skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OpenDNS redirects torproject, archlinux and stackexchange to blocking-page
My setup was working fine until I turned it on again and noticed that I was unable to access torproject.org, bbs.archlinux.org or security.stackexchange.com or a torrent-tracker site I occasionally query always using a VPN.

$> resolvectl query torproject.org
torproject.org: 146.112.61.106

-- Information acquired via protocol DNS in 56.6ms.
-- Data is authenticated: no

Calling this IP will yield a website that loads a JS snippet replacing the URL.
$> curl 146.112.61.106
<html><head><script type="text/javascript">location.replace("https://block.opendns.com/?url=1821231518181915231815181723&ablock&server=ams16&prefs=&tagging=&nref");</script></head></html>

IMHO DNS-service-providers, especially 3rd-party ones ought to be impartial.
I know the arguments, but it does not readicate the problem(this may vary depending on what example you are leading with), and TBH I rather not be protected from "the big bad internet" as if I am "Little Red Riding Hood" and the Internet "The Big Bad Wolf". I am a grown human being with full command over my faculties.
Besides, I wonder what the excuse is for blocking bbs.archlinux.org(did MS or Google or Disney(fearing the "security" for their content on Plus) complain and is it not enough that their DRM prevents watching content on Linux), torproject.org(hmmm too easy constructing s.th.), and of course stackexchange is ground zero for all evil things.

I for one find it sad that OpenDNS is doing this under the aegis of Cisco.
One could say that they are following a notice for the tracker, BUT torproject, stackexchange and bbs.archlinux.org?

Maybe some people more familiar with this matter can enlighten me.
All the SSL-certificates are only valid for ~7days. Why such a short time?
Also note that the SSL-Certificate is self-signed, by Cisco and since they are allowed to sign, it is automatically valid.
Only reason this raised flags was certificate-pinning.

Happy Holidays folks! :D
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It's only "worth" that little because of FB's pricing, which also includes their signaling on how worthless they want people to think their data is, overall.
As another commenter said: streaming.

To elaborate:

{0}{1} is better than [{0},{1}] because, when streamed, {0} is still valid, while [{0}, is not.
> The Nazi's conquered many countries without exterminating their population.

On top of Generalplan Ost the holocaust had 12 million victims, 5 million of whom were Slavs. The only reason why they aren't counted as genocide victims in the West is because it was not convenient to admit that during the cold war.

As a percentage of the population of the time it would have been similar to the British gassing 17 million Indians after starving another 45 million. And that would have been in three years of occupation, not a century and a half.

So yes, India was incredibly lucky to have the UK as their colonial overlord.
I believe this version is more recent, perhaps a small update: https://file.wikileaks.org/torrent/2017-01-25_WL-Insurance.a...
No man i just tried to search pregnant words of poets and found lots of poems about pregnancy which i liked some of them. I don't advise you to read though.
Interesting to see a mobile hardware keyboard with a Dvorak layout.
Sounds like QA work to me.
Ask HN: Suggest simpler tech for blog with members area
I built a blog that also has a members-only area. It's for a family member and the users of the website are mostly 50 years and older.

The public facing content is created and maintained in Contentful. The site itself is hosted on Netlify and built with Gatsby. I used Material UI so I don't have to spend too much time on UX and design questions. The members only area is built with Firebase auth and firestore. Firestore because they create events, and then other members (~ 50 people) can sign up for those events. They can also invite new members and I built some lightweight user management functionality (assign users to roles, such as admin). For signup emails I created a SendGrid account. This would also be used for emails sent to all members notifying them of new events.

This all worked out quite well but it feels like the opposite of boring technology and KISS. I don't have anyone experienced enough I could ask, so I thought I'd ask HN.

What would you have used?
Another thing that prevents dependently-typed languages from being the future is that there are alternative verification methods that have so far shown greater promise (and receive even more grants). I think the reason for this is that some hear of those languages because they're fans of programming languages in general and maybe know something about programming language theory, and dependent types represent this discipline in formal methods research. But if you look at formal methods research more generally (e.g. read the programs of the relevant conferences), you see that this direction of dependent type systems is relatively small, and most of the research effort is focused elsewhere.

I feel that some of the discussion about those languages is like an amateur runner who's thoroughly amazed by the results of an Olympic runner to the point of obsession, without knowing that they're in the seventh place. So dependently typed languages have had some achievement, but other techniques -- from CEGAR model checking to concolic testing -- have had better results, and that's why they're getting more attention in the formal methods space. The main challenge, which you alluded to, is one of scale. So far only very small programs have been verified using any semi-manual formal deductive proof methods (of which dependent type systems are one instance), and other methods have shown somewhat better scalability.
The Troy rising trilogy by John Ringo. An excellent military science fiction book with a Libertarian lean. My favourite is the first in the trilogy called live free or die. Basically tells the story of how to bootstrap a whole world. Pays homage to a lot of other science fiction. If you complete this trilogy and are left wanting more then I suggest the legacy of the Aldenata and the black tide rising series.

American nations by Colin Woodward. Great book to understand the historical underpinnings of different regions in America.

Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons (who wrote Hyperion). Great horror scifi book with a nice concept. Fairly long though.

Thwarting enemies at home and abroad by William R Johnson. If you like spy novels or it’s text book albeit somewhat dated now likely on counter espionage.

On technical books I read the Linux programming interface by Michael Kerrisk. Really interesting incredibly detailed Linux book and always a great reference. Find myself keeping going back to it.

Ready player one the book by Ernest Cline. Way different than the movie. I actually preferred it as the movie justifiability leaves a lot out and condenses the story.
As a one-man, self-funded startup where every dollar counts, maintaining status is critical. It's much more than legroom and upgrades, it's also lower fees for some last-minute fares and the ability to sometimes change flights within 24 hours of departure for zero fee.

In September I made it from the curb to the gate at Heathrow in 27 minutes--it wouldn't have been possible without the agent at the United Elite desk.
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You didn't get it right?
Most of the customers who would switch are already using CC on Mac or Windows so why add the costs of maintenance and support for another platform.

Aside from that, their code base is somewhat quirky, which would definitely increase the cost of porting
The flouro wasn't adopted immediately. When I was on my high school tennis team (79-82) we mostly had white tennis balls except when some kid brought in a tube of the "exotic" ones.

We had wooden rackets (stored in press frames) back then too. The modern game of tennis is practically unrecognizable when compared to that era.

(Get off my lawn! I suppose).
I didn't say anything about how this distinction is to be made, only that it needs to be made somehow. And yes, I'm aware of the dangers of false positives. That's a smaller risk than doing nothing and allowing misinformation to propagate unfettered and unlabeled.
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Do you know if FF is better w/ out-of-the-box settings than Brave?
To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour
I expense north of 40k a year, and still do it all on my personal cards.

And actually, I do it split, hotel goes to the hotel chain co-brand, rental car to the airline one that offers free primary insurance, everything else, whatever card du jour I have right now.
IIRC the Trinity study (where the 4% SWR comes from) was for portfolios with a decent chunk of bonds? And that it only claimed that SWR for a horizon of 30 years? As in, running to zero in 31 years was counted as a success.

Separately, not to rain on your parade, but I'd really be worried that 4% might not be feasible based on current market conditions - that study was based on a period when the US was rising into the role of world superpower, and most of the industrialized world had just been decimated.
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South Africa. And I guess Xhosa/Zulu. The electricity provider mentioned is Eskom. It's complicated.
If they are gonna do that Lowe th price significantly, let us choose to get screwed or not
I bet they count API hits (FB app checking in but not being used) in that. If it was based per interacting user I bet it's much higher.
Rocket is a nightmare comparing to Slack...
Faraday cage your house somehow. Stick to land-line and ethernet.
What was the result of doing so? I'm genuinely curious.
Add to the fact, nobody chasing "greatness" (i.e. Outstanding recognition) had to be told to. They want to.

This anxiety surrounding advice advocating more self-awareness bc would-be influences might suddenly get lazy is ridiculous.
There are obvious reasons that have nothing to do with quality of care.

Iron lungs are physically large and heavy. They are expensive and difficult to move. Health insurance doesn't want to pay extra for your comfort.

With an iron lung you can talk and eat. There is minimal difficulty; simply time your sentences or swallows to match the action of the iron lung. There is also no danger of tubes damaging your vocal cords.

The choice of technology is obvious, depending on how much patient comfort is valued. It is clear that the modern system doesn't give a damn if patients are miserable.
Here's a joke that's just as good: you know what happens when you assume, don't you?
* The Origin of Wealth
* Elephant in the Brain
* A Random Walk Down Wall Street
* Why Buddhism Is True
* Digital Minimalism
You only need this line: And our growth in listening and revenues during 2013 meant we no longer qualified as a Small Webcaster; instead of paying royalties calculated as a percentage of revenues — such that royalties grow as revenues grow, as one would expect — we now had to pay high per-play rates as a Large Webcaster, taking us out of profitability.

The music licensing structure is set up to kill anything above a certain size, period. What is worse is that there is no size at which you are in a position to change that structure and disintermediate the entrenched interests of the major labels.
Flying up front is vastly different from being in the back, especially on a premium fist product (Lufthansa or ANA in *A, or Cathay, Emirates, Qatar, etc.). I used to fly to India for business and I could always score a first upgrade BLR -> FRA, which meant I could use the LH first class terminal (separate building) during the layover back to the states. 200+ bottles of whisky, a cigar room, an entire leg of jamon iberico, bathtubs where you could grab a bottle of champagne off the wall and drink while you lounged, dedicated customs, and a Porsche to drive you directly to your departing aircraft. I wouldn't pay O(10k) for a ticket, but it's a pretty good time when you can upgrade it.
I think you're overlooking the quality measure of the proprietary garbage as it evolves over time. Slack, in comparison to say Lync, or Skype has made huge moves towards better usability. But for a company like Slack determined to maintain market share, to control the user experience for all its users (whether they want to be users or not) is repeating the same mistakes, not necessarily the corporations signing contracts and writing cheques.

Slack is not the end solution. It's a step in the direction to being less terrible in the realm of corporate communication, and will be replaced by something else that does better in the future. For now it'll hold on whilst it still can.
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Got into programming because it was fun and interesting. I’ve watched what was “correct” change many times over the years. Or every few months months in JavaScript land.

Thought of being told what is correct is just wrong. It would crush so many people. So much innovation would be stifled.

Had a test question in college asking what is better, white on black or black on white for text. Knew I was wasting my time with “formal” education.
Narcissus and Goldmund is probably my favorite of Hesse's novels, but also great is The Glass Bead Game.
After nearly 500 hours of meditating in relative isolation, i promise you, the collector collects.

Something inside us, wild and free, wants to be happy, and we stand in its way.
Root + alternate ROM
It's absolutely not just emerging or developing economies. This article is extremely misleading in that regard and its very dangerous.

Do some research on your own. Many if not most wealthy countries are in serious trouble including the US and China.

Take a look at what Ray Dalio says about it. He says that this is part of a pattern of long term debt cycles, it looks like 1937 and implies there is risk of a global depression, dollar losing its status and even WW III.

My opinion is that at some point there will need to be a new paradigm introduced deliberately if we are going to avoid the terrible natural conclusion of the existing one.
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- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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- Sherlock Holmes: The definitive collection
Comms. Everyone one needs comm. The market is massive. Like soft drinks, even a small slice of the market can be fairly lucrative.
JSON was made to be "based on a subset" of Javascript. The only way to be compatible with JS while removing octals is to disallow leading zeroes entirely. Doing otherwise would lead to JSON and JS behaving differently with the same input.

Of course, until recently JSON wasn't a strict subset of JS but that was an oversight rather than by design.
Agreed! But I believe the admins are ignoring their own rules by allowing the link to remain on the front page.
Don't try to buy a "TV", buy a "monitor". The ones sold for digital signage may be your best bet depending on the size you're looking for.
Oh look, another bigot who hasn't even visited Alabama and knows nothing about this state, yet feels entitled to make such comments exposing his ignorance and bigotry. What a surprise to see.

I've lived all over the USA. The entire nation is a banana republic. Some of the worst parts are: Illinois, New York, Michigan, California, New Jersey, Washington State. Alabama isn't even in the top 25 of worst states in the third world nation that is the USA.
You could, but that means leaving the hotel. For a jetlagged business traveler with a flight in a few hours, free minibar is a real timesaver.
Yep. Postgres with a combination of others for specific use-cases is a winning combination imo
SpaceX is working on a solution for that...
You can try looking into commercial TVs (aka digital signage). These are displays with usually few smarts in them, and also designed to be on 24/7. You'll likely pay more than a regular consumer TV.
People don't seem to understand that. You maybe have 5% of the engineers/researchers doing the really technical stuff and breakthroughs, the rest is an army of average devs doing the implementations and grunt work. The bad part is that somehow people started to think that working for FAANGs is the end goal in itself. I still remember a colleague of mine who left our startup to go work for Amazon, between his application and his first day he got affected to another team and ended up working on shitty legacy Perl projects and being on call during weekends... Every single aspects of his work was worst than before but hey, he worked for Amazon™️
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I wouldn't say it's false, I would say it's no longer true in strict mode.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Javascript for many years has assumed a leading zero means an octal prefix, and it's only recently that behavior has changed.

EDIT: Also your example does not disprove this. Here's another example that you should try running in the console:

011 === 11; // false
011; // 9
It's not false, because it's perfectly reasonable to describe both ES5 and ES6 as "JavaScript".

It is, at best, no longer true.
(Un-replicable.)
How do you determine sales (demand) plateau vs. sales (manufacturing capacity or brand loyalty having customers wait for their brand to ship) plateau vs. model availability plateau (i.e. no electric truck is shipping today, no fullsize SUV, no minivan, etc.)?

TCO my math has EV better than ICE already even in the US with lower fuel prices and typically higher mileage per day than EU.
27 minutes isn't that fast for heathrow. I assume it wasn't T5? In there, even in non-business I've made it from the entrance to the gate in about 15. Entirely depends on the state of the queues, though.

Being able to do it in 27 minutes reliably would be a real asset, though. I'd never, ever bank on being able to get through that quickly as inevitably something goes wrong.
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That said, in theory, shouldn't:

JSON.parse("0o10") === 8?

I get SyntaxError: Unexpected token o in JSON at position 1
Put an automatic in "low gear" (I still remember when it used to be called "grade retard" on some cars, which was to be used for braking only and not acceleration) and you'll get engine braking.

and quicker « free » cabin heat in cold conditions.

Engine braking won't heat the engine much over just idling, in fact it may even cool it off more because the governor will cut off fuel completely.
I understood what you said exactly and thats why I also added the part where new licenses would also happen as a single customer datapoint accessing many organizations over my career. The more datapoints for them the better.

I look forward to the day when Krita or GIMP’s sole purpose for existing isn't Adobe dug their own hole.
Oh, well there are two stories actually.

The first story is that it follows the tradition of naming programming languages after logicians/mathematicians (e.g. Haskell, Church, Russell, Pascal, ...). Because the Curry-Howard isomorphism (CH) links logic and programming languages, and ideas in programming languages often come from much older work in logic, it's pretty natural to go to logicians for names (IMHO). Thomas Hobbes was one of the first people to connect logic and computation (literally saying "by reasoning I understand computation") and the logical arithmetic he developed inspired other people to continue that work. I think that story is a reasonable justification, works well for a general audience.

The second story (the real story?) is that Morgan Stanley internally has a tradition of naming things after things in popular culture (and at least one or two cartoons), so I named the project after the comic book characters Calvin and Hobbes (CH). Actually the programming language was "Hobbes" and the compiler was "Calvin" because if you know the comic book, Hobbes is really just a figment of Calvin's imagination (which works well to explain how a compiler makes a programming language real). I am a fan of the comics and was reading them frequently with my son at the time. There's a "Calvin and Hobbes ismorphism" (because both characters are different views of the same mind) so it works really well as an extended metaphor for logic and programming languages, I think. :)
"We should hold companies like AT&T accountable"

Yeah, I'll get right on that.

"I vote for candidates who I think will help."

Hint: try prayer instead. It's likely to be more effective.

"But some don’t do anything. At all."

Like voters, for instance.
I use it via Firefox on Android. No major issues.
I recall sitting with a coworker once hashing out a shortcode/slug algorithm for this, that you could also transcribe. First we threw out all the letter like characters, so no l, no 1, no 0 or O. Then we threw out the vowels to reduce the accidental swear words and slurs.

26 + 26 + 10 + 2 is how you get base-64. We took out the symbols too and ended up with an odd base-32, which is still pretty useful practically, as it’s 7 vs 6 characters for 32 bits, 13 vs 11 for 64.

64 - symbols (2) vowels (10, 12 if you include y) - 0,l,1 (3) is still 47 characters, so we removed the rest of the numbers to avoid leetspeak, leaving 39 and don’t recall what we did for the last 7. I think we may have just chopped 7 more off the end of alphabet to hit 32.

Today I’d probably try two things to reduce word-alikes. One option, remove the most common characters (either wheel of fortune NSTRE, which is eight due to previous eliminations, or Morse code characters AEINMT which is 6 for the same reason). Second option, remove the letters used in slurs to break them, let people deal with rude words, though KNT (see? That was on accident) breaks up quite a few of both.
Yes, that's certainly true.

Whether good or bad, it seeks to be the solution to many problems (which you would have to solve in some way), hence it being a "framework".

I'd probably call that "opinionated" rather than "over-engineered."
While the writing in Alpha Centauri is some of the best in video games, the actual game itself is less fun than Civilization. The hostile terrain and alien life you spend most of the game dealing with just isn't as interesting as the enemy AI.
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I just left a job I'd built an identity around. I was good at it, it was fulfilling and paid decently, but I spent all my time there and not much on anything else. Quitting was really hard. It felt a lot like breaking up with someone. It really does feel like leaving a part of myself behind.

I've been working somewhere else with less hours and far less responsibility so far. The first week or two was kind of a shock. Going back to the bottom of a place where I don't really have any kind of responsibility or even really knowledge of everything thats going on has been pretty tough. But it's refreshing in a way, i've gone back to a few hobbies and other things I haven't worked on for a while now and it's kinda nice just show up, do things I get told to do and leave without worrying about what I need to get done for tomorrow and stuff.