skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So how do I get my money back from the hospital/doctor that did a CT scan to investigate my sinus infection at 4 AM?

(I had a cavity on a tooth and the infection irritated that tooth so I had pretty good pain on that tooth and non localized pain along my whole jaw and also had never had such a painful sinus infection and went to the ER because I didn't understand why it was so painful. I bitched at them, they came back with "the doctor wanted to be sure there was no abscess". What really pisses me off is that having the radiologist do the diagnosis kicked the visit up to a more expensive billing code, because apparently it's complicated to do imaging and defer the diagnosis. They bill you to collect the information to make the diagnosis obvious and then bill you more because they collected more information.)
A netflix ripping app would surely be banned from the Play Store, and would still not be able to solve the content distribution problem. Netflix doesn't care if you rip content, they care if you try to distribute ripped content to others, which is really only feasible with bitttorent or similar.
Python, Linkers, and Virtual Memory [video]
There is ${some_random_lib} to solve this problem? Yawn! Use Yarn, it comes baked in.
Growth also contributes to global warming. And the many people who think it could now or eventually decrease it compound the problem.
That's great unless you want to watch movies. Their DVD service gave access to a library of thousands of movies from blockbusters to obscure niche films. Their streaming service sucks in comparison.
As someone who is on the last day of a 6 day 14 hours per day straight, oh I can attest to this.

The quality of the meals I'm sending out (plating and decoration wise) is nowhere near as good as it is on Mondays.

I need more chef's :-p
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Venezuela is not a Socialist country, and I do not support dictatorships. In line with Marx and Engels, I support the gradual transference of power away from the state (which must be at once transformed into the complete and democratic control of the whole working class upon seizure) and into the hands of the people, as such the state "withers away".
According to Kaspersky, Russia was by far the worst hit: https://securelist.com/blog/incidents/78351/wannacry-ransomw...

(Ukraine, India, and Taiwan were also unusually heavily affected.)
Doing the easy thing isn't (or didn't used to be) Netflix's style, one of the reasons HN has long loved its tech writeups. So the blanket ban is either a reversal of that culture or simply Netflix finding itself with aligned interests with other content producers and acting accordingly.
but what if growth is required for certain scientific and medical investment, funding, and advancement even if it depresses the average happiness of a population?

If that is true, how much of suffering of individuals are we able to tolerate to keep the average of a whole up a few notches? (re: all the issues with utilitarianism)
This sort of thing doesn't surprise me from Netflix. It has been tightening up its rules for some time.

I dropped Netflix after whoever is in the group that decides policy for Netflix decided that Hurricane Electric's IPv6 tunnels are "a VPN" that is being used to circumvent Netflix's location checks with no warning.

(I'm aware of the DNS tricks I can do to only return IPv4 addresses in response to queries for the netflix.com zone. I choose not to do them and, instead, to not avail myself of Netflix's content.)
Can confirm, Sonarr+Radarr+NZBget+Usenet+Plex+1gb-internet and I have everything I need at a moments notice. I pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime for convenience and proper subtitles, that's literally the only reason.
I'm guessing they're on the same boat as Tim Berners-Lee, thinking it a necessary evil if the world wants big budget films delivered through their browser. Personally, I'd only get on that boat if my life depended on it, which I think is the case for Netflix (I'm still not sure why TBL is on it). I think Netflix is at least fighting for DRM that isn't based on rootkits, something of a win for the general population.
Yeah, an unlocked bootloader passes androidboot.verifiedbootstate=ORANGE to the kernel cmdline.

That said, the kernel could just lie about what was passed to it sooooo...
The online community was the focus of my dissertation, so it's really great to hear your daughter has benefited from it. We worked really hard to keep the community a friendly space for everyone. It was, and continues to be, a lot of work for the team. I no longer work on Scratch, but I try to donate when I can. I encourage folks to do so as well: https://www.scratchfoundation.org/
I'd like the authors to try Vipassana's 10 day retreats -- it's free and for ten days you meditate, don't speak, and don't use any electronic devices. Not sure if there's any more focus than that! You'll survive...and afterwards probably thrive :-D.
I think you are downvoted because he asked a question and you didn't attempt to answer it. You're not wrong, just off topic for what was expected.
Automatically Unlock/Lock Car with Android Device
This is particularly absurd because it's trivial to record from any device that has HDMI out; HDCP 1.x is quite thoroughly broken, and there is a steady stream of HDMI splitters that can strip HDCP 2.x
That looks pretty long.
I used to play with suffix arrays a long time ago. I wanted to accelerate grep on a gigabyte text file. The tool was called "sary" (short for suffix array) and still exists on a forgotten SourceForce page. Good tool, it was able to find any substring in a huge file instantly.
That's so cool! What was your handle? Mine was andresmh. I worked on the community part during grad school :-) Scratch on!
Ask HN: How do you make sure your business-critical software flows work?
Hi HN! We’re a group of senior university students looking into common practices used in the software industry, and we’re hoping to get some insight from people with experience in the field.

How do you make sure your business-critical application flows (e.g. user sign in, payments and revenue streams) work in the software you write, and what are the biggest issues you deal with when making sure these flows work?

Also, how do you typically find out when something does break?

Thanks for your input!
It does depend on the area

I remember coming across a few blocks of old densely packed single-family brick buildings in Shanghai that were about to be torn down. Each building had a large hand written banner above their entrance, half of them praising the communist party for its compassion or saying long live Chairman Mao (my interpretation was that they were hoping for mercy for being such loyal party members), the other half cussing out the party and local officials
I missed that one, and I've been in the printing industry most of my life.
The way this message will translate to the nerds|power users|hackers|rooted user|content creator|

"Netflix does not value your money, therefore you cannot use our services. However, you can always pirate the content on Internet for free."
Who is this trying to stop? People that rip their content? Because those ones certainly have other methods to do it (e.g. record video out).

If they're targeting consumers, why do they give a damn if the phone is rooted or not? As long as they pay netflix to stream the content to them?

Or is this "just" to prevent fake locations and such, to please their content producing/distributing overlords?
A really good article, which makes me wonder if women are more likely to have strong beliefs which are loosely held as their social value overall does not depend as much on tribalization.
For now, GNU GPL is an enforceable contract, says US federal judge
Do you suppose the results you predict are from learning how to "unfocus" and naturally interweaving the skill with focused time back in the daily grind?
The “I’m new to design” starter pack
I wish Netflix would just step up and lead the way with their original content.
Kudos to MalwareTech, but they could have delayed a month or so this publication.
It doesn't have to be on the play-store. Also, netflix cares more about ongoing subscription than re-distribution. So if I rip a sizable chuck of what I want to watch, I won't renew my subscription.
People use pre for quotes, for some reason.

I prefer the italics.

I don't think that using the * style of quoting breaks wrapping.
OT, but at this phase, they are. They're still producing the same amount of high quality content (probably more and at a faster pace), but with so much new content, there's a SNR issue.

Think of it like Netflix successfully became HBO faster than HBO could become them, so now they're expanding content to fit the new and old general demographics- the cable and youtube viewerships.

They're also big on data, so if they're making it, it's not because they think no one wants it. We share an account with my SO's sisters, and despite all watching about the same amount, it's amazing just how different (and accurate) the recommendations are for each of us.
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Netflix doesn't care. They drag their feet on this kind of thing as much as they can. In the end, though, they do this so they can keep their licensing agreements with content creators.
You can if it is dual-licensed.
Except that's the point of the article – PCD/napping/etc works because the default mode network of your brain is more active when you're at rest than when it's focusing on something, and that it seems to be doing some "housekeeping" in your brain so to speak.

I don't think it's much like a minima, because I can go home, run some errands, cook dinner, surf the internet, read, etc, but when I'd come back the next morning I'd be just as stuck as the day before. For me it wasn't until I explicitly tried to do nothing (i.e. wander, as opposed to distracting yourself with other tasks) that I made progress.

(of course this is just anecdotal experience – not trying to frame this as The Way but found it interesting that there's some research about it)
Unsplash Instant[0] is my favorite. It shows a new background from Unslpash for every tab.

[0] https://instant.unsplash.com/
NordVPN works fine. FWIW.
Fair enough. I answered the question implicitly but perhaps I should have been more explicit.
Consumers quite like the protections against fraud or loss which they currently have. How does that work without a trusted third party?

Similarly, what does “frictionless” even mean? Consumers have very little friction currently and the situation is decent for most vendors. How much better can a new system be, especially one with significant operating costs?
Is this a new policy? Coincidentally I just restored something off a year-old backup from a dead machine's external drive, and it wasn't an issue. Maybe because the machine itself hasn't connected in a while?
Google Art Project, which makes the wallpaper for new tabs into a work of fine art from Google's library of museum scans.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-art-project...
That's not the case here. The only way America differs from Europe in writing the date is when you include the year. She didn't do that on the note, so whether it's "October 22" or "22nd of October" carries little meaning. I'd go for the shorter O22 myself as well.
In Sweden the during the non-compete period you have to pay the employee their full wage, which seems like a fair balance.

If it is that important to the company the employee should be remunerated
then you have to explain why the females' lack of the tusk is not selectively disadvantageous.

No -- sexually dimorphic characteristics cannot be in competition.
I have basic cable-provided internet. 50 down, 3 up.

Initial backups take a long time, no doubt. But the daily diffs aren't so bad. As long as you use something smart enough to only upload the deltas, you're fine.

You can also snail mail drives to many cloud providers for your initial backup state if you want. I've never done so, but I've heard from friends that have that it worked out fine.
Given the nearly hundred million people murdered by their own communist governments, people would be wise to be afraid of that word.
Intro to D3.js by Square
China has to deal with India and Vietnam, which are hostile entities in at least some ways. There are many Uigurs who don't seem proud of being Chinese.
A license can't affect the copyright of any other code. So Hancom is just in violation of the GPL and has lost its right to use Ghostscript; it's not automatically GPL'd.
This is when I practice PCD (I think?). I'll choose a goal (like letting go of something, feeling joy, exploring my emotions, creativity, etc), a song or album I think I can make work for said goal, and then either a specific context (eg. a conflict or project) or to with the story in the song/album. I play it on my phone through an FM transmitter with voice nav on in Google maps. While listening, I'm typically constructing a music video in my head or forcing/mapping thoughts/memories/feelings onto the lyrics.

This also develops the skill of forcing analogies, which helps with keeping an open mind.
Show HN: Audible for the web, Switch seamlessly between audio and text
http://bit.ly/2qeHLev

I’ve wanted to listen to my favorite articles or web novels and switch seamlessly between the audio and text so I can read, and if I want to cook or whatever else, I can continue off the audio. I could not find it anywhere, so I created one: http://bit.ly/2qeHLev. Click on the audio version, scrub the player and scroll the content to test it out. All of it is done programatically, so it works with anyone's voice. Also, it works on the mobile web so feel free to check it out on your phone.

What do you guys think about my side project? I'd love to hear your thoughts
Probably to appease the studios.
All of those had immediate real world uses. What activity which normal people do has seen a blockchain offer significant improvements over previous practice?
Is radarr a couchpotato replacement? Any reason to prefer radarr?
"For your protection".

I agree, the number of times per week that I somehow end up entering my Apple ID password is egregious. Couple that with the abysmal iCloud/Apple ID/iPhone number conflicts that inevitably show up when you have more than one device. I've spent more hours than I care to remember working on my parents' devices fixing glitchy synchs.
How do you satirize something subtly when the point is that real life is so outrageous that it beggars belief?

I like subtle satire too, but that doesn't mean it works in every instance.
Yeah I'm not sure on that figure.

I guess you can determine how many people are around you, that have a phone and it's switched on, with the wifi on as well (I personally turn off everything when it's not being used, mostly for battery reasons on this old clunker).
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The machine not connecting at all puts it in some kind of exempt from deletion state. They claim it is a six-month limit in their docs.

Note the point about having all external drives connected for that first boot or their backups will be wiped out. Very easy to shoot yourself in the foot.

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217664898-What-...
Stop playing games and just write some damn assembly.
No thread about games that teach assembly can be complete without a mention of Core War -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War

It is perhaps the game of the genre.
This. It is 100% about being able to license more titles. Many people forget what the early days of Netflix streaming was like. Remember when you needed silverlight to watch on a computer? Remember when you couldn't even get Netflix on Android? Netflix has come a long ways since those days, and they have done a LOT in moving forward fair-use expectations for digital subscription content.
If you want a more advanced book I really strongly recommend Matrix Analysis and it's Applications by Carl Meyer. Very clear and concise and the problems are well written. It's my all time favorite math book. But this is really if you want to absorb a lot of more-advanced linear algebra with a lot less fluff and exposition than Strang
Drug and Alcohol Abuse Across Generations
> Their DVD service gave access to a library of thousands of movies from blockbusters to obscure niche films.

You write this in the past tense, but the DVD service is alive and (mostly) well. ("Mostly" because they are not replacing rarer DVDs as they go missing from their inventory.)

I presently subscribe to both services because I love older films.
A Commentary on the Unix Operating System (Version 6, UNSW '77) [pdf]
Race, Terror and Counter-Strike: Interview with Co-Creator of Counter-Strike
There's a huge difference between fudging GDP data from 5.5% to 7.0%, out of / internal politics / whatever (which is probably about what is happening) and "not growing"
It's actually far too little code, as it leaves out all the code in the Rust compiler that implements this.
People are not stupid..nowadays some villagers in China get ~10M USD to move away for real estate construction.. this is the average number for an entire village in Shenzhen.. you call this laughable money?
It had been my hypothesis. Julian Assange said it better:

> The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be "free" because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free. In states like China, there is pervasive censorship, because speech still has power and power is scared of it. We should always look at censorship as an economic signal that reveals the potential power of speech in that jurisdiction.

Recently I found Slavoj Zizek had even better criticism:

> The US doesn't treat prisoners as brutally – because of its technological priority, it simply does not need the openly brutal approach (which it is more than ready to apply when needed). But this is why the US is an even more dangerous threat to our freedom than China: its measures of control are not perceived as such, while Chinese brutality is openly displayed. In a country such as China the limitations of freedom are clear to everyone, with no illusions about it. In the US, however, formal freedoms are guaranteed, so that most individuals experience their lives as free and are not even aware of the extent to which they are controlled by state mechanisms.
I'll tell you what's wrong with that: people who are not willing to pay the social price of their opinions shouldn't voice their opinions in public spaces that - like Hacker News - foster considerate conversation. Places like r/the_donald have shown the kind of perverse groupthink that happens when members of the group feel they are exempted of the normal action/social-reaction feedback loop.

If someone has a deeply held belief and they are willing to stand by it, then they won't be worried about "karma" points, right?
As an Indian who has worked and lived in the US, I wholeheartedly agree with the parent.

That which needs force outside is achieved via self censorship in the US. This is a fact. A sampling of NyT/WaPo pieces on wars US has fought published right before they were begun shows this quite well.

Then there is racist stereotyping of Asian cultures which often gets a pass under various high sounding titles ending with '-rights'.
Every discussion on productivity on here is basically dominated by people talking about how 40 hours is even too much for high quality creative work and that much of the heavy lifting for ideas is done when not in front of a keyboard and that solutions often come to people during their downtime.

Funny how that sentiment disappears completely when the topic of employers wanting your total productive output comes up.
rooted != unlocked

My phone is not rooted. It is unlocked. Netflix app works fine on this phone.
But then you have to deal with a lawsuit, hire a lawyer, etc. Just because it's unenforceable doesn't mean that your shitty employer can't sue you. Why not just head it off at the beginning and have it right there in the signed contract?
>...and it is also, sadly, no surprise that they also think that this sets precedent. Why is it so hard for them to understand the difference between trial courts and appellate courts and which set precedent?

All courts set precedent. That's the basic premise of the common law. Courts in NZ reference Australian decisions, courts in Australia reference NZ decisions.

There's a difference between precedent and binding precedent.
I'm not entirely sure the same "responsible disclosure" arguments for software apply to hardware.

With software, a patch release is a common enough thing that it's a solid argument that letting companies like Microsoft or Apple or Google or others who've demonstrated they'll actually fix security bugs (so, maybe not Oracle, for example), or any of the hundreds or thousands of widely-used OSS projects - I'm _much_ less convinced that any company like Intel will ever manage to get even a single digit percentage of their users to reflash CPU firmware - if that's even possible - and I've never heard of a hardware company freely replacing all user's CPUs where remote exploits are known.

Where the option of "give them 90 days to get a patch out - possibly give them an extension if they ask and explain why, but otherwise sit on the bug with the vendor until it's fixed or being actively exploited in the wild" à la Google Zero & Tavis seems to work reasonably well enough of the time for software bugs - it seems to me unlikely to be as beneficial for hardware bugs which are much much harder to get fixes to end users - and early disclosure giving the opportunity to mitigate with firewalls or unplugging the device seems more likely to be the better choice.
> Smalltalk isn't file based, you don't edit some version of the code that gets compiled (and macro expanded) […] Macros simply wouldn't fit into Smalltalk in any meaningful way […]

You speak as if “macros” means “macros as implemented in the C preprocessor”. Lisp macros, as I understand it, operate on the parsed syntax tree, not on the file text level, and are expanded at runtime, not compile time.
So they are now admitting they have gone completely insane with DRM craze. That was expected.

Now let someone come and disrupt this industry swamp with DRM-free video.
It may be advantageous to purposely avoid an in person discussion of the contract (especially with an HR person who couldn't care less if you're hired or not), and then bring it up in an email. Because an email allows you to fully explain your position before being interrupted with something like "it's a standard contract" which would tend to shut down an in person conversation.
Does Y Combinator have first priority over Harvard graduates or Ex-Googler?
Does Ycombinator have first priority over Harvard graduates or Ex-Googler or startups that has minimal revenue or user base on accepting applications ??
If you were confident that's what it was and were willing to take the risk, you should have refused the additional test.

Doctor's advice is just that - advice.
China wields formal control where in the US this is achieves via peer pressure and social manipulation/control. Anytime something shocking is revealed reporters end up losing thier jobs, sometimes be suicided or at worst end up like Assange.
I can see how that would be a footgun. Thanks for the heads up.
>The entrepreneur packages his skin together with the GPL licensed command line executable as a closed source commercial "product".

This violates the GPL. The skinned program is a derivative of the original software and must also be licensed to users under the GPL.