skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this makes a good narrative (and as someone who is fed up with laying down to get comfortable just to have to get up 3 minutes later to confirm I'm still watching Futurama again it's easy to imagine), I suspect it's less sinister than this. If anything I'd suspect it's more likely that they're trying to boost, or give a final effort, towards certain things. I'm sure viewing numbers play into their contract negotiations so if something isn't doing well it's an indication they need to ditch it or an indication they over-paid. So I wonder if instead of it being them trying to delay you watching something it's just them really hoping you'll eventually decide to watch it.
Yeah, but a staged accident in the middle of an ocean sounds pretty unsafe, too.
If only Netflix could figure out the complex algorithm needed to prevent my children from being able to change their profiles from "teen" to "adult". http://www.huffingtonpost.com/knowmore-tv/how-orange-is-the-...
You sure are a special snowflake. Thank you for sharing your insights with the rest of the world. Do you have a newsletter? I would like to subscribe to it! Your fresh, humble insights are a beacon to us all, who have to contend with the dumb sheeple on a daily basis.
I know how this works in Flux, but wondering how it works using the approach w cursors.
What you're spelling "politically correct" I tend to spell "on faut dit-il elle heureux là" と思うのけれども， but I tend to prefer business English to other languages when in California.
Given the general quality of response to user reports in free software ("The source is there, fix it yourself", "WONTFIX", "That's a feature", "you're doing it wrong."
"They Live" is a fun movie, and like Marxism, it certainly taps inot the vague, nearly universal "everything is wrong" vibe that affects nearly everyone but especially young adults. Other examples: The Matrix. Philip Dick and Stanislaw Lem (perhaps the most underrated SF author ever) made careers out of this emotion. For a modern incarnation on Netflix, check out Black Mirror, particular "15 Million Merits"[1]. Powerful stuff.

When I step back and look at the world, for all of our terrible mistakes, we (the western capitalist states) really are the good guys, because personally and politically, overwhelmingly, we really do despise the despots, and the racists, and the needless violence and barbarism that rises to power in too many places in the world. More than once we've spilled blood and spent money not to benefit ourselves, but to stop something evil from happening to others. And no, this doesn't excuse the fact that we've spilled even more blood for our own selfish ends, be they resources or the assertion of misguided idealism.

Consumerism, unlike unjust war, is a trickier beast to slay. Why? Because it's good in one important way! Consumption really does drive an economy, which is good for people's bellies, and well-fed people are pretty happy (watch Triumph of the Will[2] and notice how often Riefenstahl shows food and people eating). The urge to consume, and all the messaging that goes into it, are manipulative, but it manipulates us into wealth. (Heaven help us all when even the elite can't ignore the externalities of this approach, particularly WRT climate!) We will soon see if virtual goods can thread this needle.

>Once we’ve put on the glasses, what do we do? Where are the aliens, and how do we start killing them?

As anti-authoritarian as I am, I still can't get behind killing anyone. Maybe it's naive, but I really believe in non-violent (not passive) resistance. Ghandi, MLK, Aung Yung Suu Kyi - they show us the remarkable power of patience, love, and unyielding persistence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHs2coAzLJ8
Exactly what I'm thinking. There's no reason to have another chatting app. Also, with so many competitors, their website lacks any description, making their product even more foreign.
Because hardware warranties and software support have completely different purposes? Seriously, this is a non sequitur.
That wasn't parody the first two dozen times I read it in the 80s and 90s, alas
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Why not? There are winners and losers in every game.
Yes, one of my friend has an old computer and I had to install a "force flash on Youtube" extension for him to make the videos stutter less.
Feds want to stay mum on how Capitol plot uncovered
I find the AppleTV (iTunes) experience particularly irritating, in light of how pleasant Netflix adaptive streaming is over the same connection.
I was responding to the later posts who were confused as to why someone would laugh at seeing that. You're right that you said to check and I wasn't trying to bash that post at all.

That aside, I actually did type it into my disposable VM. The theory being that if there was something subtle, it would force me either to type it wrong and not be exploited due to cognitive blindness or I'd catch the problem and avoid it.

I've read too many IOCC entries and I probably am a bit paranoid.
Not at all. GA aircraft have slow stall speeds, and as you can see from both scenarios, first-responder response time is extremely quick when you follow protocol. The Cirrus even has an airframe parachute for a soft landing.
JavaScript and Friends: CoffeeScript, Dart and TypeScript (2013)
I'm not sure anyone tried a really Marxist society on any scale. I think the hippie communes were getting there. Any communist/marxist country (basically any country with the word "Democratic" in its name) was basically state capitalist. The state (a small number of elites) owned the means of production with the people as inefficient, unmotivated labor.
Ask HN: What API do you use instead of Rapportive?
I used to use this script to pull data from rapportive: https://github.com/the4dpatrick/find-any-email.

It seems like the Rapportive endpoint only works within Gmail now.

What API do you use instead of Rapportive? Is it free?
CoffeeScript vs. TypeScript vs. Dart (2013)
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In England we're currently having a crisis in A&E units with unprecedented volumes of patient ("winter crush"[1]) and a shortage of nurses. Targets are being missed. 95% of people who turn up at A&E must be seen and treated, or admitted into a ward, within 4 hours. At present only about 92% of patients meet that target. At its worst only about 89% of patients met the target.

The trip to A&E would cost you your petrol money or cab fair. The treatment in A&E, and the hospital is free at the point of delivery[2]. The hospital might send you home with a month of medication which would again be free atpod. A regular prescription would cost £8.05 per item per month although there are many exemptions and many people don't have to pay for meds.

If you wanted to pay for your hospital visit you can. You get your own room and a free telly, maybe a bit more nursing and a few more HCAs. (In the NHS beds you possibly have a telly that you pay to use.)

The weird thing is that we get all this while we spend less per capita on healthcare than the US government. Free healthcare is cheaper than the US system. And you don't need to get rid of private provision either - so anyone who wants to pay at the point of delivery can.

[1] more people attend A&E in summer. But the people who attend in winter tend to be iller and to need a hospital admission.

[2] see how I nearly avoided "it's not free you pay for it in tax" comments
I loved They Live before the pervert's guide to ideology, but you're right that this post is probably derivative of the latter. It's just a daily blog post that we're doing as part of Winter Break Of Code, and wasn't really "meant" for the front page of HN, so I'm surprised to see it in a place like this.

For what it's worth, I wasn't trying to write an analysis of They Live, and was just using it as a tongue-in-cheek back drop for a different question.
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glibc 2.18 and greater were already patched, but it wasn't recognized as an RCE vulnerability at the time. See the first bullet under the "Mitigating factors" section in the link.

You can check your libc version with:

ldd --version
What does this reply even mean? Of course it's distributed as a binary -- should regular users compile it themselves?

Advanced users can compile chromium if they want; from what I understand it's virtually identical to the chrome binary.
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It maybe related to the bug that's linked in the blog post's comments too:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=234779
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Are you really claming that there is not a single accaptable email hoster, even for money anywhere on the internet?

Even if there is no good one, there CLEAR are still many, many others that you can use.

Edit: Competiton is not defined as same service at same price. All email services compete with each other, gmail did not kill the competition or the market they just offered the best system on one price range. You are basiclly complaining that others that have diffrent privacy policy are not as good or cheap as gmail.

You offered this as a response to somebody saying that google was good for the market, but they clearly were. You get better free email in most aspects and you still have tons of other options including the old shitty free email providers.

These post feel like a bad accuse to find a reason to hate on google, or maybe im misunderstanding you.
One of the great advantages of having supreme mastery of any field is - you gain the ability to not partake in that field of your own volition. Others still in the apprenticeship stages don't have that luxury, because they need to learn - they need to absorb as much information as possible, and they can't afford to simply opt out of learning more.

In terms of a specific symbol that identifies hacker/privacycare types there is things like the glider symbol. Also, loose and informal groups like Telecomix, and Anonymous are usually a sign someone has opted out of the matrix and knows the game is rigged.

Cory Doctory makes the analogy that general purpose computers are going to get inadvertently infected/compromised no matter how hard you try. Once a computer is connected to the public Internet - it is a sitting duck, and exposed. We can lock it down, but it is still speaking to the packet switched net, which, by design - is going to be toxic.

I don't know how to protect my devices. A lot of the problems are too systemic, and need massive changes in policy and law to get systems trusted again.

Worth reading/watching:

Everything is broken:https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1

Telecomix: http://telecomix.org/

Redesigning a Broken Internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J_9EFGFR-Y

Hacker Emblem: http://www.catb.org/hacker-emblem/
> It's time to start phasing out C/C++

Well, unless you get rid of C/C++ interfaces in all syscalls or Win32 APIs, hell Microsoft tried that with managed code, and utterly failed to deliver.
there was a member of Microsoft Pilots that did exactly that. Faked a crash on land as prep, crashed in Elliot Bay and swam to the house of his ex and "stole" a car in an attempt and insurance fraud.
Apple pay, to my knowledge uses the same card number per charge
The way bankruptcy laws are, 20% is probably pretty reasonable considering that the vehicle's value decreases pretty rapidly.

I'm curious whether companies like Affirm will figure out ways to improve upon this.
The ease with which huge amounts of credit are given to people who clearly shouldn't receive it is quite scary. When I was 18 I had a decent enough job as a fledgling software developer making above average for my age but still not great. My car broke down and I decided to get a new one and as a stupid 18 year old with access to some money and credit I of course set my eyes on a nice shiny, new off the lot, convertible. $20k in debt later I drove off the lot. And they were nice enough to throw in a brand new Bank of America credit card with a $10k limit on it too! It of course didn't take long for me to nearly max that out and end up with a crash course in credit that I wish I'd had beaten into me years earlier or that I was smart enough to figure out sooner.

At 18 and making around $35k pre-tax I already had close to $30k in debt and the scary thing is that that situation lead to me getting bombarded with mail offers for more credit cards (including many different Bank of America cards) that I was supposedly pre-approved for. Now that I keep very little debt, besides my mortgage my 2 open cards have a balance of $0 on them 6 days out of 7, I get basically no offers. Education would go a long way to preventing what happened to me from happening to others but I can't help but suspect a healthy dose of tighter regulations, or restrictions, or ... something, should be put into place too.

I now know I was a stupid kid who made stupid mistakes. I've also learned from them. But I was also someone in one of the few industries that's still growing and was able to recover fairly easily and never really felt any pain from it. The average person isn't that fortunate.
yeah by using python, you will never run into problems like this https://github.com/python/cpython/search?utf8=✓&q=gethostbyn...
I really hope they got all the bugs this time. I'm not very optimistic though, the last few months Apple crippled my computer and my internet with the worst being a 2 - 3 week period where it took an hour to open pages.
Looks like this would be an excellent candidate for transparent compression in newer filesystems like btrfs/ZFS. Ill never go back to non-compressed filesystems for my personal machines -- btrfs w/ LZO compression has been an excellent, efficient, fast FS for me (YMMV -- I dont know that I'd use it in an important production environment).
I believe iTunes formerly required QuickTime.
This comment is so reductive, and the GP is so dismissive of Slack's accomplishment that it is actually making me angry. This is like all the kids in 2006 claiming they could build Basecamp in a weekend because it was a "simple" app.

What you're saying here is technically true, but these things are only 20% of the story. Most companies given these gifts (and let's face it #1 is pretty easy in today's fundraising environment) would not be able to create a product with the polish of Slack.

To paraphrase calinet6, it's not just the feedback, it's knowing what it means and using it to drive a cohesive UX vision. I've worked on some extremely talented teams, and I've created some great products, but let me tell you it's very very difficult to actually take a large amount of feedback and polish something so it works as well as Slack. It's difficult because if you pay attention to the wrong comments, or you come up with the wrong solution you end up off in the weeds with a product that can never regain its cohesion. Even if you have a strong visionary making all the calls, it becomes increasingly difficult for that one person to maintain the whole picture as the userbase and use cases grow. Even if you have all the right people and no poor decision makers, you still find things can get lost in the communication layers and you end up with a suboptimal product.

If you actually use Slack in anger with multiple teams and purposes and you pay attention to the UX, it is at a level of polish that is astounding. We've seen apps with this level of UX before, but they tend to me much simpler (eg. Instagram), there are also more complex apps with impressive aspects in their UX, but they reach anything approaching this level of cohesion (eg. Facebook). Slack is not just a story of good strategy and positioning, it's a story of phenomenal execution, and people who miss that are not going to take away the right lessons.
I don't care about DRM as long as it's lightweight and seamless. Streaming is one use case where its use is entirely justifiable if it operates transparently.
Regulatory capture is more than just lobbying, it's a hijacking of the regulatory process by regulated companies. In any case, lobbying is an attractive narrative, but I don't see the link between lobbying and the actual anti-competitive regulations. Verizon and Comcast didn't lobby to be forced to build fiber/cable all over vast swaths of ghetto. AT&T isn't lobbying for San Francisco to impose inane restrictions on where you can put fiber cabinets.

To put it another way: look at the regulations Google demands exemption from in return for building fiber: build-out requirements, slow permitting, etc. Did the incumbents lobby for these things? No. They arose out of municipal politics that have little to do with lobbying.
That's not practical for video in most cases - dedicated pirates will find a way around it, but casual consumers won't bother. Duplicating HD or better video by analog means without significant quality sacrifices is much easier said than done.
only if count the assets (i.e. stocks) at face value.

if you did that, you can just go to any stock market and buy any stock. any. without ever even knowing which company they are for. it is the same reasoning. If you think yahoo has 50b in cash because it has stock of other companies valued at 50b, you can just buy 50b of any company and you will have 50b? probably you are going to have 50b-+(market fluctuation) which is what nobody wants to bet on so easily.

only you and icann reason like that :)
I use winamp, ample customization and plenty of plug-ins with good performance on my largish (~8k items) library.
A related question I had was whether the Coast Guard resents doing this sort of work - "ugh, another idiot who got himself into trouble." In particular in the context of sailors and kiteboarders who get stuck in SF bay.

The answer, which surprised me, was no - at least not institutionally (according to a friend who was in the coast guard for a time.) Turns out 90% of the work of the coast guard ends up being search and rescue type stuff, and they all know that this sort of thing is exactly what they signed up for and appreciate getting to "do" something instead of just patrolling.
Unreal City,

Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,

I had not thought death had undone so many.
If you have good credit, you can get rates under 2% on a new car and your lender will negotiate a lower car price for you since that will lower their risk.

If you have poor credit, you likely will end up at a sleazy dealership that overcharges you on the price and you end up with the 20% interest rate to take care of the risk.
overture succeed in it made google buy much larger , i.e. more expensive when summed, competitors overseas to keep up :D
But the information revealed to the vendor is variable, so they can't use that to make future charges, which is I assume the same situation here.
The obvious interpretation of "good" in that sentence is that it would allow the player to play chess according to universally defined and agreed-upon rules. Castling is one such rule. While I think one could argue there is some leeway with allowing the king to move into check since it doesn't prevent 2 players familiar with the rules from playing a valid game, inability to castle does not pass this litmus test. Castling is integral to the game and is neither obscure nor rarely invoked, even at the novice level - a game without it is simply not "chess". While I agree this is an impressive programming exercise and worthy of recognition in its own right, calling it a "new record" is like claiming a marathon record after running 25 miles
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Does it run on a ZX81? If not I'd guess it might be using short cuts not available on the original machine.

Easy way to get them smaller and be legitimate chess (This seems to be missing half the rules) would be let white move, then resign. You might have to allow white to resign / offer a draw as a move as well.
It is funny how this came the same day Adobe patched Flash!
Hundreds of thousands of other people, like teachers and firefighters, depend on returns from companies like IBM to fund their retirements. If IBM can't profitably retain employees, holding onto them anyways comes at the expense of all the shareholders, not just the ones with cigars and monocles.
Most of us think that we now live in totally atheist, post-ideological times, and cynically view the big 20th century movements like communism and fascism as totally failed and outdated. But it's exactly when we think we exist outside ideology that we are actually in it. It's inherent in the way that we construct our reality and stage our desires. And this is also reflected in cinema. In a consumerist capitalist society, you think you are free by being able to enjoy life and buy things like a Starbucks frappuccino, when actually, you are following an obscene and deep command to ”ENJOY.”

-- Slavoj Žižek

are you sure you're wearing glasses?
> "Normalization’s goal is to eliminate update anomalies. Normalization is not necessary in an immutable data set. The only reason to normalize immutable DataSets may be to
reduce the storage necessary."

You can still have an update anomaly in an append-only setting. Teacher changes name (by submitting a change-of-name form) - now you need to replace all the class lists.
I wonder what Fabien is up to lately. I'm really looking forward to the Wolfenstein 3D engine book he was in the middle of writing.
> The investors can earn relatively high returns on securities that the rating agencies have deemed low-risk.

Last time I checked, the most senior (AAA) tranches of subprime auto abs deals are priced at libor + 20. That means that the investor is willing to accept libor (essentially risk free rate) and 30 basis points on top of that. Is this a high return? Sure, if you compare it to prime auto loans that are priced libor + 20 but not compared to other securitized products. For instance, the senior tranche on collateralized loan obligations are being priced at libor + 160 on new deals.

Overall, this article is especially poorly written in that it does little other than stoke the flames of hatred against wall street. The writer claims that people are being exploited but then profiles an unemployed woman who cosigned a $30k loan on a car for her teenage daughter. The dealership almost certainly should not have lent her the money but the owners of these securities will pay the price, at least the equity tranche that absorbs all the initial losses. After not paying for a while, the car will probably be repossessed and resold.

The reason there is such appetite for these products is because of the low interest rate environment. Investment managers are desperate to earn a slightly higher return that the risk free rate. This is driving demand which explains why you saw the issuance of subprime abs explode over the last year and spreads tighten (spreads have widened later in the year though). Credit standards have probably degraded to try and meet the demand of abs securities, but that's inevitable.

At the end of the day, the investors will pay the price. There could be another financial crisis and a massive bailout at the tax payer expense but I doubt this is the product to cause panic. Unless the default rate on auto loans reaches 30-40% a year and the market for used cars drops a similar amount. I think the value of an auto is a lot more objective than that of a home.

I think it's interesting how high interest rate risky loans can be considered as sleazy while giving opportunities to the less fortunate is considered an admirable goal. These two are two sides of the same coin. Would it be better that people with less than perfect credit or generally considered higher risk not get any loans? Or the risk of those loans be picked up by tax-payers?