skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've reserved the right to cancel accounts for using proxies.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/netflix-vpn-cheat-accounts-be-termi...
In David Brin's novel Earth World War 3 is basically the world vs Switzerland - with the Swiss threatening to detonate large cobalt bombs buried under the Alps.
> None .... continuous sleep pattern .... Middle East

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikkun_Chatzot (Jewish prayer said about an hour after midnight).

I don't know if Jews had a different sleep pattern than their neighbors, but I can't imagine they would.

At the time the prayer was instituted Jews mostly lived in what is now Iran/Iraq and in Israel. They were expelled and ended up in Europe only later.
The DVD service is still that way. That's why I still keep up my DVD subscription. They have everything, in the way the streaming service can only dream of. You have to be patient, but most of the movies I saw in 2015 were at home from the Netflix DVD service.
Sure, that happens. But Reddit has so much more to offer - case in point being the fellow that programmed Solitaire as an intern at Microsoft coming in and giving his personal story as a comment.

Reddit is full of shitposts and otherwise terrible things, but no more so than any other "social media" type of site.
Lawsuit claims Fitbit devices dangerously underestimate heart rate
Cannot edit my comment original but I found the EU audiovisual exemption in the original Services Directive

(24)
Until recently I could watch it using my VPN from Hong Kong,
but recently they've been blocking access from VPNs.

I should set up my own VPN again, instead of using paid for services.

Edit: I can't decide if that's a good or bad thing,
given I've never paid for a UK TV licence, but for official purposes I still live at my parents' house, who do pay.
Aren't these licensing rules precisely designed to fuck with people and ruin their day?
There are developers out there who would be willing to write new drivers if the manufacturers won't and the labs are willing to pay.
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My parenthetical is important. The "it doesn't [want to]" is precisely why many ideas won't work, because many adversaries within the species (the rest of us) will work against anyone trying, and getting enough people with the know-how and desire to try will be hard. In fact the hardest part of the fragment you pulled out is developing a strategy that will indeed end almost all life without first killing all humans. A lot of strategies are likely relatively long-term (and inplausible to actively work on because of adversaries, however some believe human activity is already an ongoing inadvertent mass-extinction event for other life and maybe ourselves eventually). However the thing in my mind when I wrote that was intentional asteroid impact. We've already demonstrated we can land on the things, NASA's been busy finalizing the details of a redirection mission, so redirecting a sufficient number of smaller ones or just one really big one (but why stop at one?) ought to do the trick for most plant and animal life.
This a project I have been working on looking for comments from the community and people who are generally interested in the idea of world based ESL speech games
> One of them has GCC in it but I'm not sure why.

'npm install' needs 'make' half the time. Sometimes it's easier on debian-based setups to install build-essential than make, as it will pull in a few other things that help as well. GCC is one of those things - might it be that that container has build-essential installed?

I used to run docker with fat containers, and have now just finished getting rid of docker in favour of .debs. We were basically using it as a package manager, and it is terrible at the job. Docker has its use-cases, but package management isn't one of them. The docker tagging system is particularly bad at the job.
Clearly the cop doesn't have self-defense as his top priority, or he wouldn't be in that situation at all. He'd make sure he was somewhere else when the possibility of violence manifested itself. Like, say, I would.

Police officers shouldn't be shooting people on the off chance that a suspicious bulge might be a gun, but it seems pretty unreasonable to expect police officers to put their self-defense as the very lowest priority and wait until bullets actually come out of a gun-like-object being pointed at them before shooting.
I notice every artist on this list is dead. These long copyright terms do not help artists, programmers, or anyone else who creates intellectual property. They only benefit capital holders - people who purchased the rights and want a return on their benefit. Such people are wealthy already, they do not need government handouts.

Companies like Disney do not require regulations like this in order to survive; they would do fine with less onerous copyright terms, and everyone else in society would benefit.
Every day I'm asked to reduce the choices I provide to my users. I work in cryptography infrastructure. And frankly, sometimes it's much better to provide a sane default and let the ones who really care figure out their own path.
So if I have a Netflix account in my home country, I can access content from other regions as long as I go through the corresponding proxies? Or do I need an account in each region I'm trying to access?
But the big difference is: you could reverse engineer Microsoft Windows to do what you want beyond the APIs provided but you can't reverse engineer Facebook because you don't have the code running on your machine.
Thinking about it further, I guess my main beef is with Apple for not including that functionality in the first place, and I don't like the idea of paying money for something that should be free in essence.

It's also why I don't like how mIRC was so popular, despite numerous open-source IRC clients being available. And I'd feel pretty uncomfortable paying for text-editors like Sublime Text or TextMate. But that's just me :).
s6 and s6-overlay were also created with the same goal: https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay

I use it in my Alpine containers.
Interesting. Do you have any information on what was suspected to be exaggerated? I read up a bit on Chang In-suk, and saw the Guardian's reference to forum posters on NKnet (who doubted she was imprisoned), but couldn't find any of the original posts or supporting evidence.

This sort of stuff would be really really bad to fabricate IMO, considering the scale of known-true suffering going on in North Korea.
"I think the value of a CoC is merely to signal to people who have experienced abuse or disrespect in communities before (which would describe, I think, most women and people of color who have participated in technical communities for more than a short time) that the community is on their side when sexists or racists show up. "

If a COC becomes a baseline requirement for people to run projects and attract contributors, ISTM the people who don't care will just add COC's, and never enforce them.

You say "But, it does say, "We will excise toxic people. We will try to make you feel welcome here, even if you have been made to feel unwelcome elsewhere.""

It does not actually do that. It's one level removed from that. It's "we say we will excise toxic people.". It in fact, may be the case that you go to ask them to enforce it, and they say "sorry, don't care", even with a COC.

Then you are back to square 1. You essentially are trying to use the COC as a proxy for "communities that will care enough to put a stop to things" and i'm pretty much 100% it will not achieve this goal.
I haven't used Uber a lot, but when I have the drivers universally love it. I've had them spend an entire 20 minute trip telling me how much the love Uber and how great it is to work for/with them. Are they really exploitative or is this just perception from outsiders?
Datomic: Retract with the old, add with the new
Oculus Rift goes on presale – $599
> Cab drivers have little incentive to bother driving during peak hours since they get paid the same.

Won't a cab driver make more during peak hours because he will have less down time between fares?
Boston only started to unionize in 2007, for example. Prior to the labor union being formed, the taxi cartel has long had an artificially restricted monopoly on medallions, which ensures a lack of competition and discourages innovation, causing them to stagnate and become ripe for disruption. I'm sure having unionized labor doesn't help in keeping costs down and the driver unions have gone on strike over things like requiring GPS, but you have failed to demonstrate that the labor union is the primary cause of their current troubles. If that were the case, you ought to be able to show that prior to 2007, Boston's taxi companies were constantly innovating and upping their game and that it's only after unionization that they have stagnated.

In fact, the GPS strike was due to the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission enacting rules that required the use of GPS -- this was something that the taxi companies could have introduced themselves if they were at all competitive, but due to their cartel status why should they even bother?

[0] http://theunionnews.blogspot.com/2007/08/steelworkers-organi...
Indeed. 2nd paragraph on the linked page:

"This example is from Tufte's site, and was made in collaboration with Adam Schwartz. The presence of a horizontal line represents a home game."
Cannot edit my comment original but I found the EU audiovisual exemption in the original Services Directive
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELE...

(24) Audiovisual services, whatever their mode of transmission, including within cinemas, should also be excluded from the scope of this Directive. Furthermore, this Directive should not apply to aids granted by Member States in the audiovisual sector which are covered by Community rules on competition.

Disregard my top level comment, Netflix doesnt have to provide to all EU countries, its still vpn for the rest.
Oh come on. Enough sunlight hits the earth in an hour to power worldwide consumption for a year.

It takes an infinitesimal amount of land if you were going to use solar alone [1]. There is enough wind power potential in the US midwest, from North Dakota to Texas, to power the entire US 4x over [2]. There's enough generation capacity to move 77% of light vehicles in the US over to electric immediately. There's plenty of energy to go around.

Fun fact: The latest budget bill that passed at the end of 2015 had one of the largest subsidies (ITC production tax credit) for solar and wind generation installation ever.

[1]
http://cleantechnica.com/files/2015/05/Land-art-AreaRequired...

[2] http://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/05/f22/Enabling-... (page 6)
Uber Settles with NYC Over “God View”
Good point, working on it now. Thanks for the comment!
Missed that, thanks.
Your argument appears to be:

1) We don't prosecute people for things that aren't crimes.

2) Thus our system and standards for prosecuting people for things that are crimes is just.

I don't see the step from 1) to 2). I would guess you are making the following assumptions that I would disagree with:

a) We do a adequate job of enforcing the current laws. (Prosecutions tend to be fairly rare due to low priority and lack of investigative resources)

b) The current laws on the books are just. (The standards for recklessness are weighted toward DUIs and tend to exclude other types of intentional misconduct.)
CERN+BRINGS+THRU+DemoNS,SAW+ALL+OVER+EARTH+-+YouTube
I like it. Something you could add that would be great for bakers would be the ability to convert common ingredients between volume and weight. King Arthur Flour's website has the option for their recipes, and it's very useful since you don't have to dig for a recipe with the weights, which are better for baking anyways.

Humidity/environment affects the amount of water used in baking quite a bit, so revision history would be useful for bakers already.
Quartzy (YC S11) is hiring a product engineer to improve research efficiency
Your comments are grey because your statements are completely ignorant.

Major cities instituted a medallion system for taxi, restricting who could operate a taxi service. The owners of the cab companies in major cities bribed the local governments into limiting the number of medallions in circulation, then bought all of the medallions. Meaning that cab companies have government-sanctioned monopolies on taxi service in many major metro areas of the US.

As others stated, this is an example of a cartel, not a labor union. And the entire purpose of cartels is to maintain artificially high prices.
Well, you originally questioned how they would recoup the cost of making a big movie. And I replied thinking it was entirely possible.

As for your next question, maybe making their own movies does not exclude theatrical releases and getting another $60 from me.

I think their bigger concern is not having to deal with expiring streaming rights and regional distribution rights. They want their own library of quality content.
Benefits of Exercise During and After Breast Cancer Surgery and Treatment
This article seems to hold up to my personal anecdata, and that of many of the mentor figures I've had over the years. (I'd also note the 2007 publish date)

However, I've (as with the parent) read some of his writing recently that made me just shake my head and want to stop, and I say this as a die-hard Dilbert fan. His opinions on trump being some sort of personal-image savant at "hacking psychology" (don't recall the actual wording but it was spiritually similar) stand out to me as one I read and felt was somewhat far fetched.
The former. The accounts are "global" and the catalogue you can access is based on your current IP address.
Does anyone have a link to (or can write) a good explanation of the benefits of things entering the public domain? Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it. I think lobbying to extend copyright terms is disingenuous. But I don't have a great argument for why we should want things to enter the public domain other than "your local theater can show it for free" , which the article noted. People seem to already be sharing things easily enough.
Too bad that content outside the US is a fraction of what's available in the US.
This isn't a product I would be proud of. Netflix doesn't block content because they feel like it, they do it because of licensing issues in the various different countries. It is not your choice as a user to be able to access whatever content you please, as you are a customer of Netflix and must abide by their terms of service. Don't like it? Don't use Netflix.

And this service charging for breaking Netflix's ToS? Super sketchy. I personally hope this is shutdown before this team can start making money off of it.
Mein Kampf mit Jugendlich Alters Angst
She could not have been invited to multiple parties. Otherwise all parties would share a guest -- her.
The Internet only blossomed after it was freed from proprietary access by AOL.

Zuckerberg plans to move the internet back to the dark ages.
The evidence suggesting that society is deteriorating and we have less thinking and more following going on just isn't there. Its completely the opposite. More people are developing technologies in small groups, thanks to the democratization of resources like powerful hardware. No more is creativity to create and progress limited to Universities and Government. We have more time to spend with each other than salving away in repetitive and soul sucking jobs and religious dogma is manipulating less and less people. Explain to me how things are getting worse and worse please?
Thanks!

I wish Netflix would publish their per-region catalogue, so we don't have to resort to (often inaccurate) third party lists.
Feedback..

Your website seems to be build for 2560px width.
Icons in the "What you get" are not aligned correctly.
Links are broken ("introduction", "demo" and "source" for example).

I can't even get to the content to give feedback on it.
You Uber to work every day? Isn't that terribly expensive?
Thanks I will try it
A by-product of "high-performance" being coopted a long time ago by "high-performance computing." Seems to me to be a natural part of the evolution of technology.
Hey! Thanks for the feedback, and I'll definitely add it to my list for review. You're the first to specifically request something regarding baking, and it's something I've not thought about. Have to think of an elegant way of doing conversions in the GUI, without making too much clutter, but I agree, helpful feature.
Be in a management role for even a day. Trust me, body language is extremely important for communication, even in todays world.
Hmmm people seem to be pretty shooken up w/ the whole C&D bit, meanwhile here I am worrying about putting my credentials into this custom browser. At the very least I would like to compile this myself from the source. Thats just me :)
EV is not the only number, your describing an average and the standard diviation is important.

Ex: if you have a slight negative bias say 50:50 to win 1.999x and play a trillion games your going to flat out lose money with Effectivly zero % chance of winning.
Right, the submitted title ("Facebook's “free internet” programme is a cover for a land-grab") broke the HN guidelines by editorializing. That's bad. Submitters: please don't change titles unless they are misleading or linkbait (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). If you want to present an argument, do so in the thread, on a level playing field with other users. On HN, submitting an article confers no special right to opine.

The subtitle ("Critics argue") would have been ok, but is less informative, and there's nothing wrong with the article's main headline, so we've put that in above.
I'm seeing this on a new Postgres database server: my cache miss and cache hit queries take virtually the same time!

This is with a Skylake Xeon E3-1275, 64GB ECC UDIMM, and Intel 750 PCIe SSD (probably the fastest setup you can get).

It looks like I have to figure out something that tunes Postgres to account for the fact that disk lookups are no-cost.
Exercising for the Disabled
> Who cares about knowledge of city streets? Haven't they heard of Google Maps and Waze and GPS?

If I get into a cab, the driver asks where I am going, and I stump them by naming a major hotel, I personally feel like that was a frustrating failure, as now we are stuck in an intersection while I try to teach them the layout of a city I know less about than they do: the reason I am hiring a cab driver in the first place is because I want to outsource transportation, and the power that comes from being able to a street hail a cab to anywhere I want to go is tremendously useful.

The way I would describe the benefit is that "if I am using a cab it is generally because I don't know where I am or where I need to be". Imagine if you went to a restaurant, ordered a sandwich, and the waiter was like "ok, I can make that, but can you tell me what goes in it?" or hire a consultant to build some software for you and they say "ok, I can type that, but how do I build this?".

The real problem in San Francisco is that it was impossible to street hail. Your best strategy was typically to go to a nearby hotel and tip the valet to flag you a cab. Even then you were effectively screwed. And the dispatch at every cab company I have ever dealt with (except for Radio Cab in Portland) is a mess, and often they just lose track of fares.

What Uber and Lyft provided is just software that they could have sold to the cab companies to replace their dispatch, which would have solved these problems and worked in the existing ecosystem, but they wanted to take over the world and vertically integrate. I can see why, even if it frustrates me that we live in a world where that is even possible, as I do not see them as net forces for good :/.
People have different definitions of what constitutes acceptable conduct. A CoC acknowledges this and takes some steps to make sure people are on the same page. Even if it isn't enforced to the letter, some people need a reminder. I think there's also a hope (maybe not true in practice) that having a CoC is a positive signal to people who feel marginalized in other communities.
There is usually only one provider of roads..
Make an account and subscribe to subs that you are interested in. It's so much better than twitter for staying up to date with things.
Rich people limiting poor peoples options, again.

It's much better they eat cake, than this "free internet"
TBH I think it would be a pain for them as it changes all of the time. I can just imagine the complaints and refund requests because they read that show X was available in their country then it disappeared a week after they signed up. I think Netflix is trying to sell a pool of non-specific movies. But yes, it would be useful.
Actually, there's no reason to believe that his effort is sincere. His main company has a pretty bad track record of being sincere or upfront about anything it has ever done. Many on HN are sympathetic to him because he seems to be like us but he isn't. Like you said: he is more like 90s Bill Gates than he is like any of us.
Yeah, it's especially egregious re: Disney who's benefited so greatly from public works. Snow White, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, etc, etc.
You do not context switch to the OS, it's a mode switch x2 but it's cheaper than a context switch.
Free internet is basically a deal that FB did with some carriers to provide some of their resources in exchange for some kick ass promises and possibly funds.

The easy way to do this for ANY government would be to force all wireless carriers to provide 200 MB free internet to all citizens in exchange for license to broadcast.

This happened once in Poland for example when government provided frequencies in exchange of forcing the company to provide unlimited, but slow internet to all citizens through mobiles.
Uber is sometimes more convenient and sometimes not. Downtown Chicago, NYC, or DC, it's more convenient hail the cab already driving by you. In the burbs Uber is more convenient.

From Union Station in DC I take Uber, even though the cab line is way more convenient. It's about 40% cheaper accounting for no tip. Silicom Valley subsidizes my morning commute!
Link to previously posted travel site with embedded short video clips?
A while back (maybe over a year ago?) someone posted an opensource travel blog platform. He had short video clips that were automatically transcoded (I think). I think his name may have been "Justin." I can't seem to remember any more details but I would be great if someone remembers it too.
> Does anyone ever say, 'my life would have been so much better if I didn't have Billy/Marie'?

The hard part is that parenthood changes people in ways that go beyond life experience. There are actual, measurable physiological changes that happen to parents. In many ways, children are like a drug to their parents. Just like addicts will sacrifice much of their lives to their habits, so too will parents sacrifice much of their lives to their children.

So asking your question is like asking whether a drug addicts wants another hit. That person will undoubtedly want one, but the person that person was before their addiction might look at the reality of the situation and decide they didn't want to start the habit in the first place. Likewise, someone not 'under the influence' of their parenthood might look on the situation differently.

But, in both cases, it's impossible for someone to understand both sides of the choice simultaneously.