skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which could be fine, if we have a society without theft or the house is in a gated community etc. I think that was the point of the grandparent: when do we really need it?
Who are the kiddies who keep stirring him up?
I agree, and I think it is a pity that JavaScript is necessary for a lot of useful functionality which could be standardized to be made available without JavaScript, so people who care can browser the web and their sites in a browser that doesn't support JavaScript and still have a rich experience.
I'm sure if you would be of a differing oppinion if you were a competitor suffering from attempted DDOS attacks, or bashful campaigns. Or if you were just someone who though his product was great going along with it on the promis of getting access only to find out you got lied to.

I guess it's just the case that for every ass-hole out there, there are people who'll stand besides him saying he's a great guy, simply because he's an asshole they know.
> but it doesn't mean you're an asshole if you don't act that way.

No, if you lie to people and tell them you'll give them service in exchange for something, they do the something and then you don't give them service, you are definitely an asshole.

I'm not a fan of the false dichotomy of "you're either a doormat or you go full-blast lying and making fun of your users". He could just have said "If you want to use the service, please pay for it per day" and that would have been that.

> The vast majority of these users were looking for a shady freebie at his expense, gleefully ripping him off

Wanting to access WhatsApp is shady? Then I'm shady all the damn day. Also, how were they ripping him off? They were using the service he provided on the terms he provided it, even jumping through pointless hoops of "Tweet/Follow/spam competitors".

We decry all those shitty "tweet to jump the queue" tactics, but this guy doing it and laughing at his users makes it okay?

> And they did! All these users started following Browserling and tweeting about it. But they still couldn't use Browserling or Whatsapp, it was just a new message in place of "fatal error".

If you don't think this is asshole behaviour, we're never going to agree.
He gets banned whenever he posts because his mental illness is taking over and he can't help but include slurs in his messages. Snowflake mods then usually either delete his posts (like on reddit), shadowban him or just ban his whole account. Which is really a shame because ignoring the slurs, his posts give you a lot of insights into his mind.
Try Terence Tao's Analysis I and II.
Fast programming equals surveilance. Programs must be asserted at some point in op cycle. The point of privacy is not about capturing software device neither parsing software device, it is when to use an external(internet) service.
But (unless it changed since I tried it) WhatsApp Web requires you to have WhatsApp running on a phone already, so as far as I can tell these people must be running WhatsApp on a phone that can run WhatsApp so that they can run WhatsApp in a browser on a phone that can't run WhatsApp.
For those interested in the topic, I can recommend Judith Rich Harris' superb book, The Nurture Assumption[1].

It mostly deals with debunking common views on parent->child effects, but includes some material on birth order effects.

[1] https://jamesclear.com/book-summaries/nurture-assumption
The absolutely worst thing about Virgin, in my opinion is that the passwords on their e-mail accounts are limited to no more than 8 characters. No special characters, no spaces etc.

Form many people control of e-mail represents the final key to their digital kingdom. I'm awaiting the inevitable news story.

Other than that, the service has had about 2 sub-30 minute outages in the last 10 years.
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Ironically these super central London locations are often really badly served as they are all on exchange only lines with no PCP in-between.

BT also has a massive leased line base in these areas they want to maintain.

I agree this is really poor and BT should resolve this ASAP.
Nice tool. Just the title is misleading, it's not Unicode that is broken, it's the encoders/decoders..
The ISOTYPE, data visualization from the 1920s
I recommend dual booting for safer firmware security updates, but it totally works.
"When have you most successfully hacked a non-computer system to your advantage?", which in my mind neatly translates to "what's the most psychopathic thing you've ever done?"

If this is a correct translation, YC would be using it as a no-invest signal more than anything else, given how much the two original founders have talked about the importance of good character and decency in being a successful founder:

http://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/the-social-radar-what-i-...

http://www.paulgraham.com/mean.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html
You should try AAISP. They are very technically savvy and will bully openreach relentlessly to get it fixed. They offer to refund all costs if they can't. They almost certainly can, with time.
> When I was still a catholic I "solved" this by assuming God put souls with more capability to survive hardships in bodies that experience more hardships. Basically the world is a level-scaling MMORPG :)

Interestingly, if you an understand the synthesis of eastern metaphysical concepts such as "maya" (illusion), "karma" (causation) and their logical implications such as reincarnation, you arrive at a similar conclusion -- the world is essentially a game (meant to be enjoyed, a journey, a sport to be reveled in), which scales your instance based on your karma! There's respawning too :)

Choose your own adventure!

Just thought I'd drop a book recommendation here: "The Monk and the Philosopher" - Jean-François Revel and Matthieu Ricard [0]. A much younger, atheist, science-absolutionist (?-haha) me had his mind blown by this text. It made me seriously question my world view (which would be later be shattered by a friend with considerable philosophical talent). I do not currently identify as a Buddhist, and I'm not sure how it would be received now, but it certainly was useful in breaking a certain science-dogma in me.

edit: punctuation, book recommendation

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Monk-Philosopher-Father-Discuss-Meani...
I get that if somebody's partner dies an untimely death it's unkind to simultaneously remove their family income, but 70 years seems like a ridiculously long buffer.
Event Horizon - a wonderful blend of sci-fi and horror.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_(film)
I have Zen Internet. It is a little bit more expensive than competitors such as BT and TalkTalk, but the customer service is so much better! It’s all in-house, run from their office in the U.K.

The Fritzbox! router is fast, reliable, has great WiFi and looks like a spaceship!
Interesting. Here's the output of ftfy.explain_unicode on that text:

U+0031 1 [Nd] DIGIT ONE
U+0020 [Zs] SPACE
U+002E . [Po] FULL STOP
U+0020 [Zs] SPACE
U+6559 教 [Lo] CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6559
U+6703 會 [Lo] CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6703
U+7D44 組 [Lo] CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D44
U+7E54 織 [Lo] CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E54
U+003A : [Po] COLON
U+0020 [Zs] SPACE
U+F081 \uf081 [Co] <unknown>
U+5C0F 小 [Lo] CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C0F
U+6703 會 [Lo] CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6703
U+003A : [Po] COLON
...

The anomalous character is U+F081, a character from the Private Use Area. TextWrangler is allowed to interpret it as whatever it wants, but I don't know why that would mess up all the following characters.

Here's my theory. The text probably started out in the GBK encoding (used in mainland China). GBK has had different versions, which supported slightly different sets of characters. A number of these characters (decreasing as both GBK and Unicode updated) have no corresponding character in Unicode, and the standard thing to do when converting them to Unicode has been to convert them into Private Use characters.

So that probably happened to this one, which may have started as a rare and inconsistently-supported character.

Python's implementation of GBK (or GB18030) doesn't know what it is. So maybe what we need to do is flip through this Chinese technical standard [1], or maybe an older version of it, and track down which codepoint was historically mapped to U+F081 and what it is now and hahaha oh god

[1] https://archive.org/stream/GB18030-2005/GB%2018030-2005#page...
> Data tells the story: on average, if you sell your home within 90 days, you’ll do it at 15% higher than what you bought it for.

There's some selection bias here. Those who got lucky (e.g. they bought the house cheaply) found it easy to sell for a good price quickly. Those who got unlucky and couldn't find a buyer quickly are excluded from the "90 days" window so don't contribute to the statistic.

It might be true that homes sold within 90 days of purchase sold for an average of 15% higher than the purchase price, but it doesn't mean you can expect to sell a home within 90 days of purchasing it for 15% more than you paid.
Yeah, seriously. One could argue that Venezuela is actually worse off without US involvement!
I've been with VM for a few years as well. In many areas they have far and away the best speeds [0], but the service seems to randomly drop every now and then, and the support is hit and miss at best.

In fact, you can tell whether a customer support call is going to be "hit" or "miss" almost instantly. Half the time you get a helpful, competent agent who will confirm that you can take your contract with you as you move home and even looks up whether they can give you a better deal; the other half you get an outsourced agent who tells you that moving house requires signing up to a completely new year-long contract.

The billing also leaves a lot to be desired. At one point I got so angry with them billing me way above the agreed amount that I guessed the CEO's work email and sent him a personal message outlining my frustrations. The issue got solved within a week of doing that!

[0] See for yourself - https://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/broadband_speed_in_m...
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It's not really a defense, but maybe an explanation.

When people spend a lot of time looking at stats, sometimes they become disconnected from the reality behind them.
I agree, switching to BT makes a big difference. With virgin, I rarely got the advertised speed (certainly not on the weekend or evenings), with BT it's stable 24/7 (~60mbit). In addition to that, peering appears much better. Downloading files from US west coast works generally at very good speed, any connections to servers in the US from Virgin Media was often <10mbit.

Apart from downloading backups, I never find myself constrained by 70mbit download speed.
> I don't agree. BT have got to 95% 'superfast' (24mbit+ sec) coverage, with minimal govt funding. It will probably get to 98% coverage.

Is BT still have awful bandwidth limits? Because like 3-4 years ago they capped you at like 300GB and then cut your speed next month or something like that.
Isn't the whole discussion moot though? Mickey Mouse as a character can enter the public domain today and it won't change a thing since it's a trademark held by Disney, and the trademark is valid for as long as the corporation exist, no?
"The Andromeda Strain"

"Collosus: The Forbin Project"
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Yep I was there. But XHTML did not die due to lack of semantics. One of the things it had was namespaces, and people did embed other XML specs in their documents (remember MathML, RDFa?). It was just too complicated for most people, and when AJAX became a hit people flocked to JSON. Remember, AJAX used to stand for Asynchronous Javascript and XML(!) that part got lost in translation somewhere. Besides, with JSON all the semantics are out of band in some (hopefully well written) doc, rather than in a schema or DTD (which used to resolve in band, even). Comparing JSON to HTML in terms of semantics is silly: both have none. But the idea of using hypertext markup for both display and machine readability, that's something that I would still like to see resurrected
>If birth order effects were so very visible and so very strong, why haven't we noticed them before?

I'm not sure where you're from but everyone I know (including a psychologist) sees birth order effects as very real with noticable effect. Have you never seen the stats of first borns being overrepresented in management, for example? Am I misunderstanding what you mean by "haven't noticed them before"?
Nokia sleep will monitor your sleeping and snoring pattern
I guess the problem is that so few people live in the city that it compares for BT to a small village. Businesses usually will have dedicated lines so it's not really worth going after the few people living there (esp as many use it as a second home which shortens average contract duration).
The day I accidentally killed a little boy
DRM is a panacea--quite easy to circumvent. Only the law protects it. It's completely stupid, in other words. A corporate daydream.
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So I'm not the only poor sod who got shafted by Virgin Media... my example is probably even worse...

VM send their surveyor to assess my flat. "It's quite high, but if you manage to drill the holes yourself and get an RG59 coax cable down to the ground level then our team will be able to connect you". (The cabinet is 20 yards from the said touchdown point). I spend money getting contractors to do the walls/roof and buying a long cable.

Long story short, they simply cancel my request. Despite telling me what to do, and what to buy. And their drone just kept repeating on the phone "it was canceled. You can't complain to anyone, there is no other department".

Suffice to say, I'm getting angry even as I write this. Absolutely appalling company. Never buying anything from them, although that 200MBit service had its appeal... they could offer me 2Gbit for free now, I would refuse.

Internet situation in the UK is a very, very sad story... I am thinking of getting a microwave internet for my neighbourhood, but all the info so far points to it being a Sisyphean task
The story was written by a famous screenwriter and the film was produced by his family and friends once he passed away.

I actually liked the acting as well. It's more exaggerated than usual american acting, closer to the theatrical acting.
Capsule Network tutorial with clean readable code in Pytorch
I do something similar to the printing thing.
I send interesting but long articles to Instapaper. Instapaper delivers them to my Kindle where I read the articles in my downtime.
I'm also in London on the edge of Zone 1, so far unable to get FTTC, living in a building not served by Hyperoptic, on a street not served by Virgin Media, in a flat with a poor mobile signal.

This sort of conversation can get a bit depressing.
> In many areas they have far and away the best speeds [0]

As always with cable, that depends on the time of day. I was never able to get anywhere close the maximum speed between 5-10pm Mon-Fri and all-day on weekends. Download speed was great in the early morning but that doesn't help because it's not the time I usually use the internet a lot. I switched back to BT, speed is lower (60-70mbit, although 56mbit were promised) but fairly constant.
Convolutional Neural Network Visualizations
Sincere apologies. I saw "Our mission is to make home buying and selling easier" and jumped to conclusions.
Sgnl – Simply use your fingertip to make your daily life easier
> work done on branches and merges of branches into a trunk should be clearly distinct.

In git these are distinct if the workflow requires the. To be distinct. If the workflow doesn't require forks and merges to be distinct, they don't need to be.
I don't think so. I regularly download >1TByte/month and never got capped.
He exercised options before selling the 900,000 shares, so that his total was a bit more than one million.
Actions on the smartphone:

Insert a 'free' sim card.
Activate it.
Write down the phone number.

Actions on the tablet:

Enable installation of unknown sources.

Download the apk file at https://www.whatsapp.com/android/

Execute the apk file

Use the phone number to activate Whatsapp
Sure, birth order is immutable, but you would gain multiple data points for "intellectual curiosity", which would be the point of the exercise.
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Why did Bazaar fall away? It just seemed like once git came along (more specifically, github) everyone ditched their already existing infrastructure and jumped on git.
True. But if that specific case is dealing in, let's say, URLs, then all of the content should be ASCII - either as a direct character representation, or encoded, again to ASCII.

Never did I see the parent mention "this is sufficient for humans", or just "...for English" - even that would be a naïve assumption (see? ;)).
"Zone 1" is not the same thing as the City -- it has a population probably close to half a million people.
Yeah, I know the saying.

My observation here is that the number of text encodings is generally decreasing, due to the fact that UTF-8 is obviously good. I want wacky encodings to die. But this is just a class of encodings that have existed for decades and that Python missed. Perhaps on the basis that they were non-standard nonsense, but now they're standardized.

It could be argued that web-windows-1252 is the third most common encoding in the world.

If I'm giving directions for how to decode text in this encoding, it currently only works if you've imported ftfy first, even if you don't need ftfy.
> You can look at how much tax you've paid on your payslip, but you never feel like that money was yours in the first place since it never hits your bank.

It is the same in the US - however, if you get a job offer in the US for a given salary - that is a pre-tax number. I believe the grandparent was making the point that in Russia, salary and wages are discussed purely in after-tax terms.
What benefit would there be to doing that? If the functionality remains the same, you've just transferred Turing completeness somewhere else.

I can see the benefit to having languages other than javascript run in the browser, though, but the only way there seems to be WebAssembly.
> Great, these who want to build these things will simply hire people who don't subscribe to this oath ...

How many doctors are willing to give up their title to do unethical stuff?

An ethical code will change people's perception, and that's a big thing. It will morph the perception of Google and Facebook from cool tech companies into dark places where no decent people want to work; unless of course these companies are willing to change. And there will be a huge effect on politics, other businesses, and media.
Yeah but then you have nobody to compare with.
> web pages can load cross origin resources

I know nothing about web technologies, but maybe this is something we should stop doing, at least for any executable resource? This would prevent JS ads I guess, so win/win?

> Second, some risks of this attack (e.g. ASLR bypass) don’t require any data from another origin to be in process to be dangerous.

yes, ASLR seems to be busted.
This is not the first OS without kernel/userspace isolation.
LISP machines for example used virtual memory but not process isolation.

In fact it was a top advertised feature that you could get your hands on any piece of data and code running on the system at any time.
I second that motion picture! After the first time I saw it, it took me hours to fall asleep.
Simple hardware hack to make your PC fast again
Wifi struggles hard in British buildings but the difference between 80/20 and 1gbps is huge: worry free multiple streaming or uploads or anything involving more than one person or even 4k streaming for one person

The upload does matter with everyone uploading videos and high resolution pics plus game streaming. It also helps a ton if you have the odd 200GB genome you need to archive somewhere :)
Do you really think WhatsApp doesn't work on phones like Jio because WhatsApp doesnt has enough capabilitys to support it ? WhatsApp actively blocks phone models that doesn't fit in their needs. WhatsApps first priority is blocking chat-/spambots, because they are only making money with selling access for companies. To enchant the bot detection, the WhatsApp API needs to get more and more complex. If a older or cheaper phone doesn't support the complex API anymore, botblocking is more important than backwards compability. It follows that great tools like the Matrix bridge never will working with WhatsApp.
Just as a note: These cheap Jio phones are not old. They are also not your usual $20 phones. They only work on Reliance Jio. This is unusual because it means they must support LTE and must have a fully IPv6 network stack.
How much does it cost to mint a U.S. quarter?
I found it a bit clunky, personally, but you can't complain too much about free when the alternatives are rather expensive.

The majority of A/B tests I run are not "visual" and based on javascript DOM changes, along with CSS changes. That workflow takes very little time to execute in VWO but wasn't that apparent with Google.
Breaking the embargo at 5pm EST was also coordinated with everyone who had been disclosed early. It wasn't anarchy.
For me, it's VM or nothing. The maximum speed I can get for broadband in my area (South Birmingham) is about 4mbps. But I get 200mbps with Virgin for not much more than the ADSL equivilent.

I _always_ get the advertised speed, and sometimes more.

I've not had any issues with them in 10 years, but it'd be nice to have a bit of competition!
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This data was collected by a project management software tools company.

As such, I suspect most of it is bullshit generated whenever the people who do the actual work decide to key in the minimum amount of info in order to keep the "project management professionals" off their backs.

Monday mornings are a great time to get "boilerplate" work done to satisfy PM's.

When the _actual_ work gets done depends on the individuals, their teams, and the projects.
> Display a heatmap for oft-edited files

I was surprised to see "often" shortened to "oft", i dont see that oft.
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Every time they put the price up, I threaten to leave, and they put it back down again.
That's the premise of one of my favorite, underrated SciFi books, Everyone in Silico[0]. It's also part of the premise of Ready Player One[1].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Silico-Jim-Munroe-2002-11-22...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/0307...
NB: 1958 was 60 years ago, for non-timelords.
Why the personal attacks on this CEO? I don't see anything in this article that merits them.
Once did a couple of Terabytes in a month on BT, didn't have an issue.
Really people didn't like XHTML because they didn't want to close their elements. That's it. And now most web pages don't even parse in an XML parser. What elements are standard and which are not is completely arbitrary, what the browser does with them doesn't really matter either. What matters is that you can extract the data from it, if you know the structure (either by following some standard, or by having out-of-band documentation). In that respect JSON and X(HT)ML are similar, except now you can't scrape web pages with a single GET request from the canonical URI, and instead need to run a fully fledged browser that parses javascript and/or read some site specific JSON docs (if any are provided at all).
Early in my career (it began after a discussion in a tutorial during my undergrad) I made a choice to never to use my engineering skills to build weapons. I don't believe its a morally justifiable choice in this century. It's not like I have been forced to starve as a result but it did reduce a few opportunities.
This has to be the most microcosmic post I've started reading on HN in a while. I just read a blog from 2004 or something. What market does Virgin even serve?