skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not stupid, irrational. Even people who know better get addicted to gambling because it seems to hook in to some sort of primal instinct for some.
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It only takes one decent hit on a slot machine to change your tune.
I actually spat my drink out through my nose while reading this
My immediate thought on looking at the article and its opening picture was "Wow that so wouldn't fly in the USA these days."

I do find myself curious - did the Ku Klux Klan in the USA (first half of the 20th century) adopt burning crosses because of their anti-Catholic stance along with everything else they were against?
I highly, highly recommend Thomas Mann -- The Oxford Guide to Library Research.

There are all kinds of cool reference works out there. And Mann has a striking criticism of the impoverished, dumbed-down search interface that's ubiquitous now: the search box.
Sites that cared about "above the fold" were part of the problem, not part of the solution. The primary reason one would be actively interested in putting content "above the fold" was if one wanted to "capture audience", which is generally not the first thing on the mind of a person posting deep information as a labour of love.
What happens to your used oil filters
Do you not worry about unfit-for-sale goods? Getting a replacement means waiting those 5-6 weeks and often incurs return expense. Unless your margin is high enough that you can afford to buy extras for that purpose?
Remember that all such plans have been tried in our lifetimes alone.

Someone can easily run a campaign against such a system
By saying it’s anti competition, or drives complacency.

In a meta sense you are almost always fighting against the current local equilibrium.

You will always need someone to inspect and call out BS behavior.

This means good policing and investigating and reporting.
A flexible HTTP router written in Go
> TorMoil, as the flaw has been dubbed by its discoverer, is triggered when users click on links that begin with file:// rather than the more common https:// and http:// address prefixes. When the Tor browser for macOS and Linux is in the process of opening such an address, "the operating system may directly connect to the remote host, bypassing Tor Browser," according to a brief blog post published Tuesday by We Are Segment, the security firm that privately reported the bug to Tor developers.

Oh, well ... This is basically the same vulnerability exploited by the FBI's NIT. And this is the key aspect ...

> ... "the operating system may directly connect to the remote host, bypassing Tor Browser," ...

Well, in any sort of secure Tor implementation, such a thing should be impossible. The Tor client should be running in a router or gateway VM, and the machine used for browsing should not even have a public IP address. That's easy to manage with Whonix.

I've badgered Tor Project about this for years. And they've ignored me. Their mantra has been about keeping things simple, so more people will use Tor.

Damn.

Edit: They've plugged this leak, but the fundamental weakness remains. Tor Browser doesn't even block non-Tor connectivity with firewall rules. Even VPN clients block non-VPN connectivity.
There are no jungles around where I live. Just forests. And they all belong to the government.

My grad parents tried living off their land, but during a time when the government raised the taxes to impossible levels they couldn’t pay and the government came down on them - hard. They lost it all but survived. Others weren’t so lucky.
YouTube is also incredible for educational stuff. There's very pop science, pop science, hard science, and then things like hundreds of lectures from Leonard Susskind on everything from classical mechanics to the latest happenings in string theory/m-theory.

Phenomenal stuff, but it seems like the things that most places (universities in particular) are still holding out on are things like problem sets. Hard to know how little you know until you have materials challenging your depth of understanding. Watching a lecture without doing associated problems is like trying to learn to play basketball without touching a basketball.
If you're so inclined you can buy a slot machine program and save yourself a ton of money. As WOPR said in War Games: "The only winning move is not to play."

But if you'd still like to gamble just to gamble there's a hilariously dated set of books by John Scarne you may want to read. Try Scarne on Dice or Scarne's Complete Guide to Gambling. He does a decent job of explaining the rules to then common casino games including a layman's introduction to probability and payouts. The most entertaining part of the books is his language: he writes in the same dialogue used by gangsters in 40s movies.

The books can be found on the cheap in garage sales or at Half Price Books.
Of course. ;) I elaborated on harmonic mutations in a paper here: http://dahart.com/paper/hart_evomusart_2007_paper.pdf and there's a gallery of images on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/biv4b/albums/576553
I was pretty surprised to see a BBC article link to power poses with no mention of the controversy and retractions. This seems like something a basic fact check should have picked up.
I am assuming you are referring to Prezi. I agree that Prezi is one of the worst presentation software out there. Both presenting, viewing, and creating one of those presentations is the worst.
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"it was largely a collection of websites made by people who were interested in some subject enough to write about it and put it online. "

Oh,you mean like blogs?

Seriously, this sounds like being nostalgic for it's own sake. I fail to see how using dreamweaver and ftp is somehow better then using Wordpress and the cloud, writing your own html as a prerequisite to having a website was never a good idea - now everyone can have their own website.

I really don't miss the "glorious 90's" type of websites - with the thousand of animated images, weird background images and marquee everywhere. Sure it made every site unique - every site was terrible to the eyes in it's own special way.

Also the idea that all sites now look the same is quite preposterous - sure a lot of sites are cookiecutter websites - especially marketing websites, but there are tons of unique designs - especially for blogs and personal websites.
That would be interesting - a search engine that was resistant to most SEO techniques and allowed one to find these types of sites. Would be a great alternative to Google sometimes.
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Here's a live version in the mean time

https://codepen.io/bennettfeely/pen/tfbCo
This is what I wrote years ago in this blog
http://productionjava.blogspot.sg/2014/07/the-broken-web.htm...
and I have been working since then to fix it.
> I really don't like dealing with customer service

Most online retailers (including Amazon) require zero interaction with customer service to return something. Some clothing stores actually send retail labels in the package itself.

> On larger problems, I would issue a chargeback

> One chargeback wiped out the profits from 100 successful sales

It's really wrong to issue a chargeback when the seller is willing to work something out, and it seems like you were bitten by the same type of behavior.
>Nowadays, anyone with a basic understanding of search engines can find almost anything they want within seconds.

But now I'm less likely to find stuff that I didn't know existed and don't quite have a name for. This kind of stuff was/is usually discovered by following hyperlinks. But I'm not sure why I have this experience less often.
Anand Keswani Leads Retail Direct Towards Excellence in E-commerce
I don’t know of any place without taxes, do you? Through force, governments carved up the planet and each became a local monopoly in its own region.

Totally unlike a club, where you have the benefit of choice. Free market vs monopoly, you know.
I started to work on something like it. With intention of filtering-out ad-serving websites first (thanks to EasyList filtering rules) and heavy-JS second. I'm glad that someone already did something like this.

Is there some more information about it? I found that it is done by https://www.wireservice.ca
Is there a technical info?

I was wondering how big the index is. Because it may be just possible to serve the multi-gigabyte index with torrent. Then the update mechanism would serve only deltas. It could be then used locally. However index would probably have to be without content - so no snippets. I don't know if it would be useful that way.

It could use a comparison site. Side by side with Google for the same search. I would certainly want to use it this way for a while.

I think this is the way for the alternative search engine to somewhat succeed. Because I think it's almost impossible to compete with Google at being Google. Look at how Bing manages.
It just means assigning value and ownership to the results of socially valuable work. What is so evil about that?

Nothing at all. That's how Canonical built a billion dollar corporation building on and releasing, for free, open source code. That's why Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc all release huge amounts of their code openly and for free. There's no reason to believe you can't make amazing open code and generate huge profits too.

Free Open Source fanatics like the GNU people are stuck in the stone age and do the profession of software development a disservice.

GNU gave us the GPL and LGPL, which, combined with the rise of the internet for distribution, was fundamental in changing the way applications are built using other people's code. Those "fanatics" made every developer's lives immeasurably better. Even if you don't like the code they produce themselves you still have a lot to be grateful for.
The Surprising Revolt at the Most Liberal College in the Country
Edge caching is not MITM and it's not helpful to pretend that it is.

MITM is a form of attack. Edge caching is simply a form of distributed architecture.

The typical objection to edge caching HTTPS is that it requires giving your private key to a 3rd party. Well if you're hosting in the cloud, who do you think has your private key at the origin?
> Oh,you mean like blogs?

Yes, but before they all looked the same and were hosted on the same platform.

I miss the days where you would encounter a blog filled with great content and with a unique look and feel. It's as if it almost burned in in my memory. I still remember how the website looked of some great articles that resonated with me.

That's one of the reasons I dislike Medium et al.
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That's the randomness of what gets attention here. Many good stories fall through the cracks or need multiple submissions before they catch.

We try to mitigate this by looking through the stories that didn't get attention and re-upping the good ones (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and links back from there) and/or inviting reposts.
You guess wrong. My country is crappy run by a corrupt, inept government. My tax money have the worst ROI of all my spendings.

Have you actually tried to change citizenship? I did it once (and then back). It is a long, gruesome process where you change a monopoly with another. It takes years and it's not always an option. Try giving this "advice" to the people of Cuba, Venezuela or N Korea.
Great quote from this one:

> What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism, all else is publicity.

> Paul Fussell
What Constitutes a Good Technical Project Manager?
Getting there faster is one of the best ways to reduce the amount of radiation absorbed. Nuclear power is needed for faster rockets and powerful magnets; safe and reliable access to LEO is the first step to getting reactors in space.
Please don't post flamewar comments to HN. We ban accounts that do this repeatedly (and have had to ask you this before), so would you please re-read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow it from now on?
What the... where did this idea of injecting hydrolyzed fullerenes come from? Fantastic that it works, but coming up with the idea in the first place sounds completely bonkers (in a good way).
Well at least for me, I'll wait for a non JS endpoint before trying some of this…
High Interaction Honeypots with Sysdig and Falco
Sapiens: Changing the way you think
After a long time, I came across a book which keeps me gripped to the seat at all times and makes think each and every event that is mentioned in the book.
The book brought about a change in the way I think, the way I look at things and definitely is one of the worthwhile books I've ever come across.
uh huh...

https://wiby.me/?q=hamster
From 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10012360, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10555319.

And there was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10552626 as well.
its in the middle of the video, there is no split, It can only drive tracks it was trained on, and only after manually intervening and teaching it special cases (recovering from getting stuck)
Speak for yourself. Raising children is a nightmare.

(Tho worth it)
I feel like Qwant works much better in french than english.
True. They did the same in other technical subjects(UberPool and travelling salesman), so this is probably a repeating theme for them. And in the same episode, they didn't even do a survey of similar startups solving the same problem(which carries big implications on market structure), so it's not just a matter of technical subjects.
Grains aren't pollinated by insects though.

And domestic bees are brought in hives to many crops that are.
This is getting boring. People are writing left and right about each new app/social media site they can find. But the fact is: Rumor mongering has existed since the first human could talk.

There were Hoax messages even during the email era. Surely, there are(were) politicians mining the email data to send messages to their prospective voters and surely there were people who were spreading hoaxes about 9/11 or the Kennedy assassination.

The only thing which has changed is the ease of data collection and fine tuning of these targeted hoaxes. But, unless Whatsapp is providing some sort of targeted data for people to send hoax, this article is nonsensical.

India for example, had issues with mass messaging and rumors. There was a ban on mass messaging in 2012, way before all of this became such a big issues, because precisely this issue:

https://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2012/08/17/indian-bans-m...

https://www.medianama.com/2012/08/223-india-sms-ban/

Interestingly, found this old article from techcrunch:

https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/23/indias-sms-hoax-panic-coul...

It says:

> Pulling something like this off isn’t easy — otherwise those quit Facebook day protests would have worked. The conditions have to be right.
Probably not.

Apple routinely adjusts their pricing based on the strength or weakness of the dollar.

On the quarterly conference call with analysts, Apple talks about their hedging programs against exchange rate fluctuations.
"Critical Tor flaw leaks users’ real IP address"

This is not a problem with Tor: this is a problem with the Tor Browser (and even then, only on macOS and Linux: users on Windows are not affected)... I'd recommend changing the title as this otherwise sounds like some extremely concerning flaw in the platform itself, which this attack is not targeting.
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If anyone is wondering how the attack works, here's a guess:

file://../../dev/tcp/74.125.225.19/80

That would also explain why it works on 'nix but not windows.

(This is probably mistaken, but the attack might be something along those lines.)

Hmm... Anyone have a link to the hotfix diff? We could just look rather than guess.
Last year I made some minor changes to my blogging engine [1] to support gopher, so now my blog [2] is also available via gopher [3]. The source code to the gopher server is online [4].

[1] https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog

[2] http://boston.conman.org/

[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/

[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Gopher:Src:
Have you voted? How much did your vote count? Did you run for office? How much change did you manage to bring?

In a company you can also buy shares, vote at board meeting or get a job in and change it from the inside.

But that is not the freedom of choice I am talking about. That is a fake choice since it is too difficult, requiring you to change your entire life.

What I am talking about is the simple choice of free market: choosing who to give your money and for what services.

I do not intend to give up the government services, I just want to be able to transparently select the provider and not have to buy them in bulk, bundled together.
So are kindergartens. Kids are dirty and get their saliva and snot on pretty much everything.

Do we do the same thing?
While i deeply love redis and have used this exact article in the past to build an autocomplete— I’d really not recommend it to anyone. Using something like elastic search provides much better and robust results.

Yes it’s more work to setup but the maintenance and tweaking will be waaaay easier and more timely in the long run.
Can we please put [2010] in the title?
A particular quirk of British people is that we're very bad at stopping things that are considered traditions. We carry on with them long past the time they were relevant, maybe because none of us wants to be the one to question them. I doubt there's any anti-Catholic feeling in Lewes at all, but a lot of people who go along with burning an effigy of the pope because that's what they've always done.

As a more obvious example, Lewes bonfire society only agreed to stop blacking up for Nov. 5th this year. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/nov/05/lewes-b...
The thing is, Google improves its results THANKS to its privacy invasion.

To understand "poe" as path of exile, it helps to know that you at least once searched for path of exile. After it has seen a few hundreds users do that, it will make the connection.

To know that "poe shavs" refers to the game and not Edgar Alan Poe, it probably had to provide a link to a relevant author's name and to the game's page and watch which links people would more likely click.

There is a chicken and egg here. People want a search engine that can read their minds without invading their privacy, that's a hard problem.
There are almost too many to mention, but @antirez, of redis-fame, is definitely one of the more interesting and younger programmers.
> search engines like Google have been optimising more and more for the former content, making it harder to find the latter

To emphasize this point, just the other day my 4-year-old asked me "how do seeds inside tomatoes grow?" The answer to such a simple question cannot be found in either DDG or Google because there are literally thousands of sites in this search that helpfully tell you how to grow tomatoes from seeds - the obvious search engine optimization to look for anything with "tomatoes", "seeds" and "grow" being definitely wrong in this case.
This is extremely nice. "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" and "Envisioning Information" are, IMHO, masterworks.
> A number of folks were upset by our decision to work on Eve in lieu of Light Table, but in reality, we were working on Eve to finally arrive at the LT we always hoped to have.

I must admit I was one of those upset that they "left" light table. Thank you for sharing the link to Eve
Filtering by page language would be useful. Half of my results for a search query of a scientific term were the Wikipedia pages in other languages.
More would- if it was publicly visible how much effort they put behind there dreams..
In case someone wants to check out the progress on AutoML, the project in question, Google had posted an update:

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/11/automl-for-large-sca...
I don't think it matters where they are hosted, but I think it's disingenuous to say that all blogs look the same.

Sure everything on medium looks the same, but there are many many blogs not on medium.

Here, just after a simple search, a list of personal websites/blogs that look nothing alike:

https://www.themuse.com/advice/the-35-best-personal-websites...
This is perfect. Thank you!
Show HN: A beautiful webapp to fetch DNS records
Disclaimer: I design the machines and games for a living.

1) regarding near miss, with basic math knowledge you can easily calculate the odds of near miss. Eg. with 2 special symbols per 30 symbol reel, for a 3x5 reel game, you have a 1:5 chance of seeing the special symbol per reel, or once per spin for a 5 reel game. The odds of a 4 symbol near miss is (1:5)^4, which is 1:625, or once every 30 minutes. With a bank of 30 machines, someone will have near miss fanfare every minute. If a bigger win is (1:5)^5, that is 1:3125 spins, or every 150 minutes per machine. That same 30 EGM bank will be paying out a large win every 5 minutes, ie. just short enough for every player on the bank to realise that the machines are “hot”. Its not planned, it just works out that way.

2) when it comes to addiction, if the stats the media are stating is correct, every 6th employee in the industry would also be addicted (using the definition of addiction used from chemical substance abuse). Since there is no measurable difference in addiction levels for employees (who spend 40hrs per week interacting with slots) and players who spend less time, the addiction argument looses its basis.

3) games adjusting payouts based on the outcome of previous games are illegal. The industry is heavily regulated (independant compliance agencies), and no operator wants to lose their license doing illegal things.

4) people have a natural tendency to arrange items, from socks and underwear in drawers, to payout symbols on the screen. There is a natural high people get when they complete a sorting job. I’ve worked with 3 big slot companies, and none of them had paid psychologists on call - there is no need.

5) its a voluntery activity. There are lots of people who enjoy the activity, the excitement, the thrill, etc and they’re responsible enough to only wager less than the cost of a theatre ticket. Sometimes they finish the night with more money than they brought in. Its a regulated activity for adults.
That's a good point, and the title ought to be "... Tor browser ...".

Still, for the vast majority of Tor users, Tor is Tor browser. However, most of them use Windows, and weren't affected. So maybe "... OSX/Linux Tor browser ...".
Google for any game, and then check which of the articles doesn't just copy its enture text, images, and score from the stuff on the press server.

If you have access to, say, the bethesda press ftp, and compare the material there to any review of the games, you'll see that over 90% just copy-pasted without writing much themselves.

It's all fake.

Oh, and those that don't copy-paste often still review everything positively, because otherwise they won't get games before release anymore.
I would like to add photo.net and particularly Philip Greenspun's "Travel with Samantha".
Are there any chances to see `gta` tool in open source?
/dev/tcp doesn't exist on the filesystem, only in bash, and only if enabled; some distributions like Debian disable it.