skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they'd have to keep lists of IP addresses associated with the VPN services they want to block.

Yeah, that's probably what they're doing. It wouldn't be too hard for them to get the first 95% either - beyond ARIN/NIC registration searches etc, they could just look for IP addresses that often have a large number of subscribers behind them, especially a large number of non-us subscribers.
Did I just stumble on slashdot? I much prefer the discourse on HN but the reaction to "PC culture" and "White privilege" is basically the same everywhere.

It has never been supposed to mean anything about an individual, and yet that is ALWAYS how it seems to be taken. We (as white and or males) can't help but see things from our individual perspective and take offense at the implication we ever had anything easier than anyone else.

I agree with others in the thread, we just need to throw away the word white privilege and come up with something else because it has been totally poisoned. I'm not saying there aren't overzealous "social justice warriors" that haven't contributed to the misunderstanding of the word.

Just remember, when people use the word white privilege, THEY ARE NOT REFERRING TO YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.
The other side being that, depending on the good, if you have a salesperson, you can often, ironically, get a better price overall.

Recent case in the point: I was in the market for a Herman Miller Embody. I would've ordered it online at retail for ~$1500, but I wanted it ASAP so I went to a local HM dealer to see if they kept any in stock (they didn't). While there, the sales person got me a more-upgraded version of the Embody for less than $1000 by invoking dealership and small business discounts. Effectively, I made $500/hr during that trip to the HM dealership.

The downside of this experience was that, contrary to my original intention, it took about 5 weeks for the chair to arrive. :\ It would've shipped faster if I had paid full retail from the HM store online.

Of course, it's going to depend on the good, but considering that salespeople usually have a strong incentive structure to get your sale to go through them instead of an online retailer or to a competing business, they really will pull out all the stops to keep you around.
Of course it's not the only facet that matters. And I think that minorities want white males to be a part of the discussion about race.

However, oftentimes white males say the same exact things. You can kind of enumerate them, "Not all white males," "White people can be poor," "Hey, you're black, can you explain...?" etc.

Many answers to these questions can be found here: http://theteej.tumblr.com/post/122334039549/hi-white-friends...

I don't expect you to read it. But if you want to understand why people get frustrated when you chime in about something it's probably because they've heard the thing that you're saying a gazillion times already and are tired of responding to it. They don't owe you a response.

Finally, I'll reference John Green and say that if you're doing something that multiple people tell you is offensive or bothersome: Stop doing it.
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I did that, but I saw typical touristy looking pictures. Can you clarify further?
The Iowa Driving Simulator wrote a lot about that in the last decade. Trouble is, as I see it, that you use trucks precisely when you want to go to a destination uncorrelated with other trucks. Its hard enough to fill even one truck for a trip - that's the hard nut of the industry's problem. Solve that one, multiple trucks would be further down the list.
We've also seen the shift away from 2-year contracts here in the USA. People are now aware that phones actually cost $600+ and are either paying full price, or monthly installments to pay off the $600 phone they bought.
It was the signal processor for an airborne surveillance radar. I can't get into specific sizing, but our processing technique was to divide the field of view into a rectangular grid, with each grid square backed by a processing thread. As the beam positions came in (each beam also has its own processing thread) the data from the beams was mapped to the appropriate thread in the grid. Once the sweep was complete, all the threads in the grid would start running the mode algorithms (moving target indication (MTI) or synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging), sharing data with their logical neighbors and building a complete picture of the area.

It was basically grid computing, since we had multiple machines that had to be coordinated at certain points in the algorithm chain.
How easy is it to ingest something by accident while in the area?

I mean, I don't imagine people going there to be eating random stuff they find. So maybe from dust and other small particles you don't notice?
I see the evolution of automated vehicles as slowly taking more and more mental load off humans. e.g

1) Automated gears and obstacle detection - we already have this.
2) Have the truck stay in one lane and maintain distance - We're close. This means humans stay in truck and solve the hard problems when encountered. (Kind of like pilots)
3) Automated port to port driving without humans.
4) Destination to destination driving without humans.
That's what I did, got images of the Taj Mahal and other beautiful buildings.
The Java ecosystem is fairly complex and it's hard to understand. Your statement of "Oracle essentially has a monopoly on Java" is not true, considering Java language is used to built Android apps, runs on diff VM and uses different bytecode -- outside the control of Oracle (about 2M andorid apps and 1.6B phone sold). Another thing to consider, the JVM is an open spec and most of it is open sourced, see OpenJDK. There is also many implementations of the JVM, see; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines
Why do you think a truck driver is more expensive than an autonomous driving system? Have you priced enterprise software lately? It's not like you'll pay a flat-rate one-time fee and have your robotic driver available to you. You'll end up paying based on your vehicle capacity, on the annual mileage, on the annual driving time, possibly even on the market cap of the purchasing company. Then you'll pay annual costs for support of the software.

Beyond a mandate from the government, I have a hard time seeing the trucking industry giving all their profits over to google, tesla, gm, mercedes, and co.
Oh, I absolutely think we will get past this line of thinking. Automated driving is the future. I just don't think it will be a smooth transition.
Experiencing specific forms of tyranny puts us in a perfect position to call out the same patterns in other countries and warn them so they can counter it before it's too late. Apathy by the majority is what screws America up. That Singaporeans actually care collectively about theirs and invest in their country's future is one of their most enviable traits. If Americans had that in mass, then our freedoms, votes, and capital would give us control of the country and vast improvements in one election cycle.
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Do we know the impact of the new iPhone pricing models where people pay Apple a monthly installment? Is it just a wash? At first glance, it seemed like this was increasing Apple's take.
conservatives in this country will just shrug and say: mistakes happen, let's not dwell on it.

Apparently so will our Liberal president:

I hope that today’s report can help us leave these [torture] techniques where they belong—in the past.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/09/state...
Hmm I did a quick search for New York - Downtown, as I figure in terms of status and location that seems comparable to Singapore.

The prices seem to range from 3k to 15k / month. This is like living in a Condo in Singapore.

http://streeteasy.com/for-rent/downtown/beds:2

Feel free to correct me, I've only been to America a couple of times, so I don't know the most appropriate place to search for comparison.

Rent would be considered a lot for most Singaporeans, however being ang moh I automatically pay more anyway. I know people living in my building who pay half what I pay in rent simply because they are Singaporean.

Also young Singaporeans live at home with their parents well into their 20s, and often get engaged and order an HDB which they start paying before they get married. They are not allowed to move in (by law) until they are married, and can only buy as a single if they are over the age of (35) i believe.

This is to encourage marriage. Likewise the lack of single bedroom HDBs is to encourage starting a family by having the rooms available. etc.

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I pay $2600/m (divided by 2 because I live with someone else) for a 2 bedroom hdb, that's bigger than the $2800 2bedroom apartment I had living in Sydney.

My power bill in Sydney was about $210/m while in Singapore its about $110/m.

Internet in Sydney was about $120/m for ADSL2+ (that connected at 2.5mbit) while in Singapore I pay $59 for uncapped, unthrottled, 1gb down / 500mbit up.

Taxi in Sydney cost me $27 to get to work in the morning. In Singapore, it takes 3x as long to get to work in a taxi and costs $10.

Train in Sydney cost me about $7/day and because it was only a few stops it would cost more to get a monthly or yearly pass than to just pay each day. Singapore costs me $1.18 to get to work and $0.90 to get home.

Basically my cost of living has significantly dropped living in Singapore. I'm not saying its like that for everyone. People I work with live in Condo's and pay a lot more than I do.
I agree. This is the one situation I can think of where torture would probably be an effective means of obtaining the information you want.

And I also agree it's important to make this distinction, and for people to define what they mean by 'verify'. In my mind, the information is verified if the safe unlocks, the bomb is defused etc. The danger, I think, is when people consider 'verified' to include 'corroborating information obtained through torture'. This tends to lead you to false conclusions (e.g. half the women in your village are witches, as they all implicated each other when they were tortured).
> * What experience are you drawing on for that recommendation?*

I work on tech M&A.
I'll chime in and say: Support for IPv6. It's ... self evident? I think we've reached a point that it's okay to call out a network client that doesn't support it.
To provide an example of the utility of method combinations:

I wrote a project skeleton generator[0] whose functionality is provided by progn-composable plugins, implemented as mixin classes.

Every bit of functionality, like adding a README.md file to a project skeleton, adding a .gitignore file, adding stub unit tests, etc. is implemented as a mixin class. A full template inherits[1] all the mixins it needs.

There is a generic function, render-template[1], that takes a template, some options, and the target directory, and uses the progn method combination. Meaning: every method in the chain is called in succession, and each method adds its own thing to the generated project. The render-template method for the gitignore mixin adds a .gitignore file, for instance. When render template is called on an instance of a class that inherits a bunch of template mixins, it runs all of those mixins in addition to the render-template method of that class itself (if any).

In a sense, this is basically the entity-component pattern[3] implemented in the object system itself, with the caveat that you can't have "multiple instances" of the same component -- you can't inherit a class twice.

[0]: https://github.com/roswell/mystic

[1]: https://github.com/roswell/mystic/blob/2d0fd8e401d50893b4a15...

[2]: https://github.com/roswell/mystic/blob/2d0fd8e401d50893b4a15...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system
Congrats on getting an interview. I hope you ace it, and get in.

I'm a late applicant myself, and is still awaiting a response.

Is there anything that you want to share about your startup, that the community can help with?
Agreed. He also subtly introduces a double-standard here, in that a person with no training or experience might fail in these situations, thus we're inferior to machines...but without the right algorithms and training data a computer would fail worse!
>>Many crimes are poverty-related theft for subsistence

Is poverty an acceptable justification for crimes? If yes, there are many issues: how much poor one should be to justify this? how much rich the other person (whom the poor one robbed) should be to justify this? What are the acceptable reasons why the poor one remained poor in the first place? what kind of reasons/ways how the rich become rich due to/using are acceptable to make the rich person a right target for the society to accept his/her being robbed by a poor is justifiable? What about the poor ones giving birth to children when they know they cannot afford things, and then they rob others to justify that they did this for their children and did so out of poverty? and so on.

There are many, many such issues. I am not saying that there are not any racism related issues but just trying to hide everything behind racism and/or trying to sideline such issues is not going to help either the black people or in general the USA.

edit: added more examples.
Yet they chose language to provode and humiliate. I'll suggest another phrase: white slavemaster rules. You there, you're benefiting from white slavemaster rules. Don't blame me, I'm not referring to you as an individual for the love of god! Boy those white guys bristle easily, you can't talk to them.
It doesn't change the amount of money Apple gets. The carriers still were buying the phones from them at wholesale or full price, and just subsidizing the upfront cost of the phone by selling it at $199 to the customer but baking in the rest of the phone into their monthly voice/text/data plans.
> If you limit autonomous driving to the main freight routes on the highway, I can see self driving vehicles happening a lot sooner than I previously expected. Like 20 years sooner.

It is 100% certain without any doubt whatsoever that this is how it will start. It will start with dedicated interstate roads (or lanes) just for driverless trucks, and then cars.

After some time all freeways will be 100% driverless. I don't anticipate mixed use (driverless + drivers) ever happening.

Local roads (i.e. uncontrolled access) is many many decades away.
> I am amazed to read this under the caption of articles picture: "Netflix customer Susan Lorenz of Toronto doesn't understand why the company is suddenly shutting her out from the content she used to be able to see." ... Susan most certainly understands why.

Later on in the article, it says this:

~~~~~

Because she pays for the service and has been able to skirt the rules for so long, Lorenz doesn't understand why Netflix is suddenly shutting her out.

"I don't know why I can't have international access," she says. "That doesn't make sense to me."

~~~~~

Understanding why there are content restrictions across regions makes no sense to most people.
I think you kind of missed the point of the article. The point is not that liberals look at conservatives that way. The point is that liberals look at the lower class that way.

Liberals have become more of an "in crowd" that thinks the right things and feels better than others because they think the right things. But the people that they claim to be trying to help don't think those things, so the liberals look down on them - look at the people they claim to be trying to help in a very condescending way. That makes it hard to really help them, because there's no genuine empathy.

Conservatives, on the other hand, claim that those people are big enough to help themselves if the system would just get out of their way. That may not be empathy, and it may not work in the real world, but it's looking at people as competent grown-ups rather than ignorant or stupid people who need "the knowing ones" to tell them what to think and do.
I'm saying you should be careful because it is easy to give a false impression that you are discussing a scientifically supported phenomenon where really it is basically the musings of a fiction writer.

the name "Gell-Mann Amnesia" was, in fact, chosen by Crichton self-consciously so that this false impression would be more likely in discussions such as this one. Lack of context and a fancy sounding name serve to obfuscate the truth here.
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Why not just use mosh to establish & maintain the connection then then use tmux/screen to manage the terminal sessions?
> If you were to go back to the three things that people need—mastery, belonging, and autonomy—I'd add a fourth, after basic necessities have been met. It’s the attitude or the worldview that you bring to life. And that worldview can be characterized, just for simplicity, in one of two fashions: One extreme is a kind of scarcity-minded approach, that my win is going to come at somebody else's loss, which makes you engage in social comparisons. And the other view is what I would call a more abundance-oriented approach, that there's room for everybody to grow.

The best part of his analysis, IMHO. I don't even like being around zero-sum people.
What are you on about. You've just admitted that this privilege only applies to a subset of activities, in a specific country for a very brief period of time.

Yet you where the one slapping it on people telling them they've benefited from it. You don't know that. You can't know that. You're using a race and gender targeted generalization which is the problem in the first place. Stop.
How did this article made it on hackernews? Someone take it down please.
Donald Trump and his supporters are not the individuals who ordered the torture/enhanced interrogation (T/EI). If one watches/reads General Hayden's comments on the topic, he's disgusted by any call for punitive T/EI. He begins talking about this at about 34:50. https://youtu.be/GBx-ECt6vUo?t=34m50s

The discussion on the US' RDI program begins at about 30:25.
> Inventing multiplication is something no computer (as we currently understand them) would ever be able to do.

AM, the discovery learning program developed by Doug Lenat, discovered multiplication, beginning with a few basic facts about set theory, and using about 200 heuristics.
(First off, as a disclaimer, I no longer work for Dropbox, I don't speak on their behalf. I've only used the feature as a user.)

I don't know a common search/find system that open()s or read()s files during the search by default. AFAIK Spotlight and Windows search are indexed searches. As for the indexing operations, I don't know how that is handled, they could disable indexing for remote files, or they could somehow integrate with indexing.

Based on my testing of a pre-released version of the feature (it isn't released yet), if you were to do something like `find ~/Dropbox -type f -exec md5 {} +`, it would download files.

As a user it did exactly what I expected. I was truly amazed. It was totally seamless and amazing.

Compared to the complexity of what has already been implemented, solving the problem of "I want to recursively open/read every file in my Dropbox, but I don't want it to download terabytes of data and fill by hard drive" seems fairly simple. For example there could be a setting for the maximum about of space Dropbox will use up, e.g., 40 GB, plus Dropbox could be smart enough to detect disk usage. If you `grep -R` it may download/open/read the files, once you reach 40 GB or near your disk capacity, Dropbox could start removing local copies of files that are not pinned to be local, i.e., remove the files that were downloaded because of the open()/read(), not the files you explicitly told it to keep local. I don't know how the team will choose to implement these features, but I'm confident that it will be well-thought-out and tested.

Remember, Dropbox is the company that especially monkey patched the Finder to get the sync icons (http://mjtsai.com/blog/2011/03/22/disabling-dropboxs-haxie/). They will go to great lengths for a seamless user experience, and do a ton of testing. I have no doubt that when Project Infinite is widely available it will be amazing, seamless, and have functionality many people thought wasn't possible or only dreamed existed.
I really just want to echo what johnBooty (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11571398) said and add my 2 cents.

Short version: I'm Irish, former illegal immigrant, naturalized citizen, pay my taxes, have a family, and consider myself a moderate success etc.

I worked very, very hard to get to here I am now, but I guarantee you that that fact that I am white (and spoke English as a first language helped too) played its part too.

It exists, it is a thing, and we're obligated to do our best to make things better for everyone along thew way.
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I'm starting to think we should tax the value made out of automation.

I feel like it's the only way to redistribute the wealth accumulated by the few actors that will control these giant automated industries.
There was a few articles about this exact issue on HN previously, a cursory search returns at least one of them:

http://rocknrollnerd.github.io/ml/2015/05/27/leopard-sofa.ht...
Source: http://www.archaeology.org/issues/213-1605/features/4325-an-...
It is standard practice when max throughput and/or latency are desired to pin. A scheduler provides convenience and automatic balancing in face of shifting workloads. If you have a fixed function system, it's just getting in the way.
It's simply intractable to add up everyone's advantages and disadvantages; it's the wrong path to focus on group attributes/trends when you start talking about individuals.

I could clamor for tall rich sportsmen to "send the elevator down for me". That it's their responsibility and so on. What you should do is reflect on exactly why you'd think I should feel silly for saying that, and the other guy to not. Would you tell Michael Jordan to check his privilege if he told a group of average white male nerds to reflect on theirs?
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I sure have. Ask a taxi driver in Singapore some time, they will gladly vent until you arrive at your destination about how much they don't like the government. This was a guarantee for any cab ride in which it came up. It's possible they were only willing to talk to a foreigner, however. They might not be so loud on the subject to a fellow Singaporean if they don't know who the person is.
'Truckers have to deal with a sort of standard "road safety dilemma" all the time...'

I think you mean that truckers FEEL like they deal with that dilemma all the time. If they ACTUALLY dealt with an A or B dilemma, they would routinely end up in situation A or B: running over a passenger car or flipping the truck. It happens SOMETIMES, but infrequently.

In reality the situations where other drivers do something stupid are probably much better handled by the self-driving truck, which doesn't panic, doesn't feel a fight-or-flight response, doesn't overstate the gravity of the situation... doesn't do anything except assess what to do next without emotion.
This is really cool. I was reading the NYT article on illegal logging. It seems that there's more activity there than I'd expected.