skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to go back to the 1800s. The Haymarket riot, Thibodaux massacre, Homestead strike, Great railroad strike, Pullman strike, Colorado labor wars, West Virginia coal wars were about wages and labor.

The era of nonviolent Ghandi-style protest hadn't begun so violent worker insurrection was a common element. The railroad strike, for instance, had over 100 workers killed and people feared a bloody worker-run revolution like the Paris Commune of 1871.

The Civil War, which was largely about labor, was recent so the idea of a 2nd labor war wasn't implausible.

A president was assassinated by a unionist steel worker. Wall Street and the LA Times, an anti-union paper at the time, was bombed. Clandestine bombs were sent to dozens of industrialists and anti labor congresspeople.

The modern equivalent would be if Obama was killed, Fox News and 740 Park Avenue was bombed, and the Koch brothers had to dodge constant assassination plots by various "fight for $15" people. The 1900-era version of that actually happened.

So the struggle for the minimum wage wasn't just the whim of a supreme court justice or the musings of armchair intellectuals, it was a bloody multi generational insurrection by syndicalists, unionists, anarchists, and marxists.

Even leading up to the 1938 ruling you had the memorial day massacre, hilo massacre, martial law being declared during teamster strikes, and machine gun companies being called to fight with the national guard, all within 2 years of the Wagner Act.
I've been using DDG exclusively for almost two years now. I honestly forget that I'm using it most of the time. I can "Google" things and I always get what I'm after. It perfectly replaces Google 100% for me.
Convenience. The 'only a couple of clicks/taps' of GGP assumes user wants to fire up their device and go to Amazon.

It's undeniably easier to ask Alexa to order it, for repeat orders at least e.g. the dish soap example.
Taking this view to its logical conclusion will be that all private businesses should be illegal. Such experiments were tried in large parts of the world in the 20th century. We all know how they turned out.
Coming from Spain and having lived in Japan, I have come to believe that the US is really far away from what can be considered a civilized society. There's a huge mismatch between the public opinion (best country) and the reality that you can see through smaller things like this. Some of these things are better even in the so-called "third world countries".

Note: Spain was named for the smaller things like this; public toilets are not widely available here (even though there are some).
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I guess this boils down to whether you consider access to toilets a public good or a private good.

Everyone* has a toilet at home, but its it the job of the government to supply sanitation in all public spaces?
> "[...] whose duty is it to volunteer to clean it up?"

While this isn't applicable in all areas, a rule of thumb could be "those who making money with the people which have to use toilets".

Anecdotal example: I'm living in an amusement district of a big German City. There are very few public toilets and most of the few are paid ones. So every weekend the whole district is smelling like a big bowl of piss, except in winter when the frozen pee of multiple weekends accumulate until there is the big pee-melt.

Why not making all those bars, clubs and liqor stores pay for the maintanance of free public toilets?
Basically this was the mechanism the USA won the cold war against the USSR. Now almost all former socialist states are capitalist, because they went bankrupt.
If your device is stupid enough to order things when some random person on TV tells it to, then your device probably shouldn't be in people's homes.
We use Skype for Business at work, however when the boss isn't watching we switch to appear.in since it works much better and doesn't require craptastic software.
I had the opportunity to use public bidets with heated seats in Osaka. It felt very fancy, and my only complaint was that the previous user had left the seat on "extremely warm". I wasn't expecting anything in particular, but it was a very nice public bathroom.
Atom and the ProtoREPL package also make a great Clojure environment.

https://gist.github.com/jasongilman/d1f70507bed021b48625
You don't think society has a duty to feed people who would otherwise starve to death? Who do you think should pay to clean up the rotting corpse they leave behind?
I don't know if Mumble (or Ventrilo, or Teamspeak, or Discord) are really comparable.

They require you run your own server (although Discord abstracts that), that everyone know the server details, and that everyone be authenticated for your server in some manner.

They're great for playing video games, but Skype matches up a lot better with what a lot of people use it for – making phone calls.
It's a question of property right. In particular, the shared property of the common parts of a city.

For the private parts of a city (eg. apartments), they usually include toilets, and you expect your guest to use them instead of shitting in your kitchen or living room.

Similarly, as _owner_ of a share of the common parts of your city, you have the choice of providing public toilets, so that guests, visitors, or just citizen far from their home can be expected to use them, instead of shitting in the public space, thus degrading the bacteriological common space (feces can transmit some bad illnesses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal–oral_route ).
In Germany many public restrooms have an attendant who you pay and can complain to if the toilet is dirty or lacking toilet paper.
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To be precise, op said "lowER-quality" (relative comparison) and not "low-quality" (absolute judgement that something is garbage).

I think the OP's GIMP-vs-Photoshop example made that distinction clear. One can simultaneously consider GIMP to be "high quality software" and also "lowER-quality" than Photoshop.
Also in Hungary. Free toilets are not common, only in government buildings, like schools, museums, government agency offices.

Usually paid toilets are cheap (.5-1 €) and clean. Free toilets are not always so clean.
I still am not a fan of Stallman and still have to agree. Stallman sadly is right about most of the things he says. He has rather extremist stances sometimes, but that doesn't mean he is wrong.

Maybe I'll stop using some of those services. I actually have a resolution going on about not buying books off Amazon anymore. I just came across too many authors and bookshop saying that Amazon has the practice of saying "either give us specical/exclusive rights or we won't sell your book". I used to like Amazon, and heck, I also was understanding about them trying to avoid taxes, because most companies start doing that at some point, but extorting authors of books is way too horrible.

Also here there are counter examples. There is many games you can get from the developers, from Steam and from GoG for example, so why can't Amazon not be horrible?

Sorry, got a bit distracted about the Amazon link also being up there.

Calls for boycotting companies somehow aren't as popular anymore, despite having the internet and topics like the NDAP going viral. I think most people agree that in our society money has a lot of power and phrases like "vote with your money" have a point. Yet looking at the 60s till 80s those things were way more popular, which is a bit odd.

Be it Skype, Uber or Amazon. You don't have to hate them, but calling out bad practices and acting upon that information with not using their services seems to be a reasonable way to have a positive impact.

In other words it seems odd that certain minor design improvements can justify paying a lot more for a product or service, while that barely seems to be true for the ethics of a product - outside of the food sector that is.
> It isn't like we've not had grand shifts before.

This isn't anywhere near a grand shift - it's a clever commercial ploy to increase profits for a narrow range of businesses.

> The automobile. Indoor plumbing. Electricity. Stoves and vacuum cleaners. Television, radio. The wheel - but more importantly, the axle.

Sure, THEY were grand shifts that improved health, sanitation, freed up significant amounts of travel or labour time, brought education and entertainment to the masses etc.

How do we classify Alex's contribution to society: "I can speak some words and receive cat litter the next day".

OK, I jest - the AI behind Alexa will no doubt reap other benefits in time, some may even be societal rather than commercial.

Don't get me wrong; I love gadgets and innovation - I work for an Enterprise Class storage manufacturer and spend all day working with terabyte/petabyte-scale disk and flash array setups, and stuff I can't even tell you about - but let's have some perspective here!
Thank you for the post that was very helpful.
Ask HN: Does anyone here have an art degree?
As Graphic Art's student, I'm curious if there are any developers with art history here - what's your stories, and how do you apply your artistic knowledge and skills to IT work?
> A bit rock-starish if you ask me.

If you read the riders of actual rock stars, you will find that RMS's rider isn't that extreme. He doesn't even require M&M's sorted by color[1].

Most hired performers have specific riders that detail exactly what will be provided by the venue/etc. Detailing your interactions as specifically as possible in an actual contract removes ambiguity and prevents mistakes and misunderstandings.

[1] http://brianlord.org/2014/08/21/the-surprising-reason-rock-b...
Actually I also definitely believe this. The homeless and hungry should be sheltered by the government and I'll pay the taxes for doing so.

In lieu of that I donate to charity (though finding truly effective homeless charities is tricky).
> 5 dollars worth of hardware

But how many dollars worth of experience, education, and attentiveness?
>The data/code/simulation can't suddenly escape the sandbox and materialize into whatever the "reality" is made of. For that reason, it is trivial if we are in a simulation.

3D Printer owners would disagree with you.
Hence BREXIT, and why all EU countries should consider exiting from the EU!
Providing food to those who would otherwise starve is an important use of taxes, and often a key part of welfare systems.
Are there public toilets generally in Spain? I don't remember them from my stays in Galicia, Barcelona or Salamanca.
I meant sixel, as in text pretending it's graphics.
I think that it's far worse than google. Don't get me wrong, it's still my main search engine, but I find I have to revert to google to find what I want between 30% and 50% of the time.
If you accept that government letting people starve to death is ok, the only thing I have left to point out is that toilets tend to be more of an immediate need.
That initially sounds like it makes sense, but in reality it doesn't.

For any bathroom facility there is already a relatively fixed regular cost being applied to maintain them. As free bathrooms are nearly always funded by community purses their existence is justified by usage, whereas paid bathrooms are nearly always funded by commercial entities which justify their existence with profit.
That's the point of welfare programmes: to provide the basic life-sustaining means to those who don't have them. Food, housing, warmth, and sanitation.

So yes, many societies do use taxes to provide free food (or food-stamps, or a welfare cheque) to those in need, to stop us having to starve in the streets.
Ask HN: Why are websites warning me about their cookies?
First World != Civilized
Luckily, there is a startup "disrupting" the toilet experience! Feast your eyes on (2theloo)http://www.2theloo.com/].

The name is also a pun on a slang phrase for "see you later!" in Dutch.
Discord might be an alternative for team/friend based conversations. They have group calling (don't need to share a server) now. Problem is that it's marketed towards gamers and so might not be fit for purpose for business purposes
How does one scrape this list? What tools can I use, without signing into Twitter?
Antwerp, Belgium. Utrecht, Netherlands. Can confirm there's not a single free public toilet in these cities.
I've been waiting for this for years :) I figured it would be some shock jock saying, "Ok Google, show me pictures of child porn" over the radio, causing people to panic while driving and that would be the end of stupid, always-on, voice commands.
This is a very good intro book. I skipped the emacs chapter and there was no dependency to emacs through the rest of the book. I used light table. I enjoyed the exercises, there is a good level of complexity and the author often suggests and helps to reimplement some core functions of clojure. It took me about two weeks to complete the book entirely (on the evenings and a bit more on the weekends) with no previous experience in functional programming. I was dragged into the book really quickly, more than 2 other books I started to read about Clojure (on which I gave up quickly).
I also bought the paperback version to support the author but I was a bit disappointed on the quality.
Overall I highly recommend this book as an intro to FP with clojure. Thanks a lot for writing this book.
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Thanks for calling my honest reply a lie and me a liar, really appreciate it.

I'm @madbyk on Twitter and you can also Google my full name to catch my other lies and bad acting on some of my recorded talks.
> This sort of “escape hack” isn’t possible for human players because you have to do too many precise actions too quickly, so in the video it’s performed by a separate computer wired up to the gameport.

Well, someone did the credits warp manually, at least: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxFh1CJOrTU

The video in the article shows basically shellcode injection, but that's not timing-sensitive, it'd just take longer for a human. And, as seen above, similar things are possible for humans, if just less convenient to do so.
Check out Hold Fast by Moxie Marlinspike, "…a video zine three friends and I made about finding a derelict sailboat, fixing it up, and sailing from Florida to Haiti." https://vimeo.com/15351476
Agree. I'm in the same position. I find it particularly poor and combining multiple search terms, where it seems to favour the most popular of the terms and ignore the important narrowing keywords important to the search.
They're uncommon at best. They deploy temporary ones (free) on places where large gatherings are foreseen, like big street parties.
I get where Richard Stallman is coming from.

But, practicality aside, and sometimes childish tone aside (e.g. derogatory names for companies) here's what really bothers me: the framing of this as a moral issue.

I can get behind the idea that non-free code might be a problem, sometimes. I can get behind the idea that we should, in some situations, strive to have non-free code. But why is this a moral issue at all? Why can't reasonable people get together and decide that proprietary code makes sense for some situations, and that doesn't make them or the people using the code morally wrong?

I have a hard time with people whose shtick is mostly "appeal to emotions".
In my experience, it's a function of the environment in which the toilet lies. A toilet in a quiet underground car park is almost guaranteed to be more disgusting than a toilet in a well-lit, busy concourse. I've used pay toilets that are pretty disgusting, too; never thought to ask for a refund, though...
It's too late for this comment to be seen and make a difference, it will sink to the bottom of the thread without a trace, but in case anyone is interested in reading more HN comments about this, it was submitted and discussed just 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13322288 (56 comments)
If the only complaint about a public toilet is the setting of the seat warmer, then there is definitely something done right there :)
The problem with stallmanism is that you eventually run out of other people's toilets.
Leave the EU to get toilet vouchers? Sounds like a bad deal to me.
It's probably too late for this comment to be seen and make a difference - it will sink to the bottom of the thread without a trace, but in case anyone is interested in reading more HN comments about this, it has been submitted again and is being discussed over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13343542
Expensive mass doxing if you follow the proper procedures for doxing, like feeding names into Axciom[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acxiom
Cheap? 0,5 Euro is not cheap.
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How was this service Mozilla once included in their browser called, something from Telefonica? Worked pretty well for me. Maybe they ditched it to early?
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Do you know what Article 18 of TFEU says?

> Within the scope of application of the Treaties, and without prejudice to any special provisions contained therein, any discrimination on grounds of nationality shall be prohibited.

> The European Parliament and the Council, acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure, may adopt rules designed to prohibit such discrimination.

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:120...
Going to great lengths to not use a pay toilet is OK if the only person who suffers is yourself. Once you have a family your priorities change.

Many of Stallman's advice works well when you are a bachelor... But once you have family to think about, the arguments are less persuasive.
European Union regulation: https://www.google.com/search?q=eu+cookie+law
> If you accept that government letting people starve to death is ok

I really don't know what part of my post gave you this impression.
And yet huge amounts of the "civilized world" are largely tied to the US.

Maybe this is correlated, maybe not, but just scoffing and saying "they're uncivilized" lacks a little nuance.
Just a heads up, missing from the NYTimes highlights is a conclusion that RT ran anti-fracking activist programming as well, with the suggested goal being to increase dependence on Gazprom oil:

http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/06/us-intel-report-confirms-k...

To get the most complete information it is usually a good idea to read this kind of report directly:

https://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/155494946443/odni-stat...

The part about the anti-fracking stuff is on page 8.
Please note the clarification to my post above.
C. Can't avoid it anymore. Many tools I use recommend jumping into C (via FFI) when you need speed. Smalltalk, Lua, Scheme... even Erlang.
Sure, if you are paying taxes is the government cannot track you, but if you have to pay for the toilets, the government can suddenly track you.

Also god save me from using a toilet a homeless has used before. Free stuff looses from quality quickly, and the poor, the homeless and the druggies usually do not honor public property and it is quickly degraded. Then does the government pay to renovate the property? Sure, in the next 10 years sometime...
Henri Tolain, George Odger, Keir Hardie, Robert Owen, George Loveless, Giuseppe Mazzini, Benoît Malon or Lloyd Jones and basically most of the early labour right activists were respected members of the society. Even the anarchists of the time like Paul Brousse, Élisée Reclus, César De Paepe, Peter Kropotkin or Tito Zanardelli led relatively normal life, they weren't really "extremist weirdos" apart from having progressive ideas.
>a computer no one actually built but just fluctuated into existence

It's reasonable to argue that all computers are these kinds of computers.
Hi Sam,
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Thanks
I don't either, but many products are designed to do exactly that. It's called the Internet of Things (not the VPN of things) for a reason! :-)
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> Stallman sadly is right about most of the things he says. He has rather extremist stances sometimes, but that doesn't mean he is wrong.

From what I've seen, his extreme positions are often from him looking further than a lot of other people.
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> Thanks for destroying the web, btw!

Works for me.

> Open FTP servers are an asset, not a risk, as they're ideal for distributing downloads, uodates, packages, etc.

I agree, I use many of them frequently.

> Thanks to your efforts, many groups which used to provide all downloads via HTTP and FTP have since stoppes the FTP access, and don't provide wget-able HTTP URLs either.

I can't confirm that. Quite the opposite. The number of functional servers actually increases between oftp4 scans. The current one looks like the number is rather increasing.

Public FTPs have always been public. That's their purpose - as you said. Their addresses are listed in many public lists. I don't get how an FTP that is publicly listed and serves the public would suddenly cease operation because it's URL is in yet another public list.
And they're also 50p now.
The devil is in the details. Consider Mark Heily's libkqueue library for Linux that emulates kqueue/kevent. Because of the way that signalfd, upon which it is built, works, code that uses kevent with signals on the BSDs has to be written one way and on Linux has to be written another. It's a subtle difference in the manual page; and it's all too easy to read the wrong implementation's manual page on the WWW (if one makes the mistake of using a search engine to find manual pages) and write things incorrectly.

It is also telling, of how difficult to interconvert it actually is in practice, that the Heily libkqueue does not implement EVFILT_AIO, EVFILT_FS, or EVFILT_PROCDESC, and implements some of the others in only a limited fashion.
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That makes no sense.

You are saying that the USSR went bankrupt because people were trying to use things in it for free?

Surely it has a lot more to do with the political oppression and top down control of the economy.
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> because its URL is in yet another public list.

Not because the URL is in the list directly – but the way the list is created seems like public shaming, and I’ve seen unknowing managers go "I’ve read somewhere on the internet that there’s a list of open servers, and I found ours on it, everyone can hack us, remove it now!".

So, that’s the problematic effect – with the way the list is presented, especially the way it seems to publicly shame them (and the "fix it to get off the list" statement, too), can be counterproductive.
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I'm ok with government run/subsidized pay toilets, if no private company is willing to provide service in an area.

But if something is free, usually the service quality is also such, and many people, who would not use it if it was not free are not taking care and ruining these services.
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Or better yet, why not enact laws that say bars, clubs, gas stations, liquor stores, restaurants and cafés have to have free toilets? Give them some compensation, e.g. government pays for putting in or upgrading the bathroom and the restaurant just has to keep it clean and open. It solves most of the problems with public toilets out on the street, such as them being nasty and occupied by homeless people, because the owner of the establishment wants to keep it nice and clean.
Nor I in Madrid. I recall being sniggered at a little for asking someone in the tourist office. Although that may have been my Spanish.
I wonder if it would qualify as computer crime if you do it on purpose.
Isn't it what time trackers do?

Mac: https://qotoqot.com/qbserve/ (our app, the site lacks info but it has export now)

Linux: https://github.com/gurgeh/selfspy

Windows: http://www.manictime.com/