skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run a Reddit post scheduler (https://laterforreddit.com/), and I have noticed a substantial bias towards posting in various adult subreddits.

I suspect in my case that this has a lot to do with how people who are browsing porn use Reddit, versus how people use the rest of the site at large. Most subs moderate posts and discussion actively and have norms (and moderators) that act against posting frequently, cross-posting and self-promotion. On the other hand, most porn subreddits are quite happy to accept x-posts, self promotion, etc, because their goal/approach is to provide more porn faster.

This seems to be an emergent property of Reddit rather than a deliberate strategy, but they seem happy enough to keep the revenue coming (as am I).
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Of course, that's what I meant, unlike at least as many copies of Chromium as electron apps.
> "Classic tactic" for the gov't to target conservatives? You need to provide some real evidence or another example that pans out before making those kind of claims.

In case you didn't notice, that was a repeat of the exact words used in the comment that was being responded to. Unless you're planning to call out the initial comment in the same way, since it actually provided no evidence, whether you think it worthwhile or not, perhaps you should consider why out of the two statements, you felt compelled to respond to the one that actually provided some backing.

It's a little disturbing that I had to vouch for gowld since they were flagged and dead. I may not necessarily agree with them, but voting to oblivion and flagging them does not seem the appropriate response.
I'm loathe to dignify TIOBE with analysis, but even by TIOBE's own numbers C++ has fallen from 15% in 2001-2004, to 10% in 2005-2013, to 5% in 2013-2018. And given that C++ was ranked #2 as early as 1993, even the era of 15% was likely a fall from an earlier height. Compare C, which has held steady since 2001 (with the exception of that huge anomalous dip last year which is being corrected (and which caused C to trigger TIOBE's "language of the year" despite having hugely fallen in TIOBE's own rankings, which helps illustrate how little regard we ought to give TIOBE).
Russian nerge agent Novichok: what does it do?
The people who live at Santana Row generally like it … which isn't surprising since they're affluent enough to live somewhere else if they wanted to. Although it's entirely artificial it is a nice place to live with low crime (private security), decent property maintenance, lots of retail close by, and easy access to major roads.
Of course there is some traffic going between the areas it will connect, my point is that there's not enough to warrant this huge road project.

I don't remember the exact numbers, but out of the heavy truck transports currently clogging up Essingeleden, only 2% (Or was it 0.2?) or less would actually benefit from Förbifarten, because there is very little existing truck traffic going from way south to way north of the city.

> right now I see huge amount of traffic every day on this route.

Yes, but most of that is going to places along that route. So you won't move a meaningful amount of existing traffic, you'll just enable new traffic. That's generally good, growing regions need more infrastructure, but my point is that Förbifarten is the wrong way to spend that money. It's a prestige project at this point.

If you had to spend that money on roads, I would have much rather seen Österleden, because completing the highway ring around Stockholm actually makes sense, there is plenty of traffic from the ports to south of the city, and by making the full ring, that traffic would get a choice of direction around the city depending on time of day and commuting patterns. And this holds true for every trip across opposite ends of the city.
Close, but it's impossible to say whether "3x in 2 yrs" is a win, because portfolios win, not single investments.

Would you take a risk-free 70%/yr return? Of course you would. Every damn time. But you can't know if the investment is risk-free.
> I think this is a clash of use of American-isms. Soda (stand-alone) is sugared soft drink. Soda Water, is usually carbonated water (sugar free, sometimes flavored)

IME, consistently, for my while life in the US, “Soda” (standalone) is (in general use, there are contexts where it means something else) a carbonated and flavored soft drink, whether or not it is sugared, while “soda water” is carbonated water without additional flavor.
It took two wars for Britain to slink back. But Britain is also inherently limited by its size. The US has a rather stronger foundation and unlikely to really go anywhere even if no longer absolutely dominant at some future time.
>> so that the agents get an unpleasant surprise

YOU will get the surprise: if you're a US citizen they cannot deny you entry to the USA but they can make your life miserable by searching and delaying you every single time.

If you're not a US citizen and try to be a "smartass," they have all the power to deny you entry in the USA. No appeals.
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Mustard, mayonnaise, and chile-vinegar sauces like Tabasco or Frank's RedHot are the only sugar-free sauces I can think of at the moment.

Most everything else either has sugar or an artificial sweetener in it--or some back-door sugar, like raisin paste, or fruit juice concentrates.

It is likely because condiments came from preserved foods, and those generally require a high concentration of sugar or salt, or a low pH, in order to avoid spoilage. And some are concentrated from foods that are naturally sweet.

I think the sweetness was always valued in a sauce, and substituting the previous source of the sweetness with corn syrup or HFCS is a more recent trend, to cut costs. So it's the latter: popular sauces were adulterated with sugar.
I am probably wrong, but I've always liked the (fictional, in my head) solution that black holes are these "buried spheres" and that all the problems we have with dark matter and energy are really result of black holes "draining" mass from one "world" to another. In my Sci-fi mind, the big bang is what comes out the other side of a black hole, so, when a black hole forms, it starts draining matter and energy from one universe into another.

Essentially, we'd never be able to see all the mass our theories predict, because we'd never be able to observe all the linked worlds/universes past the event horizons.
> Like it or not, you can't just beat "undesirable" views out of people, either with schools or social media moderation.

You absolutely can. An example: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2012/sep/22...
You are, of course, correct.
Thanks for the response! Typing that paragraph in dvorak definitely felt smoother than qwerty. The tent is a good idea for handling the switch, maybe I'll be a convert yet
Are those reserved instances used for preemptible tasks (transcoding, analytics processing) when not experiencing a business continuity event? Or is just considered a sunk cost?
Shenzhen is much better than Beijing. For us, it was don’t open the window from November to April. When my wife got pregnant, we had no choice but to leave.

Coal is a big problem in the north because of central mandated heating. In the south, coal isn’t a problem because there is no indoor heating at all...you just freeze if you aren’t far enough south.
I don't understand the reference. Why are manhole covers round? I always thought it was to prevent the cover from falling into the hole. Is that not the case?
Looking at the linked PDFs, all the data comes from "China National Environmental Monitoring Center". Should we even trust this as much as we trust the Chinese government's macroeconomic data?
Good to know - as you can see, I don't have a lot of PHP experience.

If anyone knows of a good way to get a PHP process's parent server pid (regardless of what server it's running on), please let me know :)
A hardware pedal for improved text editing in Vim
not mine, but so cool : https://github.com/alevchuk/vim-clutch
Remember the 5th Amendment applies to passwords. No law enforcement officer may EVER compel you to log in to a device with a password / pass code / unlock pattern, for any reason.
Totally off topic, but this thread shows that sarcasm and irony do not always translate that well over the internet. I had a chuckle at the deck and the comments it generated.
If you have any questions, feel free to come ask at /r/rust, where we strive to be moderately less of a shithole than reddit in general. :)
> The reason this is published in an ancillary journal is that it is a polemic that pushes an agenda beyond where the data support.

If this is the case, then it shouldn't be published in any reputable journal outside of a very clearly marked "opinion" or "editorial" column.
I think they are equating "this kind of harassment through scrutiny" as stated specifically in the top level comment.
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And Usenet and email had the solution a decade or two before RSS. The march of progress is in dumbing things down so the average person doesn't have to think, and the intelligent person isn't permitted to think.
Everyone wants a reason to beat up on Comcast - for reasons real or imagined.

Like, its not as if we have a shortage of real reasons to beat up on Comcast - but if our side makes up falsities, or presumes lack of good faith without any evidence - we just lost the moral high ground in the argument.
This is not about Appalachia per se. My recollection is this also occurred in Appalachia. That detail may be inaccurate and is not really terribly important to my point:

http://www.christopherfowler.co.uk/blog/2016/10/15/ps-more-o...

﻿There has been talk about coals being kept in the bath. I know how that story began. In the East End of London, 25 years ago, some well-intentioned people built houses for the working classes and put in baths. The baths were put in the scullery, and had neither a water supply nor a waste pipe. The rents were very high, and the tenants found it necessary to let some of the rooms, and as in those circumstances the fixed bath was found to be more trouble than a portable bath, and as there was no adequate coal cellar, the bath was used as a coal store.

Why give baths to miners? Why give baths to agricultural labourers? They will put coals in the baths.” Why does any woman put coals in the bath? Because she has not been provided with a coal cellar. So long as you are not willing to give her a coal cellar, it is a proper form of protest to go on putting coals in the bath.”
That's not bad for SLA (we have a Form1+ at work and I would happily pay someone else to deal with the mess it makes), but it works out to be very expensive for even moderately sized parts. You can get 10-20c/cm3 of SLS nowadays and the tolerance is great.
I suppose I'm saying that disagreement is just a start when it comes to content like what was brought up. Of course you and I disagree with a suggestion we eliminate a people group. But it's not simply another unit of thought in an objective marketplace of ideas. The Overton window came up a lot in 2016, and I think it's useful both descriptively and prescriptively--certain things should be outside the bounds of civilized discourse. Implicit in the notion that these ideas should be confronted rationally is that its adherent is simply misguided, miseducated, and that sure and steady appeals to reason and empathy will persuade them, as if all white supremacists rooting for genocide are waiting for their American History X moment, but I don't think you have to look hard to find intelligent and otherwise rational people advocating vile things. The obstacle isn't reason, it's something beyond that.
> Every site (yes you, Reddit) should be enforcing password strength. And if you ask me, every site that has allowed crap passwords in the past should be working on forcing these to be updated.

> And please stop spreading the misinformation that a password must contain uppercase/lowercase letters, numbers and punctuation to be secure.

> If you’re telling a user that their 26-character passphrase
isn’t secure enough (ahem, Microsoft), then you’re making it harder for that user to create an easy-to-remember/hard-to crack password.

These points are contradictory. The user links to a better password strength estimator, but such heuristics will necessarily change over time as people adapt to strength estimators. Easy to remember prose doesn't necessarily have any more entropy than short, non-sense passwords. Moreover, when you begin enforcing it than password crackers will adapt and heuristics which favor length will become useless.

And requiring people to change bad passwords after the fact causes precisely the problem he notes, which is that people will begin to use the same, easy-to-remember-but-passes-this-months-strength-checker password across multiple sites.

The only way to win is to not play at all: make sure you support U2F so people who care can avoid passwords altogether. For everybody else, there's no hope. Strength checkers and specialized password hashes like argon2 just paper over the fundamental problem.

The real lesson here is to stop bikesheding password authentication frameworks. Handy-wave heuristics cannot fundamentally improve the situation, and often have the opposite effect. The end of the road for real security is salted hashing. There's no solution to the fact that users as a class suck at not only memorizing high-entropy passwords, but memorizing <number of sites they frequent> * <high-entropy passwords>.
There's a rich history of Russian appreciation of Lord of the Rings, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer.
Ten bucks as ante for the entertainment?

Cheap, if you ask me.
Sorry, are you equating a private citizen having their phone out of their sight for 10 minutes with over a year of delays in permitting an organization to accept tax-exempt donations from thousands of citizens?

Frankly, BOTH are unreasonable and the government should not be engaging in EITHER ONE. I think there is little to be gained by debating which is "worse" -- could we instead agree to cease doing both?
>Nice article but the author should avoid making sweeping generalizations like the one in the very beginning:

How is it a sweeping generalization to say that they personally haven't found something useful?
Lyft says its revenue is growing nearly 3x faster than Uber’s
This guy get it.
In other words, don't enable touch id or face unlock.
>>Or is the problem that /r/the_donald exists? Just don't go there if you don't like it.

I think the issue with r/the_donald, and other extremist subreddits (and online communities in general) is that they generate lies, whip each other into a rage-induced frenzy over those lies and then spread that hatred elsewhere on the Internet, and some of that even spills onto real life via certain conservative news outlets. In addition, anyone who even slightly disagrees is banned with prejudice.

This makes the problem difficult to ignore.
If no known target thus far is high-profile, it could very well be that the current targets are guinea-pig-targets that test the malware for future applications.
"Arrests for offensive Facebook and Twitter posts soar in London" [1]

"Arrests for 'offensive' Twitter and Facebook messages up by a third" [2]

"British Police Arrest At Least 3,395 People for ‘Offensive’ Online Comments in One Year" [3]

"Police arresting nine people a day in fight against web trolls" [4]

"More than 3,300 people were detained and questioned last year over so-called trolling on social media and other online forums, a rise of nearly 50 per cent in two years, according to figures obtained by The Times.

About half of the investigations were dropped before prosecutions were brought, however, leading to criticism from civil liberties campaigners that the authorities are over-policing the internet and threatening free speech...."

[1] - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/arrests-for-offensive-f...

[2] - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/02/social_media_arrests...

[3] - http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/10/14/british-police-ar...

[4] - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-arresting-nine-peo...
Yes you can pre-arrange a ride. Hitch-hiking is illegal in some states. You can pay for a taxi, buy a train or plane ticket. The latter provided you are not on any lists and don't mind your things being x-rayed and/or searched.

Really paying for rides in a car is the last great bastion of free movement (provided you don't get randomly stopped and searched in a checkpoint of some kind) in the U.S. Although, most of those either won't take you on the highway or are prohibitively expensive to do so. Making inter-city and greater travel difficult. But bonus points if you can pay with cash.

I understand, though. There are just so many common sense reasons to restrict free travel. How could one resist?
This is totally based on zero evidence, but it seems to me, as a casual observer, that maybe there are elementary particles whizzing aren't detectable until they combine with other elementary whizzing particles and combine to make the detectable ones? So like hydrogen can be fused into helium (I know, easier said than done!), sometimes the they collide and create a detectable particle. This explains the Casimir effect in that there really wasn't nothing between the plates, just the stuff whizzing through the plates that we can't block.
Tearing down Spotify's pricing (Data case study)
I think the fear is that the TSA will deny having searched the phone and the complaintant will have not way of proving that they did.
"Tools to allow for" is a hell of a phrase. Yes, moderation is possible on reddit but the idea that the tooling for such is in any way "good" is in error. It's enough to make moderation possible with sufficient application of effort. The fact that it's so rare is a strong indication of how useful those tools are.
MetaFilter is more of a non-forum than an echo chamber. There's almost 0 discussion; people go there for the links, not the conversation.
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The push/pull "mistake" is usually caused by poorly designed doors. Like putting a vertical grab handle on a door that pushes open.
Sorry--it is satire, but the comment represents literally how it comes across to me when I see claims that "better education" will effectively bring about less toxic discussions. The implication is clear: If only people were rational and educated, like me, they wouldn't think the way they do, and then we would all agree.
There are real "country" areas within a reasonable commuting distance (much less than 2 hours) of San Jose. Of course the land is quite expensive but if you've got the money it's totally possible to own a small farm or piece of forest.
How are devolved local states equivalent to private landlords? States capture land value via land tax and socialise this. Private landlords capture it and keep it.

Night and day.
Stuxnet was highly targeted malware and certainly extremely sogisticated. That said, it infected probably >200,000 computer systems. To the parents point, it makes it easy to get a sample due to the volume of breaches. 100 targets with a highly covert mission objective is a different type of threat model compared to stux
Being able to distinguish fact from fiction is not a skill that is near universal, and it should be. Seems like a straw man to attack "thought policing" and "indoctrination." We're talking about critical thinking and logical reasoning.
You cannot buy a plane and fly it without first asking the government.
For people wondering what Sumy is:

Our students compared and benchmarked Sumy against a bunch of other popular summarization techniques, https://rare-technologies.com/text-summarization-in-python-e...
Docker Swarm and Digital Ocean
I'm running an app on Docker stack. And as stated in title it is based on Docker Swarm and Digital Ocean.

I'm relatively new to DevOps but need to say that I really like how easy compared to Kubernetes I could setup and run Docker Swarm on Digital Ocean. Reading doc took about 10 minutes and I could start a fleet of several nodes "infected" by docker agent. Then minor changes to existing docker-compose file (we deliver apps in docker containers). Finally "docker stack deploy" and that's it! App in the cloud with service level load balancer out of the box.

Needless to say that Digital Ocean nodes are cheap and I can run the cloud at significantly lower cost than similar one on AWS.

But, I wonder why isn't this approach that popular? I can't say there are a lot of docs/articles about swarm. Even worse — I'm struggling to find online services for orchestrating/monitoring swarm clouds (CLI is great, unless you have more than 3 nodes)

I admit that experienced DevOp guy can setup AWS to be cheaper and more advanced with Kubernetes. But is it worth the efforts if you don't expect high loads and your architecture is not that complex?
"I did my wife's sister and nobody caught me"
> easily detect hidden partitions.

Even hidden volumes in encrypted partitions? Has that feature of VeraCrypt been cracked?

https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Hidden%20Volume.html
I used to program in this, and it was clearly inspired by the actor model (in retrospect, now that I have been programming in elixir for a while). Lots of void* passing, though.

Initially the actor model was designed in the 70s.
Sorry for the non-answer here, but I think this is rather subjective depending on what kind of work you're doing and the tools needed for the job.

With that being said, learning shortcuts/macros for whatever tool you're using can lead to impressive productivity gains. This can be learning up more shortcuts for Vim, to learning how to create tables efficiently in Excel (lol). Customize some for yourself if you need to.

Another thing that has worked for me is automation. Automate as many things that are repetitive as you can. In software, this can be simple bash scripts. Learn how to scripts well. If it's 3 manual steps that you need to get an app running for dev purposes, stick it all into 1 script and run just that 1 script.

You're minimizing the risk of human error and increase your productivity significantly.
The meta-game at this point is open to just about any type of psychological trick. We know/suspect Kaspersky helping FSB/GRU, but we also know that CIA/NSA store and use fingerprints from other nation states and can assume Russia does the same. So if something looks Russian but Kaspersky reports on it, does that mean it is NSA trying to false flag Russia? Or is it Kaspersky deflecting Russian suspicions and pointing to the US by bringing it to light...6 years later?

The abilities and willingness of certain nation states to wage cyber warfare and make it appear like someone else are so great at this point, that only solid forensic evidence, and usually not even that, can be indicative.
Show HN: V2.0 of 2Billion Most Probable Passwords
It actually doesn’t work like this in china: the coal plant manager is connected, their relatives are officials, they turn off the scrubbers and use lower quality coal to make a higher profit. And let’s not forget the industries that use coal directly (e.g. smelters).

On the other hand, the personal car market is much more regulated, China demands relatively recent emissions equipment and have cracked down on dirty gasoline in many cities. This doesn’t apply to blue trucks, which are super polluting and use shitty gas from outside the city, but personal cars weren’t the major polluter like coal was.

So China made great strides in just banning coal and using NG for electric generation even though they don’t have much local supplies. Renewables will eventually help also, but they are generally far away from where they are needed (in western China, whereas everyone lives east). Now that coal is less of a problem, cars will eventually dominate, and probably already do in southern cities that don’t have indoor heating.
Can a Laser Really Rip Apart Empty Space?