skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your examples are all safety (including public safety), or shared-resources (radio spectrum). Fiber I lay in the ground isn't a shared resource, and no one's safety is impaired by prioritizing my on-network traffic over off-network traffic.

That's true, sort of. The fiber you lay in the ground isn't a shared resource, but the internet as a whole IS. Mediating my access to it without reasonable alternatives removes my stake in a shared resource.

> A more direct analogy is government regulation of something like how food tastes or how entertaining TV shows are.

I'm trying to interpret this charitably, but I must admit that my initial reaction is "that's absolutely ridiculous". This strikes me as a lurid, sensationalist comparison designed to appeal to anger rather than logic. If I am missing an obvious logical connection then I'd love to hear it.

If anything, I think a worst-case breakdown of net neutrality falls closer to having my personal choices regulated than government intervention does. It's not hard to imagine an example scenario where it is only profitable for my home to be serviced by an ISP which has political beliefs antithetical to mine. In such a case it would be perfectly legal for them to charge exorbitant rates to access this content, effectively controlling what I consume.

> There's some justification for regulating carriers who have an enforced monopoly in a region, but the problem is the monopolies are local government monopolies, and the regulation here would be national.

I think you're making this statement because of regulation requiring that providers service an entire market? I can't imagine how else to interpret the statement that "monopolies are local government monopolies", given that most people have a choice of one (two, if they're lucky) of {comcast, time warner, AT&T}. Simply lifting this regulation doesn't necessarily solve the problem - admittedly I'm speaking from a position of ignorance, but it strikes me as likely that there are many consumers to whom it isn't immensely profitable to provide service.
Thanks for the question...I looked at Letsencrypt, but wanted to do some more research. There are some limitations to using Letsencrypt, but might go that way...Here is an old reddit thread I found: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/40sp1y/whats_the_...
I am not particularly well equipped to answer this, and would welcome someone doing a better job, but I don't want to see this stand as the top comment and not see a strong counter-argument. In any case, the simple argument for why languages are important goes something like this:

A different language is more than just a different way of sharing information; it's a different way of interacting with ideas, and it reflects a different cultural history, and a diversity of cultural histories is fundamental to maintaining our heritage. When we lose languages (and we _do_ lose languages, all the time) we lose histories, traditions, and knowledge, and we also lose a specific and irreplaceable tool for looking at the world.

It also unlikely that we will ever cohere on a single spoken language, especially as tools like good neural-machine translation become much more powerful and more readily available.

- http://www.endangeredlanguages.com
Do you know what's a structural threat to free society? Regulating free enterprise like online communities where people voluntarily intermingle.
That entirely depends on how you see yourself and other users as a member of the community. Do users have a way to influence what content the community has besides what they individually submit and upvote? Yes, flagging. Similarly with comments, we have more than one's own comments and upvotes, we have downvotes. Downvotes and flags both serve as useful signals to others what the community wants to discourage. Hiding / ignoring sends no signals, at least no different signals from never having seen the item at all.
Little bit late, but I use Paypal mostly because I have funds in Euros in Paypal, and using my countries currency would be too expensive.
> "Being yourself", authenticity, and direct/brutal honesty are roughly orthogonal; you can (or not be) one without affecting the others.

While I agree with the general sentiment of your post, I find quote does not actually work out in practice.

I have been in many situations (ie around family, coworkers, etc) where the group has a strong opinion about something and I feel the opposite. I would usually not chime in and let the conversation move on, but when people ask your opinion, there is a decision. As far as I can see, the options are basically:

1) Lie: not authentic or direct honesty
2) Avoid/Deflect: maintain authenticity, not direct honesty
3) Fein disinterest: lacking authenticity, not direct honesty
4) Express your dissent: authentic, direct honesty

The only options for maintaining authenticity are to be directly honest, or to not answer, and there is a limit to the extent you can avoid answering direct questions and still maintain freedom and conserve your energy and focus.

So while I agree that you don't have to be brutally honest to be authentic, I would say they are far from orthogonal. Sometimes choices have to be made, especially around people who have a tendency to pry or ask your opinion a lot.
Well, if you remove "pre" from "прекрасно", you get "red-colored", so it doesn't quite work here. (Actually, it would make the first part of the sentence a bit too literal.)
In communication, there's always two sides. Sender and receiver.

It's important that the receiver is open to switching their "language" to that of the sender. If they choose not to accept you and your language, "being yourself" won't get you there.

I suppose what I'm saying is that it's a two-way street.
To the folks on HN who don't vehemently, vehemently oppose a non-neutral system, your line of thinking puzzles the hell out of me. Is the idea that government regulation is bad in all cases but corporate regulation is OK in all cases? Why? Because you've bought into free market forces making all things better no matter what?

Those forces only make things better unless they don't. To me, it's crazy that's not immediately clear.

In this case, the regulation is for keeping the system free unless you're a monopoly or part of an oligopoly. Your future chances of being in that camp are so minuscule and even smaller if you support killing off Net Neutrality. Are you fighting on behalf your future self that will likely never exist? That's arrogant and delusional.

This is not what Ayn Rand meant by espousing the public good is best served when people are self-interested. That's not the same thing as being delusional.
Appreciate you sharing this, I wrote this years ago and am glad to see it's still getting traction :)
can't you end up "reading" faster by using screen readers than with Braille books? Every time I see a video of a blind person with a screen reader the words are so sped up that it makes me think it is a lot more efficient than Braille (not to mention the fact you can get any book read to you that way, not just the few you can find).
Honestly I didn't find React too hard or arduous to implement anything in.
See this article [1] for an explanation of how the poem is supposedly taught & understood incorrectly. I tend to agree with the claim.

The crux is in the 2 paragraphs starting with "Frost’s poem turns this expectation on its head", and the main claim is:

"According to this reading, then, the speaker will be claiming “ages and ages hence” that his decision made “all the difference” only because this is the kind of claim we make when we want to comfort or blame ourselves by assuming that our current position is the product of our own choices (as opposed to what was chosen for us or allotted to us by chance)."

[1] https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/11/the-most-misr...
> if you want to lose weight but keep eating fast food despite that---what is the healthy need manifesting through that, and how do you address it in some other, good way?

That really depends on the individual; if you'd like to sit on my couch for a couple years ... (I'd have no idea what to do).

But as examples, if your body doesn't need something nutritionally (e.g., more energy), perhaps the junk food is a source of comfort and relief from stress (i.e., 'comfort food'); there are healthier ways to obtain relief from and to otherwise deal with stress. Perhaps the buzz from the sugar and fat is an escape or makes the person feel energized; again, there are healthier solutions.

Again, I don't pretend to be an expert and what I wrote in the GP isn't the answer to life, the universe, and everything. Part of nurturing yourself is pushing yourself at times and training, but IMHO without battling and abusing yourself - again, like a good coach, teacher or manager.

> Same with being addicted to e.g. alcohol or smoking

I would think that physical (i.e., chemical) addictions are different; your body requires that chemical. Alcoholism is a disease, AFAIK.
Part of it is that they build the basis for features, and work on getting them into core, so it makes their value added features in their proprietary fork easier to maintain. Sometimes giving back and having an easier time maintaining your own fork is worth the effort and costs associated I guess. I for one appreciate it.
So, you're saying we need more Mexicans in this country since we don't have enough of their culture? Sounds good.
For whatever reason the first video is downloading fine for me [edit: no it's not, see below]. Try again maybe?

If it still refuses to work for anyone else, I have like 80KB/s upload (ADSL2+ FTL) but I'm fine with uploading it.

EDIT - HERE YOU GO: The highest quality video (format code 136) is WORKING, but the highest quality (189k) audio (format code 251) is what's failing. So fall back to the next highest quality (132k; format code 140). So '-f 136+140'. I've __successfully__ downloaded with these settings.
GitHub devs & Markdown enthusiasts at large, please consider contributing some brainpower to these last remaining issues that are blocking the v1.0 release of CommonMark:

https://talk.commonmark.org/t/issues-we-must-resolve-before-...
It's fun to assume things!

Anecdotal evidence I hear from UC Berkeley employees is that there just is no money to be had. The real solution is spend the money to make the videos ADA compliant. I don't know how much that would be but UC Berkeley isn't interested in spending the amount it would take, whatever it is.

The multi hundred dollar stadium renovation is now, with laser like 20/20 hindsight, considered a disaster. The football team's management has a new scandal every few months. The team's record is abysmal. The theory was that spending money to develop the football team results in greater alumni donations.

In UC Berkeley's defense, the state of California and the legislature is profoundly uninterested in funding the UC system at the levels it used to. The university has to get money from somewhere. Renovating Memorial Stadium was a part of that.
I think a closer analogy would be: Should the power company be able to offer you a discount based on the brand of appliance you use. e.g. If you had a GE fridge in your house should you get a discount on your power usage (all other things being equal). So if you have a GE fridge you pay $0.10 per kilowatt, but a Samsung fridge will cost you $0.15

From my perspective, along the last mile a bit is a bit. The fact that they may have some back-bone infrastructure that optimizes delivery of traffic to an edge-node for youtube or Facebook doesn't really apply to me (e.g. it is not something I control). The fact that e.g. Comcast and Facebook can do a deal that monopolizes in their favor vs. other social networks/ISPs is not exactly to my benefit. I can't control that deal like I can control adding "a powerwall" in my house.
Another extremely difficult aspect of that "battle" or self-improvement mindset: our mental state depends a great deal on body chemistry. Sure it's hard to start lifting, but if you've been lifting for a year and have a lot of fun dopamine floating around as a result and have had time to associate lifting with those dopamine rushes, it's actually harder to not lift. It's almost unfair, really, that our mental state is kind of "out of our control." If you're 2 days without food, being a "good person" and maintaining your values becomes extremely difficult. After 5, forget about it, your humanity will have almost completely slipped away, and there's almost nothing you can do about it.
I suspect it was part of the click-through license for the app.

I suspect the company would actually have prevailed. You didn't have to use the app, and the click-through almost certainly had the correct legal language. Precedent would also be on their side.

I also suspect the negative press and legal fees would be more than the profit they made on these vibrators. If we assume $100 of profit on each on we're only talking roughly 40,000 units sold.
Yeah, of course you can do these things. I really meant to say, "there now exists server-side state for this" — I'm bothered by how existence of that state defeats the statelessness benefits of signature-based schemes, not the fact that I have to query a remote database.

Oh, and also: "only store a blacklist" does not work if you want to provide the "revoke this app you gave access to a while ago and now it's spamming" functionality like in most social networks.
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"Text files" are perhaps underspecified (what character set?) but a good fraction of bytes would, by themselves, count as valid text files.
Yes, but that better headline does not have two buzzwords in it.
blogspam of

https://blog.frontiersin.org/2017/03/14/did-humans-create-th...

which is in itself a summation of this David K. Wright paper, complete with images and references:

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feart.2017.00...
>I think your perspective on these issues is unduly influenced by Trump's claims

Nope. Just the facts.

>This is the argument George W. Bush made about Iraq

"Because, Iraq" is not a magical dismissal for everything the U.S. does forevermore. It's possible (and sensible) to disagree with the Iraq War and Russian attacks on our democracy. In fact, that's where most Americans stand.

>If you can't imagine renting a VPS in Ukraine and running some scripts

Yeah, that or the 400lb guy in his basement makes more sense than what the U.S. intelligence agencies concluded.

But, AGAIN, ignore the agencies and just look at Trump's counterintuitive, but consistent behavior.
See I'm the exact opposite. Outlook.com and DuckDuckGo are working just fine for me, but when my friends are having a get-together, it's an event on Facebook. When my sister takes pictures of my niece, they're on Facebook.
He hasn't abandoned it.
Caveat being the only consoles that can play it are either impossible to find or at the very end of its lifecycle.
One of the biggest warts is the casual elision of vectors and nx1 matrices... (and scalars and 1-arrays and 1x1-matrices). Julia wrestled with this in its early days, but I think the way it does things now is quite nice.
I think their secret sauce is Oracle compatibility, so if Postgres runs better, they run better.
I am also a React fan but phrases like "I worked with React for a year and know well enough to get a brand new app up in less than a day" make me kind of sad. The cost just to get up and running with a JS framework these days is kind of painful. CLIs are doing a decent job resolving this, though.
I have to wonder why this isn't done in the form of a context-free grammar, like Hitman[0] uses. Specs in English are still too vague for my liking.

https://github.com/chameco/Hitman
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Is media a structural threat? No.
Facebook is a very very weak form of media. So no.
The huge response of sentiment about how it is (or might be or whatever) is silly.

Grand statements about people's feelings as the premise for these gushes about personal distaste and fears and elitist cliches are used throughout:

> Freedom and freedom for a society, in a modern information age, relies on the individuals that make up that society having control of that information.

The society does have control. The questions are always about truth or validity, but there's no critical thought applied to the pretty words. Mediocrity masquerading as greatness again.
How about I don't know if I support or oppose net neutrality because depending on the source it means something different.

I would love to see an actual technical, written definition so that I could tell my Congress folks to put it in a bill.
The Apple Watch is still the best designed smartwatch
If only Sam knew someone that had the President's ear...
Most misses out on an enormous number (at least half the books on my shelves, and I'm no bibliophile.) Google's got them, even though they can't let us see them.
How does that affect the quality of the game?
While the NSA's mass-surveillance and the CIA's targeted hacking cannot be overlooked, these organisations are for all intents and purposes separate entities to the FCC. The FCC's view and ability to enforce net neutrality will never effect the NSA and CIA; I don't know what, if anything, would. And besides, ISP's have formed oligopolies for most regions. Do you trust them to keep the internet open?
Show HN: Play that color vision test game as a quad tree
It won't help because the hardware on the phone is specific to the phone and not the app.

Consequently, anyone running on your phone also has access to your wireless traffic.

Until you get fine grained security controls over hardware, you can always consider yourself rooted.
As far as I can tell, the thing about enlightenment is that once it's happpened, it causes this very strange change in you...
Which will require session pinning for the load balancer, not to mention, I'm not using Java or a similar ORM. That will only help for a single instance of an application on a single server... not much help when you specifically don't want session pinning.
Pi is not known to be normal.
Sounds like the typical pretentious, the world is changing and I don't like it. Take the time to learn new technologies and adapt to changing landscapes. Mastering the abstract ideas makes you more flexible.
We are well on our way into 2017 and you still can't find the NES classic. I wish Nintendo were a bit more Apple in that respect.
Agreed absolutely every element of this game is fun. They struck the perfect balance between ease of entry and play and a massive and complex world. They avoided pitfalls of many other RPG games that add complexity at the cost of fun. They also learned to not completely hold your hand as many other Nintendo titles have in the past.
i like the bezel
Or they tend to just Go. Interestingly, I've read a lot of Go users come from the Ruby and Python communities.
Higher wage won't necessarily increase number of qualified candidates. To illustrate the point: you could offer piles of gold for a decent C++ programmer in the ancient Roman Empire and get no one simply because they didn't exist.
FWIW, Rust used to use split stacks, as implemented by LLVM, but they had problems like unpredictable performance (if one happened happened to be unlucky and end up repeatedly calling functions across the split boundary, each of those calls ends up doing far more work than desireable). Relocating stacks is a whole other issue, and almost impossible in the model of languages like C/C++/Rust where there's no precise tracking of pointer locations: the information in exception handlers (approximately) tells you were things are, but nothing about where pointers to those things are.
RTL scripts and BiDi webapps
I had to switch from Sonic (to Comcast) for just that reason. I had a bonded DSL connection from Sonic that could just barely get 10Mbps. And the bonding really wasn't even worth it because one line was at 8 and the other at 2. And it was all due to the unmaintained copper coming from AT&T. I agree with their new strategy though - the only way to have any control over their service quality was to own their own fiber.

Now, I'm in Cincinnati and have excellent fiber service from Cincinnati Bell, so it's possible to have good quality from the incumbent carrier.
If we're counting experiments before WebVR was called WebVR, I was making stereo view apps in the browser on smartphones with a cardboard box as a viewer 6 years before it was called Google Cardboard.
> Today's conservative movement looks nothing like what we usually think of conservative ideals from the past

It looks a lot like classical conservatism. It doesn't look a lot like the Republican Party during the early part of the late-20th Century political realignment where it was starting to become a conservative party but had to be careful with it's rhetoric to maintain unity because it still had a lot of Northeastern and West Coast moderates and even liberals, and is extreme compared even to the Republican Party's extreme during the late part of that realignment (e.g., under Reagan.)

But that's just because the realignment (which continued past Reagan, and was largely complete by the turn of the millennium) is now not only complete but also the party establishment has largely adapted to it being complete.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13850750

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Less silly than it looks at first sight. After all, for day-to-day use (except for GPS I guess, and most people probably don't even realize it would not work without a correction for relativistic effects) relativity is very little gain over classical Newtonian physics and a lot more complex to work out from a mathematical point of view.

So even though 'that's how it really should work' we tend to take the shortcut because it is 'good enough' for almost all use cases.

Which caused us to miss the wood for the trees for a long time. This minor change is what enables learning in the first place, and as such it could easily be a game changer.
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I am not a lawyer, take this advice with a large grain of salt.

From what I understand: Your lawyer is technically correct, but possibly being overly conservative/risk-averse about it, which is the job of a good lawyer. If you trust your working relationship with your lawyer, trust your lawyers advice on this and find a way to meet your lawyer somewhere in the middle.

First of all, ordinary trademarks are no longer registered (the TM symbol is kind of unregulated at this point and only really as effective as you can prove in a court case that you've used it longer and it isn't just a generic word; you arguably don't even need to use the TM symbol itself these days). I'd say that I see a lot more TM than (R) trademarks most days, but on writing that am actually not all that certain.

If you are registering a trademark, you are registering the (R) symbol variant remains stricter about what may be registered and how. (In exchange for being harder to register and stricter in its registration you get stronger protections in court.)

If you look at examples of continued (R) usage you will find a few of the particularly older, more conservative brands do go to great pains to avoid even being used as a adjectives (they don't want to be used as real words at all) and are often "X(R) brand product" like "Kleenex(R)Brand Tissues". (Kleenex is one that is particularly conservative on this front as a lot of people do use Kleenex as a generic noun and they have been in danger of losing their trademark over the years because of that. http://kleenex.com is littered with "Brand Product" speak.)

You could probably get away with not registering your trademark at all, as most startups seem to do. If you do want to register, you should probably follow your lawyer's advice, even if it does feel particularly out of date or overly conservative/risk-averse.

Hope that helps.
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