skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that only for Chrome? Tor Browser's based on Firefox eh. I thought XHR wasn't allowed cross-domain anyways, so shouldn't these things fail? Though I admit having no knowledge of how the addon system works.

Detecting Tor should be easier though, since exit nodes are published. So just check the IP?

I imagine all the variables have to be exposed because sites will break otherwise.
Agreed, definitely should go high to low.
Sounds like itanium again with vliw

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_long_instruction_word
My highest priority is writing code that is maintainable, so I strive for modularity, appropriate abstractions, and comprehensive tests.
Lived with a Canadian, can confirm.

I still mutter "tabarnak" when I drop something in the kitchen :P
I find these pretty disturbing. I like to think I'd never have stood by while someone enslaved someone else. But the banality of these ads makes it all seem quite commonplace and acceptable. Wicked times.
Though some projects are still written in COBOL, sometimes we get to pick better technology. It takes time. Python has been around for more than 25 years. They can plan for the future.
I've always understood good SF to be a thought experiment about an altered reality that reveals something relevant to us, today, right now. Usually it's a philosophical experiment; Philip K Dick was a master of this.

I've never expected prediction of scientific developments from SF, and I don't judge older SF negatively in any way for being "incorrect" in predicting things. Older SF can be less relevant because "now" is not "then", not because it made poor predictions. Predicting things is a mug's game in any case; it's easy to see something coming in any one single dimension (usually it's something we have in some form today, but lighter, smaller, faster, cheaper, more digital, more automated or more ubiquitous), but extremely hard to see it coming in multiple dimensions and the sequencing and interaction between different innovations as they unfold in parallel.

Sibling comments have referred to 1984 as a political fantasy with modern technology; for me, a political fantasy with modern technology is SF. SF as a genre is a very close cousin with fantasy; the chief conceit is more regard for what might be physically possible, and tending to be set in the present or future rather than a mythical past. Star Wars is fantasy in SF clothes (space opera); Star Trek is (usually) SF dressed up as space opera.
Except there's more on that page: https://twitter.com/vcsjones/status/736715020793417729

Their "detecting problems" progress bar is a timer...
There is something about this site that absolutely destroys Firefox when scrolling. Expensive work in a scroll handler isn't good guys :(
You assume too much malice from people, and too little problems with enterprise integrations.

My guess is that the spec said to use the real number, and when the team couldn't deliver that, after six failed months of repeated attempts to integrate, they had to put something in because it was too late to change the ui wireframe that had already been signed off by executives.
I saw that after I commented -- long day and didn't scroll.

Even here, there is the concern about some "neighbor trees", but they put it in and I will double check things as trees grow.
What 1984 has is a ubiquity of surveillance, something that couldn't be done in 1948 when it was written. This is an SF concept: it changes something about 1948 society, and runs the simulation. Nothing could be more clearly sci-fi.
You're missing the point. The DAO does not care about the business climate of any particular country. The curators can reside in any country in the world and finance any company anywhere in the world.
There _are_ places where small companies are stepping up to place residential fiber.

http://fiber.usinternet.com/
>The so-called "demographic crisis" is blatant racism. //

Yes, but in this situation is it wrong? For example genetic diversity appears to be a benefit to the species, allowing that to reduce may be a net loss even if there is a period of over-population (nations apparently reduce their birth rates as they develop which suggests we should be able to get a handle on population; hopefully before we ruin things too much!).
Abandon rate is generally a /negative/ metric in reporting. They tell you how long it will be, because that actually make you more likely to stay the full time.
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I don't think it's clear that the DAO represents a 'financial crime'. Especially not on the part of the curators. It is an unregulated, unlicensed investment vehicle, but it's certainly not predatory, and especially not on the part of the curators (who are the only arrestable individuals).
Obviously the situation has it's differences, but the original form of the National Broadband Network[0] here in Australia was, in part, to help nip these kinds of problems in the bud. It was close to a nationwide glass utility, but still allowed for a competitive commercial market. There was a lot of excitement for both short-term technological gains & long-term economics. I'm still dirty it got so mangled.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Broadband_Network

As an off-topic aide: was "I'm not a communist" tongue in cheek? Or would such an infrastructure project be actually seen as "communist" &/or undesirable just for it's oversight?

Edit: terminology, link
I thought the same thing when reading, "WTF, why would they have another kid if they can't afford it? It is like a Mercedes, but it is more expensive and harder to maintain."

I actually get this type knee-jerk reaction from folks a lot but in a different context:

That bringing children into this world is the least "green" thing you can possibly do.

It's understandable to be defensive when someone appears to be saying something about "your children." It's not however understandable to lie to yourself about those truths and censor them.

Their post was not a rant, it's merely the reality of the situation. Just like me choosing to not have children makes me more green than people who do. Don't be angry at me, I'm not telling you to not have kids but I am telling you it is absolutely your choice.

I'd also be more inclined to think otherwise if this wasn't Germany, and the family wasn't educated... I.e. If this was a story on poverty in Sudan, I'd give them some slack. But! Germans have access and knowledge of birth control.

Not sure what's up with HN staff lately but it seems like some pretty troubling opinions, actions, and policies as of late.
High quality comments are written to convey an idea or present an argument (low quality comments are often written to make the writer feel good about themselves without conveying any meaningful idea).

Removing words with high emotional charge but low signal (such as "idiot") will increase the quality and effectiveness of the comment. Others will view the comment more favorably, and any additional discussion is likely to be more productive this way.
I'm not familiar with the numbers either, but your estimate sounds plausible to me. Tom Murphy has a nice presentation from which a more exact figure can probably be extracted, but I don't see it there directly: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2013/09/the-real-populat...
According to a quick look through the documentation, C code is called though a simple interface: (call-c-func "c-function-name" args …). OTOH it didn't appear that it's possible to call Scheme from C, which may be a disadvantage in some cases.

You are right, no mention of C++. It's not clear how much of a problem that would be. IIRC wrapping C++ in "extern C" more or less enables C++ functions to be called from C. Don't know about compatibility of Arduino libraries, but possibly this is how Microscheme FFI works.
Cant look at videos yet but descriptions sound like exact kind of thing im talking about. Well, there's those that replace the function and others that aid understanding. So, two categories of mechanical, fluidic, paper, and so on systems.
Libertarians are advocates of the idea that protecting and maintaining current property assignments and their orderly transfer between consenting parties is the basis of civilization. In addition, they see this as a moral value that assures that people who are productive will have more, and people who are less productive will have less. Through this moral belief, it defines what people do who have as productive, and what people do who don't have as less productive. In this, it completely ignores primitive accumulation and the fencing off of the commons, and says that in a perfect capitalism, everything will have found its level. Therefore, if Africans are poorer than Asians, Africans are by nature less productive than Asians. If black Americans are poorer than white Americans, there is an intrinsic quality within them that is keeping them from being valued enough to be rewarded.

Libertarianism is a radically collective ideology that wishes to shrink government into a police force to protect property, and a totalitarian bureaucracy that catalogs the ownership of every object that its police force can reach. It is an ideology that insists that skin color, ethnicity, race, religion, gender or anything that ever happened in the past play no role at all in the present.

Or rather, that's how I feel about it. And in my experience, all libertarians that I've met have harbored ideas that I think of as racist (even the very nice ones, and very insightful ones), and I've observed that when you see libertarianism grow, you see overt racism grow within its protective bubble.
"flow", which is a concept / phenomenon studied by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. It is not just limited to software engineering:
http://blog.valbonne-consulting.com/2014/09/24/flow-the-addi...
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I would say "It's wonderful that your human brain is capable of learning and designing such a language."

The problem is still in understanding what the words mean. It's easier if you have standard languages that everyone speaks, but if you want to have computers do amazing things, they'll have to be able to handle that problem, regardless of how many languages exist.

And it would be wonderful if computers could learn to understand languages regardless of who designed them and why. That problem isn't going to be solved by running away from it.
FWIW my company does embedded development and we take in many older engineers because of our skill base working with low level hardware and unmanaged code that much of the younger crowd is lacking.
Well, Rust supports both bitwise manipulations and a range-based interface, so people from various backgrounds can use whichever they find more natural. :-)
<the men who perpetrate it the most are also the ones who hold the “keys to the kingdom”... women don’t want to ruin their careers by speaking out.>

I was, up to this point, unaware that all sexual harassment in workplaces was of women, by men.
If the concern is over the general public being manipulated by corporate or political messages then A/B testing is the least of our problems. Practically every TV, print or digital ad has not only been concept-tested but is actually designed to take advantage of peoples' innate biases and cognitive blind spots.

The solution isn't to bury a "We a/b test." disclaimer in a privacy policy that no one will read but rather to educate people on their blind spots. We do this already - in the U.S. at least - where high schoolers get a schooling in advertising techniques. E.g. the difference between $9.99 and $10.00 and the manufacturing of a "problem" so that the company can sell you their "solution".
I think this article is the best proof we need to show that basic connectivity infrastructure should be paid with tax dollars and licensed to operators by the federal government since there's no incentive whatsoever to create a real market around it.
Yes please! I live in the countryside and my only wired internet option recently bumped download speeds to 10mb... and left upload speed at a miserable 768kbps.
An increasing number of people are getting their net connection via 4G-to-the-terminal rather than a central pipe. Cable is probably on its way out.
"buy high, sell higher"
The problem with burying cables is, that the first mover advantage can not be overcome. The calculation of the first guy is, that he has some cost X for N subscribers who will have to pay a monopoly rate M. The calculation of the second guy is, he has to pay X to bury a cable to capture some fraction of the subscribers fN who each pay a competitive subscription rate C much smaller than M. (In fact close to the marginal cost of an additional subscriber, that is basically 0). So the first guy expects to break even after X/(MN) and the second guy at X/(CfN).

This suggests the interesting possibility, that it may be worthwhile for the neighbors in a street to build their own cable and just give it to a competitor of the cable provider.
Being a "professional" means thinking. There is much unthinking adoption of the popular tools and approaches.
Which would be awesome, except that the last Nexus device I got has "the unrecoverable flicker" and they stopped selling the Nexus tablet. I have a phone, I wanted a 7" tablet for those times when I wanted to shut off the phone and play a game or read or watch a movie.

I liked the Nvidia Shield, but they pulled that from the market. I settled for Galaxy Tab 4, but so far, IMO, it's total shite. That's the second time Samsung has suckered me into buying something that sounds good, but didn't work out.

Not to mention which, Samsung has had something like 6 months to update from 4 to 5 and still have failed to do it.
Also, the requests seem to come from a node exit IP, which are public, so identifying a Tor user is easy.

Tor provides anonymity by giving all its users the same fingerprint. The fact that you're using Tor isn't a secret.

About the Tor version number in window.navigator, I guess they can't easily block it since the browser itself leaks some information via the features added in each release (e.g. a new JS API introduced in Firefox XX).
for most of the time, many performance considerations are invisible from the higher abstraction levels, so you can concentrate writing simple, elegant and maintainable applications in Java, Scala, Kotlin or anything that runs on the JVM.

Funny statement, at least for Java. I don't know anyone who would say the majority of Java applications aren't huge, slow, memory-hogging beasts compared to equivalent native ones, and whose codebases are just as unoptimised for the perspective of the humans who have to work with them. That's mainly perception from when I briefly worked with Enterprise Java many years ago --- no one wrote "simple" or "elegant" Java applications, and stuffing as many design patterns and abstractions in as you could was considered "best practice".

There are certainly examples of simple and small Java applications (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_4K_Game_Programming_Conte... ), and I've written a few, but the overwhelming culture seems to be that of anti-optimisation and bureaucratic excess. In some sense, it's almost like working against or "challenging" the JVM's optimiser is the norm.

In my experience, a "simple, elegant" design --- which does not necessarily mean "highly abstract" --- tends to be very close to optimal anyway, with the compiler's optimiser doing the remaining work. That makes me wonder whether claiming a language/runtime/compiler has powerful optimisation abilities is actually a reflection of how much the typical source code in the language has to be "cleaned up" by the optimiser in order to be decently efficient.

Also, does anyone else notice the "Machine code" given for the JIT example is completely unrelated to either the Java or bytecode? It's 16-bit realmode --- I recognise the access to the 40h segment, it seems to be timing-related, and a bit of Googling finds that it's actually part of an old TSR clock utility (with unknown source):

http://assembly.happycodings.com/code24.html
On mobile this page attempts to push malware.
They pushed this "feature" without any advance notice to developers of userland apps like screen and tmux, leaving them to pick up the pieces and figure out what happened. That is irresponsible and reckless. Common sense dictates that when you're going to introduce severe breakage, you give advance warning so it can be properly tested and dealt with.

And it's having a negative effect on their own pet distro as well, see this thread:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fe...
Apparently he was out of work in 95. At that time in Europe, IT was not that hot. It was starting but he probably didn't have the proper profile. Germany was not great at the time either anyway.

Then the hiring mentality in continental Europe is not as openminded as in the UK or the US. Being out of work alone is a big red flag on your resume. Moving from independent to employee is another one.

The cardinal sin is being over 50. When I was a kid, losing your job when you were in your 40s was the nightmare of all families - the event you do not recover from like the family terminal cancer. It is getting a lot better, but even 20 years later finding a job when you are over 50 is ridiculously hard. In my home country we even have the concept of pre-pension (i.e. unemployment payment with an extra added by the company) to get rid of older workers easily.
Yep, same building. Not that many folks from Chicago on this forum, so definitely a small world! :)

I worked closely with Alberto V. and Gary M. who you might've worked more closely with. Made some decent friends with some of the rates batch guys, so if you're feeling sufficiently stalkerish, talk to them. :)
Some of the ads have a little icon that shows a slave running away. Like it's a particular category of classified ad.
I'm the same. I use tmux generally in one window, and may have several sessions within that but I do not do any kind of complex split-screen layouts etc. I find that just starts demanding too much mental attention aside from from the task I'm really trying to do.

For layout of multiple terminal sessions I use a tiling window manager on my desktop.
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I also recall they do combined public/private investments that require private companies to do something other than give money to shareholders. ;)
I use Ansible to do all of the CIS recommendations. Took about a day and following along with the CIS guide to do it.
This is, in general, close to what the Australian NBN model was aiming for; the fibre capacity was to be "leased" wholesale to the commercial entities, with the leases used for maintenance & upgrades. In theory it avoids special interests & provides a baseline platform.
I would be so happy if our company could migrate everything to Python 2.7. We still have a lot of 2.5 and 2.6 around.
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Digital identities are predicated on a having free internet. The digital world may be a more free place, but servers and network infrastructure must exist in a physical, territorially-managed world. Doing away with your birth certificate in favor of an online-only identity just gives power to the owner of the lines you use to connect to the world and the enterprises responsible for maintaining your online identity service.
with a couple hundred years distance we could also recognise the early 21st century as an appalling nightmare.
> I think it is advantageous to keep USD outside the US because it can then circulate in other countries further cementing its position as a reserve currency, its a feedback loop.

I have never heard of this. Anything I can read or Google about this?
The slides explain what this is for much better than the README. The goal is to exfiltrate data from a compromised endpoint in a "high-security enterprise" in a way that's difficult to detect.

The "sender" makes requests (or doesn't make them, to send 0 vs. 1) on a pre-determined schedule to an unpopular resource on a popular, unaffiliated third-party server. The "receiver" can request the same resource a few seconds later, and can determine based on the cache-related HTTP headers returned whether the page was generated recently or just now, with the current request. This of course requires the server to expose information about server-side caching via the headers; the example given is that the Expires header may be used to infer the original generation time.
Sure, on a few dozen streets in the city center in a place without build out requirements. But what do we do about the suburbs?
While not clinically certified, reports were that the Apple Watch was very close to accurate most of the time, just a few BPM off at most.
Lenny was a voice activated script that would cycle through those (plus others I believe) pre-recorded sounds in a (generally successful) attempt to fool telemarketers.

You could transfer calls to a SIP extension (or via a number of PSTN numbers in different locations). Unfortunately the original service is now defunct, but I'm sure there are some private closes in operation.

There's an archive of recordings on youtube linked from https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/ -- some are hilarious and sure to brighten anyones day.
This was a hoax perpetrated by Joey Grether

http://12xspiral.com/intro/
http://pholx.com/thenumberswebgrethersspiral/

Supposedly there's also a post of him admitting it was to gain attention - but I've yet to see it.
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The villages of india are more or less self-sufficient. Only recently they started to behave like a connected economy. So, it can scale, its just the mindset that people need to adopt.
Asimov's own predictions weren't always that great (no positronic brains or atomic powered everything yet), but I think he finally explained to me why I felt so depressed and angry reading 1984 with, "Orwell forgets the virtues human beings have." Most dystopian sci-fi is fun to read precisely because it has the very real aspect of "brave men and women who have withstood the tyrants..." That's inspiring. 1984 was valuable, but depressing.

But, why are we talking so much about 1984? This is an article about Animal Farm :-)
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With one exception being telecommand of a space station (and possibly model craft).

Source: http://www.arrl.org/part-97-amateur-radio (and the PDF linked there)
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Ways to contribute to stop 21st century slavery here:

http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/30/chariti...