skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very important: by law in most states, you can control the conditions of your end of life care. State laws vary but if you are in California, this[0] is the form you print out, fill out, have notarized, and give copies of to your regular physician and the person(s) holding your medical power of attorney.

Every person should do this, because without this clear and legally binding statement of your wishes, medical people are compelled to do everything possible to preserve your life.

Part 1 establishes who can act for you when you can't act for yourself (i.e. in a coma). Unless you are legally married or a minor (when your spouse or parent can act), nobody can intervene to make medical choices for you. Under privacy laws, nobody can even ask about your condition. So your live-in lover or best friend is helpless to change how you are cared for -- unless they are named in a document like this one.

Part 2 expresses your wishes on how you want to be cared for at end of life. If Scott Adams's father had filled out this form and checked 2.1(b), none of that tragedy would have happened! And you can add more conditions. On my form, for example, I specified that if I was unable to read, to watch TV, or listen to audio with comprehension, and had no reasonable prospect of regaining those abilities, my life was over and I wanted to refuse all medical interventions except pain management. My idea being, to die quickly of pneumonia is nearly as good as assisted suicide.

However you fill it out, do fill it out, and encourage your loved ones to do so as well. A stroke or fall or collision can wipe out your consciousness at any age, and this form relieves your survivors of a lot of horrible choices.

[0] http://ag.ca.gov/consumers/pdf/ProbateCodeAdvancedHealthCare... (PDF)
But that is exactly what I was saying - I don't care about which instruction set delivers my performance if it delivers it.
So it won't put pressure on PCs - it will put pressure on x86 vendors. But the overall home server (and even workstation) market could increase. There is nothing that prevents high end GPU card working with arm CPU.
Very nicely done!

I would check out Twitter bootstrap or look for a font, that's the only thing that I dislike is the times new roman font. For a website that's focused on consuming text summaries, efficiently reading / understanding is important, and having a readable clean font is too :D
Not only can I not believe this is not common knowledge, I can also not believe it's even a link on HN at all. Ridiculous.
If you think of classes as namespaces and not objects (which is what they are half the time), it becomes a bit saner. Pragmatism makes the world work.

You can still write functional code in OO. Heck if it makes you feel better, you can just make a macro to rename 'namespace' to 'class' and then you can write code like

namespace Utils {
function thingy() {...}
}

Namespaces are generally an improvement over globally defined functions as it lets you mix and match libraries without having to worry that you included the right header files, etc. Again, pragmatism.
“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation. ” -Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler, Publ. Houghton Miflin, 1943, Page 403
The total number of hours watching video is still increasing through. You also have to consider that the cost of production is dropping, and the number of big players in the TV market is still tiny. The huge players are (Disney/ABC, NBCU/Comcast, Time Warner, Fox/Newscorp, CBS/Viacom) and they own an enormous percentage of TV Networks and TV production, both domestically and internationally.

So individual shows rating may be dropping and rating for networks may be going down, but they are spreading their revenues across a lot of the more niche properties. They also make a huge amount from Cable licenses for the whole package of networks to ensure they have as many channels available to viewers as possible.

They are now learning to monetize their properties across digital media, and you will see that growth into online media and consolidation there soon.

I work with major media groups helping them with social media and the growing time-shifted audience, so I've heard a lot of the plans for the future. They see the writing on the wall, and while broadcast and cable might be shrinking, the content creation and advertising around video entertainment will keep growing, of that I am certain.
Here's my admittedly naive Sunday afternoon spitball on an elegant solution:

I like the idea of a human UUID/GUID type identifier.

I would also like to think that this is solvable using strictly biological and physical properties, sampled at birth.

Otherwise, time and culture factors would seem make it difficult to produce a static set of "apples to apples" questions and answers.

I wonder if the right maths applied to existing genetic and forensics big data sets could produce the 33 questions.
Posession of certain cartoons can already get you kidnapped and imprisoned by the state http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/06/1023282/-The-Story-...
>burn a copy of Lolita.

No children were harmed or molested in the making of literature. That's a different topic to actual, real-life photographic CP.
Given that he lists Berkeley on his Stack Exchange profile and the same research interests, I'd say yes.
> ... why would I want to run WordPress this way?

I'm no expert on LXC or docker (never used it, but I've read a lot about it) but I don't think you would.

Honestly, I think this is a simply a result of the "docker is the coolest new thing, let's 'containerize' all the things!" fad.

We ($work) host a lot of WordPress blogs and they do just fine running on a shared web server.
Question is, at what point does traditional TV channels become so unpopular that they're simply not worth operating anymore?

Perhaps the better question is, when does traditional TV become so unpopular those satellites taking up geosynchronous orbit space get dumped into the oceans?
Why the down votes? These are good observations.
One project would be to learn another programming lang so you know something other that PHP. Same advice I would give to Java or others.
C.S. Lewis had a lot to say that is germane to this conversation.

The pain so clearly reflected in Adams' words reminded me quite clearly of A Grief Observed.
This is really interesting actually. Your entire "uniqueness" can be summed up in 33 yes or no questions, in theory.
I cut the cable TV cord three years ago, when it was costing me over $100 a month. I don't miss it one bit. In fact, when I go over to a friend's house and watch some TV I feel like it's just grating noise.

I have broadband Internet at $35 a month (about 20mbps), Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime, and Netflix, and I have more than I need. I spend a lot less time wasting time flipping channels and watching commercials. I total about 3-4 hours a week of watching anything on TV.
>looking at it is a victimless crime

It creates a market. Is there no empathy for the subject of the photo? Would you like your 6-year old son or daughter to be looked at with a sexual gaze?
Thanks! What type of fonts do you recommend?
Are you male? This will not split the population 50/50. One group will be slightly larger, and you then only have 32 questions to subdivide this larger group into further categories which is impossible.

This is not possible unless the categories _precisely_ bisect the group each time.
>This is a tricky subject because all of us (excluding the pedophiles) can agree that sexual abuse of children in all forms is a bad thing.

More like the society doesn't allow discussion on these topics. Any opinion which is not perfectly in line with the "official truth" is not acceptable, so there's no point to talk about it.
The new aarch64 chips will support large amounts of memory and hardware virtualization. Despite low performance, the perf/watt and high memory density might be good enough to compete with x86. These exist only as engineering samples and emulators right now.

All of the ARM server products in existence today are basically demos. Presumably the "select customers" offered HP "moonshot" and Dell "copper" are working on software ports and automation infrastructure for an aarch64 future.
While what you say is true, it's also true that a lot of x86 servers sit idle precisely because they're network-limited. Wasting power that way is no different than wasting power any other way. That effect far outweighs any quibbling about whether the x86 really uses its full TDP (it won't) or needs more support chips that more than make up for it (it will), or what kinds of memory are involved, etc.

Just so happens that I have both an x86 box and an ARM box in my office. Maybe on my next day off (that I'm not stuffing my face with turkey) I'll run some benchmarks myself.
I miss Ubiquity.
I find that when I use 'struct' in my Perl, I have a psychological mind shift in how I write the code. Instead of hacking together some code, I start to take it more seriously, and start to care about everything from what I choose as my variable names to the overall sructure of the code. I start to care about maintainability. To be honest, I end up eliminating lots of clover Perl idioms and make the code much more 'C' and Java like, explicitly declaring most of my variables at the top of functions and making them verbose and consistent. I start to document everything and write lots of comments explaining what I'm doing. It really doesn't add much overhead to the overall development to be honest.

I think as if I have to give the code to somebody else, even if that other person is me in the far future.

It's served me well, I've returned to old pieces of code I wrote years before (even multiple 10s of KLOCS) and after a couple read through was able to get to work without much fuss.

Fitting in with Larry's idea of programming languages as real languages, it's as if I've code-switched from a colloquial language to the kind of formal language I might use when giving a presentation.
Sounds cool! When you implement it, please let me know (email in profile). I'd be glad to feature your app on the website if it's using the API :)
Yes, I hadn't played Democracy 2, but I was going to buy Democracy 3 on a whim, instead when I found the high price I pirated it.

I got well past the initial hour mentioned in the blog, but after about the third hour or so my interest waned, it is pretty shallow and to an extent just feels like you are 'playing' a spreadsheet with the occasional random value thrown in.

I hope this doesn't sound too disparaging, since I did have fun for the four hours or so I played, but I wouldn't call it deep strategy at all, and I would have felt pretty let down if I'd paid full price for it.
If you're looking for a good strategy game, check out Dominions 4. It's probably the deepest strategy game around and is very thematic.

http://www.illwinter.com/dom4/
>I don't know how I feel about this. Merely looking at CP doesn't actually hurt anyone, and pedophiles are not necessarily attracted to what they are by choice. But there is an argument that it's existence encourages or can lead to child abuse in the real world, especially the production of more CP.

That argument applies to virtual cp too.
Very good article, thank you. I'm so glad I'm using Arch Linux (GNU/Linux)
The question is what else are they scanning for, to give to the FBI/police.

I remember Facebook announced a while ago that it would scan its Facebook chat for "criminal activity", to give the info to the police.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57471570-93/facebook-scans-...

Where is the line drawn? And will we know where it's drawn? Stuff like this makes me trust "cloud computing" less and less. I hope Google and others realize this, before it's too late (for them) to change course.

I can take a guess where this is going, though, if NSA's actions are any indication - there won't be a line anymore, if they (government/corporations) are left alone to continue with stuff like this. Every single crime, no matter how small and insignificant, will be reported to the police, thanks to the mass surveillance capabilities of the alliance between NSA/government and corporations. After all, when "safety" is the ultimate goal, above all else, that outcome is all but inevitable.

It's already started:

http://falkvinge.net/2013/11/24/nsa-mass-surveillance-has-al...
Then I see no problems in your future! Here's to prudence.
Should videos of terrorist attacks also not exist? People were harmed in the production of said videos.
Nice touch that a tilde appears when the timetable time is shown instead of live data. They should introduce that here.
> edit: My "job" is studying literature.

I thought someone in your position might use regex fairly frequently.
The following does not work on files with spaces according to the article:

for i in $(ls *.mp3); do
some command $i
done

So does that mean, that "for" will do something per word of the output of $, rather than per line of output of it?

What to do if I want to do something for every line? What for example if I really want the output of ls, find (or any other command you can put int he $()) and loop through that line per line, even if some output has spaces?

Thanks.
Voting is already an act of violence.

His father was suffering agony every day because government and its voters decided if anyone in that condition wants to end their life, that the course of action be to put anyone who showed him mercy into a cage or worse.
Those are bad examples because those questions don't split the population in two. Very few people are non-practicing Catholics with exactly three children. If you want to limit the number of questions to just 33 then you have to choose your questions very carefully.
Victimless crime?

How about you ask those who were abused whether they feel like they are not victimised by people spreading and owning images of their abuse.

The victims are quite obviously real.
Would someone recommend an automatic bash style checker, such as a 'linter'? Perhaps something along the lines of Chef's Food Critic? http://acrmp.github.io/foodcritic/
One of the most prominent examples can be found in Mother Teresa of Calcuta, who had some disturbing ideas about suffering. To the point of denying painkillers to terminal patients.
He's anonymous to us, but probably not to the government. They can do stylometric analysis of his writing and zero in on him.
Not to get into the oo vs functional debate, but generic advice about how big a class should be and how it should relate to other classes is guaranteed to be inappropriate some of the time.

Classes are a tool you can use to design a solution to your particular programming problem. Sometimes the problem with call for a few large classes. Sometimes it will call for an evenly balanced network of small classes. Sometimes there will be a lot of DTOs, and sometime none. Sometimes large classes will cause maintenance problems because there is a lot of complexity confusingly jammed in one place, and other times they will be a boon because you don't have to look in lots of confusingly named files to discover what you are looking for.

Criticizing a design by how well it conforms to abstract rules, rather than criticizing its fit to the actual problem will often lead to confusion.

These rules of thumb are useful, but only as a way to question whether your design is a good fit - I.e. "Would it be better if this class had more behavior or less behavior? Would it be better to split this class into smaller components, or should this group of similar classes be coalesced into a single entity?"
I don't think the article is disputing that. It's about the medium on which those stories are told that is changing.
Interesting, Based on my own discussions with friends and my own experience, it's considered strictly annoying and done likely to save bandwidth or something. Can you explain what you like about it?
Also try this if you're a programmer:

http://wakatime.com
In my first CAD job, the way standard practices were ingrained was by having junior team members, i.e. me, be assigned to check the work of more experienced team members. It got fresh eyes on established habits, it exposed me to more complicated work and hence more complicated issues, and made reviews a two way street - I learned to see things through the eyes of those reviewing my work, and those further up the food chain did not get a free pass to the idea that the-right-way-is-whatever-way-I-do-it.
You should avoid it though.
It is a bit more complicated - IIRC - the legality status is extremely fuzzy especially with works that are not literature - I think there were lawsuits with some hentai and manga in both Sweden and Canada. And it seems it is unclear in US too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_cartoon_pornogr...
Silicon Valley VC Wants A Million Programmers To “Code for India”
Money laundering is the process of concealing sources of money. Period. The act of purposefully laundering legitimate income is criminal.
If they only did it to remove redundant pictures, they would have no way of knowing that a given image was porn; all they'd know was that it was identical to some other image on their servers.
It's a markup language which is not a subset of programming languages.
> Google has the future of video in the palm of their hands but they don't understand and don't care. Typical of a bloated empire.

A little more reasoning would be appreciated.
It seems you misunderstood the point of this submission.

BSD is absolutely not what it says in this article, hence the editorialized "apparently" in this article. (Hope the HN mods don't ban me for it :P)

Don't take everything on HN at face value. Sometimes things are meant to be analyzed, like that "What 4chan thinks of HN" post.
A web app that plays music (could just be youtube videos), and makes smart ratings and playlists for you based on how long you listen to your songs. The idea is that if you listen to a song for 20 seconds, you don't like it as much as if you listen to it for 2:30. From this data on how much you like songs, you could even get into better predicting of which songs you should try (like Pandora does).
I think first you have to show a question exists that effectively separates identical twins before you spend much time working on broad questions like gender and geography.
Lots of people don't know their birthday, or if they do, it was written down as 1st Jan (or another memorable date), because their parents/carer didn't know when they came to register them, if they ever registered them. There will be bias towards those memorable dates.
Sure, that's only reasonable. But you're at that point only one step away from a slippery slope argument. (How meta..)

Problem is it's not always a valid question given the context. Automagically scanning images with an algorithm to find known sexual abuse pictures is in a completely different world than scanning images with an algorithm to find copyrighted content, for instance.
I built something similar awhile back with FlipTop's API back when they had a free version. It took all of 20 minutes for them to shut off API access.

If you're going to wardial for email addresses, you could also just simply try emailing all of the generated addresses.
Do you speak english as your main language? Could be a good question too? What do u think?
Much of this is true, but I think it's important not to look at the differences just through a lens of production values. Even worse to equation production values with merit or quality of the end product.

There have been several low budget films and tv shows that have become highly successful and well regarded, the same is and will be true in the online realm. Look at Mad Max, which was made for around a third of a million dollars, Primer, or Napoleon Dynamite.

But also it's not just production value or even quality but fundamental differences in character. TV was a different sort of beast than film, and even over the last decade commercial TV has changed a lot. Look at all of the independent content that sprang up on non-network TV channels, especially from HBO. A show like The Wire, or even more so The Corner, was very unlikely to ever be made within the confines of traditional network TV. TV has a different sort of character than film in terms of the sorts of productions that are suited for TV, and online video is different as well, but we haven't seen all of the ways that's so.

One example I'd highlight is the Lizzie Bennet diaries, a modern adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in vlog form of over 100 "episodes" of typical youtube length (~3-5 minutes).

Another example would be Periodic Videos (and related projects). These are educational videos about chemistry but because they don't have the length limits or requirements of traditional TV they can be focused on a single subject without being forced to add in unrelated filler.

Or, there's Lindybeige, who's likes to talk about medieval, classical, and bronze age technology and weapons. It's just a guy expressing his opinions and trying to back them up with experience or logic but it's frequently just as informative and interesting as watching a typical historical tv show.
> No children were harmed or molested in the making of literature. That's a different topic to actual, real-life photographic CP.

That isn't what the US statutes use to differentiate between legal and illegal, however; rather the Miller test is what applies.
For the most part the victims are anonymous and will never know whether the photo is spreading unless they themselves go to the darker places of the internet.

I see your point, but looking at a photo of someone without their permission is vastly different than raping them.
+1, Nice to see your post man, keep it up! :)
Of course it is dying, and I'm glad it is. TV is one of the most obnoxious formats of distributing information, shoving adds in your face without giving you a chance to turn them off or skip them and forcing its schedule onto your limited time.
How do you prove that circulated coins are the product of a mixing operation and not just normal transactional flow?

Someone mines coins and gives coins to a guy who gives coins to a guy who gives coins to a guy (repeat n times) who gives coins to you, and every link in the chain is following best practices by generating new wallets for each transaction, how would the adversary prove that you're doing something untoward (and since we're discussing law at this point, beyond a reasonable doubt?)
It would only create a market if the recipient paid for the porn or exchanged some other porn for it. I agree that participating in a market for child porn should be a criminal act. However, I don't see how merely possessing an image that you happened to find on the web can create a market (or cause harm to the person depicted in the image).
I think the native advertising trend is taking care of the awful advertising problem. Ads that look and feel just like the product are way more palatable than banners. Only problem now is scaling native ads. The opportunity here is for a native ad network that can work with most of the top Content Management systems of the world
Great. Now he knows two different languages and still has no ideas on what to use them on.

Terrible advice.

The correct time to learn a new language is when your current one isn't meeting your needs or when you've completed enough projects to have learned as much as possible from your current language and can start bringing in ideas from others. Endlessly learning new languages and never using them is completely backwards.
OpenSans, Lato