skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this has anything to do with net neutrality and much more with the absence of geographic barriers.

> 1. Massive monopolies which essentially control 95% of all tech (google, facebook, amazon, microsoft, apple, etc)

Facebook and Microsoft are able to leverage network effects. A social network were your friends aren't is not very good independent of the features, similar with Microsoft and the available software. I dont't think, that there is an effect from net neutrality at play here.

> 2. An internet where every consumer assumes everything should be free.

This is mostly about the absence of a good micro-payment system, plus the internet forces in many relevant areas everybody to compete with free. (The free newspaper is just a click away, same with youtube etc.)

> 3. An internet where there's only enough room for a handfull of players in each market globally i.e. if you have a "project-management app" there will not be a successfull one for each country much less hundreds for each country.

Is that the case? In cases were you can leverage scale effects certainly, Google has the largest database of websites and as a result the best search engine. Similar for facebook. However, is the relevant metric youtube or is the relevant metric number of people who can live from youtube. Same with Amazon market place and ebay. (Not really arguing either way, I am not really sure what the answer is.)

> 4. Huge barriers of entry for any new player into many of the markets (no one can even begin competing with google search for less than 20 million).

Compare that to the barriers of entry for a shipyard or hardware manufacturing.

> I think there's still a lot of potential to open up new markets with different policies that would make the internet a much better place for both consumers and entrepreneurs - especially the small guys. I'm just not 100% sure maintaining net-neutrality is the best way to help the little guy and bolster innovation. Anyone have any ideas how we could alleviate some of the above mentioned problems?

Yes, however no net neutrality should benefit the large guys. I can put a video on my server, but I can certainly not negotiate with all the ISPs that they should deliver my video. So in the absence of net neutrality youtube has an additional lever to compete against me. I don't really see any scenario where absence of net neutrality benefits the upstart competition instead of the incumbent.

However, the platforms we see today look in many ways more similar to either infrastructure or states than to competition, so an rather interesting question is, how does one ensure that they are not evil. (To borrow an old Google slogan.)
This blog has a few performance numbers based on a NYC taxi rides dataset, and some setup notes. Might be relevant for HNers here. http://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-rides-nvidia-pas...

I have nothing to do with the blog. Just sharing.
I'm not a particular fan of GTD (or time management systems in general). However, that was one thing from David Allen's book that stuck with me. You can waste a huge amount of energy or attention procrastinating about some simple item that's fast and straightforward to just do.

I'm not perfect about it, but it's good advice.
Cutting of dogs ears or tail is not ok, even illegal somewhere , but somehow it's ok to do similar things with your baby, because of ... because of religion? Might be my dog is Pastafarian. Is it ok then to cut of his ears?
> brainwashed

No but the parents who did it may have been.

> subjugated and deprived of rights as children

Those who were mutilated without giving consent were harmed in a way that could be significant. I certainly would not consent to it as an adult.
I'll be moving from NYC to Atlanta soon and the quality of pizza has been one of my worries (stupid, I know, but it's the little things).

Super happy to find out good NYC-style pizza can be produced there. I always assumed the high humidity will mess things up.

Now if someone can figure out how to make decent bagels down there...
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Profession/position: Software engineer (web) - CTO < 10 employees and father

Workday:

- [6:30] Wake up and get ready

- Check my emails and schedule for anything urgent and deal with them if there is

- [7:30] Get my daughter ready for daycare

- [8:00] Drive her to daycare

- [8:30] Return to my home office

- Usually spend 15 minutes hunting HN and RSS for things that might be relevant to my business. I skim titles mostly using keyboard shortcuts in Feedly... it goes quick

- [9:00] Make sure everyone on the team has clear objectives and is not blocked

- [9:30] Create a checklist of the top 3 things I want to get done today and 2 nice to haves (sometimes it is business, sometimes it is HR, usually it is code or ops)

- Deal with the tier 2 priority emails

- Proceed to knock things off that checklist

- [12:00] Lunch

- Hacker news and RSS

- More checklist items

- Usually no more than a half hour of meetings a day

- [4:45] Daily scrum with the team. No more than 15 minutes

- More checklist items

- [6:00] Wife comes home with our daughter

- [7:00] Cook / eat dinner (my wife watches our child, I do the cooking)

- [8:00] Play with my daughter for a bit and read her some stories (she's a year and a half)

- Handle tier 3 emails if I'm feeling up to it

- [9:30] Wait for my daughter to go to sleep

- Watch a TV show on HBO or Showtime with my wife

- [10:30] Half hour workout

- [11:00] Shower

- [11:30] Bed

- Repeat
> laptop unsearched

I'd imagine your phone as much, if not more, info on it than a laptop. Plus it has the ability to track your location and everything bit of data sent and received. And who know what was installed on it.

I'd agree with the two phones, but they phone they "searched" should be thrown into a garbage can
> in America, the pro-life nature where a big part of our insurance expenses goes towards saving premature newborn babies

Wait, what? So why is infant mortality so abysmal then?

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-infant-mortality-rate-worse-...
There's a reasonably large body of evidence that a (small) increase in the minimum wage to e.g. 40% of median local income doesn't have many negative employment effects (or if it does, they are very small). That being said, minimum wage is not a particularly good way to decrease inequality since it's not very well targeted and the negative effects it does have (higher prices, less employer training, etc) seem to mostly hurt the poor. A much better policy would be increasing the EITC.
Still happens today on modern social dance floors (read: not the nightclub). You don't want to be stomping your feet on every step unless it's intentional (such as an inflection on a certain part of a song). Otherwise, you're quiet with the feet.

It's actually a lot of fun to be graceful! Quiet with the feet, loud with the dance.
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I live in northern Spain, and I have a website that entering my SS number I can schedule an appointment tomorrow morning (14 hours from now). For FREE. And with good equipment, nothing to envy to private healthcare.
> There is compelling evidence that male circumcision reduces the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men by approximately 60%.

Saying there is evidence is not the same as evidence. AFAIK, this study was debunked because the result was not causal - it was that different class/cultural patterns among the sub-populations of the country were responsible, not the circumcision. But, there was already a massive stream of funding (Bill Gates included) for adult circumcision based on that faulty reasoning, and now it's too late to turn the ship around.
Are you sure that is not backwards? Your parent post would suggest that correcting the mistake is in fact poor etiquette, right?
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There's a myth around scaling [1]. Actually, it's almost like a cognitive bias. We assume that we can usually use the same structure as we scale. Because of this bias, we haven't thought enough about how to make bigger structural transitions normal.

The GP points at the transition between the quick & dirty architecture and the architecture that handles Google-scale, but those aren't the only good stable points for a system.

[1] https://michaelfeathers.silvrback.com/the-myth-of-scaling
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There is no reason to pierce infant's ears. It can be easily done when one gets older.

But your comparison is flawed, because pierced ear holes, if not filled, will easily heal over time, while the circumcision is non-reversible (foreskin will never grow back).
I don't think "we" knew that.
considering I am HPV+

Uh... you and the rest of the world. You sound like you have some emotional angst about this, so I'll tell you what I learned a few years ago I wrote an HPV epidemiology simulator for a certain large pharmaceutical company (based on the best published studies at the time).

80% of the sexually active population will get at least one strain of HPV in their lifetime. >40% of people in their early 20s have at least one strain of HPV right now. Most people clear HPV (it becomes undetectable) in 1-2 years (mean of 8 months); the cancer cases appear to be the small percentage of unlucky ones whose immune systems don't. There's some debate whether HPV goes dormant or people just get reinfected. It's a hard theory to test because humans are constantly getting exposed to HPV.

Being "HPV+" is not like being "HIV+". It is not rare or permanent, and if you're out of your teens you can pretty much assume that 2/3 of the people you meet are also "HPV+". Unfortunately some strains increase the probability of certain cancers, and it's very much worth vaccinating against them EARLY. But you pretty much can't avoid HPV unless you become a hermit.
> print source code, review, & mark up in red

Can you expand on this one?

What code are you printing? Other developer's code for code review? And to be clear, you mean a printer right? That paper comes out of?

Also: I like that you only check email twice. I should look into that.
Another fun/easy-to-follow intro to basic Reed–Solomon coding

[...] by the end of this post, we will have written a complete working implementation of a simple variant of Reed–Solomon coding, not entirely unlike what is used in [OpenStack] Swift itself. No prior knowledge will be assumed except a working knowledge of high-school algebra and the Python programming language.

https://www.swiftstack.com/blog/2015/04/20/the-foundations-o...
I don't see a problem with companies writing tutorials and OSS libraries to share with the community. If there is an economic incentive for documentation to be written and free software to be created then what's the problem really?

If the article is blatant self-promotion then I could see the problem with that and those articles don't get anywhere on HN/Reddit/etc so they won't rank well on Google either. But I've seen some high quality docs/libraries coming out of companies like that and it's a great thing.

The aren't responsible for developers doing poor implementations of JWT. And other developers equally have a voice such as the OP if they have a problem with the choice of technology they are promoting.
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I refuse to accept the conclusion that the GPL is anti-commercial or that it makes it more difficult to use code commercially. I think the companies who are indeed the vast majority, who think that the only way to commercialise software is to hide the source code and keep things secret are overall wrong.

When none of Google, Microsoft, Apple, or Facebook actually originate code under the GPL, all this does is further this conclusion that seems so unquestionable to you that the GPL is anti-commercial or restrictive or just something to hesitate about. What the big guys do the little guys believe. We need more free software, and we need to defend the proliferation of free software, and we need to protest against those who work against free software, who control our search results and the ads shown to us and the information collected about us behind the veil of secret source code.

I refuse to apologise for questioning Google's motives. Their GPL refusal, except when forced to, is not a good thing. If they wanted free software they would be doing things like pursuing the rampant GPL violations in Android devices or defending their copyleft against VMWare's attempts to circumvent Linux, not leave it to charities like SFC.
Law of supply and demand... lets just say its never very straightforward.
Why do you think net neutrality is a natural consequence of the free market? It seems like a completely orthogonal concept. It doesn't result in higher profits and it's not really a competitive advantage for ISPs.
I guess you have to just accept it if you have been circumcised, because you can't undo that. By you i mean anyone who has been circumcised. So this is like cognitive dissonance, you don't want to eat that cheese if you know that it can't be reached...
Well, it's a contemporary digest of a body of rules "far too numerous to cover in a single article", so there's surely a bit of survivorship bias at play here. Still some nice finds there, some of those that are still valid could deserve more recognition.
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This is very common in Latin American cultures. In Mexico, they literally do it at the hospital before you leave. (They don't do this in the U.S., but a good portion of Latin Americans - I'd wager majority - will get it done at six months.)
So.. advert for a shitty book by a bunch of psychologists.
Yes if it is leagal then yes, i dont think i have ever seen that in my country.
I imagine it isn't just a publicity stunt. From what I can guess, this is a multi-facet approach at divesting their core (route-planning) business. I think there are two distinct outcomes from this announcement.

1. New tools built from ground up to plan, schedule, and operate buses. I imagine there are a lot of efficiencies to be gained here, and they can probably resell these tools if it is successful. Automated, dynamic schedule, dispatch, even ticketing. There's a lot of old tech to be replaced/improved.

2. Integrating the data they gain from their app to find and operate profitable routes. One of the key issues of the London bus system is that people do not "tap off". This means there is limited information about how to best optimise TfL routes. While TfL can sample existing routes and have a good understanding of existing infrastructure, a problem lies in identifying new routes. Citymapper, through its apps, likely has a more intimate understanding of routes that are desirable. They have point to point data - even the data where people walk, as opposed to which stop they get on/off. They also don't have an obligation to serve unpopular routes whereas local governments (might) run buses at a loss in order to be accessible. This enables Citymapper to design and tailor routes specifically to be profitable routes that their customers desire.

3. The third outcome is just the outcome of doing both 1 and 2. By building their own bus operating system, they can prove the system themselves and make it even more enticing to potential buyers.

I'm very interested to see how this turns out and whether Citymapper will actually end up running real bus routes across London, and potentially other cities.

Just think about it - do you ever transfer during your commute? Would you prefer a route with less transfers and walking? This is the type of problem Citymapper can address. They have a wealth of data at their hands and are much less constrained by regulations. That said, there are several good reasons why public transit is almost always subsidised and I hope Citymapper is conscious of that.
Many people (including me) believe the problem isn't overblown. A common counterargument to your point is that humans have always had the ability to do work at higher abstraction levels than the machines replacing them. Scribes become unemployed but can retrain as typographers, press operators, digital layout artists and so on.

The problem comes when robots begin to perform these higher order tasks. What happens to individuals when they have no "higher" place to move into? What happens to society when automated replacement becomes commonplace?
Very interesting. I can imagine accounting for your time at 6 minute intervals is an acquired skill.

You mentioned you work on side projects in the evening. Are those projects related to law? Wondering what something like that would consist of.
> I certainly would not consent to it as an adult.

Nor would I. However, if I could go back in time and retroactively give my parents consent to do it when I wouldn't remember it, then I would.
Not in the next 3,5 years, no.
> I guess you wouldn't need to as long as the ISP market is competitive

How would it be competitive? If my ISP released its own Netflix and throttled my connection to Netflix to the point where Netflix seemed extremely slow but my ISP's version of Netflix was super fast, there would be no competition. My ISP would dominate.

> You might go to another competitor and convince them your product is good or your product can help/augment the service they are currently providing.

Do you mean go to another ISP? There aren't that many consumer ISPs around, so what happens when they've all made a deal with someone's Netflix, and a new company wants to revolutionize/reinvent their own Netflix? Now it's even harder for them to do so, because the existing players already have contracts to make themselves very fast and everyone else very slow.

Currently, this stuff can't happen (legally) due to NN, but if you remove NN, you enable this stuff, and you prevent new competition from coming up.
> Infrastructure which everyone else has access to.

Unless you think ISPs will simply block off many hosts, this is likely hyperbole.

More likely, certain services would be charged tolls upstream and others would be promoted with discounts.
Do you have any any evidence to back that claim up?
Thats for infection Rates of men during heterosexual intercourse. These are already low:
https://www.hivlawandpolicy.org/resources/heterosexual-risk-...

So you'd be cutting the rate from 8 in 10000 acts to 3 in 10000. its something but theres probably more efficient ways.
I work in a much more traditional industry than IBM, but I've recently been humored by management's resistance to remote work while hiring personnel in India to handle the "transactional" work.
> You remove Luther from the picture and reform changes pace and takes different route but but it still happens

Does it ?

If the pace and course of events were changed, perhaps the reformation would happen, albeit under a different name. Perhaps not.

A different leader might not have been so resolute or bold (as to pin the grievances on the cathedral door), might not have had the political support of the Elector of Saxony.
Certainly the conditions may have been present, but would individuals of sufficient character have been available to kindle change ?
It was fortuitous that Germany had both Luther and Fredrick III (aka 'Fredrick the Wise') alive at the same time. Given a slightly less capable Elector the Church could have prevailed; with slightly more flexible Church hierarchy Martin Luthers fiery challenge could have been contained.

Look at it this way:

Would the outcome WWII be the same if Churchill and Roosevelt were replaced by different men?
Remove Mao from the picture and is it obvious that course of modern Chinese history would be the same ?

Progress and change are not inevitable. The ingredients of agent and agency must be present and work together[1]

[1]Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr wrote an essay in 1958 dealing with this issue and entitled The Decline Of Greatness.
I am unable to find an adequate link to it.
It is a fascinating read.

Also see Sidney Hook The Hero in History https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Hero+in+History&stick=H4...
Some of these posts are very interesting, it makes me think there would be value in defining what you would like to be able to post (how you want your day to look) and make changes to achieve that. Likely that would identify manageable and achievable goals, which are worthwhile to you.
And what are they comparing it to? They quite literally do not know what they are missing. It's not like they can have it replaced, so they have to make the best of it.

Any non-circumcised male could choose to undergo the process as adults, I don't hear of many takers.
Because minimum-wage type labor demand is inelastic relative to the actual wage, e.g. regardless of the minimum wage, McDonalds needs at least a few employees on staff at all times - there's a point where they can't cut labor any more, but their revenue is still high enough that the increase in wage payments wont put them out of business, just lower profits.
That's pretty common hypocrisy. Open offices are great as long as you are not a director or higher. Limiting salary increases is necessary unless you are top management. Any kind of work can be offshored as long as it's not management. And so on.
The competition itself was by far the cleverest piece of SFW advertising PornHub have done recently.

Which isn't to sell their previous efforts short - They've proven really savvy at marketing their product, by getting people to talk about them as an entity rather than their content.

Obligatory: Insert your own double entendre here.
Let's see if we can make a sort of equivalence between your statements:

Him: wants to ban an act which is basically minor surgery performed (for no obvious medical benefit) on someone who is underage and can't refuse the operation.

You: want to hold a popular vote which would decide if he should be killed because of his opinion.
Many of these articles are missing an easily exploitable position. The key term is "bandwidth" which is the resource at stake. What is being fought over is how to define this "bandwidth" in a way that will be enforceable against the citizen and favorable to the corporation (i.e. "government").

One way they could do this is to divide it like they did the radio spectrum by way of frequency, where frequency is related to "bandwidth". The higher the frequency, the greater the bandwidth. With communication advances, the frequencies can be grouped just like they did with radio, where certain "frequencies" are reserved by the government/military, and others are monopolized by the corporations, and a tiny sliver is provided as a "public" service.

This way would be the most easily enforceable for them to attack NN and the first amendment, as it already exists by form of radio.

* It is already being applied by cable providers through "downstream/upstream" where your participation by "uploading" of your content is viewed inferior to your consumption of it. i.e. Your contribution (or upload) is a tiny fraction of your consumption (or download).

* Also, AWS, Google and other cloud services charge your VPS for "providing" content (egress) and charge you nothing for consuming (ingress). On that scale, the value of what you provide is so miniscule it is almost non-existent to the value of what you consume.

tldr; NN is already partly destroyed.
You have to keep going and not stop at the first level (for example, who buys airline tickets ?). What you'll find is that, eventually, it all comes back to consumer demand.