skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any plan to let smartphones, both Android and iOS, tu support changing the DNS at system level without rooting the device? So that it works with cellular data and that you don't need to change it for every wifi?
You're right about the reform saving work and about it being possible for H&R Block and Intuit to offer their services anyway even after this reform. That's true. I just didn't see how that makes the code itself any more complex. But clearly they do benefit from that complexity in general.
> I suppose because it's so easily quantified.

I wonder what's being quantified.. intelligence or obedience.

This would be like rating a strong-man competition by how much time was spent in the gym and how much unnecessary pain was self-inflicted.

It's like there's a culture of "pain enthusiasts". They do things like talk about running until it hurts, they tend to get injured often, and of course they have nothing to show for their dedication.

I'm realizing that there's a mentality about these people. The idea of working smarter and not harder literally offends them. The idea that the amount of work is less important than the effectiveness of work offends them. These are often the same people that voice their concerns about working from home and why it can't work. My suspicion is because their value is measured by "time in the gym" rather than tangible real-world results.
That's not true. AT&T was broken up around the same time British Telecom was privatized, both in the early 1980s. The difference was that British Telecom had been a government organ (part of the Post Office until 1981), while AT&T had always been a private corporation. When BT was privitized, the government had enormous latitude in imposing conditions on investors purchasing the assets. The U.S. government was not in a similar position. An antitrust violation doesn't give the government the right to just do whatever it wants with the company's assets.

The best course of action on the part of the U.S. likely would've been to permit the AT&T monopoly to continue. AT&T's regulatory treatment at the time permitted it to set prices to ensure a reasonable return on its capital investment. That had the effect of creating an enormous incentive on AT&T's part to invest a lot in its network (the more capital investment, the more profits). As a result, the U.S. telephone system was extremely high quality for its time.
Look, a correct use of HTTP status code 451: https://law.resource.org/pub/us/code/ga/georgia.scan.2013/go...
How to make your Instagram photos look really good?
And presumably you could use the previous list as the starting point of subsequent lists, then you'd only need to check the new sites.
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>And in order to support clients that don't support SNI

There is little reason to support clients that do not support SNI. By supporting those clients you are likely putting your entire encrypted infrastructure at risk. SSL3 should be disabled by now. XP clients are legacy and should be taken out back and shot. Older mobile phones are enormous security risks.
Judge Story "went on to acknowledge the Georgia situation is 'an unusual case because most official codes are not annotated and most annotated codes are not official.' Despite the fact the OCGA is official law, the judge said its annotations are entitled to copyright. The Georgia General Assembly has made clear 'that the OCGA contains both law and commentary,' Story wrote, and the two are distinguishable."

Removing commentary or replacing with original commentary would abridge the official code.

If LexisNexis should be compensated for the value they added, then the state should pay them for that value, just as they pay the legislators to write the law. The resulting code should be freely available to every citizen bound by it.
I totally agree here. Sometimes I've been frustrated at the lack of flexibility to use assignments in a self-directed way. I like the idea that you should "never waste a good deadline." I've always admired students who find creative ways to learn what they want while still getting credit.

The assignment from which I learned the most and which I had the most fun on was totally open ended other than some general methods.
Counter-anecdote, I unsubbed from truereddit a while back (probably a couple years now) because the discussion didn't seem very productive, though I don't remember details.

(I do remember that the mod had a very hands-off attitude that IMO didn't work very well, with clickbait headlines to bad articles frequently getting upvoted.)
Ask HN: Replacement for ScreenHero? It is now completely unreliable...
I have always loved screenhero, however, since the slack acquisition it feels like this product has declined in performance and reliability. Have any other engineering teams found a better replacement? If anyone at Slack reads this, what are your plans for the product? The server status page https://screenhero.com/status.html seems a bit outdated too. Thoughts?
Not religiously, but I have a pomodoro app which I keep installed for work I'm struggling with. If I'm lacking motivation to start or finish something I'll stick it on and get going.

It's incredibly easy to procrastinate when we have Facebook, HN, WhatsApp, email - whatever, but I know if I start a pomodoro it's only ever 25, 22, 17, 9, 3 minutes until I can take 'reward' myself with the aforementioned for a few minutes. It's easy to push through knowing I only _have_ to do (at most) 25 minutes more work. And once I'm rolling, it's a lot easier to continue.

I use Harvest throughout the day to check how much _actual_ work I'm getting done. This helps me make better estimates of times and costs (as well as see the days I'm most and least productive).
Sling, Direct TV and Sony Vue? all are live channels. There are also On Demand (YouTube TV will have Live and unlimited DVR) and they cost $25 to $35 to start with. I say give it a go and try it for 7 days.
Great read. Among the more telling paragraphs: I had the sense that the twentieth century might as well not have happened. In the first part of the century, labor won the right to unionize, and through the middle of the century labor got the government to establish the minimum wage and the eight-hour day, to end piece-work, to outlaw child labor, and to create the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. With the exception of child labor and minimum wage, most of these accomplishments were largely undone in the last part of the century, as government came to be seen as the servant of business, not of the people.
I got a couple of "An unexpected error has occurred." pages on the home page and the "About" page.

The links are also, maddeningly, inaccessible to [Vimium](https://vimium.github.io/). That's annoyingly too-common. Any reason why they can't be regular HTML links? I'd imagine that screen readers and other software would have similar problems.
Jeff Bezos himself has not performed the productive economic activity that has generated his wealth. He has performed some labor for a corporation, similar to millions of other Americans, except that because of the ownership privileges granted to him by our capitalist system his share of the wealth produced by the corporation he works for is vastly out of proportion with the wealth share almost everyone else in the entire world receives.

the wealth is Amazon's. Bezos owns quite a lot of Amazon. the system permits this level if inequality. that doesn't mean it is deserved or desirable.
Except those pioneering web-services companies which provide AGPL code for their services but require copyright attribution to contribute to the main tree and at the same time maintain a proprietary paid version. In this case, they essentially prohibit anyone else from running a similar business - since the founders will have the leading edge on the 'main fork', and competitors can't maintain their own private paid versions, business competition will always be playing catch up to them.

This particular use case is where the implicit dualism of GPL software-centricity (vs people-centricity) falls apart/becomes absurd in my opinion - yes, the OSS version of the software is 'always free as in libre', but it is also always controlled by a creating entity who is using the license to create a defacto monopoly on it's commercial use, so the people are always beholden in some sense to the original code owners.
Ok, tell you right now, this abstraction is overengineered (akka).

My Async.java class replaces the whole framework in 750 lines of Java: http://root.rupy.se/code

Erlang is not a good language because it can't share memory across threads.

As for Go, it doesn't have real threads that can share memory either, you can't hot-deploy it and coding non-VM languages should only be done if you need the performance (3D engine).

Don't know anything about Limbo except that it probably is crummy as hell and probably suffer from the same "no real threads" syndrome.

The reason you don't need callbacks is because these language ARE "callback" languages. Just like Javascript.

There are only two families of real usable programming languages: native: C (C++, Rust, etc.) and VM: Java (C#, F#, etc.).
> Further, there is potential for the patent indemnity clause to make litigation murky - for example, if a patent is covered by this license, but a user further expands the code in an 'infringing' capacity, or infringes elsewhere, the indemnity provided by the base code might protect them against litigation where it is actually warranted..

Yeah, this is an issue with Apache 2 License. Say, the user can take only the patented code (and modify to meet his/her needs) and keep the rest of the code to have any license (including proprietary), and the user is at the safe side.

In the case the code is licensed under GNU [A]GPLv3, the whole (modified and linked) code requires to be in [A]GPLv3. So no non-free derivations possible. If the user didn't free the code, the original author (who owns the patent AND wrote the [A]GPLv3 code) can sue the user (because the user has violated GNU [A]GPL).
> Second point: look at the Benchmark game, a fast Rust code example also typically has an "unsafe" code.

That's false. From[1], it looks like two submissions use `unsafe`. And one of those is for ffi to gmp.

[1] - http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/rust.html
No one is telling you how to live your life. This article merely points out that there's evidence that common assumptions about the relationship between the amount of time worked and productivity aren't accurate.

What you choose to do with that information is entirely up to you. You may enjoy working 80-hour weeks and achieving as much as a person who works a 20-hour week. Others may differ.
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Also, you can do your own oil changes. Although in your alternate timeline, motor oil pricing probably works like prescription drug pricing.
The difference is between "I did the work and am living off my own productivity" vs "I didn't do the work and expect other producers to feed me". Huge difference, unless you reject the notion of ownership - which has repeatedly been proven an unsustainable ideology.
Meanwhile their bosses retire in their thirties and do whatever they want. Funny people
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"and I’d like you to view this as a lateral move, not as a demotion, your salary will remain the same"

Run Forrest, Run!
Does the reproducible builds project have a hand in the project to give Security/Binary Transparency to Firefox? I ask because i don't know, and I saw no language to suggest that in the page linked.
"which you're going to get in retirement back as entitlements."

I doubt it. By the time I retire I expect that SS will be bankrupt. It has been going further down that road for years, and I don't see anything stopping the train.
> I got a good recommendation for keeping cool in emergency situations.

For someone who's been there and got out alive, it's easy to keep calm. For someone's first time, it's easier said than done.
I saw my parents' retirement funds gutted by a bunch of cokehead psychos in 2008. Its very difficult for my generation to have any faith in current systems functioning or even existing 10, 20, 30 years down the road.
> I don't think it's a coincidence that social justice has tended to follow what works best economically.

citation needed
I have seen this with... erm... less-than-legal streaming setups, it would be great of somebody figured out how to do it legitimately.

With Youtube it would actually be pretty simple because you can embed an iFrame for the video and manipulate the timestamp, but with other streaming sites I imagine it would be harder.
Are there any plans to bring group chat to Telegram?
Never believe a lie
piece of pie
Using riot.im/app/ to communicate with others worked surprisingly well, quality seemed good.
They most likely have a contractual obligation with cable companies to only serve their content to subscribers. Probably a catch 22 of "We can't afford to renegotiate with cable companies right now, but we can't innovate on our current model without marketing to cord cutters".

ESPN (and many other media companies) are stuck and most likely in revenue-maintenance mode.
If inter-vehicle communication can be standardized, and human drivers aren't on the road, then what's the point of cars (self-driving or otherwise)? What you're describing is basically a rail system.
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> It used to be buggy

How long ago are you referring to?

I tried to use it around the end of 2016 to chat with friends and it was nearly impossible to use. We would try to add a contact but the other person would not appear online, despite having the app open in front of us.

Messages would frequently not be delivered, or take exceedingly long times to be delivered (hours). Notifications of a new message were also quite hit and miss.

Overall I liked the functionality of Wire, but the reliability was terribad.
Apparently Betteridge's Law holds less true for science journal articles. :)
Ping-pong (foosball, etc.) tables make me less likely to want to work somewhere. At an old job the foosball table was near my desk. Whatever little amusement I got from playing foosball was dwarfed by the annoyance of other people playing foosball while I was trying to work. Ping-pong would be worse because I'd be trying to get things done while balls are flying through the air near me.
>Your default setup probably involves using your ISPs DNS resolver

You also have to make sure your ISP isn't transparently capturing your DNS packets, which they probably are.
No, I think the point may have been missed - I envy the small size of their democracies and how they are able toneffect change as a result, not their interactions with the EU that stifle the ability of these populations to make change.

E.g. Switzerland's recent attempts to curtail freedom of movement.
that's a legal convention that we agree with in America today, kinda, mostly. it has not always been the prevailing legal convention in society.
I find digital print to be worse then Cable news Politics. I don't know where the idea that news is suppose to be a robot and just the facts with no worldview comes from. I prefer to watch the middle of the road news but I also watch FoxNews and MSNBC to keep a perspective on different views.

Seems to me that most people are just interested in an ideology and you only consume that ideology and we now have 2016.
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These charts are just bad data visualizations, the legends are uninformative, and this article is very light on commentary. While I can see how one could argue these support the author's brief conclusions, overall this looks like too simple and shallow of an analysis to say anything really valuable.
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That's true, but there are also many drugs on the market which are barely better than a placebo, or even more harmful than no medication. However, they are still prescribed and billed for as if they are effective.
Intel-Inside Backdoor?
The deeper, the better. For instance, post-2011 magical girl anime subreddits like https://reddit.com/r/madokamagica have nothing on post-2011 magical girl anime's far-future transhumanist scifi fanfiction subreddits like https://reddit.com/r/tothestars (though the traffic levels suffer)

(and now you know those are both things)
Just get Direct TV or Slingbox you get all that for $30 to $35
If the amount of experience is irrelevant why not use more employees for shorter periods of time?
I've cut the cord and subscribe to ESPN through Sling. I'm very happy that ESPN has readily made themselves available on all the different streaming services (PS Vue, Youtube TV, Sling, etc). However, I also pay for Hulu and Netflix. In the end it still comes out to be the same price as cable, but with a more friendly subscription model.

Time Warner tried giving me a free year of basic cable and each month all of the random fees and surcharges were placed on me. Bills weren't predictable. All of a sudden the price would change 1 month and they have every right to do so. So yeah, I'm never trying that experiment again.

In the end, as long as ESPN has games to broadcast, they will no doubt have viewers and subscribers. Aside from that? People unsubscribe to ESPN either because they never wanted it to begin with OR because they honestly lack programming. Football has Sunday Ticket and Basketball has NBA GameTime.

Outside of live sports, IMO Scott Van Pelt is the last great sports commentator on ESPN and everyone else on the show (Stephen A Smith, Skip Bayless) and other people I don't care to remember the name of, sucks. The commentating and the topics they discuss are now more reality TV than it is about sports. Why did Kaepernick kneeling get so much airtime? Are they same demographic of people who watch sports on ESPN the same who would care? I felt like any coverage of that should have been on Bravo or E.

Also Bill Walton's coverage of NCAA Basketball seriously makes me want to shut the damn game off.
I was in the cable industry for 30 years and ESPN was (at the time) about $6 of a $60 cable TV package. It was the largest fee for produced content. Other channels had to pay to be included in the line-up just so they could subsist on advertising revenue.

I'm not suggesting whether ESPN is or is not worth that kind of premium but it's also not surprising to me that they're suffering this type of subscriber loss. More importantly, ESPN subscribers are CATV (or satellite, etc) subscribers which means these companies are also hemoraging subscribers.

In the case of CATV companies, the equipment and cable plant are huge expenses and these companies usually build out more plant financed on the assumption that there will be large cash flow. The cost of the plant isn't going down even if there are no television subscribers. I'd expect to see the cost of unbundled Internet services from these companies gradually approach the price of their "double-play" offerings (TV + Internet).
The article makes a point that if ESPN charged $15 a month for a standalone streaming channel, they'd need 43 million subscriptions to make up for revenue it gets from cable packages.

In the same paragraph it mentions that ESPN pays more than $100 million for the rights to a single Monday Night Football game. What I don't see mentioned is that the price of content should be a function of how many people watch that broadcast. And disregarding the fact that some of these prices are locked in from long-term contracts, if ESPN loses subscribers, fewer people will watch the content and the price broadcasters will bid in the future for that content will go down.

Cord cutters aren't all switching to OTA antennas either, so the usual broadcast networks should be bidding less on the content as well. It seems like an equilibrium will eventually be reached letting ESPN survive with fewer subscribers, which makes the $15 a month standalone streaming channel more feasible. The real loser in all this would be the sports leagues that can no longer command the same price for broadcast rights.
Amen. I won't complain about all of the stuff on Netflix that I ain't gonna watch, when it is so cheap anyway.
The theory is that most of the cost of your cable package is going back to the networks. So from a technology side the incremental cost to add channels is zero but from the business side the cable operator still has to pay for each additional channel they put on their service. If they put fewer channels in the package they sell you then they could sell you the package for less money.
It's really not clear how much it matters. There is a lot of leeway in the ACA and not much information about how the current administration plans to use it.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/democrats-ask-hhs-...
However you may think money is earmarked, the proper comparison is to the alternative world where channels are priced a la carte. And the standard econ analysis here is that everyone benefits from these bundles, not just the cable company and not just consumers of popular channels like ESPN. It's all about marginal costs.

http://cdixon.org/2012/07/08/how-bundling-benefits-sellers-a...
For all the details: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
But cheating is a valid strategy.. Colluding when everyone else is competing is exactly what intelligent people do. Not following the rules because they're stupid is what intelligent people do. It's not mutually exclusive to understand the fundamentals and cheat. The idea that we should compete with our peers for a chance at higher education is like a dystopian hunger games novel.
Different people are motivated by different things.

While its true that scientists and engineers and everyone else have done a great deal in advancing things, the sad reality is that unless someone fronts the money, nothing will get done.
Sure, unit wrappers are much more like "memory safety checks" in C, in that they are incomplete and can be bypassed. In that sense, the war against raw types is necessarily a cultural one.
The article says many times that this is not the official code. That means it's useless, what one must follow is the official one, that is annotated by a private party, and paywalled.
Sure, if rails were extended to every single possible destination.
>The cable operators make more by creating more expensive packages and then can justify it by putting a bunch of channels in them.

But they won't make more money if they keep driving more people off.
Exactly. As a premier league fan living in US, sling for watching nbc sports is the best option for me. But they force a "package" for $25 per month and I actually don't watch any of the other channels.
That survey feels like the sort of thing I've filled out to get a temporary free trade publication subscription.

But what's interesting to me is that my current situation has enough twists to it that I literally could validly answer with several different conflicting choices on a number of those questions.

So... I'm not going to fill that out - doing so would induce too much stress against my internal need to be accurate in my answers.
I thought that LASIK still cut an epithelial flap. Am I mistaken, or has there been an improvement/change to the surgical process since I last looked at it in detail?
OK - thats a fair comment...

I apologize for not being salient in my sentiment.

Gaddafi was killed, he MAY have been the richest person alive at the time, the US had many reasons to want him gone... HRC MAY have profited off his death - and we do not know where his money went.

Perhaps the people who worked for/with Gaddafi stole it (at least some of it) -- perhaps HRC profited off it.

its all out in the ether and we shall never know the truth.
> ISPs won't sell information this granularly - not directly.

That's not for certain. And anyway, what stops a purchaser of bulk data from reselling individual records as a value-add?
OK, try paying below market rate and see how long your best engineers hang around then.