skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

Since the third party service conducted rate-limiting based on IP
address (stated in their docs), my solution was to put the code that
hit their service into some client-side Javascript, and then send
the results back to my server from each of the clients.

This way, the requests would appear to come from thousands of
different places, since each client would presumably have their own
unique IP address, and none of them would individually be going over
the rate limit.

Pretty sure the browser Same Original Policy forbids this. Think about it- if this worked, you'd be able to scrape inside corporate firewalls simply by having users visit your website from behind the firewall.
Loved the Trash-80 so much. I consider myself lucky to have used one when I was a child. My favorite game was Android Nim:

http://www.trs-80.org/android-nim/

When I was young I thought that game was unbeatable and the adults who could beat it had a secret code or something. Now I realize it just plays a perfect game but you can win if you understand it.

Oddly enough one of the movies that I remember best when I was a child was also (seemingly unrelatedly) called "The Secret of Nihm"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084649/
Just to add a little more detail, insulin spikes themselves (hormonal response to food, etc) cause other hormonal responses that trigger everything from weight gain, to oil production, to lack of sleep and stress response. One particular thing to note is how much the strong and hard insulin spikes raise cortisol levels. Cortisol production can highly affect the level of oil and stress you are under, further throwing your body into a loop. If you are causing yourself to create and release a high excess of cortisol, then you will find that the rest of your body's systems (skin, hair, cardiovascular, etc) will have profound and often adverse affects.
Note that only new accounts have been eliminated - existing customers are grandfathered in.
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We have neurological evidence pointing to how our very sense of "self" exists as a construction of the brain, associated with specific regions.

Drugs that induce "a sense of oneness with the universe" appear to just turn off that "self illusion" part of the brain. Compare it to when I kill my Gnome/KDE daemon and see the shell underneath.

In short, neuroscientists have already discovered "the essence of a person", regardless of job description.
And then the paranoid Computer Science nerd gets freaks out because of is immortal fear of floating point errors and uses the alternate fast matrix exponentiation implementation that takes just in log(n) time.
You seem to be talking about a specific site? Which one?
I don't think usenet itself will be taken down - it actually pre-dates the world wide web - but the battle lines are now drawn.
So bloody true. A web page is a resource just like an xml doc, there's no reason public facing urls and web content can't be treated as such and I regularly take advantage of that fact aswell. great post
Well, this is interesting.

Valve has a well-deserved reputation for quality, so the expectations for the"Valve Box" are pretty high. I expect they will be met.

This will change the gaming industry dynamic quite a bit, should they be able to pull it off. Both the 360 and the PS3 are getting long in the tooth, and with no refresh of those platforms coming in the near future Valve could benefit greatly if they release their device relatively soon.

This should be interesting, to say the least.
When I looked at their code I couldn't really find how they are dealing with the async stuff. Is it using coroutines or is it something else?
I try to avoid companies that are big enough to have an HR department. While I was discussing what I thought about a position at a company with their HR person I actually told her that the fact that they were big enough to have HR department was a strike against them. <g>

When I've gone to new jobs, they always wanted me to start as soon a possible so the OP's scenario wouldn't normally be a problem. It's never happened to me but if it did I'd just start 2 weeks sooner at the new job.
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> Most previously interesting philosophical questions are now interesting scientific questions.

Well, not "most", but certainly many of them are.

> There's not much left for philosophers to actually talk about.

What? This is silly. "This practice that unveiled the thoughts which have aided science and literature and politics and art for countless generations is probably out of new ideas, let's stop using it!" What's the proof that philosophers are out of new discoveries to make?

In fact, I find that contemporary philosophers interest me more than older ones do, simply because they're making discoveries which are new to this time! I have to remind myself to make my way through classic philosophers' works instead of only reading the new stuff all the time so my thoughts are grounded in the older tradition, but contemporary philosophy touches on a lot of interesting things. Richard Rorty is a recent favorite of mine – his Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity is twenty years old, but still offers some fascinating insights into a subject that is very much dominating a part of our popular culture.
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I'll not jump ship until my downloads are frequently disrupted at the block level, across multiple providers. Pretty difficult to achieve, given the architecture.

Indices come and go... Much of the Usenet crowd know how to set up an indexer if need be. Perhaps a hidden service is warranted?
Related: If you fancy writing scrapers for fun and profit, ScraperWiki (a Liverpool, UK-based data startup) is currently hiring full-time data scientists. Check us out!

http://scraperwiki.com/jobs/#swjob5
I don't get it. Is this so I can write "pcd -Name Repo" instead of "cd \projects\repo"?
> However, processing Bitcoin payments is a completely different experience. There's no paperwork (just code), no set-up cost and everyone can get started in no time.

So true. That's what I love about Bitcoin: once you understand the technical working, there is nothing to it. It's all simple rules instead of fees, interest rates and chargebacks. And all that you own is actually really and truly yours. No bank could possibly take it from you when they go bankrupt.
It would be awesome to have this in Rails 4 by default.
"We could pay you once we start making SOME money" <- I could do this too.
Similar position.. but I was waiting a week or two before committing to actual money :)
Glad I did.
Going a bit old school at the mo, downloading headers from a.b.mm for example. Get some retention up myself, might take a while!
>I haven't done the math, but I have a feeling it just keeps dividing...

Why would it have to use division, or for that matter, any kind of math at all? I imagine that as each new visitor is recorded, they simply count how many other visitors had the exact same browser configuration.

The "one in x browsers have this value" column is probably just for informative purposes (and not the raw data that was somehow munged to determine the uniqueness of your browser fingerprint).
FYI out of the box setting for apache are brain dead.

I literally have systems with tweaked setting doing 45k/second hits at less then 10ms latency on Apache. You can't do that with default settings because again the brain dead default settings.

I think in general tuning each of these carefully could eek out more performance on any platform especially one with such a small footprint.
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Funny, most of the people I know who drop acid become more interested in philosophy, not less. Methinks you're looking at this the wrong way: it's not that neuroscience "solved" philosophy, it's that neuroscientists invented something that directly proves how fascinating philosophy really is. Thanks neuroscientists! Let's let the philosophers take it from here.

I compare philosophy to when, after you see the shell beneath your GUI, you start realizing that the same principles that affect programming might affect things that aren't on your computer screen – kind of like Plato's shadow puppets, come to think of it. And then you start wondering if things that aren't on your computer screen could affect programming, if only you knew what they were. And then you start wondering how they are all pieced together. And every time you find new pieces, you start wondering where those pieces came from, and every time you start dreaming of new computers, but the really fascinating part is the questions, and the answers are just an afterthought...

I love answers as much as anybody, but I love questions so much more. Drugs and Linux are wonderful answers that provoke even deeper questions. Why not let's ask those questions and see what we let neuroscientists come up with next?
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Well, what exactly was actually crucially-missing from the json one?
you can bet your bottom this fact''Federation Against Copyright Theft Limited''will be into all nzb providers now by attacking the index list making sites like nzb matrix
take down massive amounts of copyrighted movies and other copyrighted items, changes in the usenet indexing this looks bad all round for us downloading they cant get the server providers so they will go after the next best thing the index system that list content.
"The Foundation Trilogy" is analogous to Start-Up Accelerators
set up at the two edges of the Galaxy to bring back the civilization quicker, after the current order is lost into chaos. One of the best book series I have read.
Start doing? This sounds very much like a religious argument. 'Have faith my son, one day you will understand'.

If you want to keep moving the goal posts, go ahead. Perhaps you feel only Doctors are qualified to talk about philosophy. pg actually attacks this very point in the article:

Wittgenstein is popularly credited with the idea that most philosophical controversies are due to confusions over language. I'm not sure how much credit to give him. I suspect a lot of people realized this, but reacted simply by not studying philosophy, rather than becoming philosophy professors.

The whole point is that by the end of a Philosophy degree the smart ones have realized its a bust, a dead end.

I am sorry if you are a professional philosopher/teacher, but one day you will realize you've wasted your professional career.

The whole point about Philosophy is that there is no deep knowledge. You can't think deeply because you keep getting caught by semantics.
I made this module for this exact reason: https://github.com/icodeforlove/node-requester. Supports horrible things like proxy rotation.
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DEP might be disabled on java because it breaks the JIT
Totally inspirational figure in my life. I read many of his books as a kid and watched the Sky At Night every month.

He wasn't a figure without controversy, his views on women in science were firmly rooted in the 1920s but overall he was a giant figure in Astronomy.

Few people will ever contribute so much for so little personal gain.
EU to vote on patent law
What is ruining the performance and why is it default?
The cool thing about the modern world is that incredibly talented people have already written decent opensource keyboard firmware. But I'll get to that in Part 2 of the writeup :)
This is unfair.

Rust still builds LLVM toolchain (all of it!) to bootstrap itself.

As far as I know, they are planning to remove this dependency before Rust gets to 1.0.
I used to be a systems integrator for the TRS-80 Model 16's. we would hack them to add extra serial cards to get 8 serial ports! You could have 9 people logged in at once and doing well if the application was carefully designed.

Funny but true it ran Microsoft Xenix!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix and had a Microsoft Multiplan (excel like) you could run from a tty or the console.

I have a customer who still has a running copy of Microsoft Multiplan that I have to hack once in a while to keep runnning. It's quite amazing that this customer still keeps a ton of stuff in that old system using telnet/ssh to the SCO Unix box that they host Excel on.

I did my first commercial C code development on these monsters! After a time I even had one in my house so I could do development at home without 1200baud modems dropping my connection etc. And I had a "test" environment to develop code before deploying to my customers machines.

I had all my customers setup with UUCP so they could email me and my staff and alerts from low disk space, backs etc would come to us at the central machine via UUCP emails.

Those were the days.. ;-)

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Is there a motivational poster with this quote on it? I'd love to put it in my office!
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Features such as automatic creation of mentioned variables and dynamic typing allow a mistake in code to change a correct program into a syntactically valid program that does the wrong thing.
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> if you accept that not all religions can be true

I think, actually, that once you accept that no one religion contains Ultimate Truth, it is much easier to see that every religion is a facet of something true and powerful. Dogma is what insists that only one religion, only one way of doing things, can be the correct way; dogma is always false. But beneath the dogma lies fascinating insights.

Personally, I find that the simplest religion, and therefore the "truest", is Taoism. The Tao Te Ching is goddamn gold: short, succinct, and brilliant. Buddhism is similarly philosophically inclined; Hinduism is fantastic, and quite explicit in telling you that its gods are metaphors for the world, characters that turn insights about life into stories. Christianity's God-as-man metaphor is a fascinating one that can lead to some very interesting thoughts about our relationship to everything around us. So on and so forth.

Those long scholastic traditions are part of why people who don't utterly hate religion argue that anti-theists are missing something important in their insistence that religion be razed to the ground. For all the horrors of dogma, and those horrors are many, the religious tradition has collected millennia of collected human experience and wisdom – it's a treasure trove for anybody seeking to discover those parts of themselves. Let's get rid of the dogma and blind faith, but acknowledge that religion has been a monumental accomplishment for the species that should be respected for what it's done for our race.

> So, what method would you propose for determining which academic fields are worthwhile, in their current state?

The less dogma, the better. Luckily for us philophiles, philosophy is more obsessed with ending dogma than just about anything, so I guess we'll have to keep it around forever!
Anyone but me read "Experiment. Fail. Learn. Repeat." as "... Repeat failed experiment, even while knowing better?"
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I think your best shot, if you don't care about the money short term, would be in trying to get a traineeship job; here in Germany for instance most companies are always willing to take extremely cheap employees regardless the background, as long as you show you can do stuff, and a 6 months traineeship at a middle sized company would do wonders to your chances to find you a job afterwards, imho.

Other than that, either find a friend/relative who could recommend you to a company, or make money on your own, for example by building a small web SaaS and charging for usage, since you seem to have the tech skills for it, and what is not technical (e.g. how to charge customers, how to set up a business) is trivial to learn with a bit of research on the internets.
> Since the third party service conducted rate-limiting based on IP

By the way, that's one of my projects. You can use a basic fibonacci-related algorithm to figure out (in the most minimal number of requests) what exactly the rate limit is. This way, you can scrape at just under the maximum limit. I am still working on this core library though. :|
a lot of chat about "we never use them and get by" ,,how about some feedback for alternatives!!!!!
i have only ever used newzbin ,,then yesterday paid matix ,and today not sure where to go?
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DEP doesn't break JITs unless they're written incorrectly. Furthermore, the OP says that DEP isn't disabled on Java...
This sort of stuff makes me cringe
"Historically lead (Pb) has been added to the solders to prevent whisker growth. Due to the harmful effects on human health and environments, it is no
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I'm not a anarchist, but I am a libertarian of sorts, so I also want small government, limited social engineering, and limited central planning. I don't care if it is flat or mildly progressive if it's simple to implement. There certainly are reasons others want to keep things status quo, as you pointed out. There is just so much wasted energy around taxes it drives me crazy.
More fun with Byte here:

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> The answer is HttpFox. It records all http-requests.

http://mitmproxy.org/
No. Compared to the big-shots in the Silicon Valley, we Canadians are not at all significant. Even in Canada alone, we still have plenty of room to improve. We only look good because WLU is making us appear that way.
It sounds awful, and you don't need to buy the advertised product online. I recommend you give this a try just one morning and let me know how you feel.

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I use locally roasted coffee and Kerry Gold Irish Butter (Grass-fed butter). It has changed my life.
I bet it would take at least 2 weeks so find alternative ways to stay motivated.
That's usually where the indexing sites get them from in the first place. The issue comes when you're a client that's not indexing continuously; downloading billions of headers to try and find a particular NZB is a mammoth task.
What's so good about it? Just looks like Dia or Visio.
> Supports horrible things like proxy rotation.

Do you have any plans to track which proxies are actually working, or how quickly each one is blocked? I want a reverse proxy on my outgoing requests that knows how to shift my traffic around properly so that I don't get banned. I don't want to be rate limited and I don't want to sit here for weeks trying to figure out wtf the rate limit is in the first place.
Most businesses cared very much about the TRS-80 systems. They were cheaper alternatives to very expensive mini-computers (VAXen etc.) and much more useful then the IBM PC's without any networking.

We installed a lot of these machines for many years while PC's were just beginning to be "interesting".
> first install Xvfb and pyvirtualdisplay

You really don't need xvfb anymore. Use xserver-xorg-video-dummy.
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Why is this downvoted ? Is it false ?
quote: "Obviously, they assumed that variability decreased proportionally to the number of coins and not to its
square root."

Why is this so important? The fact, that the variability increases with smaller sample size was ignored completely by the protagonists in the provided examples. Realizing weather this inverse effect is linear or not doesn't seem to be the main problem in peoples intuition.

disclaimer: I have poor understanding of statistics.
The second Newzbin also closed this week: http://www.newzbin2.es/

Apparently their last payment gateway wouldn't deal with them any more.
interesting, im sure you can build this into it. you could hook onto the didRequestFail method and flag IPs (log this.proxy out to see what the proxy was). all i would need to do is add a method that makes it easier to add/remove proxies.
Yes, but if you want the DOM you would have to use something like webkit. So something like pyphantomjs might hit the right spot. It's a python re-implementation of phantomjs.

https://github.com/kanzure/pyphantomjs
The problem isn't in the payment part, it's with obtaining bitcoins from dollars.
"I have come across many people who have bought their binoculars from railway lost-property offices, though naturally one has to be doubly careful" - Exploring the Night Sky with Binoculars, Patrick Moore

There is for me something whimsical about Moore's writing. I find that quality attractive in his work, which is very much of his time and background.

As the BBC article linked to mentions, Moore's writing spans the time when people thought there might actually be changes in the Moon's surface to recent times with the discoveries of Hubble.
My first experience was buying some coins through Mt. Gox, and immediately having my email leaked. It's something that seems to happen with alarming regularity in the Bitcoin world, people dropping 0-days left right and centre to get their hands virtual stashes.

I suspect I probably got burnt trying bitcoin, but I would still warn anyone against using Blockchain for anything more than a toy.

The alternative is to run your own client, and download close to 3GB of data at a snails pace. Neither are at all attractive at the moment.
The IBM PC was the serious business computer.

IBM PC's lost of TRS-80 Model 16's all the time until ethernet came along. Remember multi-user SMB customers needed to have multiple people working on the same systems.

IBM PC's were stand alone for quite some time. We had many "bake offs" between Model 16's and a couple of IBM PC's with arcnet or other hodge-podge solutions and win most of the time.

When you have an office with 8 people in it and 4 people need to get into A/R and several need access to G/L for financials the TRS-80 Model 16's with Xenix (UNIX) were great solutions.

I don't say this as a FanBoi I say it as someone who was there and sold and supported them for a long time. What Tandy failed to do was understand the shift in the market to networked systems and they died almost over night when IBM PC's became more affordable AND networked with reasonable software allowing multiple people to work on the same stuff.
I've thought about doing something like that. Though I believe that what you want to be doing is using hand measurements and a slightly more standard design. I want to get a few of my own keyboard designs under my belt before I start making promises, though.