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Governments can only do so much to increase intergenerational social mobility. When I look at my peers and myself, it is obvious that it is extremely difficult to emancipate yourself from the role model that is your parents. They are not necessarily role models you follow consciously, but they determine the borders of your imagination. If your family comes from a worker's background, it is extremely hard to imagine that there might be another path in life for you - you simply follow what your kin has been doing in their lifes.

The German society can be in principle classified into three social strata: workers (factory, craftsmen etc.), office employees and academics. This comes from the strong early selection into the three-parted school system, which determines at age ten or twelve whether you have the cognitive abilities to succeed in one of these three tracks. So at age ten or twelve, you are either selected to join Hauptschule, Realschule or Gymnasium. The first school prepares you to become a worker, car mechanic, hair dresser etc. The second school prepares you to become an office employee, the third prepares you for a life of an academic. Now the twist is, that it is generally your social stratum that decides which school you attend and therefore which track you will follow, thereby perpetuating this low intergenerational social mobility for a long time. Your parents often decide that you will be going to Realschule, which is what they themselves attended - or Gymnasium when your parents are academics.

Escaping this track that was selected for you at a young age is much harder than just following it. An example: my parents followed both the second track: Realschule, then an Ausbildung to become office workers. My sisters both followed this track and had therefore lives nearly identical to that of our parents. I was the only one to follow the track to become an academic, and with the lack of role models in my vicinity, this was always accompanied by self doubt and simply a lack of being self-confident in the academic environment.

Getting rid of the influence your social environment has on the borders of your imagination is the really hard part for any educational system.
It is a certification requirement for airliners that they can be evacuated in 90 seconds, with half the emergency exits closed/inoperational (see [1], [2]).

This is tested with volunteers before certification, see e.g. [3] for a video of the certification test for the Airbus A380.
The details [4] are quite interesting: a third of "pax" must be over 50, three life-size infant dolls must be carried along, etc.

Given those certification requirements, a slow passenger is very much a problem.

[1] http://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?contentKe...
[2] http://adg.stanford.edu/aa241/fuselayout/far801.html
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIaovi1JWyY
[4] http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=4fcf34b24a7a7963642...
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Torrents and copyright infringement is related, we can all agree on that. But I believe that pirating is related to a very fuzzy legal system regarding this topic and unfair treatment by the major movie studios & music labels. I'll try to explain as good as I can.

Being a european citizen, it is very frustrating knowing that pirating is illegal even though being a Netflix, HBO & Spotify customer. Pirating is a much bigger trend in EU & AUS than it is in the US, and I think that it mainly boils down to the US-based movie studios restricting and delaying access to content to non-US citizens. Some may think that this is acceptable, but I can't see how treating one customer differently from another is acceptable just because they have different nationalities. I'm paying exactly the same amount of money as the next US-citizen for the content, yet I am treated differently.

One other thing that troubles me is that there are higher quality content available via torrents than via the legal alternatives. Having invested in a 7.1 surround system and a 4K 3D Android TV, you would expect that the legal alternatives would have content available for such hardware, but they rarely do.

Personally I think it's absurd that the movie studios expect to be on the european market but treat those customers as second-hand customers, and I don't understand why the EU isn't doing anything about it. The EU and US relies on eachothers markets, yet music labels forces the Swedish-invented Spotify to restrict access to certain songs for non-US citizens.

I do acknowledge that some people are pirating because it's free, but I don't think that the general public does so. I'd be the happiest Netflix & HBO customer if I had the same content library as my fellow US friends.
For movies you can find on Netflix that's absolutely true. The difference is that effectively anything can be found via torrent or nzb, while the catalog of any single paid provider, even netflix, is relatively limited. You might get reasonable coverage (although still not as complete) by combining a number of subscription services, but the 'ease' advantage quickly disappears.

I would happily pay a significant multiplier on what I pay for Netflix in order to legally stream any reasonably popular movie released within the past few years, plus a decent selection of older ones. IE, roughly what you would find at your average Blockbuster 10 years ago. (A similar selection of TV shows would be nice too.) Things may be improving, but they're definitely not there yet.
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Doesn't seem to have debugging. If that's the case it already lost.
I still don't see how blockchain helps with distribution and what incentive would be to store huge loads of this type of data locally.

Ratings are important indeed, but blockchain doesn't make them not gameable. For this you need some working web of trust and oh how I wish we had one already (yes yes I know the technology is there and it 'works', but it must work like an e-mail works for an average user to really be popular, I want to be warned not to buy from given ebay seller because friend of my friend of my friend had a bad experience and because I assign high weight to this friend opinion, well that went OT a bit..). On torrent sites there's a thin web of trust of website owners moderators and then trusted uploaders, we could do so much better.

Not to make a separate post, small ask HN: any interesting active projects trying to build such user friendly distributed WoT?
"Note that these criteria for deciding to use a never-indexed literal representation will evolve over time as new attacks are discovered."

Or, in other words: "We know that this is insecure. Maybe someone will fix it later."
Adding noise is not going to help much. You can just run the test many times and you can use statistics. The only thing helping is deterministic noise: For every security-related thing, you have a deterministic delay. That way you can not apply statistics. Unfortunately that won't work here, at least I don't know how it could.
>It seems to me like it's the only one that matters

You literally have to do nothing to cash a rent check, receive share dividends or interest on a loan.

From a systems' perspective that's parasitism.
Actually the cleaning lady is comparing California with Central America-- international immigration is why CA's population continues to grow. U.S. citizens have been fleeing California by the millions for the last two decades. https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/great-california-ex...
The legal alternatives just don't have the content I'd like to see. The Netflix catalog for example contains maybe one out of ten movies I'm looking for, whereas it is easy to find even obscure movies using torrents. If you like older or less popular movies you're generally out of luck. At best you can find a DVD, but that won't work for movies that weren't even released in your region.

I don't understand why it is so hard for the studios to offer their whole catalog online and let me download a movie for a buck or two. Add the possibility for user-submitted subtitles and you have an excellent competitor to piracy.
>TFW your children won't experience having access to all the software, music, and other content they could ever want just by knowing how to use a computer better than most people

Feels bad man. Having access to a cracked version of Photoshop at 13 years old changed my life.
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YouTube goes above and beyond the law in favoring copyright holders. Historically, it doesn't take notices with any legal force to get videos removed or forcibly monetized, just an (often automated) entry in YouTube's system; an appeal against a copyright claim (whether fair use or pure bogus) is decided by the claimant; and (for a long time, but I think not anymore?) claimants kept the money earned while their claim was active, even if it was rescinded.
Adventured said their _customers_ represent $40+ trillion. Which is a rather meaningless figure, but not clearly wrong.

I general, a lot of shipping revenue comes from business-to-business, which is not threatened by Amazon.
Don't forget Freeenet https://www.freenetproject.org/, which has the goal of anonymity. IPFS isn't anonymous and the IP address of users pinning the content is easily discoverable.

Freenet has at least one site that lists magnet hashes and inserts some of the torrent content directly into the network.
No, without subsidy, without phone and TV, data only (non-shaped, non-filtered, public and dynamic IP if you have IPv4 service, /56 subnet and DS-Lite if you have IPv6 service).

However, this is not a price you would get when you walk in - the price list is 17 EUR for 250/15, upping upload to 100 is 5, upping upload to 250 (from 15, not 100) would be 15. Additional fees if you want TV or phone, or static IP.

This network has been in operation for years - I've been customer for 9 years already, hence the lower price. In the beginning, it was slower of course, about 40/10, but I imagine the network has already paid for itself.

The reason why it is was built in the first place were bad conditions for accessing DSLAMs operated by our ILEC at the time - T-Com. It was impossible for any ISP to offer flat-rate DSL, because the ILEC was asking for data-based charges, quite high at that. So Orange threw it the towel, built its own optical network, set the prices as another DSL providers, but with order of magnitude faster speeds with no data caps - and had a runaway success with it. The other big ISP were in shock, but to remain competitive they quickly built their own FTTH networks, or at least upgraded their HFC (UPC). So in the end we have a cheap Internet thanks to T-Com greed :).
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Copyright infringement, not theft, not stealing; not simply sharing either. By labelling it 'theft' you are applying a rhetorical device created explicitly to discredit the act of copyright infringement on moral grounds before even considering any of the justifications held by the infringer.

This isn't a black and white scenario like stealing a car is (and even then there are nuances); the mere fact that millions of people engage in copyright infringement every day without any scruples whatsoever, is an indication that there is a disconnect between the law and reality, and between supply and demand.

Your standpoint can be better presented without the weasel words; it prevents being downvoted as a troll too.
It's a shame you are being downvoted considering that the first kind of computational storage was "binary files"/"binary data." Bin for short..
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Ignoring Blockchain Is Corporate Suicide
Instead of major browsers, could major torrent clients build in search functionality based on something like this?
When do you start taking applications for summer 2017 internships?
I used to have a Spotify subscription. Then I moved out of Sweden and lost half my playlists. Never subscribed again.

I never had a Netflix subscription because I don't have a good enough connection to stream high quality videos - Additionally, I rewatch some series a lot. It's simply more convenient to have them on my hard drive.

The US gov is running around the internet policing copyright for very specific companies, acting like they're doing the world a favour. Calling everybody thieves. Threatening people with fines and prison. "You can just pay for a Netflix/Spotify subscription"... well, no, not everywhere and it's certainly not as convenient for everyone.

Sidenote: Spotify's content bootstrapping was a dump of music from TPB. If it weren't for piracy, we wouldn't have spotify. The system is broken.
> if [...] 20 years of peaceful compromise would have ended slavery

There's no way to even estimate such things beforehand, so the calculation you propose is pretty useless.

I'm not saying that the decision for the war was right or wrong, but that you can't answer the question with a seemingly objective multiplication of numbers (it's the garbage-in-garbage-out principle in action).
Don't feel bad for them. They paved the way for all the great text editors we have now, but they missed the point where they should have opened up their core. If they didn't, there's a good chance Atom, VSC and others wouldn't exist.
Ask HN: Chances for mature newbie
I've been playing around with computers on and off for 30+ years, but now at the age of 45 I have discovered a love of assembly language (x86) and reverse engineering.
So my question is how can I get a job taking my learning further, money is not a big deal for me,so willing to undertake very Junior level work,but I feel my age will be a big blocker.
Same here. I wonder whether this experience with the free cracked version helped make Photoshop any more popular. If it was only used in the legal sense, costing hundreds, would it be so popular?
They definitely could, but there's barely any innovation in the torrent "market" anymore...
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The same guy also prepared O4F2 (FOOOOF) and made it react with ozone (http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/v66-221):

> At 116 K (melting point of Freon-12), tetraoxygen difluoride decomposes and, if there is contact with
concentrated ozone, both explode.

No shit Sherlock. :)

Strangely enough, I cannot find any paper about Streng doing explosive reactions with O3F2.
Torrentz.eu provided links torrents but also provided a takedown feature where copyright holders could remove the torrents.

Whose to say that all the torrents were copyright infringement. Or even that copyright infringement laws applied equally in all parts of the world.

Google also provides links to torrents. That's the double standard.
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This is a very good attitude i try to use it myself, it is often hard to phrase the questions to be subtle enough to not be rude.
But the one he used here was actually very good, and fairly generic.
If there is a tax, that makes it legal. If I was paying a piracy tax then I would feel justified in pirating since I've paid for it.

But if the tax isn't going to the copyright holders, then sounds like the tax is stealing from the copyright holders also.
they didn't mention where pretax social mobility is highest. that's something I'm interested in. Perhaps the american dream is most alive in a place we don't expect.
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In Eastern Europe you often would get an entree (soup or salad), main dish and dessert.
Diversity has an optimal threshold. The more thoughts and viewpoints the better, until agreements can no longer be reached. I think the general feeling right now is that we've crossed into a suboptimal zone where government has trouble acting.
Ah, true, oops. Yes mountains, not networking.
Yup, except piracy always had a good impact on creators, sure it may hurts the big companies but it's the best way to promote non mainstream artists. If you download an album you weren't going to buy anyway it may incite you to go to a concert you wouldn't even consider before. The same thing can be applied to any pirated content.

Look at Game of Thrones, it's one of the most pirated content of all time. It's also one of the most popular and lucrative, book sales have skyrocketed, there is a lot of tie-in products and even HBO subscriptions have gone up. All while, and probably because, the show is so much pirated.

Sure piracy is stealing, legally, but it boosts the industry and really never hurts the creator, the only people saying that are big media companies that play victims while making bigger and bigger profits.
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No seriously, what is the author intending to say that when repeatedly putting it between sentences.
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You misread me. I don't expect my son or other children to work sweeping floors or otherwise. Each generation of my family has improved life for the next generation. From my Momo, grandma, coming over as a cleaning lady for New Yorkers, to my Dad driving a truck or other such job.

I worked through college, but dropped out voluntarily. I think there are other opportunities to learn nowadays aside from university and graduate school unless you want to be a doctor, engineer, or lawyer.

My son and daughter volunteer and work and go to school. They are both doing exceptional. My son was number one in the entire county in Chemistry this past year. I am split on whether they would be better off not working or volunteering at all. It is their choice; I didn't ask it of them. I did offer them the option of focusing solely on studies, but they like what they do. What can I say?

I have friends whose kids are given whatever they please. These are not friends who grew up where or how I did. Their kids are having all sorts of serious adaptation issues. I think it is due to having too much time and no responsibility. I work hard at my art and job, no romanticizing here. The drunk writer, or coder who just wings it, are stereotypes. The real achievers work their ass off.

I know from being a manager of hundreds, and including myself, that busy people seem to get more work done. I am not talking about the culture of no sleep, 75 hours per week. I am talking about having 30 hours of real work per week in a 40 hour week, and not 10 hours and making up for the deficit in a 75 hour week, which seems common in some companies.
Well, i don't really know. There are some bible verses that call out the use of filthy language and corrupt words. I think shit was actually the english word for feces, and got a bad rap over time. Perhaps as technology improved, more and more people didn't have to actually deal with shit and wanted a more high falutin term.

I think there's some value in limiting use of words. Why would you call someone whale leavings? Maybe he cut you off in traffic? Maybe he killed your dog? It can lead to lazy storytelling. As others mentioned, they're like seasoning. They should be used to add weight to a coherent idea, not as a substitute for thought.
Most of the time you won't realise this behaviour.
Does anyone know of a good alternative? Are there good torrent sites behind TOR, that is, .onion addresses?
Good looking, tall people have literally won the genetic lottery without trying.

Look at inheritance as a payment for providing happiness and support. If a wealthy man has a wife that makes him happy and supports him, then why would it be a problem if he leaves her 50% of his wealth?

Children, especially your own, are a great source of happiness and motivation. Some people work mainly to leave wealth to their children and other family members - it's their main motivation.

I don't understand people who have problems with other people giving their money to those they love (children, spouse, relatives, friends etc.).

It's kinda funny - people who are for forced redistribution at a gunpoint, want to give people money just for existing. But, if someone wants to give their own children money for existing and making them happy, then it's a problem.
My main one is the top-notch TypeScript experience.
You could host the UI in ethereum dapps for example, or IPFS for that matter
A fully decentralized torrent search already exists (and it's in fact funded by public institutions!): https://www.tribler.org/
Ask HN: Life coach idea, need your input
Hi HN - I have an app idea I'd like to ask your input on.

Imagine a service that collects information on your life and then nudges you to make better decisions. Every day (or some time period) it nagged you into make some life improvements. A digital life coach. It would keep track (as best it can) which nudges worked, which didn't, how frequently it needed to nudge, etc. You could ask it to nudge future-you about specific things.

Here are some examples:

- Career
Why don't you have a linkedin profile?
Your linkedin profile hasn't been updated since...
When did you last connect with an old colleague?
Upload your CV to me, I'm going to check it for spelling/formatting/etc.
Want advice on networking in your city?

- Finance
It's the start of the month, remember to top up your savings account.
Are you keeping weekly budgets, would you like help to?
Could you swap expensive name-brands for identical no-name versions? I can help with suggestions

- Health
What time did you get to bed last night?
Did you use your phone in bed?
How many portions of fruit/veg have you eaten ntoday?
It's good weather today, you should go for a jog
Need help finding a gym near your office/home?

- Relationships
Send your SO a loving message out of the blue, they'll appreciate it.
Look up an old friend you haven't spoken to in a while.
Single is no fun, want help finding a speed dating event?

- Family
Weekend is approaching, time to plan a family outing. Weather is good, how about a picnic?
Did you read a story to your kids last night? Want to see the latest research on why it's a good thing?
Your (wedding anniversary is approaching, I'll remind you in a week but you should think about a gift.
X's birthday is approaching, I'll remind you in a week but you should think about a gift.

Without getting bogged down in "how it'd work" or "how it'd scale". Is this something you'd like/use/share?
I too wrote a PR a few days ago to not switch to visual mode when selecting text in insert mode (which breaks snippets and wrapping text in braces).

I'm pretty busy right now, though, and will probably not get to finish it in the next week. If anyone wants to pick it up, I'd be really happy: https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/pull/544
Yeah I doubt it used oxidizer to refrigerate the cabin so an averaging of the pilot/atmosphere ratio seems more likely than a dissolution oxidizer leak[0]. And it would probably set the pilot on fire rather than dissolve it:

> Because of its extreme oxidizing potential, T-Stoff was a very dangerous chemical to handle, so special rubberized suits were required when working with it, as it would react with most cloth, leather, or other combustible material and cause it to spontaneously combust.

At 57% methanol and 30% hydrazine hydrate (by weight), the reductant wasn't exactly innocuous either.

[0] even more so as the reductant and oxidizer were picked for their hypergolic combination, ground explosion is not unheard of for 163.
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The UI - couldn't it just be a general client, much like uTorrent or Magnet is?
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I sometimes think we need religion to make sure our words keep their meaning. And I am not religious.
It sounds like the most annoying thing ever