skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a less editorialized summary of the bill:

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/115-2017/h202

It repealed 73 pages [1] of regulation on ISPs.

Personally, I'd like to see more competition in the ISP space. This bill may help by reducing barrier to entry, but the central problem remains that national carriers have lobbied the state to prevent competition at the municipal level.

Furthermore, this bill seems like a minor nuisance compared to the data collected by Facebook, Google, and the NSA.

So yes, I'd say this is being blown out of proportion. The Republicans aren't being evil, but they have much more to do before I'd consider them being good.

[1] https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-12-02/pdf/2016-28006.p...
I had the same experience with Verizon. I told them that I loved Fios, but I was moving to an area without service. They didn't give me any grief.
the ESR on MLCCs are negligible
The names of the congress members who voted to sell your data
> anecdotal: not necessarily true or reliable, because based on personal accounts rather than facts or research.

By definition, it is anecdotal. A single piece of price data observed only by you with no evidence is not proof that EU grown vegetables are more expensive than those from Mexico.

To say that someones supermarket bill going up is somehow more anecdotal than "I found asparagus from Spain that cost more than asparagus from Mexico" is absurd.
Obviously obscure content will not survive unless it somehow gains fans willing to guard the page from these people, who pretend wikipedia is paper encyclopedia with limited budget for "notable" topics. They have to defend citations, perceived bias/neutrality and fight merge/deletion votes, gain allies with admins once it reaches arbitration and explain the article "notability" each time its questioned(and articles can lose "notability status" once one of these pedantic autists start questioning every line and word, deleting everything not following exact rules).
In fact an isolated article, with new content or very few backlinks will not even be accepted and get speedily deleted before it gets worked into something acceptable to wikipedians.
There has to be an alternative to this.
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>Do you say good riddance to the dead ancient Greeks and their ideas?

Ideas, no, ideals, yes. Obsession over Greek and Roman civilizations held back the course of science, philosophy and ethics for centuries.

We can take the ideas of a few brilliant men for what they were while still consigning those empires to the rubbish heap of history where they belong. The world is better off for having the opportunity to move beyond the influence of those cultures.

And as an American, I would include my own country as well. You could list any number of benefits the United States has brought to humanity, in practically any field. But the world will still be better off when the US is no longer a superpower using overwhelming violence to reinforce its military and cultural hegemony.

Good riddance to all empires and superpowers.
My concern is that if you connect to a VPN server in the US that your traffic will still be sold because the VPN provider technically also an ISP. I could be wrong though.
All these features are pretty cool, but why can I still not dock the dev tools? Developers are the most likely early adopters, like myself. But not being able to dock the dev tools is seriously a killer. I've been watching Vivaldi from beta, and have enjoyed watching it, but every version I open it up, remember I can't dock dev tools, then close it. If you want to get me using Vivaldi, it's really simple: let me dock the dev tools.
And a supervillain is born.
Why? Apple has botched software before (mobileme, continually shipping old OpenGL, WiFi issues, etc).
New Data Reveals Rift Between Consumers' Perceptions, Science about Food Choice
Thanks, and I'm happy you'll consider it to use with your son. Performance wise, I'll let Ash talk more about that as he's the one who's been obsessively making sure it loads and runs as good as possible.
All of these articles imply that Mercator projection is widely used at least somewhere. Is it true though? In Ex-USSR majority of maps are(were) proportional, probably Robinson projection, in schools and in daily life.
Would it have been for Flux possible to patent the idea given how many crazy patents there are out there?
Proportion of whites in the US: 63.7% (down from 87.7% in 1970)

Proportion of whites at Uber: 49.8%

Ars Technica: "Uber's labor force—in particular its tech staff—is overwhelmingly male and largely white." ( https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/03/new-diversity-repor... )

So whites are under-represented at Uber, even a minority, yet we're told that's still too many. Will they be happy when there's only 40% of them? Or 10%?
I think you need to understand magnitudes: "For example, what happens if there is a large volcano, or something like Saddam burning thousands of oil wells in Kuwait. I read somewhere that some climate models did check their predictions against the actual outcomes, and this is good. More evidence of this type would be great."

These are trivial in the global context.

Here's a good resource on the global carbon cycle: https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg1/WG1AR5_Cha...

and to my point from your other comment, this is from the link above: . Within a thousand years, the remaining atmospheric fraction of the CO2 emissions (see Section 6.3.2.4) is between 15 and 40%, depending on the amount of carbon released (Archer et al., 2009b).

The models are performing very well:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...

Looking to Freeman Dyson as a climate expert is bordering on wilful ignorance: https://www.inverse.com/article/7154-admitted-climate-change...

You really need to get your feet wet in this and read the actual research rather than look at people on the periphery that satisfy your biases.
Is there any that evidence the optimal administrative size for people not to feel "detached from the political process" is at state level? Why not further devolve sovereignty further to the british isles, regions, cities or counties?

The absurdity of it all is that the Tories say "It's good to leave the union" when the subject is Brexit, while also saying "It's not good to leave the union" when the subject is Indyref 2
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I think gas prices are driving EVs less and less. It's still a factor, for sure, but things like performance, noise, maintenance, and convenience are driving it heavily as well. Of all the reasons I love my Model S, fuel savings are pretty far down the list, although I certainly don't mind!
It's not clear to me how the CRA actually makes anything faster in this case. The "real law" approach would only need a simple law, which surely could be drafted quickly. Both a "real law" and a CRA action require the same simple majority in the House and Senate, which they have.
What system? Your link just starts a nodejs binary, no init process. And you also don't seem to realise that a docker container is built only once? Executing apt happens when building the image (and then is cached for if a rebuild happens later), not when starting it.
Ah thanks, that makes a lot more sense.
Job Loss in Manufacturing: More Robot Blaming
The headline isn't true. Congress voted to remove regulations, they didn't complete a financial transaction with ISPs.
What data science blogs?
Rust is lots of things, not the least of which includes static guarantees of safety, including safe concurrent memory usage.

If you asked them, I'd bet the C++ design team would admit lots of faults in the language design. Some of those are due to a need to preserve compatibility with C and older C++ code. Some are just lessons learned as the language grows and finds new uses. Others are because computers used for software development and targets on which binaries would execute were very different from computers today.

I think there's a case for looking back and asking "if we were to invent a language like C or C++ today, knowing what we know now, what would it look like?" I don't think that Rust's origin quite spawned from that, but it certainly looks like it fits that bill.

This particular feature is yet-another-static-analysis-addendum-to-C++. It's a great complement to TSan. But IMO if there were ever something in this vein that could be considered "a Rust killer" it would have been TSan. No one likes going back and annotating their code. People can barely be bothered to make a new build target with "-fsanitize=thread".

/signed: rust evangelism strike force
The USA is a novelty in human history. The desire for independence, for better or worse, is human nature.
The 800 pound gorilla that we never see discussed when talking about AI taking American jobs is how much immigration is exacerbating the problem. Whether we are trying to distribute the jobs available or whether we are distributing govt handouts/ basic income, immigration always and only increases the difficulty of both the jobs and the govt benefits sides of that discussion.
What are heat maps? A 1980s Predator-vision mash-up with web analytics?
Andy Rubin, Android Founder Launching Essential Smartphone
It's possible they could extend negotiations. As long as the EU and UK parliaments both agree to do that, they can do whatever they like, as they can just change the law to support whatever they're trying to do.

Whether there will be enough public support to do that is another matter entirely. Perhaps there will be another general election or referendum which will muddy the waters.

If the last year has taught us anything, it's that the world is a very uncertain place right now, and all predictions are worthless.
Has anyone tried using Electron to make a desktop version of their game? I think this is a great way to make games: release them on the web to see what kind of traction you get and than release a desktop version with Electron!
What libertarians can learn from the fed. government
> And the next time there's a changing of the guard the protections will be put back in place, so I can't see how ISPs are going to bet on selling this information as a viable long-term business strategy.

I wouldn't bet on it. All the discussion about politics and policy leave out the fact that the GOP now controls 33 state assemblies. 1 more power grab, they will be able it invoke it. They won't have the 38 needed to ram through changes without opposition, but there's a good chance they will attempt to put in legal guards against the Democrats from undoing their policies.
You're right that the tech is probably there now.

But you need some user testing, and maybe some ML.

I mean, the machine needs to train enough to know that when the user types "string.len" they really mean "size(string)" and it can't just follow the alphabet anymore.
Almost every Linux WM let's you disable borders on certain windows. That's what I do on firefox.
Local people's congresses are directly elected. Higher levels up to the National People's Congress, are indirectly elected by the level below.

So imagine you vote for town council. The town councils in your county elect a county council, the county councils elect a state legislature, and the state legislatures elect Congress.

Elections for local people's congress are - for China - fairly open. There are 50-100% more candidates than seats. But candidates are in practice only nominated by the CP and related organizations. But the point is, you can choose between a couple of alternative CP picks, rather than having a single CP pick imposed upon you. A little bit like elections in Iran, I guess. That's not wide open elections like in the West, but it's not nothing.

Elections are more centrally controlled the higher up in the hierarchy you go, but there is always some wiggle room.
Someone did. Or faked one. IIRC it was active for a few days but was told in clear terms to stop or be banned.

Somewhat related: I have been using the HN bot on Telegram. That way I could even catch a glimpse of wildly popular stories that have been flagged of the site :-)
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Mercator is the default projection for most schools in the USA.
Each British homeowner should be independent. A man's house is his castle. The could all be lords of their own empire but band together when needed to fight common enemies. Perhaps they could all group together money to help pay for common services like roads etc.
You could say the same thing about terrorist attacks. The effect of hate crimes goes far beyond the deaths of the individuals involved.

The suggestion that we shouldn't worry about hate crimes until they're a leading cause of death for members of minority groups presumably doesn't deserve a response. Even in the Jim Crow south, it's not as if a majority of black people died from being lynched.

It's quite silly to suggest that I'm 'fearmongering' merely by referencing something that's already all over the news. I don't think my mention of this incident deep within an HN thread is likely to cause anyone to be more frightened than they already are.
> I wonder to what extent this is driven at the level of the algorithm.

Almost entirely.

Most programming diff algorithms operate on a line-by-line basis. That means that a single character change in a line marks the whole line as changed. For prose, a single 'line' is usually a paragraph, so it's pretty obvious why they don't work well. You might check out gnu `wdiff` for what a word-by-word diff could look like. I haven't really looked into the area deeply, so I don't know what the state of the art is.
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A fun game to play with a co-worker is "what articles would you click on the homepage?" I just did that yesterday. My co-worker knew every link I'd opened (without looking at my screen) and I couldn't figure out most of his.
The paragraph after the heading 'Why This Matters' sort of addresses the fact that it is anecdotal and how it might still have significance.

Personally I find the article does read a bit like scaremongering propaganda.
Ericsson presents focused business strategy
I would argue that the full impact of what is possible wasn't very visible until certain companies got caught doing MITM advertising injections and other questionable tactics (eg Verizon; Googling suggests HN started noticing them and others circa 2014 or so).

As far as "simply blowing the situation out of proportion because Republicans did it", it has been pretty obvious that Republicans have been aligned with the telco / big cable companies (as opposed to content companies) for a while. Maybe some are surprised and shocked, but personally I have no problem with this action highlighting that there are differences between current political parties beyond the usual social politics and political memes.
Brave has the same problem. I think it's a problem with Electron that makes doing that difficult.
Is that income tax or corporate tax?

The UK has incredibly generous tax breaks for new companies. SEIS must be the most generous in the world, which for investments of up to £150k allows you to write 50% of the investment off directly against your tax bill and a further 25% if it fails. So in reality, you get a 75% reduction in exposure.

Combine this with R&D tax credits and it is a very tax efficient place to run a small tech startup.
I just released Nbvcxz 1.4.0 (https://github.com/GoSimpleLLC/nbvcxz/releases/tag/1.4.0)
which with the help of the community, now supports 8 different languages.

I crowd sourced translations through Reddit /r/translator, by asking for help with two specific translations (Spanish and French). I also asked for help on /r/java for any languages others may be able to help translate to, and others jumped in and offered translations to a bunch of different languages (Russian, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Afrikaans, and Hungarian).
95% of the time I only read comments. People usually insert quotes from the article and discuss them right away. And it is much more valuable to read comments because there are a lot of smart people commenting who work in related fields.
Make-sure-people-are-not-trying-to-sneak-invisible-characters
This whole damn thing spawns from the lack of competition with ISPs. If consumers had more than 1 or 2 options, we could choose with our money. I don't think the solution is to regulate the industry, but our privacy should certainly be protected by our fucking useless government.
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Here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-re...

Here's the full text:

> Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission relating to “Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services”.

> Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission relating to “Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services” (81 Fed. Reg. 87274 (December 2, 2016)), and such rule shall have no force or effect.
It's definitely too popular to blame everything on middle-aged white guys. It's sad that even bloomberg is jumping on the bandwagon.
Windows 10 has a similar feature called Night Light. I have it set to Sunset/Sunrise. The $49 Kindle Fire has a similar feature.

I appreciate the work f.lux did, but this is going to be a core feature of every OS now, and none of them bought their tech to do it. That is a tough spot to be in, but it is probably time to start winding the project down.
My personal, subjective, feeling is that the Racket offers an easier entry path (docs, libraries and library discovery, relative non-cruftiness, package management via raco, IDE, etc.). I also like that Racket is a little more biased toward FP than CL. I'm told the macro system is ahead of CL's, though I can't say I deeply grok macros.

The Racket community always feels friendly and welcoming to beginners, which is something the CL community hasn't always been.

I do like that CL has a standard with multiple implementations. That said, the standard feels old, and you can quickly run into libraries that were built with less-than-universal compatibility. Things like tail recursion in CL exist commonly in implementations, but not in the spec.

I've tried to carve out a bit of hobby time for lisps over the past few years. I started with CL and fought with the tooling and I could see the power, but I never felt great about my abilities with it. I tried Clojure and periodically use it as a stand-in for Java, and in that sense it is good. But these days, I've been playing in Racket, and it feels like the lisp I wish I'd started with.
1.86B as of December.
Brain Teaser: Permutation Palindrome
Regardless what he believes, whether it is in line with the mainstream western values or not, it hurts the inclusion and tolerance to expel members based on that. One's taste, political views (regardless how extreme it is) should not be a subject of investigation in a professional community.
Thank you really appreciate the compliment. We hope we've managed to bring what we've learnt from outputting HTML5 games into the editor itself.
I knew this argument would be made.

Why should you believe me instead of the people writing APFS? You shouldn't. I'm stating my opinion on the matter. I'm allowed to disagree with them, and you're allowed to disagree with me, but "Apple thinks it's OK" is not going to convince me. If it was, then I wouldn't have formed a contrary opinion in the first place, since it's so obvious.

Further, we don't even know if the experts are confident. It's entirely possible this decision was made above them and forced on them. It's also entirely possible it wasn't, we just don't know.

In any case, if everything goes smoothly (and I hope it will), that doesn't disprove me. It could mean that you're right, or it could mean that I'm right and they got lucky. It could also mean that some people are losing data, but not visibly enough and not in large enough number to make the news.

You say "except, at worse, for some edge cases affecting tiny minorities/uncommon setups" as if that would justify Apple's approach. That's exactly the kind of thing I'm worried about here. I have no doubt it'll work for the common case. 99.9% of users will not suffer any problems. But I don't see why pushing APFS now as opposed to in a few years is worth the risk of that 0.1%.
Creating a Landing Page with Google Sheets as a Database
Working link: https://www.thememo.com/2017/03/29/doreming-app-japanese-fin...
Hey, author of blog post here :)

I know about the sprite system in abstract, but I haven't tinkered with it yet (nor do I know enough to start tinkering with it yet). I'm still trying to decide whether I want to go down that route or build a ray casting engine / do some 3D stuff, since most of my other work is 3D related.

Regardless, this post was meant more to cater to the "I know nothing and want to feel like I'm making progress in 15 minutes" crowd.
Here are sources of old versions: https://vivaldi.com/source/
How to start a peer group
Continuous Deployment of a Dockerized Node.js Application to AWS ECS
Executive Order Threatens to Wreck Earth as a Livable Planet for Humans
There's Parmesus Vasalgel that is going through trials in the US, based on this tech. Also, a startup whose name I forget is developing the same kind of tech. They were part of YC Fellowship Batch 3.
Something I've wondered for a while: how many things actually use Dijkstra's algorithm, in practice? I know how it works, and I've implemented shortest-path graph algorithms a few times, but it's always been fairly easy to find at least some kind of admissable heuristic, so why would you implement Dijkstra over A-star? (edit: stupid hacker news markup wont let me escape the asterisk)

Obviously, when your graph has some sort of geometric interpretation (i.e. a map or something), euclidian distance is the obvious choice (or Manhattan distance if you're on a grid, etc.), but even for relatively abstract things you might use graph search for you can usually figure out something. Like, if you're trying to find the shortest solution to a sliding block puzzle using a graph algorithm (where each node connects to all other nodes you can get to in one move), you can use some sort heuristic based on the number of inversions, or whatever. Even if your heuristic is kinda bad, it's almost certainly better than no heuristic at all.

Dijkstra's algorithm has always seemed to me to be the "canonical academic shortest-path algorithm that always works", but in reality everyone uses A-star instead, because for all practical purposes it's way better, and not much more complicated to implement.
S.J.Res. 34: A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission relating to “Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services”.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/sjres34
I sympathize, after getting my PhD I went into the private sector. I often have side projects that could turn into publications, but massaging something through the publications process is a part-time job itself, and there's definitely quite a bit of who-you-know that can muddy things up.
I use The Old Reader as a news aggregator and my own emacs mode to read it via API. In fact I read HN in emacs :) At least when I'm home.
Access to the 2017 videos seems to be restricted. Is there a registration page?