skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The central example of the article supports your point (and undermines the authors).

If "Akrasia is the state of acting against your better judgment" and Victor Hugo led a wonderful life and compressed all his work into the absolute minimum amount of time and produced a masterpiece, where was he acting against his better judgement?

He got to have his cake and eat it too! If you look back on your own procrastination with some honesty, you'll probably see the same thing. You had fun, then you sweated through the work and everything turned out fine.
I do a -p and work my way through all of the hunks, pulling out a cohesive "story" of multiple separate commits from the work that I did, sometimes editing hunks as I go to "backport" some changes to fit other parts of the story.
its kind of sad. i'd rather there was a promise that the footage was kept indefinitely, but never watched unless there was a police warrant. that sounds much more useful...
FWIW, I freely agree that the laws are largely stupid in relation to the issue at hand. My argument is not "because it's illegal". My argument is that the something in question doesn't belong to me, and hence, I have no entitlement to it.

Pardon the repetition, as I already stated this elsewhere, but if you had a really juicy secret that you wouldn't give to me, I wouldn't take that either, even knowing full well that if I take your secret, you still have the secret. I respect the rights of others to do whatever they wish with their things, whether those things are property, digital goods, or secrets. If they want me to have it, they'll make it available to me. Until they do, then I have no entitlement.
a cluster of them could carry larger objects. if they were shaped like cubes(or some other geometric shape) they might use electromagnets to attach. maybe have a battery cube. storage cube. maybe wing or arm attachments that assemble for longer range flight.
The thing that is never, ever talked about in these discussions is "geographic diversity", or "discrimination" as these folks would see it. Harvard could fill its entire freshman class each year with students from east coast private prep schools. They will never do that because it is just bad for diversity in general. A less qualified student from a public school in Iowa (regardless of race) will eventually get a spot at Harvard over yet another rich kid from a private school in the northeast. Diversity of all kinds is important, and since this article talks about "the children of the wealthy and powerful", they must also talk about the children of the middle class in other parts of the country that will indeed get selected over these elite kids just because they are a "fresh face from the Heartland".
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More details in the press release, posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10904723
You are absolutely wrong. It happens to Australians all the time.
https://twitter.com/kimdotcom/status/288199968932630528

Not rocket science.

I pay for Netflix, and cable, and Hulu, and Prime... and still I have to torrent things when Netflix or my dumbass cable company won't stream what I want to watch in 1080p (don't get me started on who is at fault, I don't care they're all cunts when they cut the quality). Or when they don't have a show fast enough, then I'll torrent. The moment the show is out it should be on Netflix and other services. Doesn't seem hard, just release the show to network TV and Netflix the same day -- curious why we still have these 6-12 month delays on shows coming to Netflix in 2016.
Electric Objects is another one trying to get people to convert from physical to digital art on the wall. I believe them and Framed are priced at around $499... https://www.electricobjects.com/
How does one "use a VPN or a tracker you're reasonably sure their bots can't find"?
If we limit 'free action' to mean 'ability to charge your credit card' then you are pretty much described beeminder.com (a company I highly recommend and of which I am a very happy user).
pretty interesting from the perspective of neighborhood watch.
I've only ever paid for my food once.
I just had a pang of nostalgia after I checked and saw that Dynamic Drive is still online :)
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/evilmalware.html
So, how do you propose we pay for educating the people who are going to run the country tomorrow?
Ironically, ssh'ing into a random server is the exact thing you shouldn't do if you aren't patched.

Make sure you patch BEFORE doing something like ssh'ing into whoami.filippo.io "just because someone on the internet told me to"

This site is (from what I can tell) not malicicous, but copy pasting scripts and blindly following advice from the internet is a prime example of how an exploit would occur.
Then it doesn't work for pirated movies, which has distribution costs associated.

You'll need to add yet another caveat to your original claim to make it work.
"And if Harvard abolishes tuition for undergrads, Mr. Nader said, “It will ricochet across the Ivy League.”

And similar top schools, especially private schools in and outside of the Ivy League. My first question would be what impact would this have on schools that actually depend on tuition to pay for things, those that aren't Harvard/Princeton/etc that don't have as huge endowments per student? Would the gap between the quality of the average student widen further between the very very top schools and the other top schools, further entrenching the status quo?
You're a developer, not an end user.

You use a slow machine for testing, not building.

This is like saying my fucking carpenter shouldn't use power saws.

Maybe you should have gotten a better machine then. If by a few years ago you mean 2010, then sure. We're 1/2 a decade past that now.
Users who are willing to pay for content, or may be paying for it monthly anyway, will simply resort to torrents.

Good going Netflix.
I agree it's a concern, but the truth doesn't change with a trend. Slavery was wrong when it was trendy in some places and it's still wrong now that it's not. What do you think of the people who held their tongues? What about the ones that spoke out?

I despise intellectual trends. If it was a good/bad idea before, that hasn't changed because the idea (or the entire subject) became un/fashionable. Privacy is one such issue that comes to mind.
Are there no places available in the lower end range with 1 hour commutes? I know there is a shortage of low priced apartments, but they have to exist.
Comcast injects pop-ups for customers who buy their own cable modems
You did it in the least effective way possible. Once I pay for a car and my food, I never pay for it again if I don't want to. In fact, I've never paid for my food more than once.

If you have a point, you need to find a better way of making it.
I feel that many people, including myself, tend to value future gains in the expense of present self.

These days, I'm not sure if that's such a great strategy. Why shouldn't we satisfy our present self's needs? Why should we feel guilty for doing what we want to do?

Of course, if you satisfy your present self in the expense of your future self, that's self-destructive, and you'll eventually regret.

Personally, I find myself most motivated when I manage to find something that satisfies both my present self and future self.
The colleges were still considering the same criteria for admissions, but once race was removed, a significant increase in Asian American acceptances at the schools occurred.

This may have occurred, but it doesn't necessarily mean that the metrics they used were the only reasonable metrics. I think Harvard would argue that their metrics always looked much different than state schools. And actually that probably cuts to the heart more than anything else:

What is the end goal of the pool of accepted students you bring in? Is it to reward the students for a job well done? Or is it to shape a society? Or is it something altogether different -- or a combination?

I think a lot of people view college admittance as a reward for a job well done. But maybe for top-tier colleges the goal is to create leaders who will shape the future. In which case diversity actually matters a fair bit. Can you get the societal diverse leaders that you want by accepting just Asian and White students? I honestly think the answer is probably no.
You are paying Netflix for different content. It's like renting a room at Motel6 and walking into a Hilton and sleeping there instead. Sure you paid, but you didn't pay for that Hilton room.
Tar sands oil is break-even at CAD57/barrel... which is presently USD40/barrel. Pretty low, but not low enough, Canada!

Knocking the CAD:USD down to 2:1 might make it break-even profitable again.
You should tell them and your managers. For every 1/2 day you sit watching the machine, they could be getting double the workload out of you.

As a consultant and contractor this is the first thing I point out. However, it's their money, not mine.
I think hackuser said it pretty darn well.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10904615
Lodash v1 was a drop-in Underscore replacement.

Lodash v2 was not but offered an lodash.underscore.js build.

Lodash v3 dropped the compat build in favor of using individual lodash modules until you're able to transition

Lodash v4 continues the view of v3
With all due respect, you don't only "feel" silly.
Not at all true. Employee option prices are not based on market (e.g. VC) valuation. They're based on 409A valuations which are usually much, much lower.
I confirmed that it does not need to be placed into a Host block, as long as it is above all of your blocks.

For instance:

UseRoaming no

Host *
Blah yes

Test with: ssh -v remote.ssh.host.com uptime 2>&1 | grep -i roaming

If it returns nothing, the config fix is active. If it isn't active, you'll see 'debug1: Roaming not allowed by server'
Agreed. However, my ISP throttles torrents drastically during peak hours. It sucks. I can use Netflix with little issue, but I can't download a torrent faster than 25kbps
I always assumed this tax/subsidy was to account for the fact that the oil/gas belongs to the country. In that framing, giving away natural resources below market rates is a definite subsidy.
The base of science : critical thinking as opposed to expertise and "commonly accepted wisdom".

Trust, but check.

And if cannot check, I cannot trust.

Their map (model) is very nice, very detailed and self consistent. But is is not the territory (implementation) and the more complexity we stack the greater we prove the map diverge from the territory. And also the less it can be audited.

Don't expect normal people to trust what they cannot check. It is faith security experts are expecting from users, not trust.

I do my part of the contract as stated by common accepted risk management "best practice" regarding computer security.

I do not trust blindly.
I'm actually permanently roaming on Iowa Wireless but keeping my T-Mobile account from when I lived elsewhere. I do have LTE right now at work, but visiting the in-laws 15 miles away quickly turns it into a 2g or 0 signal scenario.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/277/

Everything seems arbitrary when one does not know or cannot guess at the (usually more complicated) underlying reasons.
I work 9-5 M-F, live 5 minutes away, and love my job. Keep looking, they are out there.
Is there an explanation of why the roaming feature was removed from the server? It sounds like a useful feature to me and I run into this all the time.
sure, they mention in the article that they have photos, but the message i got from the article is that having the cameras be real would somehow be of benefit because they help you track down the criminals.

to me, it seems very doubtful that the argument presented has any merit. they are described as a 'security gap' in the title and repeatedly in the article, but the evidence supporting that viewpoint is entirely absent.

(i should clarify that its not a worthless argument, just the example used to present it contains evidence only for the counter-argument as far as i can see)
> Family and community support for a college education, much less an expensive elite one far away. Sure, some super-teen can overcome this, but it's a major reason kids don't apply or drop out at high rates. My two friends were constantly asked, why would you want to go to college? Kids in these situations are in alien environments at college (that it seems perfectly normal to white middle-class kids should tell you exactly what environment it is) where they have few people who can relate to them, then they go home and are asked why they are wasting their time and family's money. And as they absorb university life, they also become alienated from people at home who don't have those life experiences or opportunities.

This feels strangely familiar to me as a guy who moved from a tiny poor-ish European country to Silicon Valley in his late 20's. I know it's not the same, but holy shit, I never thought a random comment on a message board would peg me so well.

At least in my case most of my back-home environment understands the why, even if they do question the rationality of it.

But try to explain to the average Silicon Valley dweller that just ~6 years ago, a $5 purchase was a significant expense, and they have very little to relate to.
This is quite interesting.

However I think another good use would be to pre-load the passengers into these pods, and then attach it to the plane for take off. That way you could probably make things a bit more efficient.

Maybe just for cargo since passengers might have a lot of use cases not covered by this design but I'm guessing for loading and unloading ship containers it could work.

Probably it's an engineering challenge not worth the cost (yet), but it definitely looks like something could be worked out starting with this idea, no?
Can't 1+2+3 be solved by make your own exam - but make it brutally hard. Like - having no one getting to the top to be expected and a 170 IQ person getting B+. Make it with invisible names.

You admit the first 1000 and have couple of places for people with 4-7 that were very close on the exam but were below the cut off line.
I think the scary thing is that it doesn't depend on people using the app - merely having it installed. Pilgrim passively tracks your location whether or not you check in (or even open the app).
You don't need to travel on the bus, you can walk.

You don't need to eat with white people if you are black.

You don't need to get married if you aren't heterosexual.

You really don't.
How is it not being entitled to say, "I want to create something and allow everyone but you to buy it based on your location, and I expect you to respect that wish"?
Most products aren't totally new. Some things that are currently designed, such as buildings, are relatively simple and largely built the same way they were decades and centuries ago. Same is true for furniture, hand tools, cookware, cutlery, etc.

The thing is, the idea that there are many design variables is contrary to recent AI development. Instead of creating a bunch of rules and putting them in a specification, the machine just looks at what does and doesn't work and decides what might work.
This is precisely why I hope it happens and why it's important. It could get the trend going of free high ed.
I thought this article was interesting because it highlights the problem when there is a lack of strong governance in an open source project.

After talking to a bunch of financial firms about bitcoin I've got the sense that the strong consensus is that they don't believe the core bitcoin team "has their act together" in terms of a coherent road map, or possibly more charitably, that the core team isn't at all interested in having the transaction limit increased.

This means that that if bitcoin, or other related technologies like the block chain are going to be adopted by companies to run real businesses on then either the companies themselves will own the technology roadmap or some other entity with a fair bit of credibility will have to step in.
Each and every suggestion is a sane and much needed improvement.
I can imagine the photographer saying, "We need a hacker shot, look like you stay up all night coding alone in your dark apartment. Excellent"
Consolas; forever and always.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas
put a 15-20 ft flight of steps anywhere and maybe a drone comes and picks you up.
1.5 TB dataset of anonymized user interactions released by Yahoo
Not surprising. We pay for cable (ugh, not my call) as well as Netflix and Amazon Prime. The cable box version of on-demand video is terrible because it's a cable box. The apps and websites are usually OK...except when they're not because Comcast is throttling or Amazon doesn't include Chromecast support in the mobile app so you have to cast the whole fullscreen browser tab.

When I don't just plug the damn laptop in, I tend to just connect through VPN and despite the fact that it slows my connection down considerably, I can stream any of the shows I've paid for through Popcorn Time or any other streaming torrent client. A typical hour-long episode is usually finished downloading within the first few minutes of the show and it's all accessible in a single interface.

My personal dream is that Comcast or one of these awful companies decides that they need to do a better job of pleasing customers and starts offering a legal PopcornTime/Netflix-style web interface to browse and stream all of the content you're already paying for. That is something I would actually want to subscribe to.

Instead I pay, rarely torrent anything I don't have legal access to, and stream/download illegally just because it's easier and works better. I haven't gone as far as some friends who set up auto-downloaders for usenet or torrents so they always have the latest episodes sitting on their NAS as soon as they go up. But I've considered it.
Of course there is demand for all video content for 8 or 10 dollars a month. But it's not a reasonable price point.

Neflix is cheap because it's got a limited catalog and the catalog is mostly old content.

Do other countries really not have a local version of amazon instant or itunes?
> Unlike the Federal Reserve and Wall Street, institutions that are managed by humans, Bitcoin was supposed to rest on the infallible logic of math and computer code. In this system, programmers like Mr. Hearn, who often volunteered their expertise and effort, were viewed as neutral technicians.

This is the key. If the neutrality and technical/economic/ethical character of the lead developers is called into question, Bitcoin (just a flavored brand of blockchain) is done. An untrustworthy/biased dev team could adjust the cap, difficulty, etc. for their own gain or that of their sponsors. While this would probably cause the majority of nodes to fork the chain and reject a bad update, it would leave the protocol without strong leadership and call the brand into question.

Will be interested to see how this plays out with the dev environment around bitcoin becoming so toxic and ideologically split.
To flesh out one aspect of that: Diversity is valuable to the students. Where would you rather get educated: A school with people from all over the world and from all socio-economic backgrounds, or a school only with people from your hometown?
I find the relativity of time so interesting. To me it feels like JQuery came out yesterday.
They're selling location trend data to anyone who will buy it. Retail operators (like Apple) may buy it, but the more typical customers for these types of services are hedge funds and other traders who want an edge. They'll correlate check-in volume with iPhone sales, for instance, to more accurately estimate Apple's quarterly revenues before they're announced.
Being a maintainer on a project with some minor community on GitHub is such a garbage experience.

It’s pretty neat as a general user, but at least you get the impression with BitBucket that they prioritize productivity and project management. And the task system hasn't received any significant updates since their inception - which is a shame, because tasks are an awesome invention, they just have to be implemented awfully with issues.

I also remember that we recently had to move the entire decision-making process to Slack instead where I suggested we just use the emoji voting system to make our decisions with.
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Some of our project already have a public Slack channel where you can chat with the project team, but that is an area where we can improve. You can sign up here. https://chat.18f.gov/

*I work at 18F.
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I've been growing tired of the many articles about "Never Procrastinate Again!", "Top 8 ways to be productive" and "Do These 10 Morning Boosters every day". But I gained some new insights in this article, and I appreciate the context it was laced with. Thanks for sharing.
A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement
ok, that makes some sense. it can be hard to find resources if you are looking for tutorials, examples or guides rather than specifications... not just for this but in general.

the trick imo is to learn not to require those things... which you seem to have managed. but you are right that its a lot easier not to have to work stuff out from the basics. :)
Especially the +1
The struggle is real.

I've been doing Pomodoro w/ a timer and finding it helpful. Found a lot of the stuff here related to that process for me.

The first one of the day is still the hardest though. Nothing harder than starting.
I don't quite follow. The law is, as you say, stupid and makes no sense. You are saying that you are breaking the law in regards to property though, so don't do it. So your argument is "because it's illegal".

Incidentally, in many countries of the world - it's not illegal to bypass geoblocking.
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There's also an explicit racial component to college admissions that I think plenty of us suspect does actually exist in the form of quotas, higher average scores/academic performance. That part can go pretty easily.
Did you have a look at https://www.wallabag.org/? it's open source and the new version 2.0 has a Rest API.
The layout and operation of this page are very frustrating.
Well, maybe it would help to have some background on the name: Kubernetes is Greek for 'helsman' or 'pilot' [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes
+1. Fix this.
I pirate 99% of my content while paying for Amazon/Netflix/Hulu/Cable because it's about a billion times easier to consolidate all my content in Plex and watch 1080p HD without worrying about a crappy internet connection. If they made it easy to offline the video I pay for and play it through my TV then I will consider doing otherwise but right now while I know what I am doing IS illegal it is legal enough for me to internally justify it. I pay for content but I reject their delivery methods.
Buddhism did not spring fully-formed from the mind of Siddhartha Gautama. Buddhism, like Hinduism, grew slowly in reactions to one another.
Nevertheless, $37600M earning 12% is enough to cover annual expenditures of $100k for each of 45000 students without ever touching the principal.
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It's not that bad, it's part of the user data and should be provisioned the same way.

OpenSSH can also be used in a PKI fashion, where you use certificates instead of known_hosts and authorized_keys records. It's quite all right, but it comes with the same problems a full PKI does as you need to keep track of when the certificates expire. You also need a way to distribute CRLs so you still need configuration management.