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I make no comment about the morality. If you read the linked thread, you will see that I make absolutely no judgment about the morality of the business in question.

In fact, morality hasn't anything to do with my statement. It's not an argument that I need to make, nor is it one I'm interested in making. In fact, it dilutes the conversation at hand.

I believe that's colloquially known as a 'red herring.'

No, my comment is that he is going to go to prison. My comment is that he has already opted to violate the law AND that he intends to break additional laws. My comment is that he not only is going to go to prison, he openly discusses his plans in public, completely ruining every possible legal defense he might have.

My comment is that he is openly conspiring and mocking the legal system. My comment is that he is going to have his comments submitted in a court of law, or that there is a good probability that those comments will be read aloud and submitted into evidence at his trial. My comment is that he is very likely to find out how angry a judge gets when one mocks the legal system and announces intent to violate the law - and then carries through with it.

My comment is that it isn't a very sane position to hold and that he should hire a lawyer.

Your reply completely chooses to ignore this and, for some reason, tries to change the topic to a morality conversation. I am not sure why you'd do such a thing? I'm not sure why you think it matters. I'm not sure why you think it needs to be addressed when it is, quite pointedly, not the topic.

I don't care who is having sex with whom, nor do I care if it is paid for - so long as there is consent. Even if I did care, it is not relevant to the topic at hand. The topic at hand is that they are going to go to prison and that they do not appear to be sane.

I don't know you but, if you think his actions are reasonable, then I'd suggest you consider seeking council from a qualified mental health professional. That's not pejorative. Mental health issues are real and should be addressed before harm occurs. If you think they are reasonable, look at their replies where they insist they will commit more crimes and where they believe they are impervious to the law.

Seriously, this is not meant to be derogatory. If you think they are reasonable and exhibiting rational behavior, you may wish to see a mental health professional. There is nothing good that can come from you ending up in prison beside them.

You will not like prison. My last years as a Marine were spent working at a detention facility. Prison is not a nice place. That's kind of by design. Buying sex and intentionally defying the SEC are not good reasons to go to prison.
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The Possibility of an Ongoing Moral Catastrophe [summary]
Dopamine and norepinephrine dysfunction exists heavily in men too. ADHD is significantly over-represented in males. I think the added serotonin dysfunction is more prevalent in women, and the resulting condition manifests differently.
>This is a core issue for our civil society. Americans of every political persuasion depend on the internet to educate themselves on the issues of the day, speak their minds, and organize for change. Mass mobilizations on all sides of the climate, health care and immigration debates illustrate the point.

The authors talk as if the ISPs will suppress political opinion. However, I am not aware of a single case where ISPs suppressed political opinions. However, there are cases where the dominant search monopoly may have suppressed political opinion (https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/technology/google-sear...). Also, several registrar services together made it impossible for a website to have a domain. Also, the major consumer DDOS protection company removed the above website from their protection because of content, there making it easy for someone opposed to the website to DDOS them and keep their message from getting out.

This is why Net Neutrality is getting limited traction with the public. If we talk about net neutrality from a business perspective, they don't see any real harm. For example, a lot of the cell companies are offering zero rated music and movie streaming from select companies. Net Neutrality would end that. You could argue that net neutrality would prevent competitors from forming. However, my guess is that obtaining music and movie rights would be far more expensive and difficult than signing deals with ISPs to get on the fast lane.

And, if you try to bring the political opinion angle, it is far more likely that your speech will get suppressed by search engines, domain registrars, and DDOS companies than the ISPs.
I would guess people might be more receptive to Net Neutrality for those companies.
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Why isn't this enough to get all the cases thrown out under the 14th amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law?

Black and hispanic people are prosecuted while white ones were not? Owners of corporate persons were personally liable under criminal charges while chains only had to pay a fine?
Facts matter. Obesity is much, much worse.
"Antisocial" is a strange word because it can also carry the connotation of "violent". Hence "Antisocial behavior". This article's use of the word is more like "introversion".
This is a deal breaker for me as well.
No repository, anywhere, has unbranded Firefox packaged up and with updates. If you want to run it that means manually downloading it and changing system config by hand each time there's a patch or version increment.
People respond differently to natural disasters than man made disasters. Ideas like "why don't they just move?" don't really get brought up regarding Houston but I usually see it in Flint discussions.

That doesn't apply to Puerto Rico obviously, but the average American may not feel capable of making a difference there, as they can't get there.
Paper trails, and accountability.
I don't care where and how majority of people in the USA use the internet. Net Neutrality provides a safety net and thus a sort of "free market guarantee" that as soon as these "handful of sites" start getting too comfortable in their monopolistic positions and start sacrificing quality or cost for higher profits, that a new service can very quickly spring up to compete.

Net neutrality is what allowed these sites to exist in the first place and push aside the Altavistas and Myspaces of the earlier Internet!
People who think about their code and people who blindly copy code? I think this is what the article is about.
Once all the cash is gone, they can just turn your card off!
As cluttered as you make it. Remove the separate search bar and hide the useless buttons, looks good IMO: https://i.imgur.com/Wi4X76s.png
Oh you understand, getting sent to the Gulag was more democratic than what poor Americans deal with.
There seems to be a correlation between how the news covers disasters and how we react to it. It gives weight to the idea that the news controls what and how we deal with things in the US. Pretty scary when you realize how irresponsible the US news is.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-media-really-has-ne...
I wrote this about AirPort Time Capsule a few months ago. Seems apropos here: https://pastebin.com/hF3K779Z
It's not only about a potential small per gigabit price though. Imagine instead that in order for your new website idea to be reachable by possible customers, you had to apply and then negotiate with business-development people at a cable company prior to being able to launch at all.
Their comment about how they won't get complaints and will be ignored by the SEC says they do believe they are invincible with regards to the SEC. They, themselves said it. That's not my mischaracterization, that's was in their reply.

The SEC isn't going to care that people were happy with their sex purchases. No, they aren't even going to care a little bit. If he follows through on this, he's almost certainly going to prison.

It's not sane. That's not rational thinking that causes harm to the individual. I may not know their diagnosis, but I can tell you that's not sane.
I'm having a really hard time getting my friends to email me. They want me to use awful garbage like FB Messenger or Whatsapp instead.
I've never found a retailer in Canada who didn't take cash. The only exceptions would be buying stuff online which is Amazon and travel (flights, hotels, etc).

Prepaid cell phones can be topped up by buying a code at a Shoppers for cash. Even your hydro bill will take a money order if you have cash but no bank account.
There is a paper trail and oversite further up the chain. This might improve if officers all wear body cameras, but for now, it can create a situation where some demographics get an unfair amount of attention from the police while unaffected demographics are completely unaffected. Because records are not systematically kept, it is easier for a systematic asymmetry to remain obscured.
I think he refers to the fact that we don't get the real version history, with informative commits which may provide context for the code in question, but instead just get snapshots for particular versions.

I'm not saying it's useless, but it's certainly much less useful than a proper version-history, and very much a declaration that it is in no way intended to be a collaborative project.

But I guess that shouldn't surprise anyone either. It's Apple, after all.
Or I can go to getpaint.net to get Paint.NET for free, in which case I will expose myself to a barrage of misleading ads designed to get me to download malware

Maybe I was already "primed" by your post or just from previous experience, but I visited that site and the first thing I saw was the "Download" link in the header, leading me to https://www.getpaint.net/download.html , and then https://www.dotpdn.com/downloads/pdn.html and finally to https://www.dotpdn.com/files/paint.net.4.0.18.install.zip which I believe is the actual file (didn't open nor run it.)

I didn't see any other ads, probably because I have an adblocker and JS off by default. I've seen far worse sites with this configuration, and even then I managed to get what I was looking for.

Note: as absurd as this may sound, I have never used Paint.NET but only heard of it, so this is the first time. So... how did I do? Did I find the right link, or was that the malware?
Show HN: piCards- Computer vision based audience polling solution for classrooms
We have created a computer vision and smartphone based audience polling solution that promises all the benefits of clicker devices at minimal cost and that too without the students requiring any electronic devices.

Use of continuous feedback systems like clicker devices is proven to improve learning outcomes in classrooms and such devices are widely used in Universities. BUT such devices are costly and hence cannot be used in mid-low income setups. Also, carrying devices in bulk is a problem.

In our solution, we replace the clicker devices with normal sheets of paper with QR Code like patterns printed on them(We call the sheet — piCard). The four orientations of the sheet translate to options A, B, C and D. Each student gets one such sheet. The teacher asks a question and students rotate and lift up their sheets and show it to the teacher who has our scanning app running in his/her smartphone. The app scans all the sheets at once. Yes, you heard it right — at once! Whatever is visible in the single camera frame, gets scanned at once. The teacher gets to see the responses instantly with counts of correct and incorrect responses. These responses are synced to our analytics platform where we perform question, class, quiz, subject and student level analysis to track each individual student’s performance over time and clearly find out their strong and weak areas.

Here is a blog post related to it - https://medium.com/22bate7/picards-hello-world-3a2da6f7b885
This is a mere source code dump that they slapped their Apple Public whatever license on (despite the explicit acknowledgement that vast parts of it are based on other, more freely licensed projects).

If anything it's a net negative.
Would you argue that accessibility is not worth spending time on, because it only affects a relatively small number of people?
> Without net neutrality, forget about it.

Why? I just don't see it. It makes no sense that telecoms companies are going to go after startups that anyway don't have money. But I can imagine YouTube, for example, is another story, given how much bandwidth must be consumed by it.
Not all hats get old the same way. Between Cobol (1959), Fortran (1957), and Lisp (1958), some aged better than others.

C may be considered to have aged exceptionally well, despite its syntactical warts, like the declaration syntax, switch statement, lack of module system, etc. Unfortunately, some of these features were imported to other languages because of the familiarity, not because of e.g. good ergonomics or deep logic behind them.

(This is to say nothing about PHP as a language.)
I think "antisocial" is commonly misinterpreted as "asocial". As you've pointed out antisocial does not mean "not social", it means "against society".
I get my Internet through CZFree, a non-profit community mesh network that covers Prague. The legal structure is the same as a non-profit private club. Members can vote for administrators. A membership fee pays for those who put the large expensive multi-directional Ubiquity routers on their roofs and also for a number of symmetric high bandwidth tier 1 fiber-optic connections throughout the city. Anyone can join the network and contribute by putting a multi-directional antenna on their roof. Or they can simply become clients to the network by using a directional antenna pointed at a multi-directional antenna.

Overall, the speed is much faster than with commercial Internet, and the bandwidth is symmetrical.

In my opinion, this is a good example of the two faces of the left. One person forms a union and tries to bully their employer into giving them better conditions, or petitions the state to create laws which will benefit them. The other face of the left creates co-ops and gives the corporate world the finger.

I personally believe that the second approach is superior to the first, and rather than trying to twist Comcast's arm into being nice, Americans should focus on building community networks, at least in the cities where such a thing is possible.
not agreeing with it here, but i CAN see a difference: paperwork and accountability. when a cop lets someone go, it happens before the incident has any records that someone could use to audit the decision.
> Yet even as our political discourse reaches unprecedented levels of polarization, some 77% of Americans, including overwhelming majorities of both Republicans and Democrats, support maintaining net neutrality.

This really says it all. All of the big tech companies, and a majority of Americans, all agree that net neutrality is good. Given this, we should be running away screaming from net neutrality, and should be rushing to implement Pai's plan.

How could anything good possibly reach this kind of consensus? Well, because it's not good. The majority of Americans don't understand net neutrality, and the corporations backing net neutrality do understand it - they understand that it will legally solidify their standing as monopolies, and wipe out their competition.

The 'fast lanes' concept is a fantasy. Tech companies love net neutrality, because it will allow them to avoid having to sink enormous expenses into maintaining high quality digital video infrastructure. It will create a culture of media viewers who do not expect their ISPs to support greater and greater bandwidths, thereby conditioning them to not expect greater quality than they receive today.

Tech firms see the inability of the USA's major telecoms to step up their bandwidth game, and how significantly this is impacting the UX of their online streaming services. These tech firms don't want to put all of the innovation in achieving more efficient video compression on themselves. Net neutrality will remove the business opportunity that would otherwise be there to innovate in shaping traffic across the web to serve the individual needs of each user. This means less costs the tech firms must incur to build video encoding and streaming infrastructure, and less R&D money paid out to great organizations like Xiph.

Today, ISPs have taken to limiting the quality of streaming media, sometimes even transcoding it in real-time to the user's device, so that the content falls under a certain bandwidth constraint. See T-Mobile's BingeOn program. This is not any better than a provider offering fast lanes for certain services or streaming protocols. In fact, it is worse. Forget that it significantly stunts the mobile media industry's progression towards higher quality. Worse yet is that it sets the precedent that in order to control bandwidth usage towards following some foolishly egalitarian federal policy, ISPs shall manipulate the content you want to watch.

A mobile user who wants to stream a 4K signal, only to have that stream transcoded to 1080p, is being censored, as is the content creator whose work is being sullied by AT&T's edge servers.

Net neutrality is a horrible idea, and I really don't think those who support it have thought about the underlying reasons for all the corporate support. There is no altruistic intent on the part of these firms here - they want this policy enacted to maintain their stranglehold over the competition without having to innovate, and while stifling the innovation of their potential competitors.
How do you describe the semantics of `nest` without showing the implementation?
Two of the core tennents of Python is: simple is better than complex and code is read much more often than it is written.
You would instead leave governance of the internet in the hands of business execs that care for little more than extracting as much value as possible for themselves and their companies?
Net neutrality is socialism, as in government getting in the way of free enterprise. It stifles innovation as Ajit Pai pointed out. Leftist groupthink of course will not allow you to say this in public
Seems this move would leave the free-for-your-soul business models to BigIT (bigger target for regulation/politics) and force the NewCos to actually build a different Internet. Unfortunately, "NewCo is changing the world..." is so 2012.
right, sorry for the mistype.
Small note, Option in Rust is Maybe in Haskell, Result in Rust is Either in Haskell.
This is silly. Just because most people spend their time on the same handful of platforms, doesn't mean there's not plenty of traffic going to smaller websites. (In fact, in absolute terms, more traffic than ever.)

Nobody today is stopping you from hosting a forum about hobby endangered snail breeding from a Raspberry Pi in your closet if you want. I'm sure you've met people who make decent money off of niche websites -- and even giants like YouTube and Gmail have modest competition. Sure, not competition that's gonna eat their lunch, but does every business have to Take Over The World™ to be considered a success?

A few websites capturing most of the public's attention is to be expected to a certain extent: for better or worse, it's always been the case that a handful of media companies lead the conversation (that's why it's called "popular culture").

AWS increasingly monopolizing the web's hardware is something to worry about much more IMO; but so long as they don't get special treatment they can be circumvented.
on the ram limitation, other laptops have more than 16 gig, like the lenovo laptops my company uses for ubuntu dev with 32 gig. so apple could make other choices. these other laptops work just fine.
You are saying it like if 'goto' was a bad thing. This is pretty normal for any kernel/system projects.
Most of these are literally based on movies, as I read somewhere. Automatic knives were common accessory of a villain in the movies of the period. Movie silencers allow you to shoot in a library undetected. Others are likely a misclassified "the shoulder thing that goes up" (from Predator?)
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Is it really so confusing? I mean, if you understand + for integers and for strings and for lists, and you can understand why this is basically the same operation for all of them, congratulations! you know what a monoid is.
I'd quite like to know what the third racoon did. A little frustrating they didn't say.
This is from the conclusion of the review:

> Our review suggested that exercise might have a moderate-sized effect on depression, but because of the risks of bias in many of the trials, the effect of exercise may only be small. We cannot be certain what type and intensity of exercise may be effective, and the optimum duration and frequency of a programme of exercise. There are few data on whether any benefits persist after exercise has stopped.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD004366...

My personal takeaway is that based on this review, which is more pessimistic than prior reviews, we have confidence that exercise has a small effect, and if the data were better we might be able to say it had a moderate effect.
The proposed study would use differential privacy and no unique identifiers. (And presumably wouldn't include Private Browsing windows.)

Honestly, (unpopular opinion probably but) I'm really tired of this privacy-mania…
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the atm won't work for dispending new cash without the network and power, of course. it's no use to a company if they had say a generator without that bank network.
Ask HN: What % of Fortune 500 companies are currently paying ransomware hackers?
Ran a similar poll on twitter: https://twitter.com/datarade/status/914181410407239680
Sounds like she was the one raccoon that unequivocally understood the problem.
> There are more than enough books in the local languages about programming.

Depends what you're looking for. E.g. for many libraries/APIs there is documentation in English and no other language.
Slow down is real. When I was in uni the network admins had the Internet configured so that there was a throttle down for any connection longer than a minute and anything that looked like P2P. Browsing was fast, but when you clicked a download link you'd see the bandwidth go from 250kbs to ~40kbs right at the minute mark. Very frustrating. I used to pause and resume downloads manually to get around it.
So, you mean skill and knowledge can't be tell apart on people?

So, is equally to hire a fresh grad or Linus Torvald? You can't figure if Linus or the fresh grad is a senior or a junior?
It’s not ok to fail
How did those users come to learn about VLC Player

A computer-savvy acquaintance installed it for them once upon a time.
Professor of psychiatry here - I've spent the past 20 years trying to help folks with depression, and related illnesses, and trying to study these diseases at a genetic level. I suspect this will get me down-voted as I know the medical/biological perspective is often unwelcome on hn.
However: a key error people make here and elsewhere in speculating about depression (and suicide, and ADHD, and...) is either extrapolating only from their own experience, or from a vastly oversimplified psychology 101 perspective. For example: "Depressed people move more slowly, in a characteristic pattern called “psychomotor retardation”. Well, yes - except when they have agitated depression, characterized by psychomotor restlessness. Or, when they have neither of these. Likewise, oversimplifying by claiming it is a disease of dopamine, or serotonin, doesn't much help. When my car stops working, is it a disease of gasoline?
Part of the challenge of depression is its very heterogeneity. What we need is not more theorizing, it is more recognition that we need better treatments of all sorts.
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I think combining 25 and x should yield x.
I’ve never understood this fear over EMP attacks. Is there a viable EMP attack? Wouldn’t a blast strong enough to damage lots of infrastructure also damage the contents of human skulls?