skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their cancellation was basically fraudulent when they were MegaPath, from my experience. I paid off what I "owed" and no more to get rid of them. Not sure what you do in your case, but they're a complete pain to deal with.

I might try to negotiate by offering to pay off some amount, but they will NOT admit that you've cancelled unless you have some kind of proof... which they will make sure there's no way for you to provide. Because their webform sure as hell won't respond and they definitely won't admit that maybe, given that you were using another ISP the entire time, it could somehow be their fault for forcing you to use a web form that doesn't actually work when you've tried it dozens of times and it magically only does something when you have a rep on the phone.

Like you said, they might as well be a scam company at this point. I felt like they'd turned "customer retention" into some kind of hostage situation. I had to play hardball with the rep before their cancellation form magically worked.

My theory is that there's a manual component to the unsubscribe where they have to confirm it with the customer, but they probably don't try very hard (or at all). I'm sure they'll conveniently blame human or technical errors for any faults, even if they've deliberately set things up to fail.

Be sure you document every call, etc. somehow when dealing with them and get legal help if you need to. My impression was that everyone working there is in on the customer retention scam and all the ways to play hardball and abuse their customers. I seriously wish someone would do an expose on them. Speakeasy was a really awesome ISP back in the day. The people who bought them out were scum, so I'm glad they changed the name in a way.
I read this as: "We've built our own APIs by automating the purchase process on the state lottery websites."
>> Third, children walking to and from school wear fluorescent helmets

Just bright-coloured soft hats. Not helmets, which would imply head-protection.
Comcast always gets singled out for their terrible customer support, but in my experience, it is no different than other companies of the same size / in the same space. And no, I wouldn't consider their service as bad, it's just what I would expect from a company of that size. And yes, I think as a company's CS is scaled to such a level, you will inevitably see a decrease in support quality. Compare their support to other tech giants of the same size and you will see the same issues.
Even after allowing thirdparty javascript I still can't read the site (get a san francisco park-what?) and the "Cancel my Comcast" button doesn't work. Blah. I'll call Comcast myself, and for $5 I'll show you how "http aref" works
You're being optimistic. I'd bet the majority of Americans could not identify their ancestral country on a blank map[1]. HN is not a very representative sample.

[1] See any survey about Americans and geography ever.
> Could you explain the basis for that statement?

I merely meant that in my experience, the school education that Norwegians get is not noticeably worse than the one Finnish kids get. They speak foreign languages, they can solve an equation, they know where Arkansas is.

Of course this is just my view, nothing you could call a scientific view substantiated by formal research. I just see that Norwegians are generally better (knowledge-wise) educated than Americans, on level with Finns, even if the PISA ratings of Norway and USA are very close to each other and significantly behind Finland.

I did not quite understand when you say you've read that students must get more 'academic' education, backed by large-scale testing, in order to compete against the countries with high PISA scores when the supposed strength of Finnish education system is lack of large-scale testing. Particularly early on - pupils generally don't even get any formal scores or ratings until 6th grade (as 13-year-old).
It's breeding season for magpies here (Australia) at the moment. So you're likely to get swooped expectantly. Recent studies have shown they recognise specific people they consider a threat and will swoop them year after year.

I remember as a kid watching our cat running from the shed up the back across the yard to the house. He was hunkered down, going like a bullet as a magpie dive-bombed him three times.
Supposedly there is video footage and there are ballistics reports. So far - as noted in the article - the Waco police have suppressed it.

Since we're over 4 months later, I'm not sure how they're still being held without trial. Criminal thugs or not, they MUST have their day in court and the opportunity to defend themselves.

Or the system is all a sham after all..
You may not know what I make, but you know what the salary range is on the position you're recruiting for. Why not share that up front?
Is there a saner version of the slides, a PDF, or something with less jpg?
But the idea of perfect forward secrecy is not that your locally stored mail is securely encrypted in the future, but instead that mail that was intercepted in transfer should not become readable, even if your key is later recovered.

With your locally saved mail/messages it is up to you how to and whether to securely store them. You can save them decrypted if you are not worried about getting your device stolen. You can securely delete them if you think that you can not keep their content safe. You can do anything in between, it's your choice to make.
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Designers take a problem that our users have and, through collaboration with engineers, data, and iteration, design how new features should work. We tend to be full stack designers: we’ll figure out how the application should work and feel, and then turn that into prototypes with HTML and CSS. We’ll work closely with front-end engineers to build the final product.

What you will do
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Preferred skills
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Show HN: Clone all of your GitHub repos at once
Wonderful article. But it's a hell of a lot less fun if you consider it from the perspective of Hadley or Pauline, or, worse, his kids.

Life must be so hard for Ernest. What with having to decide which of two devoted women he prefers. If he wasn't able to distract himself with living in a series of beautiful locales, and a few other affairs, it would be nigh intolerable.

Meanwhile, some kids probably just wish they could know their dad.
This was just a quick tool I made so that I could setup my stuff on a new computer quickly. Hopefully someone else finds it useful.
The thing about this is that a "philosophical zombie" actually is expected to be absolutely indistinguishable from the outside from an ordinary person[1]. This person's stated self-reflection violates that and so this person couldn't be philosophical zombie - or at least couldn't be deduced to be p-zombie because of this behavior.

Given that the concept is basically utterly dull - there literally "nothing to see here" - I understand the impulse to liven it up by conflating a zombie-like-person or person-who-says-they're-a-zombie with a p-zombie. But it's more reasonable to discard the idea of immeasurable, inherent, atomic consciousness/qualia/satience as something useful to consider and look at measurable, meaningful versions of these labels.

And by the end of the article the author admits his example is an "imperfect p-zombie" but I think that entirely misses the point of p-zombies, which absolute hypothetical constructs or they are something else entirely.

"A philosophical zombie or p-zombie in the philosophy of mind and perception is a hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience. For example, a philosophical zombie could be poked with a sharp object, and not feel any pain sensation, but yet, behave exactly as if it does feel pain (it may say "ouch" and recoil from the stimulus, or say that it is in intense pain)"
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
So I get a list of "people you may know" on LinkedIn. Some of those are just email addresses, no profile; but you won't see that unless you try to click on it, only to find that it's not a link (but the "(+)" button to add still works). The ones that aren't clickable are those of people who don't have LI profiles. So this begs the question: why is LI showing me these suggestions? If I add that person, will they now get an email from me, asking them to join LI? And where did LI get these email addresses, since I most definitely did not give them access?

LI's shady practices just never cease.
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Design, configure, and deploy infrastructure like nginx, haproxy, consul, and elasticsearch using Ansible
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I did, hence why I referred to "copyleft".
>the only kind should bother with anyway!

I hope all this studying will pay off then, I have fremlin vol1/vol2 sitting underneath my text while I handle the per-requisite material hopefully the journey will pay off.

Measure theory can be used with a lot of stuff I guess.
This won't work for everyone, but if you live near a Comcast brick and mortar store (e.g. Sunnyvale, CA), just go there.

If you tell them you want to cancel in person, and bring all your equipment with you, the reps aren't going to argue with you much.

There is of course still the time cost to wait in line (15-20 minutes on a weekend IME) but at least it saves in frustration in them trying to get you to change your mind.
Building an iOS app in Rust (Part 1)
Containers can add up fast with microservices and sidecars.

And on the cloud provider side, imagine how many 128 MB containers fit on a host.
GPLv3 will make adoption problematic... if it were at least LGPL so that it could be used as a library that would make adoption far more likely.
I would expect the volume of harvests to stay about the same, the number of fishermen to stay about the same and the number of flights to stay about the same.

There would likely be more lost crops and more accidents though (just not a huge percentage of lost crops or enough accidents to dissuade people).
IT Insecurity: Aggressive use of security solutions
Aren't patrons public, though?

The only relevance to gamergate is that they'd be able to doxx people who support figures they don't like.
I fully agree agree. The most shameful moment I experienced in England, when I lived there with my small children whom we'd previously raised in Japan, was when I was asked by a concerned parent whether I had a permit to be in a place where children were present. Apparently all of those other parents had already applied to the government and been vetted to be in a play room attached to a public library.

That was when I realised things were not the same in England. I felt sickened and angry at a such society-wide presumption of guilt.
> generally flatter pay scale overall compared to most other countries, a corporate lawyer isn't that much better off than a teacher.

The most important aspect of this is that when your nation's best and brightest choose a career path, massive disparities in quality of life is not a mitigating factor detracting from careers in education.
I thought I was done laughing and took a drink of my beer. I now have beer in my nose.
If it's two images you are comparing you can use `background-blend-mode: difference` to spot the differences also.

E.g. http://codepen.io/bennettfeely/pen/NGdzjr
Privacy is in direct conflict the desire of the masses to acquire their 15 minutes of fame. It's also in direct conflict to the voyeristic nature of many people. One of the reasons Facebook was started.
More info at Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-settles-class-action...
Native New Yorker here. Growing up in the 80's and 90's (when crime was at it's peak), it was common among everyone I grew up with to ride the subway/bus alone and generally explore the neighborhood alone/with friends. I remember my mother being slightly apprehensive when I started commuting to school alone in 4th grade, but it wasn't a major issue.

As many have pointed out, the culture has simply changed. Crime is way down, but ironically people are more afraid to let their children travel unsupervised than when I was a kid.

As a side note, I did get lost on the train once (while in the care of a relative. She got off the train and forgot to take me with her.) I was asleep and woke up at a stop I didn't recognize. While I remember being a little apprehensive, I simply walked over to the woman in the token booth, explained I was lost and had gotten separated from my aunt. She let me inside the booth and called my mom, who came and picked me up. All in all, it wasn't a huge affair. I think if that happened today police and CPS will probably turn it into a major incident of possible child neglect.
And if you think the idea of philosophical zombies are rad, you should read Blindsight by Peter Watts. http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

His books asks a somewhat different question, which is: "is consciousness an evolutionarily desirable trait?"
IBM SAYS ITS CARBON-NANOTUBE-BASED CHIPS CAN BREAK THROUGH LIMITS OF MOORE'S LAW
Datadog - http://datadog.com
Agreed. I'm in my 40s. I distinctly remember watching Back to the Future and Return of the Jedi with my friends, not my parents and we took a bus across town to get there.
The article mentions exponential retry periods for that.
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The BTables discussion takes me back to memories of my first college computing class (in FORTRAN). We were asked how we might store a sparse matrix in less memory. The solution was exactly the same as BTables. We thought we'd done something novel when the professor pointed out that it had already been implemented in the 60s.

Great ideas never fade. They do get reinvented :).
I'LL ALLOW IT.
I don't have the experience to judge. While I grew up in the US and live in Sweden, I've found that my personal experience isn't a good guide. Eg, my school in the US offered differential equations, Latin, and European history, which I'm told is uncommon. I also don't have an understanding of the research, so I think we'll have to leave things where they are.

"I did not quite understand when you say .."

Sorry, I see the confusion. I meant that in the US, in discussion about changes to the US school system, one of the arguments is how US schools need more 'rigorous' testing with a more 'academic' goal, in order to improve PISA scores. Those making this argument often point to a country like South Korea with a very academic/test-centric education system and high PISA as a model for what the US should be. Those opposed point to Finland as a counter-example.

To edit what I wrote slightly, "much of what I've read coming out of the US is that US students must get [a] more 'academic' education ..."
Robots are clearly a combination of hardware and software. Curious why you make this distinction.
Ah, but policeman's actual thought process might have actually been purely deductive or purely reflexive, it might only be that the probabilities justify a series of a discreet calculations.
When you make your money doing consulting work, the yes, the needs of the payee do get a certain priority.
I second that book. The airline story was particularly shocking and illustrated well the need for its techniques.
No all caps titles please.
We made a Slack bot, Swolebot, announce 3 times a day how many pushes we have to do based on how many open PRs we have to review

https://github.com/robinpowered/swolebot
Well, it seems like he'd have to first answer the question "what is consciousness", something the confused idea of "philosophical zombies" shows we're far from answering.
I guess my issue here is that the comment doesn't really offer anything besides judgment. It's okay to be judgmental, but the comment didn't have any substance to it.
>It's going to take further generational change to adapt to those new possibilities and decide how -- and even if -- we should use that technology.

The problem is for most things we're not doing any deciding. We just invent new technology, and then we have to live with its consequences, while never stopping and thinking about it or actually and democratically deciding if we should use it and how we should restrict it.

All that with the sole exception of when there's comercial interests at stake. Then we go out of our way to prevent the technology from messing with them, e.g. adding DRM to help with copyright. But for everything that can mess up the lives of millions of people (be it because of lifestyle changes, environmental damage, invasion of privacy, etc) we either never get to decide and restrict consequences, or we do very little of it.
> I think that overall in Europe, there is a much less steep income curve as you advance your career, skills, or education. This is good for the majority of people, but bad for your typical HN'er.

I don't understand; how is this good for the majority of people?
I was telling you what I actually do think, not what someone else might think. That is, knowing what I know now, I would say what I said. If you are asking me if I would agree with that while not knowing what I know now, then obviously I can't say, because I would know things that I don't currently know.

Regardless, I can't make decisions using information I don't have, so the question is pointless.
From what I've read about the Finish school system educators are selected from the top quartile of academic performers of university students. In the US, educators are ranked in the bottom 1/3.

The limited number of seats per profession is a new one, but kinda makes sense. However, by doing this the nation "locks in" their capacity for growth in these areas. It would seem that this is somewhat misguided. An economy cannot be very efficient if it makes decisions a decade in advance.
I guess social convention says that it's bad to lie. Personally, I don't feel so bad about lying to a company... but I do feel a bit bad about lying to a person that represents that company.
That's effectively LGPL.. even then, though it would still be problematic for embedding and hold back adoption in browsers and various platforms (game engines, etc).

Realistically a basic rendering and conversion implementation should be at least Apache 2, or something even more permissive (MIT/BSD/ISC). It was my first thought/comment when I saw the GPLv3 notice... They should switch the license quickly if they want to see adoption/support. Getting a free standard in place is more important than using a copyleft license.
Every time this issue comes up, it seems to polarize itself: either you have to believe that ending the "drug war" will largely solve America's incarceration problem, or, for some reason, you have to support the drug war.

I don't understand the logic. It does not follow from "ending the drug war won't solve our prison problem" that "we should maintain the drug war".

There is virtually no vocal user of HN that supports the drug war. In every thread about drugs on HN, you can safely assume the entire community agrees that the "War on Drugs" is toxic.
If you combine mmap with "filesystem with transparent compression", and want the efficiency of mmap, mmap will only see the compressed data.

If you want your mmap to magically see the uncompressed data, your file system will have to do decompress the data, and that doesn't come for free.

I would try and aim for compression in the application, as data size likely will be the bottleneck in reading and writing such files. If your data isn't very sparse, you could delta encode the indices of the non-zero columns, and use some variable-length encoding for it. Compressing each row of deltas may help after the delta encoding (especially if it is reasonably dense, because you expect the deltas to be small).

Once you go down that route, you have sacrificed simplicity, so you might just as well encode your floats, too.
LinkedIn allows you to auto invite your email contacts to join linkedIn and they sort of ask you to confirm sending the invite but what they dont make clear is that if the person does not accept they will send 2 follow up invite emails that contain your name telling them to join linkedIn. This settlement claims that it is violation of your likeness to use your name to invite new users without your permission which you only gave for the first email. LinkedIn has decided to settle the case instead of letting it go to trial.

Dont get too excited the payout seems to be set at minimum of $10. So if you want to waste your time signing up for this class action you can get $10 from linkedIn because almost certainly they will reach the max number of complainants and end up only paying each person the minimum. Anyone with a linkedIn account that has ever sent out and invite to join linkedIn qualifies for this suit
shouldn't lan-local v6 interfaces suffice for that?
This has been debunked. The stats do no support this idea (that because the US has to deal with ESL, etc, it can't perform better). If you factor out ESL students in the US, the US still ranks poorly compared to other nations in the OECD, many of whom are far more multicultural than Finland.
This looks very cool indeed. I have a quick question unrelated to containers — is ZeroTier something you can run on servers to create a private, transparent cloud VPN?

For example, say I have a bunch of boxes on some cloud providers like Digital Ocean and Linode. I'd like for them to communicate securely — across data centers and providers — without having to set up SSL for _every_ individual app in the stack (Memcached, PostgreSQL, etc.). At the same time I'd like the boxes to talk to any open port among their peers, and not worry about having to configure iptables separately for every service the box is running. In effect, I want a private network layered on top of what the hosting provider has.

Is this what ZeroTier can do for me? If yes, are a lot of people using it this way? How's the performance? (I notice ZeroTier runs over UDP.) If not, what's the appropriate software?