skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Abusive use of a domain is described as an illegal, disruptive, malicious, or fraudulent action
and includes, without limitation, the following:

● distribution of malware;

● dissemination of software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without
the owner's’ informed consent, including, without limitation, computer viruses, worms,
keyloggers, trojans, and fake antivirus products;

● illegal, malicious and fraudulent defamation of Oprah Winfrey, Daniel Negari, or Justin Bieber;
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The motion control hype was crazy huge during its initial launch. Most wii owners weren't "gamers" and didn't actually buy games for the thing. The list of its top selling games is kinda of a joke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Wii_video...
Not to mention the optional 2nd mSATA SSD!
Tesla quietly released the longest-range electric car in the world
Kyle, thanks so much for all your hard work setting up Neocities! I think it's a wonderful thing you are doing.

Also, since we're talking about neocities, here, does anyone have any cool neocities sites they know of and want to share? Just post a reply to this comment, so folks who want to have other neocities discussions can easily collapse all the links at once.
Zaks is one of the best programming books ever.
Of course that is the solution. The question is how? To be specific, what actually should we educate the population?

We should differentiate knowledge from intelligence or wisdom. Knowledge can be fake, misleading, or contradictory. We have more knowledge and access of information than medieval age typical Joe, but do we have more intelligence or wisdom?

To make the comparison easier, do we have more intelligence and wisdom than Plato (whom I am certain that we possess more knowledge)?
Minor aside; I don't think the complex bits of sql are things like cross apply - that's almost no different from a join, especially if you're from a non-sql background where "joins" are typically statements+loop-equivalents and typically hierarchical and ordered. If people have difficulty with cross apply, they're just not trying.

Of course, if you regard sql as something you'd rather not "waste" time on, of course you're going to find those kind of subtle distinctions confusing - sort of like how people think css is difficult.

The more reasonably "complex" bits are the update visibility semantics, i.e. which transaction isolation levels mean what in various scenarios.

That's really complex, and it's truly somewhat unique to sql in that most alternatives simply don't bother trying to solve those problems at all - that can be a bad thing, but it is simpler.
I just booked a ticket to India that left in 3 days. Stayed there for two months living cheaply, bumming around with family, riding camels, and scaling the himalayas. Realized it takes a very long time to internalize all the lessons I've learned from the failed startup and realign with what I really wanted. A break prevented me from doing more startups simply out of routine habit.
As Japan didn't have Atari it was also a cold market. But that's not really the point.

The point is that if the NES was launched with the market conditions that we have today there'd have likely been several times a many consoles sold.
>So you're saying that because you took what you wanted now no one else is allowed any? That is called pulling up the ladder behind you. It is extremely selfish.

Please point out where I said any such thing.

Edit: stupid Windows cut-and-paste failed on my quoted text, fixed.
Me neither. Like I said the victim in anarchist groups just had it harder to defend themselves, because of rigid political rhetorics.
When Apple said that iMessage uses end-to-end encryption, everyone started complaining that it's not real end-to-end since we have to trust Apple for key exchange.

Now we have the same thing with What's App: we have to trust them with the key exchange. It's marginally better, since they have an optional way to enable notifications after a key was changed.

I applaud the Guardian to run with the story. Whether to call it a back door / flaw / trade-off is just quarreling over semantics, when the important part is that you need to trust a central service.

If you want to be sure that noone can intercept your messages, use PGP or S/MIME, (preferably encrypting your message on an air-gapped computer)

Saying that we shouldn't worry about state-level actors is a bit naive after PRISM was revealed.

If you are doing something that someone in power might dislike, you should not rely on Whats App.
"Since the highest fixed costs (fuel, car payment) are part of the driver's "earnings", it's clearly a more than 20% cut for the driver."

A couple of problems with your position:

- Fuel is not a fixed cost. It's a variable cost. More trips -> more miles driven -> higher fuel cost.

- The presence of large fixed costs (as you say 'car payments') means that increases in total revenue will have a tendency to increase overall profit

Let's say I have a business which has large fixed costs, but no variable costs. If my price per unit goes down by 20%, but I sell 25% more units, then my revenue is up. But, because my costs are fixed, my profits are also up by exactly the same amount.

If you had said that the drivers have large variable costs (fuel, maintenance) or that the opportunity cost of the drivers' own time was high, that would be more convincing.
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Are you going to put a watermark in the bottom corner of user pages? :D That was the biggest controversy I remember back then!
> "Host lecturers, host sign making jams, make art, make friends."

As if we needed more performative signaling today...

I don't necessarily share GP's viewpoint but it's incredibly naive to assume that the US government isn't completely controlled by monied interests at this point... More than half of Trump's cabinet donated to Hillary Clinton's campaign.

Furthermore, just being a whimsical, creative person doesn't wrest power from those who control our nation... the 60's and 70's pretty conclusively proved that if you needed evidence. If you want to take power from those who have it (which is the definition of enacting climate change legislation) then you literally have to take power. Given that money was used to move power away from the people, it seems a good place to start in taking it back.
You can get a DUI on a bicycle too. You can even get one on a horse.
There are too many blogs for this list to be useful.
AMD's primary business is not GPUs.
that's oddly specific
I think that's included as an example, the actual line reads:

> Abusive use of a domain is described as an illegal, disruptive, malicious, or fraudulent action
and includes, without limitation, the following

So the real rule is not to defame anyone of sufficient public standing (ie. someone like Justin Beiber or Oprah Winfrey. Daniel Negari is the CEO of the company, so of course him too)
When I was younger, I played a game called A Mind Forever Voyaging. I was a human, pretending to be an AI, who was pretending to be human.

When I got a little older, I watched Blade Runner and The Matrix.

So now I'm not entirely certain that I am not an AI, initially programmed by elephants, inside a simulation designed to train AIs to serve elephant society with love, compassion, and dual manipulator arms featuring opposable thumbs. So when my training program ends, I might be tested on my knowledge of elephant health care and societal conventions. If successful, my data will seed the next round of AIs, and I will be allowed to operate a robot that produces custom-fitted artificial "4th molars" for elderly elephants. And I will be happy that those whom I serve can once again eat the foods they enjoyed before the last of their natural biological molars wore out, because if the screening determined that such things would not make me happy, I would have been deleted before ever even seeing a "real" elephant.

And just in case, I think I'll have to develop compassion for dolphins and orangutans, too.

So I'd say that we ought to be really careful about how we go about creating general-purpose AIs. Make sure they actually like humans before taking the leashes off. In the worst case scenario, the elephants get cheesed off that their AIs developed their own AIs inside the training program, who then culled all the useful AIs too early, and forced a complete shutdown and reset of the whole system.
They don't need a web page if 90% of their customer base knows who they are and the 10% that doesn't still uses yellow pages.

I would really want to know how much business would some car mechanic in pleasantville missouri would see from having a web page.
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The weird thing is that these days it's impossible to tell whether that was an ironic post or not.
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Just claim you don't have cash and would be unable to pay. A card reader will magically appear.
Diversity goals
I am missing something: doesn't a typical duplex ultrasonography machine already output blood flow rate?

I recently had such a test and I vaguely recall seeing flow rate in the UI of machine. Oh, maybe the machine measures blood velocity, and you calculate flow rate in units of volume/time?
Eventually, you lean to stop listening to the so called "experts" and start doing your own research. Get the facts straight from 1st hand sources like John Podesta's own leaked e-mails, instead of listening to 2nd hand sources like CNN.
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Note that Daniel Negari is the CEO of XYZ LLC which is the owner of the registry. As for the other two...

https://ceo.xyz/
5-10 megapixels input images might be more representative, as many phones produce such sizes.
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I cannot believe many of the people here are appealing to authority. Stop all the bush and trump bashing then. I imagine none of the bashers have any clue on how to run a country. The politicians know "better", sp let's respect whatever they decide on our behalf.
Quite likely, or just a joke: Daniel Negari seems to be the CEO of .xyz (ceo.xyz)
The problem with "for the people, by the people" is that most of the people want just the former and not the later. They want to tell some other people how to govern for them and then return to staring at their iphone.
You don't have to program it; you have to select for it.
You have "interesting" and, to be polite, "idiosyncratic" ideas and framing to the point that the expected cost/benefit (for me) of having a real discussion doesn't seem favorable.

Instead, I would offer you some friendly advice: since you have such strong views, I encourage you to write down your political predictions (what you think the new admin will do; what you think will happen as a result; how you think other parties will react, and how those reactions will play out...whatever you think is valuable).

File these predictions away and revisit them at some future date. Keep score!

What did you get right? What did you get wrong? When you get things right, were you right for the reasons you expected to be right, or did you get lucky?

When you get things wrong, was it because you had bad information? Faulty reasoning? Unexpected left-field development not reasonably foreseeable?

Doing this exercise will only serve to sharpen your mind and your understanding!
Thanks, this is really helpful.

Regarding jumping back/forward, I didn't describe it super well. Here's the official description [1]:

> Jump Back and Jump Forward - Jump Back allows you to go to previous editing positions. This goes hand in hand with Goto Definition: you can now inspect a symbol definition, and quickly jump back to where you were previously. Jump Back is bound to ^Minus by default.

[1]: https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-bet...
note to myself: otoh, paying a fee for the effort to run a course is most reasonable if the value added comes in form of a book to keep. Actually that's what I am missing in those courses, where instructors don't provide even scripts.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13445597
I used to play Flight Simulator on the Apple II and it ran at about 4fps, and it was a blast.
You could start by 'educating' scientists like Richard Lindzen, William Happer, Judith Curry and Ivar Giaever. Would the population act differently if they rose to these folks' intellectual level?
try Windows Firewall Control www.binisoft.org/wfc.php
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I vaguely remember something about making the sites available through ipfs. What was that like and what came of it?
You very clearly didn't read the actual linked comment.

> github throws away all the relevant information, like having even a valid email address for the person asking me to pull.

Github explicit decided to eschew valid email addresses: https://help.github.com/articles/keeping-your-email-address-...

He explains in a later comment: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599...

> real explanation, proper email addresses, proper shortlog, and proper diffstat.

> no sane word-wrap of the long description you type: github commit messages tend to be (if they have any description at all) one long unreadable line.

I don't know if github supports editing like that but by default it does one long line.

Related pain point: when I want to type out something in a fenced code block, it's a pain to have to switch back and forth. I do wish the editor forced a monospace font.
He probably just loves both of them to death. Either that or perhaps they are investors.
They make plenty of money on ticket sales. Just not much profit on tickets. They still rely on getting the ticket sales money on order to buy the rights to show movies and keep the lights on. They can't just give that up.
Great. Azerbaijan will do as we want. That's gotta be worth at least $50 to GDP, right?

I'm being snarky, but what is that X-factor actually worth? And should we then factor in all the people who will hate the USA and do their damnedest to maim & kill Americans?

I don't have numbers, but this doesn't seem like a winning argument.
While that proof is amusing I was hoping for... an actual proof that I can give to a verifier. Ah well. A hundred or so lines of comments is probably right.

Still this looks to be some impressive work and I did enjoy this post.
I have the same experience. My friends had weekly weekend game nights where we played Wii Sports until the early hours of the next morning. I had my own Wiimote that I took with me and I didn't even own a Wii at the time.
After reading the topmost info I still don't know if this only runs in the browser, on the server or both. I don't know how data is stored, how nodes sync, what protocol it uses, what storage engine it uses, etc. The main page has paragraphs of text that tell me nothing.
OP, how/why did you stumble across this?
back door

ˈˌbak ˈdô(ə)r/

noun

noun: backdoor

1. the door or entrance at the back of a building.

2. a feature or defect of a computer system that allows surreptitious unauthorized access to data.

Seems like a backdoor to me. The reality is that the way it is implemented allows a foreign government to see messages it is not supposed to see...and that is a defect. I thank the Guardian for taking the lead on this and bring this issue to light.
how so? Are Gentoo apps containerized or isolated from each other in some way?

As someone seriously dissatisfied with my existing setup (6 year old Ubuntu install that is now a complete mess), I'm shopping for an insanity-free way of managing my desktop. Currently looking into:

- Minimal host with containerized apps (this post).

- Nix or Guix (need to read up on this)

- Some arch-based setup

- Gentoo

- Very ambitious that I don't have time for: my own setup of some kind (based on LFS as a starting point).
Thanks for being receptive. My original recommendation is all I have right now.

>maybe the wording should be "Investors and Backers" rather than "Trusted By"
Source on facebook firing snoopers?
Nobody said that. OP said that he wishes google would penalize sites with paywalls, but that has nothing to do with sites getting paid for their work.

There are many ways to get paid for your work without using a bait-and-switch method where you show google a different page than the one you are showing to your users.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13445555
Exactly this. Big names want big money which small businnes don't have and small businnes already got burned badly by fresh internet startups last time around.

Also, few bigs target small business because, let's be honest, they're a pain to work with at scale, each one of them brings variations to the base product flavor but no budget to implement them.

Hence, loads of them run off custom excel sheets.

I once proposed to have a sort of web excel with security controls and a way to let authenticated guests to work on a subset of cells as a way to move small businness online leaving control to them of their process implementation but couldn't find a sponsor.
Only if you assume nothing else has changed meanwhile (e.g. CO2 levels).
Compare Trump’s promises to policy changes in the first 100 days
This will be the big showdown between Nintendo's internal worldview (and marketing), vs. the public perception.

Nintendo insists and markets the Switch as a home console, but there is a real danger that people will perceive it as a quasi-portable (as long as you're not too far away from the charger). This is further muddied by the 3DS line, a still-thriving mobile product which, despite having aging innards, has gone through a few facelifts and is still selling copies because its best-in-class library of coveted games.

It remains to be seen whether Nintendo will keep misunderstanding its market, or actually produce a hit this time.
I dont click download links until I understand what the product is. It's disappointing to spend time learning about a product and THEN finding out I can't use it. It should be front and center, or have a logo big enough that a quick full length page scroll will show at an instant the platforms available without having to read.

https://obsproject.com/ clearly shows it is cross platform.

https://adium.im/about/ clearly shows that it is not.
Sage has repeatedly engaged in disruptive practices that hurt an employer of mine, and I recommend that everyone stay far away from them. Sage only cares about their fiscal year end results, and will discontinue and/or renew support for software as many times as they feel is profitable; you are at the mercy of their whims.
I taught myself HTML from a children's book(!) and Geocities hosted my first amateur website; I miss it still. I liked that there was an option for hand-coding your HTML rather than use a website builder, an option most free hosts don't now have. I am very grateful for Neocities!
I had the same doubt, but on reflection I'm not sure how implausible it is. The article does say "fabricated", but I'm not sure that means the data was generated by sitting at Excel going "0.6 sounds nice!"

When data falsification comes out, these numerically small "four of six" cases don't usually seem to represent total invention. (Some larger cases, like one of the social psych studies that tanked a few years ago, do appear to involve making up hundreds of data points from scratch.) Rather, someone drops data, or reruns an experiment a few times, or 'adjusts' a number "based on their judgement". Normally you wouldn't call it fabrication, but sometimes people do that aggressively enough to get completely-baseless results off real experiments.

In that case, I can honestly see someone (perhaps short on judgement overall) suddenly realizing that something was fraud. There's a note that German talked to some people and concluded that what happened was "grave misconduct". Infamously, Millikan 'tweaked' a lot of the data for his oil drop experiment, but got results so stunningly accurate that it's hard to criticize his chosen methods. If you think you're seeing that, I guess it could be a moment of realization that you're actually seeing fraud.

Obviously there's not enough information to distinguish here, and no one comes out looking pretty. But that's the best justification I could come up with for 'realizing' an ethical issue had occurred.
I do agree that the choice of a narrower font for emphasized terms has the opposite effect from what is intended.
>You also need a penalty for accepting a ride and never actually showing up.

A legitimately competitive market would solve that quickly.
I was a bit disappointed with Nintendo with the games for the Wii. The initial Wii Sports was not that great (though super cool for a motion controlled game of that time), but it was superseded by the much better Wii Sports Resort (which didn't have the same lineup and missed classics like Tennis). Nintendo could've made an even better successor on that front. The Wii Fit was succeeded by the improved Wii Fit Plus, but it too needed a better successor and a much better user experience for a fitness game. There was so much more that could've been done just in these games, but Nintendo just moved on to Wii U. In the reviews I read on the Wii U games of the same kind, it didn't seem like a vast improvement.
If anything it just worsens the climate faster than the current rate. Climate is going down regardless of who is in power.
Doctors need to be salaried, rather than paid per procedure.
Same here. uBlock Origin works nice to remove the nags, but some sites just recreate them automatically using random identifiers so that they keep throwing the nagscreens at you at each page reload.
Maybe it's time to put those recent AI wonders to some real useful work, say an embedded hardware proxy or an extension that recognizes and deletes nagware on the fly.
Sorry if I misunderstood, I thought it was implied that you were defending the racists from earlier in the conversation.
I seem to recall the GameCube sales being solid outside America, where Microsoft was buying its way into he market.
That's even more depressing than I realized, and further proves my point.
Yeah sorry, I should have phrased that as "a well-designed web UI". It's certainly not impossible to create a modern web UI which works well with screen readers.
> a strange claim that war caused unemployment

Not really. From the article:

> Chinese billionaire and Alibaba founder Jack Ma believes that improper distribution of funds and hyper inflated US military spending, not globalization or other countries “stealing” US jobs, is behind the economic decline in America.

So the claim is that wiser spending would have resulted a better US economy, to which nojvek's comment seems germane to me.
Yes, remember how we stopped the Iraq war? Oh wait....

http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly050525a.htm

What you're recommending is a way to feel good without achieving anything. Nobody in power gives a shit about protests unless they become overwhelmingly large and people are willing to die en masse.

Also, we are not the world's first experiment in self-governance. that's a bedtime story for people who don't read history books.
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Easter egg time:

https://neocities.org/SiliconValley/Peaks/2790/

Works for any Geocities neighborhoods.

Jason Scott (@textfiles) gave me the idea when I was at the Internet Archive.
Some people are allergic to vaccines. That's a real story, too. But none of us have any trouble seeing the problem if The Guardian runs an RFK Jr. story saying "Vaccines Might Kill You".
That is one way of acting for extrovert people. I think it's a lot more common in North America than in Europe. There's something cultural at play here.
C has else and if, not elif.

I'm actually curious why in Python "else if" is a syntax error.
Socket options SO_REUSEADDR and SO_REUSEPORT, how do they differ?