skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. I remember Y2K and since I was already taking baby steps in programming back then, I was also perplexed as for why it would matter.

16 years later now, I see that about the only thing that could do some real damage was software in factories and stock exchanges breaking, and requiring downtime to fix. It would be that downtime that could do actual harm. Because I've now seen some code that runs in factories and... man, how this is totally and utterly fucked up. I'm happy nothing bad happened back in 2000. I'm also surprised that some manufacturing plants are running at all.
I could have been clearer. What If I simply decline to answer? That's essentially me keeping the answer private, so my query might have been better phrased, must I answer any question asked of me?
This could also be done on purpose occasionally as a money losing promo in order to bring in new long-term customers. Casinos have insane LTCV so it might make sense sometimes. In this scenario it would be the classic groupon problem where you get taken advantage of by 'deal hounds'
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They only have to take your card if they want to get paid. They're not required to pick you up in the first place.
By merely accessing a country-specific DNS server, Netflix will serve up the country-appropriate selection. You don't need to proxy your traffic through a VPN for this to work. There are DNS services which let you pick which country you would like to appear from and people use this for Netflix, Hulu, and others.
One benefit is publishing competition. You can buy most popular public domain novels for $2~$5. On Amazon right now, the first hit for A Modest Proposal (a very short piece) is $2.25, and the first hit for Huckleberry Finn is $4.05. There may be even cheaper options if you dig through the hundreds of other editions.

And of course you can get digital copies from sites like Project Gutenberg.
The problem with this analysis is that, if such a course of "ever-extending copyright protections" were pursued, it would run the 'well of creativity' dry.

The 'creative commons' is a recognition that cultural works are not created ex nihilo but by building on the works of previous generations; as creators benefit, so must they contribute.
More like rich people preventing a richer person from force feeding the poor with what makes him the most money.
Exactly like Nestlé giving baby formula for the first few days for free in poor african countries so that they become dependent on it.
This a very dishonest argument. Fatalities per km travelled is the standard metric of safety for a good reason.

Are you against hospitals too? Deaths in hospitals have skyrocketed since they were invented.

You are being a pedantic jerk. Read this:

http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html

Here are some more reasonable discussions of the issue:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the...

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/02/a-m...
I've had mostly good taxis, some okay taxis and a lot of taxis that just didn't show up. Luckily I haven't had any bad taxi rides.
Umm... free internet/basics/walled garden is an additional choice... Not sure how free basics reduces choice.
I'm in Chicago and it's about an $8 cost per trip on average to go from one part of the city to another. The subway system is about $2.50 for the same trip but it's not on demand.

If you only care about cost in a big city there are likely less expensive options but if time is more valuable to you then cost isn't the big concern.
> The fact that nobody benefits much is very much worth pointing out.

Warner Brothers, Disney, etc. benefit from this, as do their employees, in quite concrete terms.
I've only had one in the past year I've been using them.
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Yeah I think people misread Scott. He's always had crazy ideas, but they've been well-articulated and always delivered with a healthy dose of humility.

He doesn't take himself too seriously. Whereas many see him as a troll, I think he's a true contrarian in a sea of fashionable contrarians.
> I'll probably maintain for all my days that there is no good or evil, just acts. Yes, cry "moral relativism!", but morals are social constructs, whether you like it or not - there is no universal law of morality, even if your name is Kant.

Actually, "do unto others as you would have done unto you" is a pretty damn near universal law of morality. It doesn't encompass things like when to punish bad actors, but it covers a huge range of situations that we encounter every day.

However, what most people never recognize is that apathy is the mechanism that allows small evils to persist long enough to turn into great evils. Often even a few individuals standing up at the beginning can thwart a rising tide that will be impossible to resist once it gets going.
It's still not really a tech company, though. Maybe you could call it a "remote company" or "virtual company" due to how they operate, but in my opinion, you can't really call yourself a technology company if you haven't programmed or engineered some sort of software or hardware.
Sounds like a cheap way to build a (somewhat) small DIY keylogger!
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Not if you tip the odds in your favor by counting cards. Not illegal by any means, but you have to make sure you're covert enough about it that you don't get kicked out by the casino.
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I'm probably not going to use a site with 'reddit' in the domain if I need to hide my traffic to reddit.
Disagree about that in Chicago. Can companies often claim their meters are down or go the "long way" to jack up the fare. Uber and Lyft have justly eaten up the market here.
Even if there were only one package of internet available globally there would still be tiered internet, you can pay for that one package, or you can not pay for it.

The only way we'd have universal untiered internet is if there was some sort of government fee / tax that you just had to pay to get internet and that was your only option.

Everyone has vastly different (tiered) internet experiences, for example the internet on my phone is faster than the internet on my desktop when uploading.

On my phone I pay for additional data use on my desktop I don't.
I don't think this is as much about AI as it may seem. I mean, yes, it's about AI. But what it's really about is a human tendency which is to create things and meaning when we don't necessarily have the evidence of them.

What this is really about is religion. More specifically, we have people who are the most non-religious group out there (like scientists) and they dismiss formal religion only to recreate another version of it:

"A core of technically proficient, digitally-minded people reject traditional religions and superstitions. They set out to come up with a better, more scientific framework. But then they re-create versions of those old religious superstitions!"

And I see this more often than just in computer science. It happens all the time in economics.
For the people arguing that rich people are preventing the poor from getting internet access, please read about the Nestlé baby formula scandal. This is exactly the same thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestlé_boycott#Baby_milk_issue
Is debugging with lldb more stable than before? I heard there were problems.
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Avoid the default subscriptions, they're absolute garbage. Reddit subcommunities, especially technical ones, have some fantastic discussion in them.
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So you have a 40+ foot screen in your living room with blacked out windows, 7.1 surround sound to match?
The sad thing is you have to sort of 'cheat' netflix if you want content that isn't just seemingly random B level shows by using a US proxy. I'm in Canada and honestly had no idea just how much better the US version of netflix was.
I'm only 4 miles, so the trip costs about 9 bucks each way. I don't have a second car and even if I did, my office charges 300 (pre tax so really less) to park. And if I'm forced to stay late, I can expense the ride home. So I'm pretty sure it's cheaper than driving myself.

But I could do public transit for around 2.50 each way. But adding about 15-20 minutes transit time.

What I really should do is bike to work. It's better for my health, wallet, and environment. I really have no excuse.
How could this be considered immoral?
This is an awesome idea! I never thought of it, but it should work in most places.
Please make a dark version!
It's easier to go with someone who wants my business than to try to force someone who doesn't want it to take me anyway.
I believe this is exactly right. And all the things that gave networks monopoly power (like spectrum ownership) will become irrelevant. You can mark the day this happens when NetFlix starts offering a daily 'news' update type program.

Of course most people see this already, and the extreme tactics around last mile broadband are exactly around this problem. Netflix can't work if their packets can't get to you, and the person who controls that last mile can hold their packets hostage (and has). If you want to poke a dragon some time, start advocating for equal access to broadband in your municipality :-).
Why on Earth you want to appeal to anyone? Karma on Reddit has zero worth. If you want to gather reputation on StackOverflow I can understand it. But on Reddit? No reason. I actually only read the Clojure and the DwarfFortress subreddits and I never experienced anything like that.
Access, cost, creative interpretation, republishing, sampling, copying, using, showing, legally sharing, downloading, use in the classroom, commercial use without permission... The list goes on.

As the article says, public domain breaths new life into forgotten works. It's culturally important to lift the access and publishing restrictions of old works that we learn from and reflect on where we came from.

Historical art is important to celebrate, rediscover, republish and enjoy without fear of copyright takedowns by faceless corporate stooges looking to line their pockets.
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Do you think that I know (well) people that have being through painful enough experience personally to refuse to stay and work in the US?

If you guess less than a dozen, you are far below: TSA abuse, Police escalation, legal problems related to a health-related debt… I’m happy for you that you apparently haven’t. I cannot exclude it myself.
Sorry, I hadn't seen your comment til now. Well, it'd work just like Meetup.com, except it'd probably be an app, or at least have a mobile component. Everyone would have a profile with their interests and when two people in the same geographic area with the same interest(s) sign up, the system would alert them both so they could set up a one-on-one meetup. There'd also be an optional GPS function where if you're free (w/ nothing to do) and wouldn't mind having a good conversation with someone regarding your interests, the app could ping you when two similar users are near each other.
How do you "go the long way" in a city with a strict street grid?
I had exactly the same experience coming to SF from NYC. I took taxis in NYC every once in a while, the only bad experience was on new years eve where everybody turns their lights off and operates without the meter. After moving to SF I had such poor experiences with taxis that when I raised it with a friend they exclaimed oh, nobody uses taxis here they're awful - use uber (I now use Lyft regularly).

Some of those experiences include:

- very obviously driving me around the block after I asked to be dropped off at a particular location. The driver refused to let me out when I asked

- driver refused to drive me with a "I don't want to go that way"

- two drivers claimed their card machines didn't work and insisted on cash, the second tried it even after I asked before the ride if paying by card was okay
The Russians made a bomb 1,400x as poweful as Hiroshima and Nagasaki Combined
You're discounting (or at least not mentioning) the probability that one of the eight colluding members will be able to hack the ninth's key.
As for consuming documentation, I find Read the Docs[1] way easier to navigate. It feels like GitBook tries to strip away all sense of navigation and makes it way too "minimalistic" or "slim".

[1]https://readthedocs.org
UberX typically is cheaper than a cab. The price is the same or lower, and you don't tip. If you go for a black car it's a bit pricier.
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Linode :)
This is a good point, but isn't it the agriculture which mainly drives the overexposure?
Even if it isn't I doubt that this is a reason why antibiotics are prescription-only. Almost every other group of pharmaceuticals in the US is also restricted.
> I'm seeing this on a new Postgres database server: my cache miss and cache hit queries take virtually the same time!

That's likely because it's hitting the OS's page cache.
Ask HN: How do you manage licenses for Windows VM's?
I am doing some projects that require Windows OS, more specifically 1 embedded project that requires Windows for development and a couple of projects that are cross platform. I need clean environments that are separate from each other, they can't cross over so sharing one machine is not an option.

I work off a Macbook Pro and have parallels which works well, but I am trying to figure out if I have to buy three/four licenses of Windows 8/10 or if there is a better way to do it. I also would ideally like 1 or 2 clean test environments for Windows that I could blow away regularly and redo for testing. I used to use Volume licenses for this when we had them but I don't do enough Windows work to justify the cost of an MSDN Ultimate type subscription anymore.

Any suggestions?
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If Hitler and his followers had been more apathetic, they wouldn't have displayed the zeal that they did in trying to change the world according to their ideals.

The problem with it is that you don't know whether you are the brave person speaking out against injustice or the lunatic that stands against obvious progress.
The original Star Wars did okay using no-name actors instead of paying Harrison Ford $10 million just to show up.
I like how this came right after the article on most Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.
Because it's not just one person's insensitive comment, is it? It's a pattern of repeated behaviour. "I am the law, don't fuck with me".
I was just recently wondering if an LSTM neural net could be trained as a decent decompiler from LLVM IR to Rust source. Feed that with Clang output of an established OS and coreutils(i was thinking minix3 but maybe seL4) and get a working if not necessarily idiomatic Rust OS. Refactor at leisure.
If you installed build-essential, then removed it, then apt-get --purge autoremove should remove the packages that build-essential pulled in that were not already installed.
Music is something a ton of people passively listen to. It's background noise, and for the passive (and primary) music audience, familiar is good.

When people go out of their way to download or stream a show, it's not usually background. Providers know that, that's why they insist on shoving 20 minutes of commercials in front of you for a 40 minute show. You're captive.

I truly believe there are a lot of people out there like me, who are willing to pay existing cable prices for completely on-demand content. They just don't know it/think about it because they aren't navel-gazers like we are.
So that the less fortunate will always have access to wonderful works.
Might still be cheaper than owning a car.
SF is not Silicon Valley proper, in the sense that the jurisdiction of SF over its taxi fleet does not extend south of San Francisco city proper and its airport. Anywhere else is different county rules.
1) Or we enter a post-scarcity era where there will be an abundance of food produced by autonomous machines. No one "needs" to work in order to feed themselves.
2) There are a lot of things that are weaponizable - today.
It's politically expedient to label the shooters as evil, as if they weren't people. Look at how this has played out in gun politics. The message is that we need "common sense" gun control in order to prevent "crazies" from obtaining guns, as if there were a filter function that could reliably distinguish "crazies" from ordinary folks. When such filter functions inevitably fail, as they always do (crazies start out as ordinary people and they can be crazy for a while before seeking, or being forced into, psychiatric help), that just means we need a better filter function, i.e., more background checks, till no gun changes hands without the feds knowing about it. Once Total Information Awareness is achieved on who has what guns, any number of scenarios can play out. Extraconstitutional gun confiscation is one, but that isn't even the most devious or fun. One scary scenario is the government doing profiling on who is likely to buy what type of weapons or ammo; buy the wrong type and you could be subject to scrutiny by the FBI's precrime operations, set up for stings, etc. Also if a tyrannical overlord wanted to impose dictatorial rule, with complete accurate information on gun and ammunition ownership he would know which areas to consolidate power in first -- the less armed ones -- before closing in on the more armed areas.
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Greece is Western Europe.
Believe it or not, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle has nothing to do with measurement.
One very good reason can be seen today: after some of the books from the Sherlock Holmes series went into public domain, artists today are free to use and create derivative works based on/off of them.

Case in point: "Elementary" [1] is a Sherlock Holmes series where both Moriarty and Watson are women, Sherlock Holmes lives in NY and he doesn't get along with Inspector Lestrade.

If things never fall into public domain, doing something like this can be either very expensive (e.g. paying royalties) or plain impossible (e.g. the author simply doesn't allow it).

Copyright laws were meant to incentivize authors to create more, but no amount of incentives will make Sir Arthur Conan Doyle create more interesting stories, about Sherlock Holmes or otherwise.

[1]: http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=255316
This is why people don't take philosophers seriously: They apparently can only attack strawmen, and badly at that, using emotion in place of reasoned arguments.
Privacy is important because information is powerful. One should be able to defend oneself against information related attacks. Just because you are a good person that wouldn't use information to hurt others doesn't mean others wouldn't.

A right to privacy is similar to a right to lock one's car doors when traveling through a bad neighborhood.
Fun! I think a lot of students find an optimal sleep pattern, just because they can (depending on schedule).

There was a year that I slept from around 3am to 9am, long-ish siesta in the early afternoon (1pm-4pm). It was the most productive time of my life, and I felt well rested. I really got a lot of work done in those late evenings/early nights; Everything calmed down in the dorm, noise outside was lower. Morning was for chores/part-time job.

I wish I could return to this. I'm more or less 9-5 now and always tired.
There is a four part documentary (40ish minutes in total) by Kirby Ferguson called "Everything is Remix." [0] It discusses patents in addition to copyright as well.

It highlights in numerous ways why public domain is essential for creative process. But it boils down to this: there is nothing new under the sun and the spirit of the copyright law is "to promote the progress of science and useful arts," as written in the constitution. The current abuse of copyright law causes the exact opposite.

[0] https://vimeo.com/14912890
Because 'grand adventure' has a much broader definition than a high salary and career overwork.
Uber Pool is like $6 from Union Station to my office, no tip. I rarely have to put up with another person and many drivers don't even seem to realize they are supposed to wait for one.
Could they shutdown the site itself though? Sounds like the TOS violations are from the users themselves, not the site
This guy had some good observations on that netflix effect http://www.vox.com/2015/11/20/9757186/netflix-video-rental-s...
IMO, I think the demand is there. It seems to me that our economic model just isn't ready to handle how we distribute/consume art. Once the art is created digitally, it basically costs $0 to reproduce it, yet we're still stuck on the idea that a "book" costs ~$20 each, and a generous portion of that goes to the distributor.

IMO, we don't even need distributors. I should be able to go to the author's website on my kindle, and download the book for much less than $20. And all of that would go directly to the author, not the distributor.

(I know a lot of this reply has a lot of hand-waving and over-simplification, trying to keep it concise)
I'd like 30-second skip forward & back. Too often I want to catch something again or skip a part I know is boring, and if it's a really long movie I have to guess where to click in the timeline.
I was with you until you plunged straight into global-warming denial.
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Because you are making money off of breaking someone else's terms of service?
> my "ASK ME ABOUT ROKO'S BASILISK" novelty t-shirt idea.

Why should we take you seriously when you resort to such cheap attacks?
It's a reasonable seeming law, yes, just as the categorical imperative is - but what if your culture says that the more skulls you collect, the better a person you are? It's easy to define a law in isolation from social pressures which defy that law. Take the inquisition - by burning hereticks you saved their souls, and this was therefore good - so do as you would be done by applies, even if it comprises an auto da fé.

With re: apathy - "all that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing" - sure, but this still relies on a fixed idea of good and evil, and that you can recognise "evil" at its inception. The issue there is that tragic consequences tend to only become apparent in hindsight.

I do personally agree with "do as you would be done by", but you can't apply it as a universal law without the complete homogenisation of global culture - and even then folks will develop their own ideas of what constitutes good and evil.

Ultimately, it's all about societal consensus, which these days (since bernays in particular) is media led.
I think the point was network monitors.