skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you and it's frustrating that this is sunk without a substantial response.

A few months back, Matt Bruenig nailed it: "The unwritten story of the Juicero debacle is that high income inequality causes capital to be misallocated towards luxury production."
Ask HN: How do I buy solar eclipse glasses and ensure they are real?
There are lots of options on Amazon, but I cannot think of a way to reliably buy them and ensure they are real. I would be comfortable taking the risk of payment if I could test them, but I cannot figure out how to test them.

Anyone have any ideas on how to do this successfully without risking damaging my eyes?
Not even that, he tweeted that he'd like to find Andy and Andy showed up: https://twitter.com/johnbiggs/status/879406815167086592
All the features and technical improvements they might hope to ship in the next several months are irrelevant compared to this single issue.

Which "single issue" is that then? That AMO is using GA (and has been for years)? Or that TP doesn't work correctly for the in-browser UI?

I'm going to have to disagree with you there.
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Get a certificate for a domain you control, then edit your /etc/hosts file to make that domain point to localhost – voila, valid cert for a server running locally.
Given the other comments on this issue, it's not so much that MTA hates innovation, but that those who would be "disruptors" don't actually understand the entirety of the problem.
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Currently there is no such link at the bottom the discovery page, this is still an open PR, and was created as response to this thread.

Additionally, this still violates the Cookie Law.

> The addressees of the obligation are Member States, who must ensure that the use of electronic communications networks to store information in a visitor's browser is only allowed if the user is provided with “clear and comprehensive information”, in accordance with the Data Protection Directive, about the purposes of the storage of, or access to, that information; and has given his or her consent. The regime so set-up can be described as opt-in, effectively meaning that the consumer must give his or her consent before cookies or any other form of data is stored in their browser.
Hey I'm one of the developers, we've been working hard to keep it up but have had a few short outages due to crazy volume. It's working now!
Yep, that's exactly it. I'm just not very eloquent ;)
It's also an example of failed city planning! The original Cerdà Plan was considerably more human friendly:

https://www.failedarchitecture.com/behind-four-walls-barcelo...
That's basically what I want. Outrageous that they don't allow unfriending via the API, but not unexpected coming from Facebook.
What I gather is that he came out just around the time global population growth changed from ~exponential to ~linear.

This was a big topic on many minds back in the late-60s to late-70s, because if growth would have continued exponentially, we'd all be very much more screwed today. What else falls in the time window, popular attention to "The Limits to Growth", "Peak Oil", and introduction of China's one-child policy.

As often, historical context I think aids perspective =)
I would really love to see some kind of LAN TLS solution that doesn't rely on requiring you to have your own CA. I've thought a fair bit about the problem, but haven't come up with any solutions that I like.

Browsers, rightfully so, don't accept self-signed certificates. Active Directory and Group Policies can push out a trusted self-signed root CA certificate and generate certs that endpoints can use, but that's a pain in the ass and usually requires central IT to manage.

Please someone come up with something I haven't thought of yet that doesn't break the internet but gets useful certs onto my LAN!
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This is absolutely the best answer. Competition would fix this more effectively than net neutrality regs, but competition in ISPs is typically blocked by state-enforced monopoly laws or by the technical and economic challenge of deploying an ISP.

Wired ISPs are what is often termed a natural monopoly.

One solution would be to open up a lot more wireless spectrum to ISP use and license it to many upstarts. This would allow wireless alternatives to last-mile wired connectivity such as what would amount to neighborhood-scale WiFi. That would dramatically reduce cost of entry for the ISP business.

Until or unless we can find a way to open the ISP business to a lot more competition, net neutrality regulations are absolutely essential to preserve the Internet as a medium for open innovation.
High electricity costs needed to rewrite the blockchain is a feature of proof-of-work, not a bug.

We could all switch to proof-of-stake, but then anyone would be able to create a valid-looking blockchain in a few minutes, and the only way to get the right chain would be to connect to nodes you know or trust, at which point a blockchain becomes meaningless in the first place.

The challenge is about coming to agreement. Reaching agreement on information which determines how much money people own is hard. Proof-of-work reaches consensus by having a vote -- on which transaction history is correct -- constitute something that cannot be forged: energy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kybalion
You are right, this is the main problem I guess.
NYU releases the largest LiDAR dataset ever to help urban development
Well, in politics as opposed to a criminal trial there's no such thing as burdens of proof, just whether a scandal has legs.

Among American (and British, Canadian etc) lawyers who advocate quantifying the concept of "reasonable doubt,"[1] the consensus figure seems to be that proof beyond a reasonable doubt means greater than 95% certainty (or, stated negatively, a less than 5% level of uncertainty). Judge Weinstein of the Eastern District of New York[2] puts the 95% number in his jury instructions, for example.

If we assume the Bayesian prior that it's at least 19x more likely that Pakistani politicians at the highest level of influence are secretly corrupt and/or evading taxes, than it is that they're secretly tech nerds who eagerly download the latest Microsoft betas and try out all the new fonts, then we have met that 95% standard. If the accused were a Microsoft executive instead of an official of one of the world's most corrupt states,[3] the equation would be different.

Of course, there might be other arguments for doubt besides "the font was available in obscure beta software." One potential argument is that it's a newer version of an older document that was typeset in a different font, which was changed to Calibri at some later point (recent MS Words might default to displaying the document in Calibri if it were sent to a computer that didn't have the original font installed, or the file type doesn't include font information in a way Word supports, or it was copied and pasted from the clipboard).

[1] Which IMO it should be; most of the clear miscarriages of justice in either direction that I know of seem like they could have been prevented or at least been mistrials if, as much as possible, we'd nudged the jury to carefully quantify the strength of both sides' evidence instead of voting emotionally.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_B._Weinstein

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
Then please stop saying it's a bad API.

Full disclosure: I have colleagues and friends on the Khronos standards group, and I don't like seeing their work bashed without specific technical reasons.
> Why not move to proof of stake?

>> Because it doesn't make sense. If a chain, on which a token exists, needs securing, you can't use that chain's token to secure itself.

I mean I'm not entirely sure what this argument is based on? In addition to existing proof of stake systems which have been running for years now, there exist several papers with rigorous formal proofs. Including Turing Award winner Silvio Micali's algorand.

Refute his paper. You will became very famous overnight.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01341

> Mining has huge energy requirements as shown by the article.

>> Mining has no requirements at all. People just follow the best chain, and miners can sell the bitcoins they earn by extending the best chain. It's entirely voluntary.

I assume this is trolling or extreme nitpicking. Securing the network in proof of work requires that the majority of computing power is held by honest miners.
An atmospheric experiment is planned for the August solar eclipse
Can you elaborate? Although haven't tried it myself, I was under the impression that it's quite possible to write low level code for at least for x86 and ARM (and AVR?).
Amazon does have a Net Neutrality info box on their home page, but not super prominent. Google and Facebook say they are supporting but I haven't seen much from them.
Good idea! Thanks for the tip.
How do you get people to input the data in time for it to be useful?
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Samsung and Vizio are completely separate entities.
> akin to quoting Einstein to begin an article on quantum mechanics

This analogy doesn't work - Einstein discovered the photoelectric effect.
They only had the option to summarily affirm or take up the case on appeal. Technically I should not have used the term cert in my original post as it comes up through a different method (28 U.S.C 1253). In the old days there used to be many more mandatory appeals to the Supreme Court, but it has gotten narrower and narrower. The last change in 1988 got rid of most of the remaining paths, but there are still mandatory appeals written into a handful of statutory causes of actions.

See: http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91947 for more info.
The Impact of Redfin Post-IPO, Part 1: Brokerages
The alternative is having people actually end up squeezed in front of a killing machine (train) which I would think is more like "being treated like cattle" in the part that I care about than the "I have to walk down a small hallway.

Also, we treat astronauts like cattle. Squeezed into small areas, down tiny hallways. The Hugh-manatee.
Well if you can stream your desktop that's half the work done already. Vlc transcodes just about anything you can throw at it so there's the other half.
lol, good luck. I guess if they can find people to pay them $1/character to host 7 tweets, they will have removed the burden of money from some people who have too much of it.
They recently (about a year ago at least) changed nearly all of the library names.

They also had the friendliest community I had ever been in on IRC, besides maybe #haskell. Sorry to hear you had a poor experience, I'm shocked to hear things had changed on that front.
Is it? The reason I ditched BT headset in favour of wired one was that, on my Linux desktop, it would over the course of an hour acquire ~1s of lag between video and audio. Could be fault of the Linux BT stack, but still, someone buffers audio somewhere.
Where the Hell is Fios?
Darpa Invests $15.8 M to Build Next-Gen Brain Computer-Interface
One of the developers here, sorry about that, it should be fixed now! The good news is we are getting swamped :)
I was under the impression that the characters in Twilight never actually have sex, while the characters in 50 Shades of Grey have a lot?
That isn't how a blockchain works. The decentralization comes with penalties, such as if 51% of the participants say something is true it is. You have to provide some way to insure that doesn't happen due to a malicious attack. Proof of work systems do that buy making the cost and resources to achieve 51% astronomical.
>I return to my earlier point, "black people commit more serious crimes" suggests there's a genetic or cultural explanation...

Does it? Not that I can see, particularly in response to the assertion black people are shot disproportionately by police.
This is a good question, and it also touches on the question of "gouging".

Imagine some natural disaster, and everyone is being evacuated. The local convenience store is selling out of ice, as folks try to pack up enough food and stuff for their time away.

It comes down to the last bag of ice, and we've got two customers. A frat boy got in line first, wanting that ice to keep his beer cold. He takes the ice for $2 and leaves, happy.

The last guy is diabetic. He'd have willingly paid ten or even a hundred times that amount to keep his insulin fresh. But because the convenience store wants to keep pricing fair for everyone, the guy who REALLY needs the stuff wasn't able to signal the greater value he puts on the ice, and so the system fails him.

The ability to use pricing to communicate value, including the ability to substitute other goods or downstream value of goods incorporating a resource, is crucial to the functioning of the market. And the most obvious problem with socialism is that it attempts to forgo this information, making the decisions by fiat or by guess, when it's impossible to centralize the knowledge that pricing derives through an emergent distributed calculation.

Read more in Hayek's "The Use of Knowledge in Society": http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw1.html
> You're saying nonsensical things, wifi does not do AFH.

Many, many Wi-Fi implementations are capable of frequency hop, including my own at home.
> because you are not paying extra

How can you be sure? It could that the costs of the unlimited data for A get apportioned on all paying customers.
In Chrome 59, indeed it only reports the last viewed page. In Chrome 60 (Beta) and later (including canary), it does what you expect.

Demo: https://zippy.gfycat.com/PopularWarmCoqui.mp4
If tacking on a few Overwatch bits means I'll be able to find matches, let it be. Quake Live has been pretty dead for a while now.
Yeah, it would also give weight to an otherwise lukewarm article. It's way to bogged down in Standard Business English to make a coherent thrust.
For what it's worth, it prevents you from negotiating an agreement that you were not going to win anyways. ISPs are an oligopoly in their present state. If they weren't, then it might make sense to deregulate, but since they are, it doesn't.

(1) No, this is fundamentally misunderstanding what happens when monopolistic assholes get to interact with people who are making life-or-death decisions. In those cases the monopolistic assholes always overcharge the crap out of the person who wants, more than to have more money, to be alive. You know how we keep getting news reports about why healthcare costs are higher in the US than anywhere else and it's a problem? It's invariably because there's monopolistic assholes involved --
and congrats, they just got higher due to abandoning net neutrality rules which prevent this from even being a thing.

(2) That cell phone provider was probably lying their pants off to you about the marginal cost of going from "you can use a couple apps" to "you can request the whole internet, but your bandwidth will be limited." It's very likely to be negative; you'd seem to have to build out more infrastructure to limit peoples' traffic destinations than you'd do to limit their bandwidth. (Think of the fact that Facebook is all-HTTPS these days, for example, so it's not like you're sniffing those packets without MITMing the whole connection.)

To address your earlier point, it's not really double-think. The point is, in the presence of the oligopoly the ISPs are basically Internet countries, with a strange but unelected oligarchic government at the top. We have somewhat more freedom than most to emigrate, but that's about the biggest difference. Net neutrality is an externally imposed free-trade deal among all of them. They are expressing that no, they would instead really like to charge taxes and inspect imports like makeshift customs officers, at their own anti-transparent discretion. They don't want the free-trade deal. It is indeed a valid response to say "well, tough, you're going to have this free-trade deal because the benefits of free trade for everyone in terms of innovation and public good outweigh the benefits those taxes on imports and exports will bring to your shareholders."
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Came here to say this.

A more accurate comparison would include costs related to storing and securing wealth (banks, guards, etc)
AI: The Next Digital Frontier (McKinsey Study) [pdf]
Let's trade lives
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How can a lonely developer make "non-virtual" friends from various horizons (architects, cookers, etc.) ?
Since we're talking about solar power, this is not a huge concern.
It does this. Just click the file: http://imgur.com/g4jg6lu
Or better yet, from their logo. Like they did for the SOPA and PIPA Internet blackout: https://www.google.com/doodles/sopa-pipa.
It was a play on words, a comment on the ongoing confusion over "font" vs. "typeface". (Having worked on font-related software at Adobe, I'm fairly familiar with this.)

I did think it was an interesting coincidence that .ttf could be misinterpreted as True TypeFace.

Guess I should have thrown a /s in there...
True, where "huge" means something around 10MB.

For many projects that is a showstopper.
Meet SimpleBITSServer, an open source BITS server written in Python
This seems more and more common with desktop software. Any way in which we can poison the collected data? Just turning it of does not seem harsh enough.
Building a full-sized Lego desk (2000)
I also have a problem with social media in general, especially with following people instead of institutions/groups. Usually what 99.9% of people like is totally not what I like. So if you base the content I should consume on the assumptions that I like what my connections liked you are nearly going the opposite direction of what I want.

PS: Maybe some of you have the experience of having an active following. I notice that many social networks like Twitter, FB, Youtube, allow comments. But almost never does the content creator/sharer actually react to comments. Some may use comments in future content, but some don't react at all. Are these people not even reading the comments? Why are people commenting when it's so obvious that it's just going down a black hole? For instance, on Twitter a share with additional text is nearly the same amount of work than a comment. And it's obvious that you reach more people by share-commenting rather than simply writing your comment underneath the content. So why do people do that? And why does Twitter has the option to comment even?
I don't think your comparison is correct.

> Assuming you have 10mbit internet access for $N/month:

> * Paying +$20/m for 100mbit internet: OK

> * Paying +$20/m for 100mbit access to "Top 100 websites": Not OK

In your car comparison, it would be like :

Assuming you pay for a VW Golf $10000

* Paying +$200k for a Ferrari: OK

* Paying +$200k for a Lamborghini: OK

* Paying +$200k for a Ferrari but +$200k for an equivalent Lamborghini but with an added +$300k of fee just because the container ship company moving the car from Italy to the U.S. asked an extra $300k simply because the container is filled with Lamborghini instead of Ferrari: Not OK

Container companies would never do this because Lamborghini would simply put its containers on the container boat of a concurrent company, because there's competition. But for consumer-facing ISPs, there's plenty of documentation that shows that in many areas around the country, some ISPs have a monopoly, and so for many users, they cannot go to another ISP if they aren't satisfied with their only choice.
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You will likely have this argument again so I need to point out two things:

1) Debian does support sysvinit right now, although with some packages having hard dependencies on systemd it might not be long before you hit a brick wall.

2) systemd (the init) was used by Fedora for a long time before getting into RHEL/CentOS- which is of course before it got into Debian. So there were volunteers.
So do happily, some do begrudgingly because they do not have the manpower to opt for alternatives.

I have taken to likening systemd the the lovecraftian shoggoth, because both are amorphic masses that changes shapes and sprout new "features" continually.

This means that unless you have the deep economic pockets to rival Red Hat, you basically have to follow along.

End result is that whatever comes out of Fedora sets the de-facto standard in the Linux ecosystem these days, for better or worse (imo, the latter).
Scientists challenge magazine story about 'uninhabitable Earth'
> Why do the ISP's even care then? To get that extra $10 or $20, they will with 100% certainty raise everyone's prices then instead of just the high consumers

Holy cow, you're right! It's almost like they've got monopolistic pricing power or something!

> I absolutely hate the idea of having to pay extra for bandwidth-intensive sites but let's not be under the illusion that we aren't already paying for it, including someone's grandma who only emails and very light browsing, so she's subsidizing my use of Youtube and Netflix already today.

This is not a well-formed argument against NN.

ISPs today, and under NN rules, can charge by the GB. Why should it matter if the GB's are coming from Youtube or Netflx or newstartup.com? Just charge by the GB.
Humans see censorship, paywalls, etc as damage, and route around. Why wouldn't we just mix-up the domain names and IP addresses for a while? If it costs extra to goto Reddit.com, then Reddit can add another domain (e.g. Greendit.com) and continue operating with no embargo. This paradigm served the warez/anime/torrent community for decades.
This will make a very nice ecological pressure on humans.
Trying youtube music recently made that abundantly clear, with an awful awful playlist extrapolated from something like 4 recent songs.
You do have a finger you can use to tap the address bar though.
The Complexity of Human Computation: A Concrete Model [pdf]
> Google makes billions worth of business in the EU and yet they deem that Google doesn't have "sufficient taxable presence to justify the bill".

Their taxable presence is in the EU, just not in France.

You can't have the "common market" and have one tax jurisdiction per member state served, that is outrageous.
Re #3: the "new" laws passed in 2010 maintained the FCC's responsibility to enforce neutrality in the face of a court decision that would have otherwise have revoked it. The responsibility existed before the 2010 laws.

If it wasn't broke in 2010, keeping the "new" laws on the books constitutes "not fixing it".
Not really. Air conditioning is a heat displacement system, so you'd still have the same amount of heat. Using infrared radiators would just accelerate global warming since green house gases mainly absorb infrared light.

Visible light would probably be a hazard. Would be pretty great for "beam in the sky" special effects though.
I don't remember reading about any of that even though I am a regular reader of your "checked projects" series. All of the relevant information on your web site is hidden in some wall of text. Please consider hiring someone who knows how to sell something.
> It's terrible for humanity. It's stagnant, it kills creativity

Your other points may be valid but I'm not so sure about this one. Artists tend to cluster in big cities, often with mass transit (and sometimes without, like LA). I sincerely doubt there's any sort of correlation between mass transit and creativity.