skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not far-fetched to believe that hktruth is a Chinese person living abroad. They would have an interest in preserving their anonymity. In this tense environment, a Chinese person in a Western country expressing support for the Chinese regime would risk being accused of being a Chinese spy.
I pirate based on principal. Most of these companies are actively trying to fuck me over as a user as much as corporately possible. I don't want to give them money. I can't help encourage this user hostile behavior.
Can you explain how he's being censored? This event has caused his comments to be circulated more than ever.

Free speech is a right, but it's not a shield. He can continue to express his opinions, and the public will continue to have the right to object to them. If public opinion on a person is negative, companies will not want to associate with that person. That's the way society has been and will continue to be. This isn't inherently good, as seen with things like race/sexuality--but conflating the long struggle of the LGBT community with one man's archaic thoughts on pedophilia is frankly disgusting.
Virtually anything you pirate these days will be supported on virtually anything you might want to watch movies on these days.

Roku is the most popular streaming device and it only supports H.264 for attached storage and its very picky on what it will support.

The obscure edge-cases are things that HN users might be aware of, but simply aren't a practical concern in practice. DLNA is generally the case where you might run into issues, but a transcoding DLNA server solves that problem.

So now you've added even more complexity and a regular DLNA server/client has what is far from a user friendly interface like Plex.

If you drop a bunch of movies onto your kids tablet, you no longer have to worry about being away from a cell tower or wifi AP. Furthermore,

So now we have a streaming DLNA server, transcoding, bit torrenting, and copying the movie to the device as opposed to paying $8 a month and just click "download" to put it on the device?

A harddrive full of movies avoids all of this mess. Subscribe to two or three services a year and you'll be spending a lot more than $8 a month. Maybe it still seems trivial to you with an inflated tech salary,

And the people not in tech are going to jump through all of the hoops you are suggesting?

How poor do you think the average household in the US is that close to 50% are paying for iOS devices and not going to pay $25 a month for a few streaming services? Do you realize what they are already paying for cable?

I am certainly not out of touch with my own friends and family!

Your friends and family are not a representative sample....
Having worked for a public school district, it is my experience that things almost never go down as parent said. What actually happens is that they get caught and make an excuse (I was about to report it!) or their "report" of the problem is in the form of some leet-speak shit-talk on a public message board. A common theme you'll notice when people describe these events, even from their own perspective, is how they absolutely did change something, deface the page, etc.
As someone without a CS this is reassuring.
“Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast”

Old military saying that I repeat often because I have relearned so many times that shortcuts cause more work (read: problems and rigidity) in the long run.

Choose one: get it done right, or get it done right now.
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1Gbps for $60 ? What a rip-off! Here in Switzerland you can get 10Gbps for $40...

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> None of his crimes are easy to prosecute while he is in office; the distractions won't have much effect once he is not in office.

Sure, but that's purely a political constraint, not a legal one, and he's well aware of that. There doesn't appear to be any will in the democratic or republican leadership to advance motions to remove him from power. Given the lack of any interest in this regard, the constant onslaught of allegations of foreign intervention seems to be more of an effort to shift blame away from the weaknesses of a certain 2016 democratic nominee and hedging against a 2020 loss when certain american billionaires had demonstrably many times the influence of any foreign government. A change in political power could find him out of office very quickly.
This isn't true for Century Link.

It's best not to make broad generalizations when it comes to ISP's.

A single ISP may provide high speed and low rate in one city, then provide low speed at high rates in another. Your experience in Location A is likely not what other people experience in Location B.

It all depends on the competition, regulation, infrastructure, geography, population density, history, and other features of an area.
> given the effort it took to migrate users away from piracy and toward legitimate services in the first place. The primary lesson learned during that experience is you need to compete with . It's not really a choice. It's real, it's impossible to stop.

This lesson seems utterly forgotten.

The fatigue is real, and more often than not I’m not finding anything I’m looking for on any of the subscription-based streaming services I’m paying for.

So I’m cancelling all of them.

My fallback: iTunes on my AppleTV has good choice in movies I can buy, and I usually find what I’m looking for there.

What’s not quickly meets the Plex.
"Just posted “Ludwig: a type-based declarative deep learning toolbox”, a paper describing the design of #Ludwig and the motivations behind its architecture: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07930"

https://twitter.com/w4nderlus7/status/1174244681003208704
Your statement

>IMHO, "complaining about price" in any arguable fashion seems to be reason enough to get something removed.

Comes off as a defense of TA here. It seems like you didn't mean it to be, only a statement of fact, but that's why you got the response you did.
I pay $30 CDN for 1Gbps symmetrical no cap because our municipality had the foresight to install municipal fiber, so we are not beholden to Bell/Telus/Shaw/Rogers for access to fiber infrastructure.
I mean any reason to believe Mozilla will be out of the running in a few years.
He allegedly paid for sex work with campaign money, which is why Michael Cohen is in prison right now.
Can't Snowden's publishers just use the Irish tax loopholes and bill the US corporation "intellectual property" rights with the same value as the profits? So that the book's profits are 0?

This would also provide a strong justification for closing said loopholes.
Blocked at work for adult content. Whoops!
And kudos for doing that - but what about candidates who don't read Hacker News (or happened not to see this exact thread)? HN isn't exactly the most welcoming environment for women either.
You are correct! Thanks for catching this! I'll fix the example later today
I usually find the opposite. Firing someone for cause is interminable or outright impossible, unless they're breaking the law or embarrassing you in front of customers.
Are you affiliated with woven?
Yes, and I keep telling you that mainstream movie piracy nowadays isn't torrents but streaming websites operated by pirates, that look and work similarly to YouTube or Netflix, except all the videos are pirated.
When I was young I'd get beat up and called names for being a nerd. I was a social pariah, and intellectual interest was something children literally looked down upon.

The vast majority of my equally-nerdy friends eventually grew out of their social quirkiness and became hugely successful and functional adults, and their curiosity is respected and regarded, and when it's not, their profitable profession and social standing is.

There have always been mobs to consider because you just _can't_ say whatever you want without considering the consequences, and because we strive towards a world where we're more aware of the hurt we cause by what we say and do.

It is in fact the best period in the history of humanity to be a nerd.
I've been on a similar journey, and I've seen this pattern repeat itself again and again!

1. Hack any old shit together, but it works

2. When you actually have to maintain what you previously wrote, you realise (1) doesn't work so well. Then design patterns seem like an epiphany, and you Cargo-cult the shit out of them, using them everywhere. You dogmatically eliminate all code duplicatation, use mocks with wild abandon, and are not happy unless you have 100% test coverage. For bonus points, you also overuse abstraction. A lot.

3. When you actually have to maintain anything you previously wrote, you realise what a tangled mess of abstraction you have made - you can't simply open a file and ascertain what it's doing! You also realise that the tests you wrote to achieve 100% coverage are crap, and don't really prove anything works. You finally reach a zen-like state, realising that simplicity is key. You shun all forms of dogma, and use patterns and abstraction, but only just enough
It's so obvious it's not even funny.
This may now be moot after the LinkedIn Vs hiq labs case a couple of days ago which appears to have blanket legalised we scraping.
I would think it'd be possible to remove limits for the user facing password and store it as a secure hash. Then on the integration side transform that hash into something that is compatible with the legacy system.
Weird, I'm surprised that isn't the default mode of operations for something that's designed to plug in your own control system.
I've never bothered to resubscribe to Netflix DVDs because I've always been able to find what I'm looking for as a rental from Amazon or iTunes.
I sure as hell don't.
That's fine, you can roll out electrical vehicles in the rural US. The majority of the US population live in cities or suburbs of cities. That is who needs to see development and infrastructure that enables the use of public transportation.
> A Chinese character is more or less equivalent to a word in English/French.

Most Chinese characters are monosyllabic, and most Chinese words are polysyllabic consisting of multiple characters. A Chinese character is a morpheme, and it also happens that many common words are also single character morphemes.

> Someone who speaks only Cantonese can read and understand text written by Mandarin speakers without any issue.

Because we've all been taught to read and write in Mandarin from the very beginning of our education. Again, Hong Kong is a diglossic society.

> They use largely the same grammar and vocabulary. Because Cantonese is ancient Chinese, over the years they have lost track of what semantic characters to use for some of the Cantonese words.

They share a lot of grammar and vocabulary (...but not all of it) because they share a language ancestor. Cantonese is not ancient Chinese, but it's a descendant that conserved a lot more consonants than Mandarin (and a lot of sound merger is actually happening right now in Hong Kong over the last 100 years, but it's commonly derided as "lazy sound").

> Once the mapping is done, you will be able to write down Cantonese and have it understood all over China. Since the work hasn't been done, you can only write down Cantonese with the help of some phonetic characters, which denote only pronunciation but not meaning. It's not gibberish, but neither is it proper written Cantonese.

See [https://books.google.ca/books?id=pFnP_FXf-lAC&pg=PA51] for a description of common strategies for writing Cantonese. Phonetic borrowing is one strategy, and the most common one, yes, but that's no different than characters in standard Chinese, the vast majority of which are a radical with a semantic category (but not a complete meaning) + a phonetic component.

A Mandarin-only speaker can decide for themselves how intelligible that colloquial Cantonese exchange on page 52 is, what with the difference in vocabulary and grammar.
counterpoint: you are just as free to take the same liberty with your employer. You can drop them like a bad date, and take a job somewhere else.

additional counterpoint: part of your job as being a grown up responsible adult is your ability to manage and endure risk and loss, especially the risk of your job disappearing overnight. Outside of circumstances of extreme poverty, or extreme disability, in which our government has safety nets in place (let's save the debate of sufficiency for another time, the fact remains they are in place), losing your job should not "fuck up your life" moreso as be a temporary setback. This is especially true for this industry.
You bring other sources online.

In the day when its light again you take those resources offline. This is a really well tested system world wide.
Sure, three-strikes-and-out reduces probability of brute forcing any particular account with forced 5-digit password, but if an attacker has a list of just 25k usernames, odds are that at least one is going to get brute-forced.
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Those books are even more popular. The government ban list might as well be a most pirated list.
It shouldn't be but while adding jobs to the site there were tons that require a CS degree. And I know people with 13 years of experience that have been turned down for jobs due to no degree.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/15/16148250/microsoft-linked...
What is the effective speed you can get because of bandwidth throttling done by remote servers? Can you get close to 400Mbps to cloud storage for example? Currently I have 150Mbps and been wondering if increasing it would be worth the extra cost.
When I was in HS, it was GradeQuick, and my teacher typed his password in front of the whole class on an on-screen keyboard of his tablet projected on the wall. I tested the password out, but didn't change anything.
Those who hacked it (TFA) were not.
One would have to be obtuse at best, malicious at worst to characterize Stallman's comments in the leaked mailing list thread as 'defending statutory rape' in any way.
what if you used multiple async ajax requests to load different parts of the UI in place of loading all 50MB at once? could that be what the OP meant by "promiseS"?
It's incredibly funny to me how concerned western netizens seem to be about Chinese astroturfing... as if it's an actual problem they need to worry about.

99.9999% of comments you'll find online are highly critical of China. The most upvoted submissions on Reddit and HN are often those critical of China. Most Americans (60% last time I checked) already have a negative view of China and their knee-jerk reaction is to support anything or anyone who speaks out against the CCP.

Does anyone really think 17 bots on Twitter tweeting messages in Chinese is going to change this?
This is incredibly disingenuous. Before you download that movie you need to make sure it’s not being tracked, make sure it’s the format you want (which may be a lie), possibly setup a VPN (another service you’re now paying for and which are never simple), possibly convert the movie to a file format which your chosen video player can stream to your chosen device (both of which you’ve definitely tinkered with in the past) and if any of these steps are off/not done properly, you have to just go find another valid copy which is not always easy. Also, some of the best torrenting libraries are not free and often require you to seed a certain amount which eats up bandwidth and may just not be an option if you have a data cap/slowdown at certain times of day (most ISPs do one or both of these).

Most Smart TVs and Apple TV (or your iPhone/iPad/Mac) let you do a search across all streaming platforms and their library and if it’s available you just click to open the app and start playing. It takes exactly 15 seconds.

Piracy is not “the most convenient answer” and considering the shocking lack of familiarity with everyday technology in these comments, it’s laughable that anyone would claim it is. It’s greed, plain and simple.
I remember when I was a teenager in high school, I found out that ftp.<my_school_district>.net was open, with the login of "admin" and password of "admin".

I wasn't able to figure out how to change my grades (and I would like to think that I wouldn't have even if I could have), but I did find a directory of all their registered software that I was able to download, and the teachers' profile pages were editable. If I recall, I think I edited the profile of one teacher (that I was reasonably certain wouldn't get me in trouble if I got caught) to end with "Mr. <Teacher's Name> is a goofball".
They should do the same for alcohol, marijuana, and other addictive substances as well then. Why give adults the power to control their own lives? We know better, don't we?
Wow, that screams gatekeepers. If you are interested in doing an interview for my blog, https://www.nocsdegree.com let me know :)
So other programmers don't build useful things? But websites are always useful?
That's fine though, as long as they're not actively campaigning and lobbying to keep entities from entering the field in the first place.
We realized that lone hackers aren't actually the tremendous geniuses who can accomplish dark magic on their own.

The profession has changed. We no longer build low-level constructs that are leaps and bounds ahead of prior versions, but incrementally take existing building blocks to find solutions for problems that are ever more social in nature.

Having worked with several lone-wolf hackers, I am glad we are no longer afraid of pointing out shitty behavior.
Frequently, people have political opinions that are incredibly nationalistic, to the point of sounding like complete gibberish to anyone outside their bubble.

I generally don't assume that they are bots, shills, or trolls, even if they sound like them. I need only look at the outcome of elections to know that those positions have incredibly broad grassroots support.
Damn it, two giant gross "toenail fungus" ads taking up most of the page - shocked me a bit and I closed the page really quickly (and probably now associate this book with fungal diseases - choose your ad providers carefully!)... Is there a non-fungus-y link to this book somewhere?
You may not believe it, the vast majority of Chinese actually love the CCP and the system, they only just hate that a few corrupt low-level officials who are the bad apples fucking up leaders' glorious visions.

These "bots" are mostly spontaneous people, they are not even government-sponsored Wumao, they genuinely love China and defend it, their reason being it may have some flaws but any other country has too and is worse than China, and them being either students or comfortable middle-class help.
You had a hint that there was an in place solution and a set of pointers. I mean the only real question here is how many spots you need to look ahead...

I understand that whiteboard can be frustrating and hard, but it sounds like your interview was the exact kind of interview people try to make
You just need a lot of borax for summer skiing.

(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joppenbergh_Mountain)
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This all reads like an episode of Silicon Valley. Unbelievable.
I'm an overweight gay male probably on the autism spectrum with learning disabilities, I don't really like effectively being lectured on my privilege.

You'll never change the conversation if you don't engage with it - its perfectly fine to step away from time to time, but unplugging and living in your own reality serves no one.
Anyone else a bit freaked out at how effective social influence is? What does that say about how we form opinions?
No, but not knowing when to shut up and maybe let sensitive topics cool off before speaking can definitely be so.
I understand that, but you initially said:

> I hope we will NOT keep it. It reminds me how my country was occupied and annexed by Soviet Union.

You mentioned nothing of the sort that you are NOW mentioning as a reason. I am glad that you are not asking for or wanting its removal because it reminds you of bad things. Perhaps it was an innocent omission, or you changed your mind. Either way, glad we could get to the bottom of it.

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That being said, I disagree with its removal.

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> But USSR does not exists and there is no reason to keep it. Using it is a kind of propaganda. Its place is in history books and not in the modern internet.

>> USSR does not exist

Why is its existence a prerequisite for having a TLD for it? It does not necessarily have to exist in the present (or at all).

>> There is no reason to keep it

There are many reasons. One of them could be not taking people's domains away from them.

>> Using it is a kind of propaganda

Not necessarily. One might just use it for fun, for example: sudo.su.

Plus, all TLDs could be used for "propaganda".

>> Its place is in history books and not in the modern internet.

Such domains could point to valuable resources, they might be an online equivalent of a history book, for all we know. Why should information regarding USSR not be on the Internet, under this TLD? Seems like a good fit.
> Exercising your ability to sit down and Just Do It

Have you considered the possibility that he's a highly motivated person who simply has a more creative "It" in mind?
Some of us can’t just lost our health insurance on a whim.
They quite clearly said that it's not just grades that matter. Also, you'd show up to the exam so you don't suffer the university's consequences like academic probation and scholarship forfeiture, even if you were somehow "anti grade," whatever specious mindset you are envisioning.

Besides, I don't think anyone making their point would suggest that you shouldn't try to make good grades, which involves learning a subject well enough, including doing the boring work, to get a good mark.

I agree with them. If grades are the only thing you care about such that you'd be fine with paying an insider for a diploma without doing the work, then I'd say you wasted the entirely opportunity and only exercised your ability to cheat and be dishonest.
I don't know about other Applie services, but if you don't back iMessage up to iCloud, the messages stay on the device exclusively.

That's a pretty good default security level for personal communications.
That was a weird era in Java history. They changed the compiler in the subsequent major version to perform that transformation automatically, but by then people had had 2 years to stare at perf graphs looking for bottlenecks.

It never was clear to me why they didn't do both of those in the same release. Backward compatibility wasn't the problem (they were already breaking that left and right).
There's always some other industry/technology/nation/group that uses <X> times the energy: "China emits far more CO_2" (total), "The US emits far more CO_2" (per capita), "Industry emits far more than households", etc.
That doesn't seem like a convincing argument against the whole petrodollar "conspiracy". It seems like there is no assurance that trading in these alternative currencies can't increase dramatically among other countries.
Interesting to see the differences between Github and Gitlab's strategy in this arena.

Github appears to be going the aqui-hire route with Semmle, dependabot, pullpanda etc, where as I don't think Gitlab's made an acquisition for a year or two.
Is this what you call “working similarly”?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21005204