra deck that is passed to a 3rd party during the orbit, and the deck is stacked. When it's your turn to deal, the deck is switched with your stacked deck; the previous deck is passed back to the 3rd party to be stacked again. The 2 decks rotate in this way. Deck switching seems trivial; passing the deck to another every orbit seems the tricky bit. But hey, I'm no con artist :)
This whole business smacks of survivorship bias. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

What we aren't seeing is the number of Facebook users who either a) don't use Google to find Facebook every time they log in or b) do use Google but figured out right away that RRW is not Facebook.
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Correct me as needed, but I took OP to regard "unique visitor" as meaning "unique visiting person" - and to be citing himself as overcounted when he visited a site variously via Safari, FF, Chrome, and iPhone - which certainly happens to me many days.
They didn't show people's personal information without their consent. Quit reposting this lie.
We're also not seeing all the people that hit the RWW page and gave up.
It would be particularly sick if the legal case for this came down to deciding whether any adults had their privacy violated. In general, US courts have not been to fond of protecting the rights of children (which makes the children arrested for child porn of themselves trend still more poignant), and so I can easily see the case coming down to deciding if adults were harmed, effectively setting a precedent that it's OK to spy on kids.
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I think the best part of this article is the discussion of the ability to learn new abstractions. When I decide I want to file a patent, I go and learn about the patent system. Same with the Unix command line, the bus system in a foreign country, or how to go to a gym for free when traveling (most will let 'prospective members' workout once free).

My sister on the other hand probably hasn't learned a new abstraction since down-dog in yoga, and struggles with the fact that if she doesn't file a tax return, she faces huge fines. I still love her to death, and will endlessly redesign my website until it is intuitive for her.
>Their lives are not necessarily enriched if they know about the structure of a URL. That's as much an arbitrary, throwaway bit of knowledge as knowing the exact sequence of menus/commands needed to turn on endnotes in Word 2003.

That's absurd. Knowing URL structure (or enough about it to figure out what site you're on) is something that is necessary to use the internet. Phishing scams are the obvious reason, but also for things like this where that little bit of knowledge make the difference between success and failure.
i've edited my comments to make it clearer that this isn't about whether or not people understood why they were being blocked, but about social management.
I like this new, under pressure Adobe. It's almost as if they're trying to please people rather than save their own skins.
not paying attention to the whole process, but rather just the end result

Is that so wrong when the "whole process" is frequently opaque, confusing, error-prone, poorly explained, and irrelevant to the task at hand? Be aware that you're subject to a cognitive bias: You find computers inherently interesting and worthy of attention. (You wouldn't be here if you didn't.) Other people, perhaps people whose initial experiences with computers are unlike yours, do not feel the same way and do not have the same intuitive sense that the "whole process" is worth attending to that you do.

That is to say you have something like hindsight--it's obvious to you, bearer of a certain understanding, but to someone who doesn't know what you know, it isn't obvious what things they should be paying more attention to or what specific things they need to understand. Too often we think "They should know more about computers", which is very vague and ignores all of the things that people do tend to learn quite well.

Your understanding comes from years of built-up cognitive models about how these things work. The thing is: So does theirs. Like you, they've built a model that works well enough to do what they want to do. The difference is that they've learned things like "If I meddle with things I don't understand, I might break something." and "If I break this computer, I won't be able to fix it." and "If I can't fix it, I will feel stupid and have to ask or pay for help." These are maladaptive (though too often true), but they are still learned things, and I think it's a big mistake to ignore them when thinking about why users seem to be unwilling to learn other things.

...tools that are actually designed to make their experience easier, faster, and more efficient.

Those features and tools are not perfect. They fail. But form follows failure, which is why for instance several browsers now default to an interface that shows screenshots of frequently-used sites (the others all default to search pages). This accomplishes the approximately same thing as bookmarking or setting a home page without user action at all, and without relying on page titles or URLs for recognition. In time, the ways that this fails will become evident, too.

Bear in mind, too, that unless they have some specific motivation or inspiration for change, people are more prone to do what they know works than to experiment for the sake of it. The RWW story is particularly relevant because of the often ignored detail that what those users were trying to do (Google for "facebook login") actually works most of the time. Until a series of basically reasonable assumptions failed, they had no intrinsic reason to do things differently.
It's almost as if these Chinese security guards think the First Amendment doesn't apply to them!
I was going to suggest something along those lines after reading your post. But I was pleasantly surprised that your application already handles 24hr times gracefully, when I checked it.
Some real life experience might throw some light on this. I've been using an old HP tc1100 slate computer for the past couple of months. Executive summary: it is much more intimate to have a tablet/slate form factor. It's just a more useful and flexible form factor.

I can do everything I do on an iPhone, but much more comfortably with the larger screen. XP Tablet's handwriting recognition is great. (1) And I can do even more than the iPhone, since I can just install whatever Windows program I want. (Chrome with synced bookmarks on all my machines FTW!)

I can attach a keyboard/mouse and do everything I do on the netbook/laptop. But I can do even more. I can use it as a slate and recline in an easy chair or on my bed, just continuing what I was doing before. I can carry it into meetings and refer to my information or references on the network while maintaining intimacy with whoever I am talking to. It's more like referring to my notes, an agenda, or a reference book than having all of my attention soaked up by a portable workstation. Someone can come into my cube to talk, and we can just slip into a conference room while casually taking all of my information resources with me. I don't even have to pause and tell my colleague "Wait a moment, I need to bring my laptop." I just always casually take it with me like I would a notepad. (2)

I can walk around and take notes without looking like a total dork: http://amzn.com/B001G713NO (The case HP made for it is nice and looks like a big agenda. So maybe I look like a clipboard/planner dork, just not a total one.)

With Skype and my USB 3G, it has replaced all of my daytime cellphone use. I was paying overage on my anytime minutes, but now I'm racking up rollover minutes. I'm even considering going prepaid on my iPhone just so I can have it in a pinch but relying primarily on the tc1100 and Skype.

Incidentally, I do most of my HN posts with the tc1100 now. But this is a long one, so I'm sitting at my desk with the MacBook. And yes, I am planning to get an iPad. (Commensurate with Windows XP, I have spent a lot of time tinkering with the tc1100 to get it where I like it.)

(1) - But I'm a geek and I can figure out gadgets easily. I can see how average users would find this frustrating. Also, I print and never write cursive.

(2) - Battery life is old-school laptop: 2 hours in real life. But I just keep it plugged in at my desk at work or home. If I get a 2nd battery, I can hot swap it in suspend mode.
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Yes, they're terrible at URLs too. Here's another case of something similar to your problem back in 2006.

http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/03/10/banks-dont-hel...
It is also worth noting that it was pulled from the App Store as well
I hue shifted the 3D one for blue/brown lenses incase anyone's interested.

http://i47.tinypic.com/2hr25go.jpg

Also, original link http://www.optics.rochester.edu/workgroups/cml/opt307/spr05/...
you bet your ass it's ok to spy on kids; I made em, i can spy on em (sorry kiddos). the school district on the other hand, is not allowed to venture onto my lawn, much less into my house.
If there are sweatshop-like conditions as the article implies there might be, yes Foxconn's clients deserve some kind of action (most likely a boycott).

However, should they be held responsible for guards assaulting a reporter who was likely trying to get information he shouldn't have been? I don't think so. It would be very hard to find a contractor if you were held responsible for every crime they committed.

I suppose it would be reasonable to hold Apple responsible somehow if you could prove they ordered something like this, but I don't think that would be likely (occam's razor and all).
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I don't think he was arguing against you? I believe he was agreeing with you and adding fuel to your fire.
Just scroll to the bottom of the page -- the transcript is right there below the comments.
Pretty amazing what can happen on a green screen.
They'd please me most if they abandoned flash. Flash is a closed black box sitting in a web page. I'm working on a Google Chrome extension that finds MP3s on web pages and I hate it when I find a site with cool music but they use flash. Also it eats my CPU.

I hope flash goes away. I have half the mind to uninstall it from my computer. Most flash content is just ads and sites that don't really need flash for whatever it is they're doing.

Adobe's Kuler is a great example of something that doesn't need flash. What does it do that can't be done with HTML and JavaScript? Why would someone choose flash for a project like that? Google analytics and other online chart software are another good example.
Indeed, Flash has outlived it's usefulness and created a lot of lazy web development. The faster we move away, the faster there will be something better.
It may not be the best choice for an infrequently used Web page or App because your "slice" sleeps if not used for a while and the JVM takes a while to start up.
Half the "unique hits" on my old Blogger are me.
> trying to get information he shouldn't have been

Reporters' jobs are to get information and disseminate it. He was doing his job, and not doing anything illegal or even unethical, it seems to me.
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Actually, they did. I just re-enabled Buzz to check and they do allow you to view another persons followers. Couple that with auto following everyones gmail contacts and its easy to find a list of my gmail contacts without me having done anything. I don't share my contacts list anywhere else and I don't really think the world has to know what other gmail users I've ever emailed (one person Buzz auto followed for me was someone I'd emailed exactly once).

I count that as showing my personal information against.
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"Forget everything Steve Jobs is saying about Flash being buggy. In my opinion Apple do not like Flash and AIR because it is a major threat to revenue from App Store sales."

No. That is the MAIN reason Flash isn't on the iPhone, it is the number one crashiest program on the Mac.

How is the battery life? That's another big concern with Flash on a mobile device.
Not absurd at all. There are countless community colleges that have courses that cover both URL structure and such sequences of menus/commands in Word. But is it any kind of deep knowledge?

Since so many people use both web browsers and Microsoft Word, such knowledge could even help you to get a job. But is it any kind of deep or essential knowledge? Does anyone care about the structure of addresses for VideoTex? Does anyone care about the layout of menus and screens in the old AOL client? How about setting up privacy settings in Friendster? Yes, a few people still care, but almost everyone will recognize that this is all really just trivia now. But once upon a time, this was really useful information.

Yes, URL structure is currently necessary to use the internet as we know it today. But it's every bit as arbitrary as the width of the standard rail gauge.

Math is deep knowledge. Physics or chemistry is deep knowledge. URL structure is trivia. A lot of people who don't pay attention to it are actually smart enough to recognize it as such. They have other things to think about.
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If Google does it, it's cute. If Microsoft does it, it's OMGOMGOMG MONOPOLY EVIL LOL DEATH!!1!

Why the snarky comments, HNers?
Actually, they didn't. You need to read up on your facts. For instance here's a post that sums it up rather nicely:

"No, they didn't. People think that the "want to find out more?" screen was the opt-in point, but it wasn't. The opt-in point was when you made your first Buzz post, when you were told this meant creating a public Google profile."
I hesitated to include that bit in the article.

But I think it's fine for the difficulty of telling a machine to do something complex to be proportionate with the complexity and specificity of that task.

So if I were making a photo album and I really wanted to tell the computer to put photos in a certain place on the page (instead of where it put them), I should have to articulate that fact in some way to the computer. Nothing is going to save me from having to clarify my thoughts to myself, and there's a certain limit to how easy we can make having to clarify that thought to the computer. I think dragging a mouse is pretty good, but maybe we'll have telepathic interfaces.

What about websites and URLs? You're sitting in front of a machine millions of times more powerful than the computers used to send men to the moon and asking it to send encrypted payment information across a vast network of other such nodes around the world to your financial institution. That's pretty crazy! I think it's a marvel that average people with no special education on the topic manage to do this every week. I wonder how nicely we could smooth it over further without making it unintentionally more confusing.
Perhaps that was "birth" was meant to refer to.
Found a PDF of the filing itself:

http://craphound.com/robbins17.pdf

It's hard for me to imagine how anyone could think this was an OK idea.
For clarification, as many misunderstand: though the "yes" and "no" links didn't really work as advertised (turn Buzz on / off), they displayed nothing that wasn't public already.

To use Buzz, you need a public Google profile. This was true on Day 1, and it's true now. Any info that was revealed was already googleable, public information that the user filled out explicitly for a public page.

edit: downvotes? What, don't like the truth? If I've got something wrong, speak up.
Hey Guys, it's the creator Nouman here.

I think one of the ideas I wanted to bring to the table was to firstly--refresh the site outside of profiles. I know the design on pages like music, settings, blogs, and so on could use an update and should first be targeted.

Secondly, it shouldn't have to 'look' like facebook. The main idea is to leave profiles the way they are for users; however, provide much more simple users with visual tools to edit theme options like text color, and background color, but like I said-leave the hardcore users with their html.
Much simpler solution.

<img src="" style="width:98%" />

Works with all browsers. The 98% would handle nicely round-off errors.
I wrote a quip awhile back about wanting a scripting language closely integrated with Go. Maybe this would fit the bill? (Though one with a Go-like syntax would be better.)
And I want users to use the latest versions of their browsers. And I don't get my hopes high!
You could also write up a blog post. Please.
If this violated child pornography laws, we will get the remarkable outcome that a school system is not allowed within 2500 feet of a school. So it's not all bad!
Here's an example of what I mean:

http://myspacehire.me/settings/

vs

http://myspacehire.me/settings/settings.png

I haven't linked this out much, but with the current heat I'm getting I think my intentions should be seen as not a facebook copy
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If they are on the same machine you can just use Flash cookies since there is a single Flash cookie jar for the entire machine (across browsers).
Given the lack of free or even affordable WiFi in Australia, I'm not surprised that people would leech when given the opportunity. During my travels there last year I found very little that didn't cost $4/hr, outside of a pittance available for free at McDonald's.

Certainly, after paying to attend the conference I'd feel entitled to some bandwidth as well. If the network is using a poor NAT implementation, that's negligent network planning and the admins should shoulder the blame instead of screwing with the users.
Exactly. The questions with the iPhone (and any mobile platform) is not "Can it run?" but rather "Will it perform and not destroy battery life?". I'm am glad to see that Adobe is working on a mobile version, but until they solve the battery life issue I am happy to not have it on my iPhone.
The truth there being my friend and I running web design competitions haha, I've adopted blueprint css as a quick and easy framework for these types of situations.
Ok seriously, upvoting this guy? His statement and assertions are factually incorrect.
> If you're iterating every order in the database to apply your filter

I'll stop you there - filters can use database indexes. Exactly the same way SQL databases do it. Database driver chooses how it fetches those results. Getting the records based on some criteria and indexed attributes does not iterate through every record.
And when all the annoying advertising has moved to this new thing, how will you then block it, the way you can easily block flash ads today?
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Curious. It implies tail call elimination (the description of exhausting the stack explicitly says it wasn't a tail recursive call), but the description sounds like it's so direct that I can't see how it works.

Looking at evalExpr - http://github.com/bobappleyard/golisp/blob/master/lisp/lisp.... - the only way I can see for this to have tail call elimination is if Go itself does (and I don't think it does, does it? It does have coroutines, which you could use to implement trampolining, but I don't see that here...)
Why would you think you should have unlimited rights to violate their privacy? Parents already don't have an unlimited right to limit their freedom of movement (e.g. locking them up in their room indefinitly) or the right to use any kind of violence against them. (At least that's the case here in Germany, but I would guess that the US are similar.)

The rights of parents are already limited by the rights of their children, I don't see how you can then jump from "I made em" right to "i can spy on em". We also don't jump from "I made em" right to "i can beat em up" or "i can lock em up forever".

I would agree that some spying should be allowed, but not unlimited (similar to freedom of movement). Putting a camera in the bathroom would definitly not be ok. I would also argue that the rights to privacy increase with age. Secret surveillance might be ok for infants (e.g. baby monitor) but most certainly not for seventeen year old teenagers.
I can't imagine how someone would stack all 52 cards in a deck without passing it to another person. A few years ago I taught myself to stack maybe the top 5 cards and the bottom 5 cards and deal either the top or bottom card very quickly depending on what I wanted someone to have. That was mostly a matter of memorizing which card was which and practicing shuffling enough so that I could move a card to the top and then keep it there.
It's very sad and scaring to continually see these people come out and tell that the internet needs much more control, without the smaller bit of understanding on why this would be very damaging to freedom and human rights.

It was not long ago that a Microsoft exec suggested an internet patent and now we are already talking about passports and internet police!

I hope that journalists will start to point out why this is terribly wrong and not only report what has been said. Too many times a lie repeated a thousand times becomes the accepted truth.
Block the element.
The networking thing sucks if you're not really interesting in networking but are fairly good at the actual job you want to get.

Social people who are good at getting recognized and being liked have an advantage. I've seen relatively high profile people not be quite up to their billing, and vice versa. As someone who is quite low-profile, I'm not sure what the solution is short of biting the bullet and putting yourself out there.