skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's almost hilarious how cheap and bad the Xfinity modem/router combo is. Any kind of configuration via the web interface is a dice roll on whether or not the settings actually take. If you're lucky, your configuration changes get applied, but don't expect them to be displayed.

I guess whatever little money it cost to build went into the annoyingly bright white LEDs on the front of the case.
Ikutaro Kakehashi: Roland founder and music pioneer dies aged 87
I think they're assuming a difference between focused productive work and the sort of musing that happens during a walk, which seems fair to me.
Addictive or not, I think this statement is a sign that the authors didn't do much of an investigation:

>It is normal behavior that, while perhaps in many cases a waste of time, is not damaging or disruptive of lives in the way drug or alcohol use can be.

I've seen many people who ended up with serious relationship issues due to spending as much time as they did playing video games. Perhaps that was a sign of a deeper problem in the relationship, but in the cases I saw it didn't seem to be. When they were away from the games the relationship seemed great.

Likewise I've seen people calling in sick, coming in late after a late night of playing video games, etc. and ending up with work and longer-term career issues as a result of spending many of their waking hours playing games.

It can get well beyond "unwinding after work" and really start to affect your life. The same can be said for other activities, but to dismiss the idea that people who play games or do those other activities obsessively aren't harming their lives and couldn't use some kind of help seems disingenuous.
My speedometer goes "up to" 180mph, but my car will certainly never get there. Is Volkswagen guilty of fraud? (Well, not in this particular case...)

They said 4WD, not "up to" 4WD. OTOH, they only say "up to" n mpbs.

If you want guaranteed minimum speeds, you can pay an order of magnitude more for a business class connection.
How do you deal with spam? This is the one and only reason why I still use Gmail. Many years ago I tried IPCop plus a trainable spam filter addon; it worked well but required constant attention/tweaking because spam is a moving target, so in the end I gave up.
>The US economy exists to serve the people of the US, and GDP isn't an end to itself.

Those two points, really, have become increasingly hard to argue with my friends the last couple years.
The best thing anyone can do is swap out the junky cable modem + WiFi router combos they rent to you. They're horrible under standard usage, bad when lots of clients are connected, bad wifi range, low memory, require frequent reboots, etc.

For about $70 (about 5mos of rental charges) you can get a Surfboard barebones Docsis 3 modem that will vastly outperform whatever junk they rent out.

After that you could get a TP-Link Archer C7 for sub $80 that will have good range and performance for that price point.

So within about the first year you've broken even with vastly superior components and you'll be able to take them with you to any cable provider you wind up using in the future.

I get why most people don't do this, they don't even know it's possible, but I'm amazed when colleagues in the industry are still running the company hardware.
Liberate from the Office – Go Remote Jobs
Slow down there. Where's this hostility coming from? I would rather not give my phone number to companies either.
Why not call for a technician? I mean if you're using their equipment and all, at least give them the chance to fix it.
Make sure you take into account taxes.

Retirement investment plans such as 401ks and IRAs have significant tax benefits. The catch is that they can't be withdrawn from before age 59 without huge penalties.

So if the goal is to retire early, one needs to use regular investment vehicles, which are subject to capital gains (15%),
>> Quit your job, hire your non-technical friends.

Hiring a bunch of inexperienced people is not a good idea. Having larger companies sprinkle them around the workforce is better. Also, larger companies are more likely to need enough people to have a regular training program.
Comcast's business practices aren't great, but I will give them credit. I get every Mbps that they claim I am supposed to get. This is plugged into my router (Turris Omnia) and my cable modem (self-owned Arris SB6190).

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/13090043
One critical thing I don't feel the article answers is why you would want to move to .NET, what the advantages are over Node.js, TypeScript et al.

I don't mean this as criticism, I'm working on some Node/TS projects and I'm very interested to hear the strengths .NET has over Node.
telnet bbs.l0pht.com # worked in 1997!
If Netflix turning free would produce the kind of business or revenue that you imply, why haven't they started doing it?

I think the appeal of Netflix is that they aren't beholden to advertisers.
I'll counter Jeffrey Martens' anecdotal evidence with my own. I've had Comcast in my last 3 residences, leasing equipment provided by Comcast. In each case, performance was as advertised.
Not sure why this was downvoted.
The scary nearly foot long gravity knives that spawned the 50s NYC ban aren't sold anymore.

The word "gravity knife" has slowly become any knife you are carrying seen by the NYPD. I am being slightly flippant but not really.

The law is completely ridiculous, there are tons of cases of brown people receiving prison terms because they were carrying a knife for work.

There are actually a lot of stabbings in NYC daily, so politicians are not motivated to repeal or clean up the language in the gravity knife law.

In 2016 the ny state assembly and the ny state senate passed a bill to repeal the NYC gravity knife law, but Governor Cuomo vetoed it.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/how-a-50s-era-new-york-knif...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/opinion/new-yorks-outdate...
> "I speak 6 human languages"

Impressive!
On the subject of class actions: it's most likely impossible.

In their terms of service they will undoubtedly state that you agree to go to arbitration rather than court, and they have you explicitly waive your right to a class action.

Also the terms of service makes it very clear that the speeds they quote on their ads are essentially entirely theoretical.
I just decided to jump on the cord cutting bandwagon. My bill was ~$180 and I was able to get it down to $97 for the "best Internet". My cost for PlayStation Vue is $29.99 plus $15 for HBO. It streams to the PS4 and Amazon Fire TV. I am very happy with the change simply because I am not giving Comcast more money than I have to.
I really wish someone would. I know too many folks who've been laid off after an otherwise very successful run, and will not be interviewed by new companies because they fall sort in the credential category. It's enraging, frankly, because they meet and usually exceed all other requirements and yet the credential is what stops the hire.

I hear theories that cite insurance (that power company case) and other reasons, and I think they all kind of stink. It's as if higher education is more of a gatekeeper than mobilizer. (In some industries.)
Gah. This stuff makes me pessimistic, along with UBI, because it essentially requires the middle class to be hollowed out even more.
"Colour" overcomplicates what could be a simple issue. There are bits that describe how to turn it from random data into copyrighted material (eg sound, visuals). This is easy to see. Imagine you took some copyrighted material and encrypted it. Then you posted that online. Without the public key, the file would be useless, and you wouldn't be violating copyright. Now imagine you posted the decryption key. Now anyone can play the file, and you are infringing copyright.

This can be easily applied to the monolith case. If you take a chunk of data out of /dev/random, then this of course is not copyrighted. If you xor it with some copyrighted work, the result is also not copyrighted. If you post either of those files online, you haven't broken any laws. If you post both online, you still haven't broken a law. If you tell everyone to go xor those two files together, then you have suddenly infringed the creators copyright, by allowing others unpermitted access to copyrighted works.
>Nobody needs combat experience in Baghdad or first-hand economic knowledge of Houston to know that Texas would have no chance of succeeding in their civil unrest if it did happen under your feared scenario.

Uhhh. I'd check the confidence at the door, here. Places in Iraq (and Afghanistan, where I was) were full of folks who were basically peasants and they utterly baffled us in their commitment and ability to make war. I would absolutely dread fighting an insurgency against a bunch of well armed, well educated, well trained, and freakishly devoted Texans.
I'm curious how effective this law is. What is the threshold for "not hiding commercial purpose"? It doesn't seem like a very high one from that translation (though that could just be a language thing.)

Especially when you consider targeting kids, is the result of this law actually effective in making it clear to them that something is an advertisement?
All examples of someone with power having leisure time ends badly?
http://www.joemygod.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/adams3-66...

http://68.media.tumblr.com/9a81b7212d3add563b3bed8ea0f65d87/...

https://pics.onsizzle.com/you-retweeted-scott-adams-scott-ad...

https://68.media.tumblr.com/1091e75e29ae2864783db266603252a9...

He gives off infowars vibes, imo..
I have a horrific road accident from 10 years ago seared into my memory. Shared it on this reddit thread along with 100's of other stories of witness to trauma: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9jsz6/tonight_i_...
Node-clam-engine – native bindings for the clamav engine
FOREST: An API for Quantum Computing in the Cloud
This video is at the top of reddit, but it doesn't show any real evidence of doctored videos.

Although google prevented affiliate monetisation on the video as seen on the affiliate earning graph, they probably have some intermediate step whereby they still show ads but the affiliate doesn't get paid for them.

Secondly, where the same video was shown with multiple different ads and the same view count - youtube video view counts dont increase in real time. You can push refresh on a video a few times and you will likely get 3 different ads with the same viewcount recorded.

I wish they were doctored images, but I don't think this is evidence of that.

Also, when did social justice trolling become a business model for the WSJ? First pewdiepie, now this?
She probably had an old DOCSIS 1 modem from a few years ago. You could only get 30MBPS with that. They usually tell you that on the phone when you try to upgrade, but they've been giving free upgrades without you asking in SF. I had to buy a DOCSIS 3.0 modem to get the best speeds.
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I need sports though, that's the problem.
Paying someone to pick up litter or replant trees would add more value to the world than many an adtech business.
TP-Link is Chinese crap, please stop recommending it. Thanks.

Ubiquiti is fine, and Debian-based, to boot.
Switching to 5 GHz instead of 2.4 GHz has made this magnitude of difference for me in the past.

Today, at home, I haven't had dedicated internet connectivity for 4 years. I log in to the xfinitywifi SSID that some of my neighbors in my apartment complex are probably broadcasting via my parents' comcast account and get good speeds. I'm on it right now and speedtest.net shows 30 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up. Plenty enough for my purposes, including Netflix.

I switch to tethering on my AT&T device if needed for 15-25 GB 4G data each month; the "unlimited" plans offered by carriers today don't provide more than 10 GB of high speed data in contrast. Not sure how much longer this setup will work, but I plan on continuing it for as long as I can; the cost savings really add up.

A side-effect of this that I've noticed is increased operational awareness on my part. Comcast MITMs any unencrypted HTTP traffic and injects in a "powered by xfinitywifi" banner that is a great reminder to not trust the network. :)
Yeah I own my own modem/router forced Comcast to setup my own stuff rather than rent from them but I made sure it was a Comcast compatible modem.
Only slightly related: I just rendered that on an hp chromebook. Computers these days are mad powerful.
What in your opinion is the most important missing extension at a high level?
And now evidence the the WSJ faked snapshots of videos to prove that ads were showing on offensive content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM49MmzrCNc
Vast majority of these apprenticeship programs first require that you have a 2 yr degree from some technical institute though, and there's very few that will hire you based on high school grades and agree to pay for your education with the exception of some power companies. Seems if you're crazy enough to be a powerline tech they will pay to train you.
My takeaway from his talk was a wide range of locks were vulnerable to bumping, including locks that were highly resistant to other attacks, including "some locks that I would never open without damaging it ever" and "most of our favorite locks" (ie. otherwise truly excellent locks).

So to claim that locks that are difficult to pick are necessarily difficult to bump runs counter to the findings expressed in this talk. In fact, the findings are quite the opposite, as many locks that are difficult to pick because of the tight tolerances and high quality engineering are actually easier to bump than locks which are easy to pick.
I did the same thing, swapped out an xfinity provided cable modem for my own. I definitely have better speeds now. My modem supports more channels
I wonder how much of that has to do with their providing "xfinity" wifi to anyone nearby who wants to share your cable line?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfinity#Xfinity_WiFi
I was meaning more of metaphorical constructs of blue and red rather than just the political jargon and probably should have used quotes. I'm an army brat and former DoD IC contractor and know very well how distributed personnel get.
1997 was ‘tipping point’ for ice caps around Greenland’s edges
Just did the opposite. So far so good.
Research Paper: http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14730
>The chance of someone 'stealing' your ideas and turning them into the next Google or Facebook are pretty much non existent.

Of the companies you listed fully 50% were founded as the direct result of ripping off someone's idea and starting a company.
Calling it a training problem is like framing it as a need to simply "raise consciousness" - something which I feel tends to backfire
The people who are making these decisions are precisely the billionaire one percent that has had there agenda disrupted because people are getting information from alternative media that challenges the narrative of the mainstream corporate press.

They would love to get back to the days when they could just throw crap over the wall onto the TV and people had not other sources of information or any way to collectively discuss its validity.
You also need to keep in mind if you bought your own modem that you may need to upgrade the firmware (or worse case, a new modem) to get advertised speeds. This generally is advertised as 8x4 channels or better. My old surfboard tops out at 150Mbps.
I don't know what Searles is smoking (ok, actually, I do -- it's a strong mix called "Remember When..."), but big, battleship "trusted" brands cheat at digital in ways that are every bit as sleazy as adtech. The big guys game the system and rip off sponsors by buying fake traffic and fake engagements to inflate their campaign metrics and suck more money from advertisers.

So yeah, everything that he says about how bad adtech is is true, but the idea that if everyone would just go back to doing big branding-oriented media buys on "trusted sites" then the fraud would magically disappear -- that's nonsense on stilts.
I think your standard for huge variation in latency could use some updating. A factor of 2-4 increase over baseline latency would be a huge improvement for many terrestrial WiFi systems. And services like Gogo in-flight WiFi have been shown to degrade to over 10 seconds of latency when congested.
Service Deployment As an API Startup
Right now we have multiples cloud providers who lead us with the issue to choose one, so we have our scripts to setting up in that particular provider we choosed.

What if a service let you choose whatever provider, services or infrastructure you want?

Every cloud provider have something similar, AWS marketplace, DigitalOcean one apps, etc. But those does only give us only simpler apps (wordpress, ghost, etc).

I don't know if there are something similar, but I'm building a service to do something I've named (Automation as an API / Setup as a API) with no particular objective to force that names.

The service will let users to choose the software and the infrastructure that adapt to their needs (multiples vps, load balancing, vpn, etc). Then the service will generate and API endpoint with the payload information to use, so their can use it in their software, pipelines, or share it to let others try that setup.
I think the equipment would not be anywhere near as expensive if it didn't have to protect people. Case in point: drones.
Malaysia has a dual legal system so any sharia law there doesn't apply to non-muslim (40% of the population).

I also don't think the comparison to mainland China is warranted. Mainland China is far worse when it comes to censorship and to tightly controlling anyone hosting data on servers in China. I used to have a company in China and for example if you host user submitted data that are publicly viewable you had to have a system in place to censor anything critical of the government. And, if I remember correctly since I left, companies are required to get and validate a user's phone number when registering to be able to track any user identity if requested. This is way worse than Malaysia.

Even in term of blocking, Malaysia only ever blocks by blocking a the DNS level (same as most European countries), they don't have anything equivalent to the great firewall and they don't prevent users from using DNS servers outside of Malaysia.

Malaysia is definitely not a perfect country, the government is corrupted and in a truly democratic country Najib would not have kept power nor would Anwar have been sent to prison but it's much more free and much closer to a democracy than China.
I used my own modem from the start with Comcast (bought specifically for their service), but after about 6 months I was having problems with the modem being disconnected multiple times per day, and sometimes unable to reconnect for hours at a time.

Comcast support insisted that my modem was unsupported, despite it being present on their supported modems list. After about 3 calls I gave up and started researching on my own, and eventually discovered that some of the incoming signal strengths were way off what they should be. Crossed my fingers and checked the box outside the house, and yup, Comcast had wired it up with a single cheap 6 way splitter. Replaced it with a quality 2 way splitter, and now I can at least get decent service for the absurd price I pay.
I think the a general human pattern has been established that high unemployment leads to civil unrest, especially when you look in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Sure, you could say that their society is much different than ours, but that difference is shrinking, and I think claiming we are somehow exceptional requires some evidence, not the other way around. (Now that we're facing significant headwinds over the last 30 years, we're seeing our society becoming more violent via shootings, terrorism, and corrections, etc.)
The Linux network stack is perfectly capable of simulating bufferbloat and other network degradation, in either direction. This article simply fails to mention the relevant modules.
From Core specifically? Any additional insight?
FWIW Comcast claims this will not affect the speed [0]. At the low speeds in the OP's article, this is likely the case.

[0] https://www.xfinity.com/support/internet/xfinity-wifi-hotspo...
Or much simpler: Own your property.

Once you own your place, you don't have to pay rent, you can live on $500 a month. That may be covered by the unemployment help, so you don't have to work either and don't pay taxes.

Bonus: if there is a spare room in your place, you can rent it and you'll make enough to cover a lot of expenses and save much money.
This is a thing I would kind of want to do, but I've never bothered to figure out how. Like how will I know if it's a compatible modem, or better than what's there? How do you configure it?

So those are my reasons.
Debord and the Postmodern Turn: New Stages of the Spectacle (1998?)
Good question, and I'd be curious to know...but I'm not really sure.

My sense of most libraries doing that is more anecdotal than quantitative. Mostly just what I've heard from librarians and my experiences signing up for library cards various places that had some sort of relevant T&C clause or opt-in process.
> Which just screws over anybody in a rural area

I actually live in a rural area. But I can see your point because I can't convince my wife to give up her car. We live about 2 km outside of a small town, so it's still close enough to walk to the grocery store, bar, restaurant, etc. We're also about 2 km from the bus terminal. It costs about $25 round trip (each) to get to the nearest city and we'll go every month or two. Expensive, but still quite a bit cheaper than a car.

There are more rural locations than this so I can see the need (especially if you are a farmer, or something similar). Dangerous driving is more or less accepted in society, but if you depended on your license and had it routinely removed (as opposed to fines) when you acted poorly, I think it would go a long way to improving the situation.

But we also need to improve support for people who choose not to drive. I grew up in Canada and it is much harder to live the lifestyle I live now. Not impossible, but you have to give up a lot more.
"if we split it 30 ways among the entire tribe we'll all feel sick but each gain 10 calories..."

Probably not as mushrooms are very low on calories ...
It's a problem, but I'm not sure it's a big enough problem to seek out an alternative architecture altogether.

Bullets probably would be simple structs in a shooty game, not full blown entities.

The next step beyond that simple approach is to store the components outside the entity. E.g. using SoA that Jon's new language has support for.

In my game (http://moonman.io) i use an approach similar to that in the bitsquid engine, with static polymorphism and crtp and other nonsense. It works but i admit is probably overkill.
This video is distrubing, and it makes me wonder how Stoll ever got a TED talk. He seems to be severely hyperactive, have a lot of trouble focusing, staying on track, or remembering what he's supposed to be talking about. He also seems to have boundary issues and is insensitive to social cues or norms. The performance is reminiscent of someone on some sort of stimulant or maybe in a manic phase.

I have trouble imagining how he could have enough focus to write a book or be productive in any way while in such a state. Was he always like this?
> Beliefs by their very nature can be very hard to live by. Should we remove them all? Where do we draw the line?

A fair question, and one we must each ultimately answer for ourselves.

I'm glad your choices worked out for you. I had a number of sexual relationships before I got married. While there are certainly some particular encounters and entanglements I regret -- more the ones where I caused pain than where I felt pain -- there were also several I look back on fondly. Even though we weren't right for each other for the long run, we loved, we shared, we grew, and they are part of who I am now. I love my wife very much, but I'm still glad to have known others.