skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will start whitelisting publishers once they take full responsibility and become liable for the data that they distribute. So long a website thinks that they can transmit a virus and let the user take the fall, then I will do my best to protect myself.

To my knowledge, there isn't a single publisher or ad network that take full legal responsibility if they distribute malware, false goods, or have other form of illegal ads. If there is one, let me know and I will take a look.
The human records will shift to become about who made the AI. So in case you are afraid to no more be able to brag about having biggest, because of AI, fear not, it's like saying horses beat all human running records. It will just get forked into a new category of games.
> I try to stay out of the moral discussions about "consuming" content without "paying" for it. The way I see it, ad networks will regain their rights to run code on my machine when they start taking positive steps to ensure that said code will not cause harm or copy unauthorized information off my machine.

I'm generally ad tolerant. (I've said this on HN before). I didn't block ads. I'd even click ads if they were relevant to my interest. Although I don't think I've ever bought anything from an ad or as a result of clicking an ad.

I can understand the "ads are a way to pay for the content you use" argument and I have some sympathy for it.

Yet even I have installed an ad-blocker. I mostly use a mobile connection. Installing an ad-blocker has considerably reduced the stuff I download. An Ad blocker literally saves me money.
> The font-color of the comment (aside from links already visited) should be enough to indicate if it has positive or negative karma.

This is by far the biggest problem I have with HN. If there's not enough light in the room, I have problems differentiating between shades of grey/black if the contrast isn't high enough. And it makes downvoted-to-hell comments extremely hard to read because all the mobile apps seem to replicate this, and you can't just ctrl+a to add contrast.
don't you have 30 days to find another job?
I think the contalk about how Defold uses Clojure and an in-memory, transactional graph database to make the GUI highly customisable might be interesting to the HN crowd:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajX09xQ_UEg
The Nervana 16bit floating point implementations is probably worth noting in this context.

They perform (speed-wise) pretty well: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
Wasn't HN experimenting with not greying comments that had a single downvote? I think this was an attempt to avoid downvote pile ons.

I'm not sure it's still happening. I think it stopped the people who provide corrective upvotes.
Curious, are you French, Chinese or from somewhere else?
I lost money (luckly not too much) in the stock market on a position where I was right and I didn't know why. I decided to find out and I learned that the size of my trade was larger than the Kelly criterion.

The Kelly criterion seems to not be well known - why I can't say other than there are a lot of groups that benefit from people being ignorant of it.
Search inside a repo is still available just append /search to the url.
Idea where can such service be used for nefarious purposes:

while true
do
dt=$(date '+%d%m%Y%H:%M:%S');
screencapture -x file$dt.png
curl --upload-file ./file$dt.png https://transfer.sh/66nb8/capture$dt.png
rm file$dt.png
sleep 1
done
> human records will shift to become about who made the AI

No the uman records will remain human records, and the AI records will be come AI records
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Migrant workers, not migrant refugees. These are people who comes from poor rural communities in search of better jobs and future, not opportunistic economic migrants who come to take advantage of an European welfare state.

Also note that without a hukou they receive limited education and government services. This prevents them from settling in the cities they work in.
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Really bad move by Github. I sent them an e-mail nagging about it the very first moment I noticed it. I cannot imagine that they didn't expect any reactions, they just seem to not care about the whole open source community. I am looking for alternatives to it already.
>"Actually I made up the term ‘object-oriented’, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." — Alan Kay

And that's why C++ traces its origins to Simula, which predates
Smalltalk.
As far as I understand, nobody has drm free movie downloads. Apple's are most definitely drm protected and I'm near certain that Google's are, too.
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It's interesting that whoever abducted him was willing to leave the friend. Among a corrupt government and an operation able to steal tens of millions of dollars, you would expect either to be ruthless in their cover up, if that's what this is.

It's too bad that we have become so complacent about the decreasing value of human life around the world. We need to collectively stand up and say that actions (and inactions) like this are unacceptable and worth interrupting business as usual.
Just drop it on one of the folders in your Dropbox that's also served by IIS on one of your boxen. Then simply link from the appropriate subdomain on your personal domain. Been doing this for 15 years, dunno why nobody else does.
Indeed. It's not that they apply only programmers. It's that programmers are the ones who have to deal with this mess.
sprunge (apparently) is released under WTFPL, and the sources are here https://github.com/rupa/sprunge.

According to http://www.wtfpl.net/about/, the first rule (and the only rule) of WTFPL is:

0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

So, I guess you can self host it (:
I'd argue that most of life has been figured out by many, many people thousands of years ago. Greek philosophers had the exact same problems we do today, and over their lifetime they've been pretty successful at figuring out solutions. I'd even argue that most "self-help" books of today are just the same old solutions written in a different way.
Nuitka compiles python into a native executable

http://nuitka.net/pages/overview.html
it's like saying horses beat all human running records

Not to detract from your original comment, but human's are pretty competitive with horses over long distance running

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon
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Chromebooks protect you against some categories of malware, but they also add a dependency on the internet and giving Google tracking data. While it is hard to quantify these costs, they do exist and should be considered. In particular, requiring the internet is a huge risk which may require even more shutdowns in the future if the internet ever goes down.
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It reminds me of that: http://klaig.blogspot.com/2012/08/skypipe-cloud-based-namepi...
Sayings "cars" beat all human records would probably be a better analogy here.
The other big problem is that there's less and less people using anything but the notebooks, where it's effectively either HDD or SSD.
I built an R library for working with the b2 API:

https://github.com/phillc73/backblazer

It's on CRAN too, but the GitHub version has some updates.

This library should allow complete interaction with b2 for uploading, downloading and manipulating files from within R.
Thank you very much for everyone who has pointed out the issue with the readability of the content. I'm very sorry for this issue.

Clearly your advice (px > %) is the way to fix this. I have to travel in a moment and the wp plugin I'm using did not support this, so will figure it out later today. In the meantime I reduced 150px to 100px, which seems to make the issue a little better for most screens (at least in landscape).

Thank you again, this is really helpful :)
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The start would be if larger and trusted web publications started to run their own ad department. Like in the times of print advertising. Serve ads from your own server which do not try to create third party servers.
Look into https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-antievilmaid and https://github.com/mjg59/tpmtotp for better attempts to provide an effective but still partial solution to this problem.
Looks like your editorial content is in the main left-hand column and the adverts are in the narrower right hand column when viewed on a laptop with a 1280px wide screen (linux/firefox).

I have a hosts file that blocks most of the ad servers but do not have any plugins within Firefox that disable js or block adverts. Your page looks complete - i.e. nothing showing 'unable to load' signs as one might expect. Privacy Badger shows 4 trackers (amber)...

cse.google.com
www.google.com
platform.twitter.com
syndication.twitter.com

The adverts appear to be smallish static images with links back to office furniture companies &c.

I found the SpaceStor advert for their 'railway carriage' internal booth quite interesting so I clicked on it and was taken to a UK Web site - are you processing location information or did I just get lucky?

Interesting example to pass round.
Update: I've got it working better now, but the design on the topbar is now screwed up for some reason. I'll debug it sometime in the future.
I'm guessing some kind of multiplexing of the sockets is being used in the Erlang case. There's no green thread per every connection.

I don't understand what the grandparent is saying though. Yeah, if you create a thread for every request, then you're going to be killed by the memory overhead. This isn't unique to Go, and I remember it being a problem when many noob Java programmers would spawn a thread per request before the introduction of java.nio.

The downside with Twisted, Tornado, or whatever in Python is your code isn't parallelized. It's concurrent, yes, but you aren't taking advantage of your multiple cores without forking another Python process due to GIL.

Go, Scala, Java etc. are truly multi-threaded and compile to native code from commandline or via JIT. Saying your performance advantage is due to switching from Go to Python is a spurious claim. You weren't doing it right.
Classic expression of that is https://twitter.com/empireofjeff/status/632271934907138048

Dick Brisket ‏@EmpireOfJeff

You "conservative" "pundits" still don't get it: Trump isn't our candidate. He's our murder weapon. And the GOP is our victim.

We good, now?

He's also a body blow to the Republican consultant class which for many years has been paid handsomely for less than stellar results, this election's prime example being Mike "Set all our donor money on fire." Murphy (http://hotair.com/archives/2016/01/07/the-saddest-political-...), who showed a $100+ million warchest is nothing without voters.

On the other side, Sanders isn't what you'd call a Democratic Party establishment type, seeing as how he joined the party only a few months ago (was an independent who caucused with the Democrats for decades), and nonetheless gave Hillary fits despite how even more thoroughly the nomination was wired for her than ¡Jeb!.

But that whole situation isn't hardly as existential for the party's establishment as the Republican one is, where Trump is showing that the "rules of the game" aren't what the whole US political establishment has been insisting, and we don't expect "business as usual" to follow, whatever the specific outcomes of this election.
> cars, aeroplanes or ships

While I agree that transportation is another technology trap, most of it is reasonably independent; one broken car usually doesn't prevent a large number of other cars from working. Also, education doesn't depend on transportation directly most of the time.

> electricity

I remember quite a few days where the teacher was able to continue the lesson after a power outage. They had the benefit of a classroom with enough windows that we could still see mostly see the blackboard, so this isn't always possible. Education is therefore situationally dependent on electricity and can often continue when it isn't available.

Unlike electricity, a computer is a far more complex tool. Depending on computers implies being the target of sentient attackers in addition to the incredible complexity of "ordinary" bugs.

If the computer also requires depending on the internet, the risk that it will eventually fail is very close to 1. Many institut8ions have exchanged their older workflows that could work independently with implementations that depend on the internet. Eventually they will receive a harsh lesson about limiting complexity and minimizing external dependencies.
Or “repo:”: https://github.com/search?l=&q=repo%3Atorvalds%2Flinux+fuck&...
Thanks. Why did remove it from the UI?
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Computers and teaching go together like labor saving machinery and exercise. If you want to get strong, you have to work, and labor saving machinery will do the work for you, but you won't get stronger.

Same for computers.
Google had one but they shut it down.
People aren't perfectly rational beings when it comes to "sticker shock." They won't compare the $50 to the cost of tickets and concessions for the whole family, they'll compare it to the cost of a single ticket. And, somewhat more rationally, they'll compare it to the cost of renting the movie after it's left theaters (maybe $5).
Neil Armstrong. That's who gets to say what Neil Armstrong identifies as.

Neil Armstrong publicly identified as a man. "That's one small step for a man" is an expression of that identity, as is "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind." Everything we know about him, from his own statements about being a "schoolboy" in Ohio on up, is consistent with an expression of that identity.

He also publicly identified as an engineer: “I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow.” - http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/08/obituary
Looking at the times of both horses and humans it seems that the main problem of this race is lack of professional competitors. When I see that the horse rider won by covering 35 km distance in 2 hours 40 minutes (on some years)then I think: that would be beaten by any professional marathon runner, who tend to beat that time on longer 42 km distance.
Ask HN: How does a 24-year-old guy work on his interpersonal skills?
I am generally out of the topics when I am talking with some person and when we two are the only people conversating. It doesn't happen much when more people are there in the group.

This is more observant when I trying to have a conversation (both- face to face and on text) with some girl and/or not conversating in my native language.

I can point it to my social awkwardness, not-knowing-how-to-talk-to-other-gender among other things.

So, how do I make things better?
This doesn't provide additional security. If your bootloader is compromised, it could boot into a compromised kernel (bootkit) that will fake any syscalls that attempt to figure out if the system is compromised. No, signatures and hashes won't help (you can just return the old files, or store your changes to the files and return the file contents with your changes reverted).

It's the same problem as UEFI defining that a certain UEFI variable will be set if you booted securely -- but a malicious kernel could just fake that UEFI variable.

Instead, you should have authenticated encryption for both /boot and your root filesystem. GRUB has been able to boot from encrypted partitions for a while, we should push for that to be the default (I'm not sure if it's authenticated encryption though).
How about this: we make a new tag <advertising></advertising>

Inside this tag can only go text-link ads. Ads in any other form on the page will be ignored. But for ads with those tags, the text will be displayed at the top of the browser, in the premium location for users to see it.

This allows ads, reduces the impact of ads on visual clutter, eliminates delivery of malware via ads, and drastically decreases page weight and load time. In addition, by enforcing an arbitrary scarcity, advertisers will be forced to bid-up for one spot on the page instead of being lured into more and more complex advertising platforms that are unwieldy to operate and many times have dubious added value.
Tell that to the bicycle.
In the case of Google stock, it's real money, not magic money. Google bonus is real money, not magic money.

Startup stock is imaginary money.
Any semblance with the current Bitcoin situation is merely a coincidence, I'm sure
People who doesn't even know what a text shell is can just drag a file icon onto the page to upload. No accounts or passwords are involved at either end, so it's about as frictionless as possible.
Well. PHP 7 has a completely reworked opcode cache and many other tweaks that increase its performance across pretty much all applications tested (including the Zend framework itself according to Zend). With that said, however, as we mentioned earlier, we will not shy away from the comparison. We are working towards a performance benchmark that will compare Peachpie and PHP 7. But as we haven't focused on performance optimization yet at all, we don't expect Peachpie to outdo PHP 7 quite yet. Give us a few days/weeks and we'll publish the first benchmarks. We're curious as well :)
Worked nice in mobile Firefox.

Didn't do any technical check, only verified visually.
the income-averse; I have yet to meet those.

work-averse or income-challenged maybe. Or underpaid or poor.
I do this fairly regularly.

A$ tar cv * | nc -l -p 1234

B$ nc a.example.net 1234 | tar xv

Or I might remove a 'v' and pipe through 'pv' to see the transfer rate and amount.
As somebody from outside academia, what's the worst that can happen by not reading every paper related to your research, you accidentally end up replicating (part of) somebody else's results? That sounds useful in itself.
Yes, French indeed, well-spotted ! I also enter the last name in capital case, that's part of writing it like this 1000s of times in school.

By the way, for people reading this, from my own experience, at least 30/40% of French people will put the last name first in the form, whatever the text says, so to get better data, the best thing is to put them in the order (last name / first name) for them to reduce the number of errors.
I am not calling for a safe haven, or restriction on speech, which is what the main topic concern.

Instead, I am using my speech to criticize someone else's speech, which is what "free speech" is supposed to encourage.

Why shouldn't I go there in this thread?
You have to use the Speech from accessibility menu, and turn Speak Screen on.

Another possibility i just realised is the possibility to pass texts from reader mode into 3rd party text-to-speech application. Will have to research some of them.
> Take a random book from from most periods of history

I'd be very interested in doing in doing just that. How would I go about it? Weighted by popularity in that era would be fine, but not weighted according to current popularity.
I live in the Amish community referenced in this article and I have never seen nor heard of any corporal punishment nor child abuse. Indeed, I have never heard any Amish person even yell, scold or argue with anyone. Because of that, I am pretty sure such issues are rare in this area.

Are you part of the community, or just live in the area? Because if the latter, it's hardly surprising; socially conservative people rarely handle their family matters in public.
Remember capital gains on stocks are levied after a 35% corporate income tax, making the effective rate of taxation 50%.
LOL, haters gonna hate. So let's see...

- BinDiff would work stand-alone if someone wrote an exporter for another disassembler (BinDiff uses https://github.com/google/binexport for that).

- Closed source - yeah it contains some secret sauce and also depends on a commercial graph library (yFiles). Not easily replaced. Their product is also pretty good.

- Limited platform support - well, there is an older OS X version as well and we have this on our radar for future releases.

- Far better free solutions - please do show. Maybe we can do a diff-off some time :)

YOLO :P
I've been thinking this for a while: would it be feasible to create a labelling body for online advertising and privacy?

I see it a bit like Fairtrade or FSC certified, but for advertising and tracking - an independently verified set of criteria which must be met to be awarded the standard. As an independent body, it wouldn't have the conflict of interest of, say Eyeo/ABP.

And unlike offline standards agencies which rely on self-certification and occasional inspections, the testing would be done at the browser plugin level to filter out any scripts and ads which don't meet the standard.

A combination of marketing to end-users as to the benefits of ethical advertising, and real-time feedback to site owners and advertisers as to which ads were blocked, why they were blocked and how much money that cost them could be a powerful incentive to clean things up.
I would say that "The Holy Grail" is the name (a trademark if you wish), like is "True Cross".

So, True Cross, upon which Jesus is believed to have been crucified or similarly, The Holy Grail, which is believed to have special powers.

We can even go further: a fragment of a cross we believe is a fragment of the True Cross, upon which Jesus is believed to have been crucified, a grail we believe is The Holy Grail, which is believed to have special powers.
>And in fact, the only good justification for allowing it to be legal is this idealistic view.

Well that, and the first amendment.

I tend to agree that advertising is a bad value proposition, for both producers and consumers, but I'm not sure how much the government can do about it without restricting speech.

I can however imagine a cultural shift, such that the majority of people so actively avoid advertising, that the market for it is vastly reduced.
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While Google does make a huge chunk of money off advertising, they're diversifying.

Google's cloud computing service and especially Google Apps already bring in monies.
Adblocking from the small-scale advertiser is a great money-saver. As an advertiser I would feel that the site is stealing from me when I see that they require people to turn off ad-blocking. I know their visitors that use blocking software would never buy from me anyway, so why should I pay to show ads to them?
Thanks for clarification. That's going to filter out lots of people who don't want to share their identity, unfortunately.
As I understand it, that's the aim of Privacy Badger: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
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I believe erlang can only block at the top level. This means it doesn't need to keep a stack per thread around but only enough space for a single activation frame.
They are acclimatised to debt - most westerners can't imagine not having a credit card - when I tell folks I cut up my first and last card at 17 they assume I'm a delinquent, broke, punishing myself - for in this society we have managed to redefine debt as wealth.
Or Germany.

0163 9256357
01573 0677867
040 12345

The first two are actually valid numbers (some of my old numbers, which are still active, but unused).

Btw, an area code doesn't have to actually refer to that area — you can keep phone numbers if moving across area code boundaries in Germany, so a 040 number might actually be used by someone living in 0431.