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The risk is the risk of failure. They won't get spun back in if they fail. They will go out of business, like any other startup.

I don't see how this is anything like cheating on an exam. The founders of spin-in startups are good at what they do -- if they weren't, they wouldn't get such an arrangement in the first place, and even if they did, they wouldn't be acquired if they failed.

Meritocracy is not undermined when people with merit are identified and elevated -- in fact, that's the raison d'etre of meritocracy.
Well, given that the parent to the comment you replied to said

>Pocket, I remember. ReadItLater used to exist, maybe still?

there was an obvious reason to name Pocket as "formerly Read It Later"
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A simple counter to these people is this: Show me on your property deed where it says you have the right to uninterrupted views.

Property deeds give you the right to a piece of land, that's it.
Yep.

LinkedIn now needs a pre-canned "No thanks, I'm not interested in moving to Silicon Valley" response.
>I've had the opposite experience. When talking about the problems of the US health care system compared to national health systems, the number one thing I hear is that ours is much more expensive and achieves worse results. One of the primary motivations behind people who want to nationalize health care is to reduce costs. Everyone is thinking about costs.

Yes, you can reduce costs and get more per dollar invested; it's still a fallacy to believe that one system will eliminate the problem of people dying because someone refuses to throw further resources at them.
I only started playing because my friends did, and the only way for me to stomach the boring game was to write a bot for it. I enjoyed going around and getting levels with a bot, trying to figure out how to best evolve my Pokemon automatically, write inventory management scripts, etc.

After they deleted my account for that (fair enough), I uninstalled the app. I wasn't going to run around catching and releasing Rattatas all the time, as the game is one of the most grindy games I've ever seen, but there's pretty much nothing else to do in the game either.
This good list of tactics underscores, for me, how the state of the Web has made it a lot more difficult to teach web scraping as a fun exercise for newbie programmers. It used to be you could get by with an assumption that what you see in the browser is what you get when you download the raw HTML...but that's increasingly less common the case. So now you have to teach how to debug via the console and network panel, on top of basic HTTP concepts (such as query parameters).

(Even more problematic is that college kids today seem to have a decaying understanding of what a URL is, given how much web navigation we do through the omnibar or apps, particularly on mobile, but that's another issue).

I've been archiving a few government sites to preserve them for web scraping exercises [0] (the Texas death penalty site is a classic, for both being relatively simple at first, and being incredibly convoluted depending on what level of detail you want to scrape [1])). But I imagine even government sites will move more toward AJAX/app-like sites, if the trend at the federal level means anything.

That said, I think the analytics.usa.gov site is a great place to demonstrate the difference between server-generated HTML and client-rendered HTML.

But as someone who just likes doing web-scraping, I feel the tools have mostly kept up with the changes to the web. It's been relatively easy, for example, to run Selenium through Python to mimic user action [2]. Same with PhantomJS through node, which has vastly improved how accurately it renders pages for screenshots compared to what I remember a few years back

[0] https://github.com/wgetsnaps

[1] https://github.com/wgetsnaps/tdcj-state-tx-us--death_row

[2] https://gist.github.com/dannguyen/8a6fa49253c1d6a0eb92
ok on m4.4xlarge now :)
EDIT - I should have read the article, sounds like the child was not only not asleep but in pretty bad condition.

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It doesn't say if the 2-year-old was asleep (does it? skimmed the article) - if it was asleep in a crib then it was probably in very little danger. When we lived in an apartment we would sometimes put the baby down and when we were sure he was asleep we'd go to the apartment hot tub. The hot tub was right under our room, we could see our front entryway and the baby's window. We would also start a phone call and leave one phone in the baby's room and take the other with us on mute as a longer distance baby-monitor. I don't think this was putting our son in danger.
I do appreciate the sentiment. Truly, I do. It occurs to me that my pressing "submit" on that first comment was actually an important milestone for me, mentally.

Through the years of my watching my species demonstrate the law of triviality, I can see now that I've gone through the five stages of grief, as defined by the Kübler-Ross model.

Denial: Mainly, as a child. I can't think of a moment of my life after the executive function portions of my brain were developed that I was in profound denial, but I can identify spans where I felt that my negative impact didn't really count.

Anger: My early adult years, angry with the "political-industrial complex" for metaphorically writing the environmental checks I and my offspring would have to cash.

Bargaining: In my late twenties and early thirties, thinking "maybe if I make these changes, I can convince others to do the same, and together, we can effect real change in our government and in society." It's about this time that I also noticed that people who use the phrase "[foo]-industrial complex" come off as either idealists or conspiracy theorists.

Depression: In recent years, I've experienced a growing sense of despair while watching story after story showcasing the arguments between humans who, you'd think, would all prefer not to have to worry about how difficult life will become when the effects of climate change are really felt; grand ideas that couldn't possibly be implemented in time; seeing how my voting and writing politicians and commenting on web sites (ha!) failed to make a difference; thinking that my kids' lives will be harder, and as a parent, all I want is to make their lives better than mine.

Acceptance: And here we are. My "coming out" as a person who's realized it's too late gets (as I write this) 26 fake internet points. I feel validated, in a weird way, and it gave me peace to see those first dozen points roll in over just a few minutes. I've accepted that the climate is irrevocably (in my lifetime) wrecked, and there are things I can do now to help my children. I can help them learn the lessons my generation didn't. I can show what changes we can make that would make a difference, not because they will make a difference for me, but because there may come a time that those lessons would be passed on, possibly made part of a societal contract to stop arguing, stop fucking up the environment, and start doing what's necessary to ensure, wherever they live in the future, these mistakes won't be repeated. Teaching them the simple math behind it all:

When you spend, over just 150 years, a natural currency that took millions of years to save, you drive the environmental economy into ruin. From day one, a fourth grade student could've done the math and said, "hang on, guys... this doesn't add up."

And then I realize: I don't have to teach them that last part. My son figured that out on his own. Two years ago. In the fourth grade.
No worries, we had your page scraped just in case ;)

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Archive.is link: http://archive.is/DQccs
"I don't think that the solution is to medicate children with a very serious life changing drug that alters the core aspects of a child's personality and behavior.
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Instead of forcing children to think one way, we should let them think the way they NATURALLY think, and flourish with their native mindset."

This is wildly inaccurate and ignorant, and basically perfectly sums up why the problem isn't being treated effectively.

1) The drugs aren't serious and life changing and they don't alter core aspects of your personality. People seem to confuse the effects of mild stimulants like ritalin and adderall with the effects of powerful antidepressants like prozac (I blame South Park, et al). Stimulants can have negative side effects, but they're more along the lines of what you'd expect from too much coffee: loss of appetite, hyperalertness and sleep problems, in extreme cases twitchiness and cardiovascular problems. These are well-understood, and any doctor would adjust/halt the drug if they got worrying. In terms of personality, the person is just getting a boost to their deficient executive function. The net result could be that they're less likely to do things impulsively, but not that they're less likely to do things, period.

2) I'm all for letting children think how they're going to think, and agree that our education system is far too constraining and cookie-cutter. But there's a huge and meaningful difference between "let kids think how they want" and "don't treat problems that are preventing kids from thinking lucidly". Some excellent research has shown that even if parents and teachers bend over backwards to facilitate kids with ADHD, unless they get some kind of treatment (and medication is both much more effective and far less expensive than behavioral therapy) they're still going to struggle.

So what people who advocate "let (kids) think the way they NATURALLY think" are effectively saying is "let some non-negligible fraction of kids have a dramatically lower chance of success and happiness in life rather than acknowledge that they have a disorder and treat it".
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"the paradoxical key to true happiness seems to be accepting unhappiness"
not to mention the internal infra grows all these knobbly bits as one-off feature requests for large/influential teams, that aren't necessarily useful outside the goog
> The thing is, diagnosis rates in the U.S. are something like 3-4 times as high as in most countries in Europe, which are themselves 3-4 times as high as a country like France, which is averse to ADHD diagnoses.

I've heard people from France say that many French doctors absolutely will not diagnose ADHD in anyone, no matter what their symptoms, preferring to tell sufferers that they're lazy. It may be possible that the US overprescribes and Europe in general is a happy medium. France is systemically failing to treat people with a genuine medical need, and it ruins lives. If it has to be one or the other, I'd prefer to err on the side of helping people in need.

Please see my other post on the effects of ADD: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345969
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Surrendering monetary sovereignty can work out as long as everyone also surrenders fiscal sovereignty, with a unified European budget. In the US, that's how states like Kentucky and Mississippi manage to survive.
Julia has tons of general purpose development going, including an mvc web framework (genie.jl) and a reactive web app framework called (escher.jl)
Captain Fantastic is a great movie to get you thinking about kids' education and safety.
If their kid was sleeping and they stayed in range of a baby monitor, what is the risk there? Yes, it makes sense to make the risk higher if you perceive a parent as less apt, however, we are fast to judge that aptitude without knowing much of the context.
Bodies like CPS have to justify their existence and increase in budgets. If my job is to go to office everyday and find parents to arrest the best way is to lower the bar for "putting kids in danger".

It is okay to send your kids to play soccer or the hand-football americans play where they can possibly receive life threatening injuries but it is not okay to let them walk back home from school because all it takes a evil guy with a van and candies to kidnap that kid.
They drastically changed some algorithms to (seemingly) make more money.

They made the pokemon break free MUCH more often with the update about 10 days ago. You now have to use way more pokeballs to capture things. So much to the point that it's unfun. I don't live near a pokestop so I can't top up quickly.

Another thing they did was make it so the pokemon disappear if a range check puts you far enough away from the point of initial contact. Combine that together and nobody can play the game in the car anymore, even if you're not driving!

So they spent a bunch of time changing existing features to be less fun without adding any new features that are fun. Not a good idea.

I have been playing with my wife and two of my kids. We all stopped playing because it's simply not fun anymore.
Sure, but then you lose any advantage using a scripting language gives you.
> The post says that, at least for the time being, nothing is going to change for their users.

Except a new third party (Pinterest) will sooner or later have access to my Instapaper data. I trusted Instapaper because they had a sustainable business model not based around ads. I do not trust Pinterest because their business model is based around selling my personal information and activity to advertisers.

Basically it's time to stop using Instapaper :(
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I think it just comes down to the game being not very good. It's not really designed for retention. Once you've caught the Pokemons you care about, there's not much left to do. Gyms are not an interesting mechanic, and there's no other way to interact with other players in the game. Basically, Niantic put out a half-baked game, which was rapidly successful only because it built on the combination of a fantastic idea (AR gaming) and a cherished IP (Pokemon).
The OP really just uses the title of the news article as a sort of segue. Reading the news article itself shows that the parents were fairly negligent.

>According to the Pinal County Sheriff's Office, a neighbor found the 2-year-old boy outside his home in the 700 block of East Payton Street Thursday night and called authorities.

>Deputies arrived and found the child screaming and crying, attempting to get into the residence. They said the boy was barefoot and wearing only a diaper and a T-shirt. The child was reportedly red-faced, sweaty and dirty.
The wheat is mixed with the chaff. Ignoring the jabs at the author and their reasoning the odd way it uses and interacts with /usr/local is worth thinking about. Sometimes challenging conventions is good but sometimes those conventions are there for very good reasons that aren't immediately obvious.
Genuinely curious: Are these koans? [1]
Or are koans and Zen stories different somehow?

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dan
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>Scraping against the TOS is super bad netizen stuff, and I dont think people should be posting positive reviews of people doing this. Breaking captchas and the like is basically blackhat work and should be looked down upon, not congratulated as I see in this thread.

Not really.

Scraping, in my opinion, isn't black hat unless you are actually affecting their service or stealing info.

If you are slamming the site with requests because of your scraping, yeah you need to knock it off. If you throttle your scraper in proportion to the size of their site, you aren't really harming them.

In regards to "stealing info", as long as you aren't taking info and selling it as your own (which it seems OP is indeed doing), that is just fine.

tl;dr: Scraping isn't bad / blackhat as long as you aren't affecting their service or business.
Tbh I didn't enjoy the article, it just seems like someone who has just learned about Node.js tried to explain (and mostly failed) how to use some packages to scrape a page. I was expecting to learn some new techniques, but all it explained was how to make a few API calls in order to solve a very specific problem. Also, there was the overall arrogant tone: "I found their interview approach a bit of a turn off so I did not proceed to the next interview and ignored her emails ", this just shows a lot of immaturity.
This is on the money. Niantic made it harder and more frustrating to play their game, and people stopped playing it. They have utterly failed to understand what their playerbase wants, and people are falling off.

The maps really drove it into overdrive, especially with the presence of "nests", because it allowed people to figure out where they needed to be, and would then congregate there. By taking out the maps, Niantic has turned their scavenger hunt into a scratch-off lotto ticket - don't bother trying to plan or play with any strategy, just wander around aimlessly until your phone buzzes. Who wants to do that?

It's a shame, because at its core there is a compelling scavenger hunt that generated a truly unique social phenomenon, and it's very sad to see Niantic just piss that away. The game just isn't worth putting any effort into - they broke the effort-reward cycle.
Not saying I agree with them, but you should recognize that many 'pro-life' people would argue that you possibly hate babies (well, soon-to-be-babies).
> Anyone is welcome to prove him wrong.

Apple and Microsoft already did.
Surface sells a lot of devices.. a few billion dollars worth a year. THere are lots of tablets out there. Pretty silly to ignore them all and be willfully ignorant about it.

Sandboxing is a good thing, it protects systems from developers. It's why even on operational tooling, a lot of teams are moving to containers to "sandbox" apps through cgroups and contain them in a re-usable fashion.

A lot of win32 apps are even being packaged for the store so they too are sandboxed having the luxury of knowing what state your app is in at all times is an awesome thing thing to developers that care about knowing that state.
It's fairly early stage but I've been actively building an alternative to Instapaper called Filltray (https://filltray.com/guest). Please feel free to follow @filltray to keep up to date with my progress.
what makes you think they would go up? I was a latch-key kid growing up and by the time real risks of adolescence like sex, drugs, and driving came up I already had years of experience managing risk.

OTOH, when I look at how my ex has raised our kids I'm terrified that when they become independent they are going to get themselves into trouble and not have the experience to stay calm and get themselves out of it.
it would be in the black and white world. In the real world an additional easy financing and/or acquihire later makes a failure less so.

again, you describe an ideal world where abuse of any situation by the meritocratic ideal people taking ideal decisions just don't happen, the world where conflict of interest policies, etc... just wouldn't be necessary. In that world i would wanted to live and would agree with you 110%.
Scraping being illegal is as dumb as saying it's illegal to take photos in public. You aren't affecting anyone if you do it respectfully.
Unfortunately there is no generic for Epipen. Unless you have been written a prescription for Adrenaclick specifically, you can't get it, or the generic version.
If you're using C for interop and not performance, it doesn't matter (much) if the JIT can optimize for it or not. You'll still be no worse off than you are today with CPython + C extensions.
Very cool, but isn't this a reinforcement learning task? Don't you need access to the machines to get them to learn?
To fight scrapers, we show some values as images that look like text (but not all the time)

And we insert random (non-visible) html and css classes in our site to screw with em, and use randomized css classnames. This fucks with xpaths and css selectors.

You can't stop them, but you can make their lives painful.
If you ever see a kid alone outside the best course of action is to call cops.

1. If you try talking to kid while the kid is alone you might be charged as a sex offender, attempt to kidnap and what not.
2. If you dont try to help and if something happens to the kid may be later you might face some charges or come under suspicion.

This is absolutely nothing to with what you feel and think. The risks for not calling cops are simply very high.
The average American can live a relatively healthy lifestyle off of $10/day in food expenses preparing their own meals (unless you live in high-cost regions). The majority of cancer diagnoses occur after 50 years of age.

Assuming you start earning an income at the age of 20, if you stuck $10 under your mattress daily (the same amount that you could for relatively healthy meals) you would have $109,500 by age 50. Switch to health insurance (found a plan in my state for $129 that does provide for cancer coverage - your situation may differ) and throw the rest into a dollar-cost-averaging investment account and the situation is even brighter.

There's a difference between "too expensive and difficult to deal with" and "I have no plans in place to deal with it nor the desire to implement them". And while that makes sense (most humans are hungry at regular intervals and sick at irregular intervals and thus budget accordingly) you shouldn't pretend like the average citizen is ever prepared for anything outside of their routine - with the exception of buying "gifts" for themselves, which they are more than capable of budgeting for.

I think our system is far from perfect, but if you're going to pretend that the cost of food dramatically outweighs the cost of paying for health care I really worry for your health due to lack of nutrition.
> leave a 2-year old alone to go play pokemon probably has other terrible parenting judgement/skills and most likely the environment they leave the kid in IS actually more dangerous than someone who accidentally leaves their kid alone

> Letting children play is dangerous, being negligent is safe

Very 1984.
I have no diagnosis of ADD/ADHD. I have recently, however, started to wonder. I'm an adult (39), and recently things that have just always been true for me are getting more rigid and interfering with my life. Things like: I need an exact amount of input: too little and I get bored/distracted, too much and I can't focus and get irritable. This has a huge impact on my ability to do work, to socialize with friends, or even have a serious conversation.

If someone could give me a pill to "fix" this, that sounds awesome. Now, real medication means balancing the side-effects, etc, so even if I were to get a diagnosis I'd have to do a lot of research and consideration. But I think outright saying "No, people should suffer without consideration" is not an full answer.

(And I'm allowing that I may be having completely different issues - getting a proper diagnosis/understanding is an important things that's not part of the above debate)
OK, but what if a parent believes that there's a 75% chance of kidnapping (reality: 0.01%), but they leave their child unattended? Arguably they haven't done anything wrong because their child was not exposed to any risk in reality.

To put it differently, what if I point an unloaded gun at someone an pull the trigger? No harm is done, but if I believed the gun was loaded, the moral calculus would change. The reality that no one was harmed or even in danger is not necessarily decisive. What I believe to be true at that moment is the difference between a prank and attempted murder.
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