skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> which offer you nothing beneficial

Nicotine can have some benefits; see for instance https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6457772

> are physically addictive on the level of heroin

False. They're a bit above alcohol; heroin is much higher.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rational_scale_to_as...

> and are one of the leading causes of human death.

Correct.
You did nothing to explain how it's more complicated, or inform us of what we're missing, and ended on a draconian fear mongery type comment.

I don't really get how HN can take itself so much more serious than Reddit or Twitter.
Do not put anything on the internet you want read back in a court room. Keep it local.
I think the page was reverted back soon after, because other teams were doing the same thing from the university IP and there was a temporary blanket hold on edits from our IP when Wikipedia editors noticed what was going on.
> What does "last mile ISP" mean here?

It means you control a physical data wire that goes into more than a thousand residential buildings.

> DSL is no longer competitive, and most implementations of cable and fiber have no separation between "infrastructure provider" and "bandwidth provider".

You're the last mile ISP if you're the infrastructure provider regardless of whether you're also the bandwidth provider.

> What if their central office isn't connected to anyone else directly, because they get all their bandwidth and peering from one or more of the major backbones? Presumably they can say "go to those backbones", rather than having to start making peering arrangements with individual services.

Outside of megaplayers like Netflix and Google who are effectively Tier 1 networks unto themselves, the backbones and CDNs are the people who use the free peering. Some website like Yelp or Expedia doesn't want to peer with ISPs or run a CDN, they want to pay Akamai et al to take care of that.

> What if their central office doesn't have an "across the street" where you can put servers?

You can put them wherever you want to. Nobody stops you from putting all your servers for the whole world in one city, or having regional hubs, or doing whatever you want. That's your network, not the last mile ISP's. Level 3 can run fiber from an office 200 miles away if they think that's worth it over buying closer office space.

> Or what if they don't have a "central office", period?

Then where do they normally peer with other networks or operate CDN hardware?
Some of these were neat, some were really stupid.

"What do you learn the definition of on page 21 of the 2011/2012 Official Rules of the NBA" was "legal goal" really? It doesn't say that anywhere on the page. "legal field goal" didn't work, "Scoring and Timing" didn't work (the header of the page). None of the other definitions on Page 21 worked, there's a few. The only mention of "legal goal" is in the Index where it points to page 21.
I think this is the answer to a lot of ills today.

Suppressing trolls/stupidity is hard... because naturally and organically, things easy to digest (as trolling text/stupid text usually is) rise to the top because they get more viewership and more upvotes.

I think if we employ NLP tools to distinguish stupid text from informed text (i.e. very simple statements, vs language with constructs that indicate a process of reasoning), and then use this methodology for sorting, we promote an environment of more considered communication.

Because really, a more fundamental problem is discovery of good content for everyone... we here at HN, for the most part, have good heuristics to distinguish superficial/well-substantiated. What about those who don't? Those who are young and never got a chance to discover and learn these abilities on their own?

By using this API to sort non-stupid language to be at the top to expose texts that are well-reasoned to more and more people, we have a populace more predisposed to thinking more legibly.

If you have a site that allows comments, consider using this API!
>This is not to mention the circumstantial evidence, like republican operatives explaining their long term goal is disenfranchisement

I am curious, can provide a citation for your comment? I have heard this claim (or something similar) before but have never seen hard evidence.
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This is a serious failure of my city, I really wish people started doing the right thing around here.
Good point regarding population-prorated numbers, however BRA calls the totals 'statistics' nevertheless: https://www.bra.se/bra/bra-in-english/home/crime-and-statist...
Working at a big company = more pay, better benefits, no "unlimited vacation" nonsense, better hours, stock that isn't Monopoly money and that you don't have to pay for, and often a better environment (much less likely to have "office music", distracting dogs, people making noise, "totally not mandatory" alcohol events, etc.).
I find it a bit counterintuitive. After all, the natural timescale for planetary dynamics should be the orbital period --- i.e., a few years. So one might think that if the system is unstable, it will dissociate within a few years. If it doesn't do that, then it should be stable for all time. But instead the next system takes 10 years to fall apart. And the next one takes 100 years, and then 1000 years, and so on. And eventually these systems (whose natural timescales are still years) take billions of years to fall apart.

You would think that if it is unstable, then it should reorganize itself into a system that is stable for all time. It's a little bit odd that every time the system reorganizes itself, it is only a little more stable than it was when it started. Somehow, planetary systems are always just sort of end up teetering on the edge of stability.
That shouldn't be relevant to this bug, though.
Well, of course it is. Who would name a fruit after a colour?

It only seems surprising because the colour is more mentally salient, so there's a cognitive bias toward assuming it's the original (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic).

By the way, "pink" is also named after a plant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_%28flower%29).
Pretty sure they're not affected by this thing - it was just http proxy rewriting logic.

(having said that - you may as well rely on us for MX records if all the delivery is coming to us - our DNS infrastructure is more widely distributed than basically anything else for exactly that reason)
I agree, except that when people say "set theory" today, referring to formal set theory, they mean ZF by default, whereas when they say "type theory" it's unclear which type theory they mean. This alone suggests that type theory (or theories, rather) may not be ready for pedagogical use just yet.
Possible that it was in internal limbo for a while, and that the decision to release it as a community project actually may bring it back to life, even among Google staff.

(Never worked in Google, but it may be easier for interested employees to contribute to external open-source projects than internal projects with no resource allocation.)
If Trump also continues with his plan to deregulate as well, I'm of the opinion that this is great news. This could make Google Fiber and other similar undertakings much more viable. It always gives me the hibby-jeebies when government takes strong control over an industry. This is especially true in the case of the FCC where their original mandate went from regulating airwaves, to regulating the content of said airwaves.
Both images are in both files. The only difference is the part of the file (where Google put the collision) which switches the image shown.
Exactly, it looks that the cleaning people up to now only looked for the most obvious matches (just searching for the Cloudflare unique strings). There's surely more where "only" the user data are leaked and are still in the caches.
I think IBM is in the game next to Azure with BlueMix. I've heard some talks about how they plan to get in the ring with Amazon and if it is not only smoke and mirrors they might succeed.
That's just like consensus processes in humans!
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Vendor? Sounds too good to be true.
> Changing it would require a constitutional amendment.

That's a matter of opinion. "Settled legal doctrine" changes all the time. Every administration advances their own agendas by changing the context and arguments or straight up defying a prior decisions. Stating a "my best guess is it needs an amendament" is the only thing that can be said. This is not the same as saying "can't happen without an amendment".
What is annoying is Amazon pays non-US affiliates only by gift card or by check. Direct deposit is only for US affiliates, which is nonsense. I earn commissions from my web application http://www.jeviz.com .
The Google voice stuff is really impressive. It also holds context between queries. One of the things I've asked it that I think was most impressive, I was watching Archer and recognized a voice

"Ok, Google, who's the voice actor for Rip Riley on Archer?"

"Patrick Warburton"

"Ok, Google, what else has he been in?"

It then searched for "What has Patrick Warburton been in". Apparently it's the same guy that voiced Joe Swanson on Family Guy and Brock Samson on Venture Bros, that's how I recognized it!
X11R5 is older than I am (and I'm old). Wow.

That would explain it.
I think the case of the 4:1 product at about half the cost but wall less positive reviews also calls in to question how effective Amazon's presentation algorithms are.

A logical solution would be to have their ranked search cherry pick the highest (number and score) reviewed results for focus within a given price category.

However I normally hate their ranked search since it's results normally don't seem relevant to my needs. Thus I tend to manually do that by sorting by price and then eye-ball filtering for quality/look in picture (yeah, I used that as a quick filter for poor quality).

It would be nice if I could instead directly assign weights to different type of metrics and have Amazon present the list according to my score based on perceived importance. They could use the data from that and actual buying outcomes to tune their default filter (that one might better balance high scores on multiple metrics being sorted to the top of the list).
I'm sure if you were at all open to his point, you could really figure it out.
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The legal system is built on intent and purpose, so from a legal sense, such distinction is not trivial but its quite normal. What we as a society might want to avoid is ISP that calls a company and say "Would it not be terrible if you lost access to a third of the population in this country. Pay us now, or we will redirect those users to a competitor."
My game is Daytona USA. My friends and I developed our skills over the course of years, dropping $40 on 40 races as often as we could afford to do it. We played against each other frequently, and against a larger group of maybe a dozen people who we met there. All of us shared the techniques we learned with each other.

Every once in awhile we would run into someone who would beat us. I remember one guy in particular. His driving was better than average, but to us it was basically garbage. Yet he was consistently beating us on the Advanced course. (It was infuriating, because the game would have the players select the course, but would always default to the easiest course selected. He couldn't touch us on Expert and new it, so always chose Advanced.) So I observed him for awhile, and I learned that he was absolutely killing the final curve of the course. I figured out how he was doing it, showed my friend, and we never lost to that guy again.

We were good. We handily beat a rather famous NASCAR driver one morning. His skills didn't translate. One friend left the state for awhile and came back bragging how he won a Daytona USA tournament. We destroyed him by a matter of about ten seconds (then showed him how we were doing it). Everyone who beat us had their techniques analyze and assimilated and never beat us again. And yes, I'm bragging, but my point is, our muscle memory and technique was basically perfect by the end. But we kept playing and it kept being fun.

The game was no longer about technique, or muscle memory. We all had that down. It was now a chess game. We had the same pieces, and we had to decide how and when to use them. The game was no longer trying to hit the turn perfectly. That was a given. The game was to figure out when to pass, whether to take a cheap shot, whether to slow down because someone is drafting and you want a third player who is more aggressive to come and take shots at him, etc. etc. Planning was basically the entire game at that point.

So, while Street Fighter is NOT my game, but I imagine for high level opponents, it's very much a mental game, too.
I find this a very difficult argument to accept, but I appreciate your sharing it.

I believe you are conflating "having a political desire" with "...an implication here that there is some form of organized political desire that you are acting to further.."

If a man loved Nazis in 1938 and blew himself up in Times Square?

Not terrorism. There's no use of stealth in a pre-meditated way to instill fear to enact some political change. It's just some Nazi schmuck blowing himself up.

Apologies if I'm responding to what I think you are saying instead of what you are, but fuck me. There's a huge difference in talking about what people feel and what they do, right? I feel a bunch of damned fool things, Never thought that this was some sort of topic for political debate.
Sigh, that's swinging the pendulum too far the other way friend. Serious public accusations like that only 2 years into her career is a pretty silly way to get popular. If they turn out to be untrue she's unlikely to ever work in the industry again. It makes so little sense that it's easy to give her the benefit of doubt on her original accusations. It's also easy to understand that she may be paranoid of retribution and overreacting about a smear campaign. Or maybe it's true, we're talking about Uber after all.

I'm simply pointing out that her tweet is not enough evidence of fault to start another round of bashing the company as if it is true.
Why bother posting the comment at all if you don't actually want to discuss it?
I remember when Orson Card drew my attention to the "a napron -> an apron" example, because the new rebracketing obscures the fact that "napron" and "napkin" come from the same root.
And it's very well known that there is no news in the Truth, and no truth in the News.
Not did the media force Trump to lie continuously, yet here we are.
I mean, there's about 10 slightly-different versions of `map` (whither `zip`, though?). There's several different mutually-incompatible object systems. It doesn't come with a proper dictionary or set. Multidimensional arrays (well, lists) are treated specially for some reason instead of just being a property that arises from the concept of an indexed container. It's definitely a weird language.
I think if you're starting out in your tech career, the experience of working at a startup is more beneficial career wise then working at a big company. After a couple of years of startup experience, then you can re-evaluate and decide which type of company would best fit.
I'll grant you that there are many high quality answers / discussions at SO. I also have no problem asserting that SO is infested with karma whores. They also have terrible moderation, and chippy pithy users with all manner of unproductive discussion habits. In other words, they suffer the same types of faults as other forums. I'm glad for you that you that you've had a positive experience on SO, obviously some users do; so have I, to the extent that I don't bother engaging in discussion, but rather just use the place to find the answer I want, and then just leave as soon as I am done with my research. As far as the anecdotes in that HN thread I posted earlier go, jfc isn't alone, there are pages of similar anecdotes in the same thread in addition to plenty of similar criticism elsewhere in the internet.
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I find it depends on the game. The Witness was truly challenging and interesting. It really made me think "how do I solve this". I want to play it more.

Things like TF2 and OW are really just re-enforcing muscle memory, and an exercise in "how long can I last all this chaotic audio/visual vomit" (both from the game and juvenile player base).

Pushing near 40, I can understand why people saw them as just noisy distractions when I was a kid: more often than not a video-game is a noisy distraction.

Re-hashes of CoD and other FPS shooters really aren't teaching anything new. It's exercising muscle memory built up 15 years ago playing the first one.
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It's a different usage of the term than the normal case, but it takes advantage of the same vulnerability to length extension. It doesn't necessarily apply to SHA-3 and other sponge functions because there is a difference there between the internal state of the hash function and the actual hash itself. The internal state is much larger than the hash output for a sponge function like SHA-3, which means you can get two messages that have the same hash without having the same internal state, and therefore appending a suffix would mostly likely change that internal state enough to no longer have a hash collision.
Nothing will come of this. Just another hype event. You will get your usual change your password PR emails from a few companies.
keyboard accessible? are most html trees?
I'm not sure how federal deregulations would help cities install more fiber, are there any federal regulations that would impede them? I always thought the issue was more around infrastructure monopolies in each city. Its not like new fiber companies can just lay their own lines down, they need to work through the city to get permission to put new lines in or share existing lines.
To be fair, your initial response was not particularly conducive to continuing the conversation. Why would they choose to respond to someone who is apparently antagonistic?
> He has taken to blatantly and explicitly lying about simple verifiable facts, and doubling down on those lies when challenged.

I'm not saying that's not true (I'm not a Trump supporter), but what sticks out to you as an instance of him doubling down on a lie?

Edit: It's disappointing to be down voted rather than being directly engaged. If you have a beef with what I said, please tell me where I've erred. I would love to change my mind on this topic. This is Hacker News after all, not Reddit.
According to the CNRTL link, in 1877 it was used in the same way we would use the gerund in English, to refer to the action ("signifying the washing of hair") then in 1890 became the word for the product used in that process (shampoo) as well.

That seems to happen from time to time in French, when the gerund also becomes the name of an object involved in the process, as with "le parking".

Sometimes it happens in English too, like "building" and "booking".
Egyptian mummies, especially mummified animals such as cats, were acquired en-masse to be processed into fertilizer. I also do not think it is the ideal use for ancient items.
The problem is there are two sources of spam.

The first is large networks that tolerate spam, and those are irrelevant because their IP blocks are already on every blacklist in the world.

The second is compromised machines, which are the real problem because they're ephemeral. Spammers can compromise a hundred new machines a week. You can't fix them or block them faster than they compromise new ones. The only solution to that is to improve computer security so they don't get compromised to begin with, which has nothing to do with ISPs.

Removing people from the internet is never the answer, both because it's too broad (should the spammers not be able to go to the government's website to pay their taxes?), and because the nominal current source of the spam isn't actually where the spammer connects to the internet anyway.

The better solution if you can actually find a real life spammer is to impose a fine on them that exceeds the profits of spamming.
> So no, the process is not pretty simple and straightforward for a great many applicants.

That read as a snarky criticism of a claim I never made.

The fact that you're supplying isn't really a contradiction of or great addition to anything I said in my narrow comment: I explicitly acknowledged it myself. I wouldn't mind that, but it isn't very nice to accompany it with snark and misrepresentation.
Personally I see no sense in trying to contain discussion on-site rather than here, on Facebook, or reddit etc. People want to discuss things in the community of their choosing. Better to intelligently collate and sort those conversations. I wrote about it here if you're curious:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/13/shouts-and-murmurations/
It was just $20 on the korean battlenet(global key) :) That's where I picked it up while I was on the fence!
Right. Because last I heard Trump just nationalized CNN and had state-controlled oil monopoly buy NYT and replace all previous editorship with his cronies.
Fair enough... if you're schizophrenic and medicated, by all means vape or take nicotine in some form. There is still no real argument for smoking though... it's the worst way to handle something that is already mildly hazardous.

Edit: By the way, for an appreciation of "A bit above alcohol", check out an inpatient alcohol detox clinic sometime... it is no joke at all.
FAKKU: Cloudflare's #Cloudbleed HTTPS Traffic Leak
That is a good one. Here are a few from my 4 yr old:

off-board: as opposite of onboard;

both-turnal: awake in day and night;

sand-boni: Tractor smoothing sand at the beach;
Uber has been the subject of a fair amount of bad press in the past few weeks. I wonder what it would take for a Zenefits-style meltdown to occur there.
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Thank you for injecting some optimism. :-) I'm disappointed and cynical about this.
MaxMind's email to customers in response to Cloudbleed
Dear MaxMind customer,

On February 23, Cloudflare announced a bug that caused certain traffic sent through their servers to leak from memory, potentially exposing sensitive data. MaxMind is a Cloudflare customer and uses their content delivery network for our primary website, GeoIP2 Precision JavaScript service, and GeoIP/GeoLite database download servers.

This means that if you interacted with the MaxMind website, used the GeoIP2 Precision JavaScript API, or downloaded a database from us between September 22, 2016 and February 18, 2017, the associated activity could have leaked and been compromised. This includes usernames and passwords, license keys, and IP addresses for the website and database downloads and referrers and client IPs for the GeoIP2 Precision JavaScript API.

As a precaution, we recommend that you login to your MaxMind account as soon as possible and change your password.

Cloudflare has informed us that they have no evidence that MaxMind data leaked into third-party caches. We also have no evidence that any MaxMind accounts were compromised, and traffic to our minFraud and GeoIP web services was unaffected as these services do not use Cloudflare servers. We are continuing to monitor the situation for any updates.

You can read more about the Cloudflare bug on TechCrunch. Please get in touch with any questions.

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Picking amazon isn't really a fair comparison, It's Amazon, the people behind AWS, the same people who say that "every 100ms of latency costs them 1% of profit." Of course amazon.com and its servers are ultra-optimized to make everything as fast as possible.

A fair comparison would be hacker news with vs hacker news without cloudfare?
Probably worth opening an issue.