skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with that statement is the internet is massively, massively, MASSIVELY NOT a free market in any way shape form or kind.

If there was actual competition for broadband internet access, maybe net neutrality would be superfluous. However, there is basically zero competition in the internet access market (at least in the US), so the hypothetical "free market" can't do shit.

> I don't understand what is the problem of that. In every other situation of life you pay for the "type" of the thing you're consuming. When you go to a restaurant you don't pay for volume of food, but for the types of food you're asking. There are indeed restaurants where you pay for mass of food, but you don't have all the expensive options available. I can see a world where you would have to pay a little more for Netflix and a little less for sshing to your VPS.

I don't pay for access to specific sites, I pay for access to a network.

The internet is, structurally, a buffet, in your restaurant analogy. Paid prioritization is basically going to an all-you-can-eat buffet, paying for entrance, only to discover that all entrees other then the rice are charged individually.
> Care to elaborate?

Sure, IQ is not a valid measure of a human being, certainly not one with which to decide to exclude those seeking a home.

> As a patriot

Equally disgusting, patriotism is just another form of tribalism and bigotry. Patriotism, aka nationalism, isn't a thing to be proud of, it's a thing that causes hate and conflict in the world. You don't choose the country of your birth, it isn't an accomplishment to be proud of, you had nothing to do with it.
Try out elixir. It runs on the Erlang VM but is easy to get up and running and has a great community. It's much easier to add external libraries and uses its own package manager.
Sure, you could sell the biz outright and wash your hands of the whole thing once the check clears.
Tell HN: Tmobile disconnected for Recording call
When I called T-mobile customer service for disputing charges they put on my account for switching carrier, I told the rep that I am recording call for quality purposes and for future reference.
They said company has asked to not talk to customer who are recording calls and so they disconnected.
I still have them say all this on recording.

I've been with t-mobile for more than 2 years and have spoken to them several times in past few months, but with all the unnecessary charges they put on my account and then not willing to talk, I believe their services has been going from being fair to being awful!
No as Go has a GC. It's just supposed to be a fast server-side language without very complicated code. Go is mostly successful due to Google and filling a niche (fast, simple, concurrent, all thrown into a fat statically linked binary I think).
This is a direction they headed in shortly after Yahoo acquired them, it's not a new thing with the Verizon acquisition. Blogs marked "adult" and NSFW posts already won't show up in search engines[edit: I stand corrected], by default in searches on the website, or searches on the mobile app (even when logged in).
Deako (YC W16) is hiring devs in Seattle. Let's build smarter homes
I know MIT grad lisp hacker types who couldn't pass the entrance points requirements. The trick is you have to learn French. No matter what - Learn French.
"Investor" visas exist in many countries. Eliminating it in the US would result in US people being excluded in other countries. And if there is one thing rich people aren't going to vote/lobby for, it is curtailment of their ability to migrate.
My first Linux box was a 386SX laptop with 3 megs of RAM and a 50 meg HD, back in 1993 or so. I started with SLS Linux, running kernel 0.99.10. Later, I got a 486DX (100 mhz) and moved up to Slackware. Fun times!
No. But if you bought a digital service from your bank through your iPhone or iPad, then they would have to pay.

Apple is just not treating tips as different to anything else, since they don't support a separate tipping item in their payment system.
The Environmental Planning Commission is meeting Wednesday June 21, 7pm, at 500 Castro Street.

Here's an experiment: drive from the (yes, it's misnamed) Shoreline Amphitheater to the meeting, leaving at 5 PM.

It's a mere 3 miles.

See how long it takes you with just the current state of traffic. Then, try to imagine evacuating the entire region on short notice (for example, it's all a flood zone). There are only 2 routes to get to the other side of 101.
Tumblr has a huge porn community, and always has. I don't have actual statistics, but it's huge. In general, people on tumblr might have a regular, personal blog, and then a side blog where they reblog and/or comment on/add captions to pornographic images, gifs and videos. In that sense, they can sort of curate porn that interests and appeals to them. The addition of this personal touch and intellectual component appeals to a lot of people, including a lot of women. But there are also various sex advice blogs, etc., which will be affected by this change as well, artists who do non-pornographic nude artwork, and potentially even various LGBT communities where sex can at times be a topic.

There are various levels of NSFW-flagging on Tumblr: users flagging their own site NSFW, Tumblr marking a blog NSFW and the user having no way to change that, or enough individual posts being flagged NSFW by users and AI that Tumblr decides to call the entire blog NSFW.
I dunno. That might go against the narrative that literally everything is subject to market forces except for labor. The only thing for which we can arbitrarily set a magical, minimum value for some reason.
What's wrong with moochers collecting cheques? Is there some inherent value to you in there being no moochers out there? Or to put it another way, is it necessary to monetize all valuable interactions and behaviours so that we can reward them with our negative income tax? Is monetisation itself a good thing? Or is it sometimes a bad thing, but a tool, possibly not always appropriate?
acquired, not launched.
I'm not opposed to NN, but your phrasing piqued my curiosity:

Why is it bad that ISPs charge us based on type/source of data? Should grocery stores charge us by volume (mass?) of food instead of by type/source/etc? If aggregating costs is indeed more moral, why should it be enforced by law (as opposed to the food example)?

Providing robust answers to these questions should strengthen the NN position.
Swift on Android already exists.

https://news.realm.io/news/swift-on-android/
Trying that now (https://www.gdax.com/trade/ETH-USD), but I don't see the crash.
Human societies seem to evolve to fewer languages.

Fewer languages help everyone communicate easier/better.

Programming languages seem to go the opposite direction.

Any speculation on why?
Intresting. This is only in China right, and with Chinese citizens in other countries. It is not like weChat is used a lot outside of China.

Apple is already losing share in China.
Ask HN: How do you squeeze in enough time for book reading?
Work is busy: dev, meeting, troubleshooting, various pings, email, chats, ...

Life is busy: kids, wife/husband, house, car, shopping, eating, fun, ...

Are you able to read books, not on vacation, but during weekdays? If yes, how do you get time?
Pointing out to someone that you don't share their worldview and in fact find it weird does contribute something, hopefully it pops their little bubble of thinking everyone agrees with them. And no, I didn't insult him, I said his reality tunnel is weird; that you can't tell the difference between insulting a person and commenting on their worldview says a lot about you. You can respect people without respecting their beliefs, you are not your beliefs, no ideas are beyond criticism.
This is a UI/UX problem. You can make the same argument about an unorganized spew tube that I now have to spend 50% of my cognitive ability to organize into a threaded conversation manually in my head.
Same here. Kind of ironic that 'user experience' is the only text that was cut off when I loaded the page. https://0x0.st/lRi.png
I strongly suspect that an economic collapse is going to come less than a year after these sales (not just talking about Yahoo). That would be a good time for Verizon to begin selling off its utilities. AOL and Time Warner was another example that happened just before the bubble burst: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner#Merger_with_AOL I think this is partly because of how the economy is based on consumption and debt.
Yes, the cost of living in San Francisco is about twice that of Vancouver. But salaries in Vancouver less than half that of San Francisco, so affordability is worse overall.

Don't get me wrong, I'd LOVE a stronger tech sector here (especially as a developer). We desperately need an industry other than real estate and film. But I just don't see how that can happen without a fundamental shift that just isn't happening anytime soon.
If Uber did their best to help the investigation then they could look up information not only by license plate, but also look at customer's account, look what rides were taken at that location and time.
Reverse google image sleuthing leads to a pinterest board[0] that alleges they are of the Cosmatesque style[1], which means they maybe originate from somewhere in medieval Italy?

[0] https://www.pinterest.com/paulettecadic/pavements-des-cosmat...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmatesque
Funny how just after this posting... it happened again for their Ethereum platform.

Looking forward to the next post mortem and glad I pulled out yesterday.
I agree with your points. I do like to bring Nim up as it uses python like syntax with types and then transpiles to C. You get a fast and small native binary and can choose from 2 different GC or no GC. It has a small, but very active community.
That's just normal bird stuff. Lots of different birds do that.
The involvement of Metafont with parametric design doesn't necessarily mean that it's a sound typographic principle. As others have mentioned, professional font design is a business of total perfectionism and particularity: you can't really parameterize a font family in a totally satisfactory way (and italic is not in general just an oblique transformation of the standard characters).

This parametric approach is most likely to work if used with a "curve-fitting" mentality to approximate and interpolate sets of hand-tuned characters, rather than a methodology that aims to describe the essence of a character parametrically (as is routine in architectural parametric design).
Have you tried out Azure Functions? It has pretty good features for continuous integration, a CLI where you can run locally, and a really nice monitoring experience. Obviously it's probably not worth migrating an existing project, but it might be useful for future projects. Plus, we have a Serverless Framework plugin.

Here's a talk that walks through some of our features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgB-fs1hwlw&t=18s

Disclosure: I'm a Program Manager on Azure Functions.
You shouldn't do it on HN, because it's noise rather than substantive discourse.
Audio books whenever I'm cooking, cleaning, driving, or exercising
True, but there are only four 'big banks' Barclays, HSBC;, Lloyds Banking Group, and The Royal Bank of Scotland Group.

100% coverage might be quite time consuming, but getting most the market is not going to be excessively hard.
The theory of networks like Ethereum is that they don't require trust and thus don't need any authorities second-guessing bad behavior. If these opportunities for market manipulation arise, it's supposed to be 100% buyer beware. Of course, as stakeholders have an increasing interest in promoting the credibility of the market, this theory is eroded by the impulse to take corrective actions. Indeed, since forking is always an option, there will seemingly always be a temptation to use a democratic mechanism to enforce a correction. Afterward, the validity of the correction is determined by the remnant value of the two forks respectively.
One trick is I try not to bring my phone to bed with me. Then last thing at night, first thing in the morning I have time to read
Thanks for the hard work Walter. Random question: I heard D has something like C#'s LINQ. Is that true?
Second vote for the other comment. Elixir is basically developer friendly Erlang without a performance penalty.
Then better option would be to delete history.
I've had OpenBSD on my Libretto 100ct (ran quite well and floppy+net install was easy), and installed OPENSTEP 4.0 for giggles last year: http://bslabs.net/2016/02/29/openstep-on-the-libretto-100ct/
That is not true at all. All Tumblr blogs, including NSFW blogs, have always been viewable and indexable by external search engines through their public URL (blogname.tumblr.com) unless flagged as private/hidden (a choice of the blog owner). They have only been hidden from Tumblr's search engine if the user has their account set to not see adult content. You can verify this by searching for "tumblr porn" on Google. Five of the results on the first page are porn blogs on Tumblr.
This isn't a very good argument, since Comcast (or whoever) wants to charge Netflix more--a challenger wouldn't have to pay the Netflix premium. Maybe in some hypothetical scenario ISPs would charge incumbents less, but the real-world scenario is the opposite.
Since startups make things and things are the essence of the economy, gain the skill to make things rather than telling other people to make things.

If you are a master at business administration then you are a master at telling other people to make things, why would I want you to tell me what to do as a partner in a startup? You have to pay me for that kind of stuff.
Read in bed instead of going on your phone.
For me it's during my commute. I take public transport and read on it.
MyScript offers an API that does this. You need to feed it all the motions/sequence of points that make up the shape (known as "online OCR"), it won't work with a static document.

Demo:
https://webdemo.myscript.com/views/shape.html
If you can't choose a good start up to join then most likely a b school is the better option.

If you choose a good start up, then the start up (and payout) will most likely be much more valuable 10-20 years down the line.
This reads a lot like The Rosie Project, which is a great read!
I wonder if Snapchat will manage to get this money back in one way or another. Instagram is a massively popular app, while Zenly - it is HN where I first heard it. Also, 2 million downloads mainly from teens seem to be not so massive. There are bigger and more unique apps.

I wonder how often deals like that comes from pressure from VC's rather than actual strategy.
Based on the generally good approximation of 10% ownership for series B investors, this wasn't a great return (if any) for Benchmark.

Pretty nice for the founders though, and likely nice for the users too - Zenly's product requires all/most of your friends to use it for it to be good, which is really hard to do, but Snapchat already has a lot of users, so it'll take Zenly's tech and turn it into something valuable.

Seems like a nice outcome overall!
If we need diversity of opinion, perhaps you could up-vote someone that believes that the earth is flat or black is white. There are out there some readily determinable facts, and it is perfectly fine for all of our opinions to be the same as it concerns those facts.

For example, almost everyone on earth will be of the opinion that fire is hotter than ice. Do we all suffer from group think? If someone believes that fire is cool, is he a brilliant free thinker, or just a moron that is about to get his hand burned?

It is well known and readily verifiable that net neutrality as defined by the previous FCC rules and as defined by the EFF allows for providers to charge more for people using more data. So no net neutrality would not require anyone to subsidize heavy data users.
The "left" is not a single person with a single position, by treating it as such, you're sealing yourself into a personal delusion about others that might make you feel good, but simply isn't accurate. And using derogatory terms like "welfare society" merely shows your own political bias. You know why the "left" confuses you, it's because you don't actually bother to try and understand them; you're happy simply mis-characterizing them in this cartoon'ish manner.
The Elements of Product Design, and the Discipline vs. The Job
China is of comparable size to the US and has a population of nearly 1.4 billion people. We need the best here if we plan on staying a global superpower.

It's incredible what is happening. It's like watching a slow moving train wreck and there is nothing we can do to stop it. :/
How do people think Snap will monetize the map?

Brand bitmojis? Location ads - e.g. like Waze where you see McDonalds logos on the map?

Local events seems like too much logistics/not enough money.
You saying that as if rest of the world isn't like that.
I don't go to Walmart because of how they treat their employees, the nonsense they pull with their vendors, and now this.

The thing is that I'm not actually sure if any of the alternatives engage in this kind of practice as well.
I use grab site, which is a spiritual successor to ArchiveTeam's ArchiveBot.

I have to be careful to give my scraping methods away, as I've had digital targets attempt countermeasures.
They're probably going to integrate elements from Zenly into the main Snapchat app is my guess.
Given that reduced upstream costs typically translate into reduced downstream costs, and that regulation typically increases downstream costs, I think the onus is on NN-proponents to prove why the reverse is true.
Unfortunately, the immigration policies of most countries in the world are one huge stupid joke. Why so much obsession about the country where people were born into? It wasn't their choice at all. It just doesn't matter.

The only questions you should be asking are "are they decent people? Are they willing to integrate? Will they contribute to our economy? Will they make us problems?"
And none of these questions you can answer by reading the name of the country on their passport.
Fascinating, an Associate Prof at Harvard who can't do research:

"Get a TLC license
New York City
With more riders than any other app, Uber is a great way to make money driving in NYC. You'll need a TLC license to pick up riders, but we've made the signup process quicker and easier than ever."

https://www.uber.com/drive/new-york/get-a-license/

and this:
http://driveubernyc.com/tlc-overview/

Uber most certainly does follow the law. He should write a retraction. NYC is by far the largest market for Uber. It took me 10 seconds to google this information.

If this professor can't take the less than one minute to do research, how can you trust absolutely anything else this man writes?
There's no such thing as a shortage; only a clearing price. If these businesses paid more they could get local workers.
Trader sells 100k ETH, with the lowest price at $0.10, clearing all GDAX orders
Use the candle stick graph, you'll be able to see a red whisker reaching towards the bottom.
I think the serif width / serif height axes are switched
Having worked at a bank that was moving some workloads to the cloud, I don't think I'm underestimating the security practices of companies that consider their company data to be valuable.

In the application I was working on, they had over a TB of data, broken up into 32MB blocks, each with a unique key that had to be unwrapped by the HSM. If you stole the VM you'd get only a few blocks of readable data with it.

I assume that if Walmart values this data, they'll take similar precautions in the cloud.
Every time I see a company I've never ever heard of get acquired for hundreds of millions of dollars, I have to step back and wonder what an interesting world we live in.
I see now. I suppose fitness is an overloaded term, but in terms of survival of a species, I think it'd be difficult to argue that an r-selected reproduction strategy is better than a K-selected reproduction strategy in terms of improving fitness.

That'd be like saying antelope are more adapted to their environment than lions.

In human terms, I'd argue that K-selected children are much more likely to make the types of breakthroughs that will advance the human species e.g. curing disease, scientific discovery, space travel, etc.
What kind of snacks did you eat on the plane?
I tried reading this, when does the guy get to the point? I am not sure what Dota, or his dad, or his hot sauce or his awesome flight has to do with any of this?

Ok, go about 2 pages down, and you can skip the incredibly detailed discussion of his exiting the car.

This seems more like the driver thought he had all his bags, the door was closed, a simple mistake. But no, the driver was a master thief, spying him using stuff in his bag and racing off (at an incredibly slow pace according to the video).

Good on the guy for following up with this, and it is an interesting story.

> They were a company that shows blatant disrespect to authority, operating illegally in cities and using technology to intentionally avoid law enforcement.

This is true, and well known. And if you knowingly use Uber, you understand this.
Sure. Don't sell your company. Don't take it public, either. Principled moral stands are not compatible with making as much money as possible.
There's also DASH, the MPEG streaming protocol.
I don't think they will directly monetize the map. They'd integrate it with the product to increase engagement.
Snapchat already has custom event filters that you can pay for.
I'd love to figure this out also. I'm stuck ready stuff for work during the entire commute just to (barely) stay on top of the latest news. I can't find time to read a real book, and it is frustrating as hell.
The restaurant business is very competitive in any town with more than, say, 1000 people. Not so with Internet access. In Silicon Valley, for example, most cities have 1 or 2 providers of broadband (>25Mbps).

I don't think anyone complains about paying more if they stream a lot of video online. But people ask for NN so they do not have to pay more if they stream from Netflix instead of Hulu.
This is my biggest qualm with building a company aimed to sell (either to public markets or another company). You are binding yourself to pursue as much profit as possible through whatever legal means possible. Even if those legal means go against everything you stand for, you have to pursue them because you have a fiduciary duty.
> As you said the authors start by mentioning: "unfalsifiable religious claims". So, they seem to start the paper by classifying this a one of those "unfalsifiable religious claims". But, they then immediately classify it as a "false belief"...

I noticed that, too. The first sentence says that many people hold unfalsifiable beliefs. The second says that many of these unfalsifiable beliefs are false. Which is it?
The USA is not a free for all that everyone has a "right" to live in.
> I'm not well-informed enough to say much, but imagine you have a local link in a small rural town that only support some absolute number of packets or whatever: if you have one big consumer that is eating the major part of that every day, making the others miserable, isn't it reasonable to limit that consumer's bandwidth somehow?

> Then if some law is enacted to prevent you from limiting that consumer, then you'll either make the lives of the others miserable or you'll be forced to spend more on your link and luckily pass the cost down to all your consumers. Right?

Yes but the consumers of the bandwidth are the locals in that small rural town, not netflix. Charge the locals for using more bandwidth because they are the ones requesting it.
Granted, it was only promos in certain cities to drive growth of both drivers and riders.

Quick Forbes link I found https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenhuet/2014/07/02/ubers-newe...
Great article. I wish they supported their thesis that shopping at Walmart is a self harming cycle that exports jobs. Maybe by focusing on small towns.