skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for making the utter bankruptcy of Baudrillard's ethics so plain for all to see. Usually it's hiding under much more jargon.

> More kids are in school? For what? To be a white collar slave? To be a white collar slavemaster (entrepreneur)? Death in menial labor, while undesirable, at least prevents one from fattening the elites' wallets with their brains.

I'm a strong critic of schooling as its typically done, because it is indeed a conformity machine. But here's the thing: it's still better than sending all the kids to a salt mine, because that's a precondition for us to even be having this discussion. The kids who got sent to salt mines don't get to read Baudrillard and comment on HN.

> Where are the African and Asian artists?

On those continents, respectively. Racist much?

> scientists... philosophers... virtually unheard of

This has always been the human condition. I guarantee you the fraction of people who appreciated Aristotle during his life was a vanishingly small fraction of the human race.

> Similarly, low child mortality just currently means the commodification of children and childhood.

This is pretty hilarious, because high-mortality societies are the ones that have large families specifically because children are valued as sources of labor. Some societies didn't even name their infants until they got old enough to be out of the highest morality risk -- they were treated as fungible commodities before then.

> I'd also say literacy could have resulted in more healthy attitudes

It could have resulted in spontaneous world peace, too. But that kind of navel gazing is not relevant to the question of whether literacy is still better than nothing. It's clearly a precondition if you want those great scientists and philosophers to ever have a shot.

> people who think everything is great and there cannot possibly be any systemic problems

This is a giant straw man. Please find me a single person who thinks the world has no systemic problems. The presence of problems is a necessary precondition for someone like me to argue that things are getting better. "No problems" implies stasis, not improvement.
You are making assumptions based on zero evidence. The change is binary, enforcement is over time. You are assuming the change from 48% to 65% (which is also a 17% increase) can be explained sans law, but there's zero evidence that's the case.

Your assumptions are without standing.
Here's another "fun" example. Some of our early uses of the term were to describe the KKK, which was and remains a terrorist organization par excellence. Except that the clandestine nature of the group, and thus the need for its members to lead superficially normal lives within the community, does not lend itself to claiming responsibility for attacks in the sense we associate with jihadist organizations. A classic example is the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963, which was perpetrated. The communities targeted by Klan members don't need to know exactly who was responsible for the violence to have its intended effect.
urlparse().netloc, not netlock.
Would be nice to clarify is for Python 2, even better to just do it in 3.
Maybe not as dead simple for beginners if you use regular expressions.
> Why should it matter where they watch what they paid to watch?

Because they are watching things they didn't pay to watch.

If, for example, HBO locks up rights to broadcasting a movie in US, Netflix might be able to get the rights in the UK. Watching it in the US via a UK Netflix proxy is (theoretically at least) depriving HBO of revenue, since they paid for exclusivity.
"conformant" seems like the strongest analogy.
104 points with no comments in 32 mins... and a post to a notorious blackhat / SEO forum.

I'm sensing a voting ring and ban.
Ipvanish, because their software is so simply, I even taught my parents how to use it
I think the two things are different. "Boss mode" is a quick cover to hide something you're doing (e.g. hit F9 to replace a game screen with a black screen with a command line), but this is a complete replacement UI for doing the actual activity while appearing to be working.
Probably you didn't hear of scrapy https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy
There are professional bettors who make money on horse racing (eg: Alan Woods). They look at historical odds of horses, jockeys, weather conditions, track conditions etc and like these 'predators' on DFS use models to predict probabilities of runners winning. When the estimated probability of the horse winning exceeds the estimated final public probability by the track take, they bet, and bet big. Lots of data, lots of modelling, algorithmic, lots of domain knowledge, and fully automated. No need to scrape websites, totes will supply the latest odds take their bets programmatically.

Do you consider betting on horse racing as gambling? To be honest, for the professionals placing bets in this way, I don't (keep in mind it's very very easy to incorrectly place yourself in this category, and you will lose). But the vast majority of people betting on DFS do not, and can not, take this approach. For them, horse racing and DFS are very much gambling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_about_the_RMS_Ti...

You give a director a big budget from their past successes, not necessarily because the underlying thing is somehow easier or harder to make money off of due to copyright. That's icing, not cake.
I use Linode and RamNode. Indeed the recent events over at Linode are bothering.

RamNode seems to be doing fine for me, nothing critical being used, just for some hobby sites. 389 days uptime and counting! (Atlanta)
The Worst-Designed Thing You've Never Noticed – Roman Mars
If you're going to have database-like features, might as well just make the entire machine a dedicated database server.

Having a database engine accessing the entire storage device (in a shared-memory like setup) is no more dangerous than having a database engine accessing all of its own memory and disk.

So we can have one server for SQL-like things, one more server for NoSQL like things, and one more server for storing blobs. And that's that.
Would they consider these systems to be necessarily unacceptable? Intercepting TLS at a corporate proxy is perfectly valid and necessary for a decent security program.
I don't know if this problem still exists but at some point in the not too distant past not every title available on desktop was available if you signed up on say Apple TV. If anyone has the numbers I'd be curious how much of the catalog is restricted this way.
I feel like anyone who makes knowledge of their MESNA membership public takes themselves fairly seriously...
Is there a JavaScript version with a dark theme? (serious)
USDCHF+Loses+Upside+Momentum
Sounds like you've got some sort of agenda to push.

I've never had a job ask me if I've been convicted of sexual assault, and if anyone was going to be asked, you would think it would be someone with the last name Dildonics.
As a motivation for this project, they point to an article in Salon, Why Johnny can’t code (but they use the wrong URL; it has moved to https://www.salon.com/2006/09/14/basic_2/). That article says:

> The “scripting” languages that serve as entry-level tools for today’s aspiring programmers – like Perl and Python – don’t make this experience accessible to students in the same way. BASIC was close enough to the algorithm that you could actually follow the reasoning of the machine as it made choices and followed logical pathways.

I can only assume that the author hasn’t actually used or even seen, say, Python, which is often referred to as “runnable pseudocode”; meaning “the notes you wrote on how to implement your algorithm can often be copied and pasted into a Python program and run as-is”.

From the BASIC-256 page:

> It uses traditional control structures like gosub, for/next, and goto, which helps kids easily see how program flow-control works.

I, myself, originally taught myself to code when I was young, using BASIC on machines with BASIC in ROM, and have typed in listings from magazines and bought expensive BASIC reference manuals, read them in detail and used the language to create many utility programs and games. And even I wouldn’t wish BASIC on anyone when modern languages with features like (gasp) functions are readily available.

Sure, I could understand the wish for BASIC back when the alternatives were C, Pascal, Perl, LISP, FORTRAN, or Java. But when Python exists, there is no need for BASIC.

(I should note that Python originally derives from a language explicitly created for teaching, called ABC.)
Maybe take a look at a college's Computer Science degree requirements and look into topics that interest you:

https://www.cs.washington.edu/students/ugrad/degree_requirem...

Wikipedia is pretty decent in most topics.

Also, I've found that GeeksForGeeks is pretty neat too: http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/
Well in fairness the process of evolution would have had millions of years to optimize body cycles for the former scenario rather than the latter.
Product Engineering at Quora
Python has an enormous quantity of mature, multiple contributor projects.
Netflix needs to add live streaming of local channels, and sports to their package (maybe as addon costs) -- thus giving people no reason at all to keep cable.
It also needs to reap orphan processes or they will become zombies. The dumb-init code does not appear to be doing that so I reported an issue[1].

In general docker is half-trying to be the init system, but most people using it are putting a whole child os with its own init system in their container. I think the approach that rkt uses where it uses systemd to run the process is safer. Now if people would just start using lightweight containers...

[1]: https://github.com/Yelp/dumb-init/issues/44
Is there any concern about the level of effort required to formally verify a kernel being a roadblock to continuous improvement (e.g. 64 bit support).
What do you mean by "-1"?

RE signaling issue - those people who are opposed to CoC are reacting because the CoC trend did not appeared from nowhere - it's the result of the SJW narrative that's been spreading around the Internet. So by accepting the CoC they feel they're legitimizing (what they perceive as) the culture of outrage and censorship that hides beneath the talk of preventing abuse.
I used to do disreputable web browsing in w3m. If you use a scary looking font like 6x13 and something like Solarized, no one stands close enough or cares enough to check.
I am still mystified every time I see one of these totally content-free word salad[0] buzzword explosions from First Round on the front page.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_salad
I used Windows, because the rest of the hackathon team I was on was using Windows. We were using Unity, but we didn't want there to be any problems getting the code to run on multiple OSs. I know that Unity makes it easy to do that, but we didn't want to risk it.

Edit: Also remembered that we used as Kinect, which requires Windows
You can also take any Hotel shuttle. I do this at LAX.
Sorry, how many times have you ridden in a cab? And in which city/cities?
Definitely recommend the book in the post. At Day's Close by A. Roger Ekrich. Beautiful writing. http://www.amazon.com/At-Days-Close-Night-Times/dp/039332901...
There's nothing wrong with PHP.
Not until you try to run it at least
I'd like to know more about the sockpuppets.
Failures in NIST’s ECC standards [pdf]
Corporate proxies aren't the issue here; Outdated corporate proxies and other "security" software still issuing SHA-1 certs is what's causing this.
Haha, apparently you are being downvoted for being a realist. (Oh, fun, me too. Looks like I need to drink some kool-ade.)
They didn't just make it, they also set it off o_O
19, it's like 30/70 SMS/Facebook in my experience. (Then there's Snapchat, but that is more of an overlap than a replacement.) I think part of it is that Messenger handles groups well and everyone is on it without needing a number.

Frankly I hardly use Facebook-the-social-network much, but I use Messenger all the time.
I find that many of the colleagues who spend the day with earphones on are regularly available on chat. Isn't that a much better way to communicate rather than assume your problem is the most important and worth disrupting other people from their work?
Why is it not a "Show HN"?
Increasing industry trend to expose CPU / GPU / SPU / NPU directly to applications for more efficient data handling.
Are you happy with the outcome? Would you make the same decision knowing what you know now?
I drove the Chevy Bolt, GM's electric car for everyone
Python has tremendously more complex syntax and semantics than a classical BASIC interpreter. Calling python "executable pseudocode" is as disingenuous as claiming that C has a straightforward translation to machine code (maybe if you're using C on a PDP-11 in 1972…).

I think Python has an ill-deserved reputation as a simple language for beginners to pick up because if you know some other programming language Python is mostly familiar. I've spent years teaching hands-on introductory programming to middle- and high-schoolers, and my experience is emphatically that if you don't already know how to program, Python is confusing and difficult to come to grips with.
Shhhhh. You're not supposed to talk about that.
Well, not sure if it is a coincidence. Facebook app on my iphone crashed several times a couple of days ago.
Hmm I think I am agreeing with you on the preconditions; I did say that the system, through literacy has sowed the seeds of its own destruction.

But it seems like we're on a path that makes this less and less likely, whereas the introduction of technology and so forth should have done the opposite, were we not "ethically bankrupt" as a species.

Baudrillard can be said to have identified the problems. and that more than makes up for his defeatism.

The rest of your reply is basically, now that we dont have salt mines worked by kids, everything is awesome and you cant complain.

If you really do recognize that we have the systemic problems I was talking about, perhaps we actually agree and I'm only saying things arent getting better fast enough.

Which is a real danger. There's only so much resources one can devote to not being a complete tool, and these are running down, quickly.
"using the power of monopoly to squeeze others out of a market, and hurting the ability of workers to secure their own rights."

This kind of assertion will not go away. There is some truth to this. What I'd be interested to know is, does the same argument hold with the industrial revolution?

Did the advent of railways squeeze ship, barge, horse and cart transport companies. Did you it hurt workers organising their rights in the existing and new industries? I ask this because the comparison between the mechanical and silicon revolutions may yield some insight into what is happening now.

"tech companies don't have to break down unions. With an app, you can start a business entirely outside of existing legal frameworks and compete using your own set of rules."

Now it's bad to create new technology and applying it to new business? Since when has this been a bad thing? The legal profession has always trailed business. This is called "progress".
Starboard Value calls for shake-up at Yahoo
The question isn't "how would I ever sleep that much"; it's "what am I going to do with my time if it's too dark to see?" That most people in the Medieval era couldn't do anything productive for more than 9 hours a day in winter is a given. The question is just when and how they slept within that 14-hour block of unproductive hours.
I drive to work every day (suburb to heart of dc), and a good majority of cars in front of me "driving distracted" are often Uber or Lyft (more than cell phone talk/text or applying make up type of drivers).

It's just frustrating to see these drivers driving so distracted (I think they are more distracted before picking up a passanger)
BTW, can you imagine if Aristotle et al were listened to in their time, how different things would be?
Ionic – Mobile UI Framework for PhoneGap/Cordova Developers
Not sure exactly what OP is referring to, but CSS-trees [1] are a classic example of cache-aware indexing structures that fetch entire pages into cache and arrange data so that most of the comparisons happen on cached data. In most cases, they significantly outperform binary trees. Masstree [2] is a more recent example of this.

[1] http://www.vldb.org/conf/1999/P7.pdf

[2] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/masstree:eurosys12.pdf
I'd love to believe this, and I agree things weren't that better in the past (some form of nostalgic bias)[1], but when I hear people from the 60s, 70s talk, they have finer way to express themselves in more straightforward style. Especially politics (at least in my country), it's disarmingly sad to hear debates of that era, people seemed like far subtler and sophisticated compared to those in place now (they can't even hold a simple argument without resorting to low fallacious tactics).

I'm fairly convinced that when society is too comfortable (while being messier at the same time) then you see diminishing returns in people's existence.

[1] how society repeats itself, new tech bad for work, old good ways are dying; these are recurrent generational waves.
The easiest example would be to be better than 75% of developers at front end development & better than 75% of developers at back end development

That skill level would likely make you very valuable to startups.
Didn't people drink massive amounts of beer during the middle ages?

I can't sleep a full night if I have more than 2 drinks, I imagine this happens to others as well.
If your need to get onto reddit is so strong that you have to do it at work and hide it, you have problems other than whether someone sees it over your shoulder.

No, it just means you enjoy reading it and you're willing to break some rule you probably consider dumb and inconsequential.

Why do you think people have to have a "strong need" to be willing to break workplaces rules?
Parkinson's law of triviality
Even if I would grant this, does this make BASIC better than Python?
I hear from both Uber & Lyft drivers that their corporate masters keep taking bigger and bigger cuts of the pie.
>> filming technology is already commoditized at the entry level

But Indie music is better in the personal preference category and usually no worse in production values. And on the other hand what we see in regular tv: we see increasing abundance of content , and most people flocking more and more to the highly rated content which usually has high production values and often some measure of high brand.

That's probably because they don't want to risk an hour of their time. On the other hand , listening to a new song ? who cares if it's bad - it's only a minute to switch to something else , and it's a social custom too.
How do you short a unicorn?
Meredith Patterson and Eric Raymond: Social Justice in OSS Interview
Arbitrary notions of safety and conduct. People know how they should conduct themselves, and those who will do something wrong don't care.

Arbitrary notions of power. Does enacting this over the members of this community improve anything? No. There are no issues within it to begin with. Nobody is rampantly "pissing in the pool" on a daily basis, hell even monthly basis at that.

Arbitrary notions of acknowledgment. Do you read through every ToS you've agreed to? No.
Did you use some tool or browser extension to generate this?
Show HN: Hooks – Stay Up to Date on Anything Through Push Notifications
Why do you think many of us are not like 90s Bill Gates?
I'm not moving the goalposts, nor am I trying to litigate anyting. I'm simply trying to understand your argument and where we differ.

You think the current laws regarding driver culpability for errors are sufficient. Ok, fine. We've established a difference of opinion and don't need to argue it.

> You began the thread by trying to argue that a lack of prosecutions for vehicular fatalities was evidence of injustice. But it isn't: it's evidence for the fact that most traffic fatalities don't involve conduct we recognize as criminal.

From this I am going to assume that you also disagree that investigation and prosecution of traffic fatalities lack sufficient priority and resources.

If I am correct about this, then I now think the source of a disagreement is clear.
Content and programming are still quite limited. There are a few good original shows. Also, they keep adding a lot of movies with poor ratings (rotten tomatoes). There's definitely potential for some disruption in this space. Also, some more competition from others would be nice.
It's pretty simple: almost all efforts to duplicate POSIX in a safe language failed. The commercial practice is porting a POSIX or Linux API in C to a virtualized partition that runs on microkernel. Safety-critical apps run either directly on the microkernel or on a minimal, language-specific runtime running directly on kernel. Keeps TCB tiny. Overall app/system is split with untrusted components in POSIX/Linux system & security-critical stuff in the minimal partitions. Unlike safe POSIX, this is a proven model done by many small teams.

In this case, it would be a RTOS or user-mode Linux, plus a custom runtime or target for Rust apps, and IPC/middleware to connect the two. Way easier to build. POSIX comes later if effort comes along.
The Father of Online Anonymity Has a Plan to End the Crypto War
Competing and winning has no dependency on harvesting user data and giving it away to his friends for their own personal use.
It's not an either/or. You're drawing a false dichotomy and then choosing the lesser of two evils. There is a third possibility as others have pointed out which is to actually lobby for improving all the basic infrastructure so that the real internet and not some hobbled version of it is available and accessible to everyone.
I don't understand what the fuss is over this. Using your analogy, if AOL were legitimately free to non-technical folks, it would be worth it for many of them to have their curated/locked in ecosystem. I can't help but feel the hate for freebasics is an example of the privileged declaring what's best for the unprivileged.
Yellow cabs are a multi-organization multi-city brand; so are e.g. checkered cabs. It's like Coke vs. Pepsi without the central corporate parent. Not inconceivable an independent bottler would prefer bottling for Coke rather than Pepsi right?
"Manifest Destiny"
Why should someone have to agree simply because someone else does, and accept it?

The other person should have the same approach, accept that others do not see it as a worthwhile and not have it.
Humans didn't live at high latitudes until only tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago. We might be better tuned to Equatorial cycles.
Speaking from personal experience: no they do not.
Here's the remastered release
https://vimeo.com/139094998
Yeah you can. I was in a cinema last week in Maloolaba for $9. Brisbane has 3 low cost cinemas around the same price, one in Southbank in the city. Just avoid event cinemas and support your local indies.
It's the same here in Lithuania, when Uber started to become popular a few years ago the taxi companies joined forces and launched their own apps (there are two main competing apps).

I don't understand how US taxi companies have been so oblivious to this, given each one in major cities probably has more cabs than the whole country does here :D

Uber finally launched a couple of months ago, but it's more expensive and doesn't have as many cars.
In the scenario of free walled-garden internet access vs. no access, how can you justify claiming its not a good thing?
AIUI, -in SF, at least- each taxi cab company has its own unique color scheme. I guess Yellow Cab's is Yellow on Yellow. Others are Red on Black, or Blue on White, or whatever.

So yeah, I'm fairly certain that the guy is bragging about how lucky his company was to be able to have the "traditional" taxi color scheme... it's more or less as silly as it sounds.