skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the official Republican Platform adopted in 2016 [1]

The survival of the internet as we know it is at
risk. Its gravest peril originates in the White
House, the current occupant of which has launched a
campaign, both at home and internationally, to
subjugate it to agents of government. The President
ordered the chair of the supposedly independent
Federal Communications Commission to impose upon the
internet rules devised in the 1930s for the
telephone monopoly.

This was the position of almost every contender for the Presidential nomination during the primaries in 2016, it is the position of the one who won that nomination and went on the win the Presidency, and it is the position of almost every Republican in Congress.

Most of them openly promised during their campaigns to repeal the Open Internet Order of 2015. Before that, they had openly fought the earlier Open Internet Order of 2010 (the FCC's first net neutrality rule--the one that was struck down by the DC circuit due to a lawsuit from Verizon, which is what lead to the 2015 order to reinstate net neutrality in a way compatible with the court's ruling).

Since Republicans won with this as part of their platform, and openly campaigned on it, they take winning the Presidency and a majority in both houses of Congress as a sign that the voters agree with them on this.

Making noise now is probably not going to change their minds. They see that as just the usual whining from people whose side was rejected by the voters. The noise that will matter is the gentle scratching of a #2 pencil filling in an oval [2] next to a candidate who is in favor of net neutrality in 2018 and 2020.

(It also doesn't help that many of the people making noise to save net neutrality are making exaggerated arguments that undermine their creditibility. I've seen many that are predicting that repeal of the 2015 order will almost be an extinction event for the internet as we know it...yet all this will be doing is taking is back to what the rules were at the start of 2010, and the internet worked quite well in 2010, and so it is hard to take these people seriously).

As a practical matter, at this time, that probably means saving net neutrality requires voting in Democrats. A lot of Democrats.

This could be a problem for those who support net neutrality, but on other issues support Republicans. For example, if you are strongly against gun control, and against abortion, but in favor of net neutrality, you will probably find voting for Democrats unacceptable because you probable think those first two issues are more important.

If voting for a Democrat is not acceptable, then consider getting active in Republican primaries and caucuses. There ARE Republican candidates who support net neutrality, but they usually lose in the caucuses or primaries because the kind of moderate Republicans who would support them are not as active in the primaries and caucuses as are the far right Republicans.

[1] https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/media/documents/DRAFT_12_FIN...

[2] or whatever noise the voting mechanism makes in your district...
What? https://www.samsung.com works just fine. I don't know why they don't have re-direct set up.
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> In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread. - Anatole France

Citizens United allows citizens both rich and poor the freedom to buy politicians.
Right, then you're tax avoiding, and should be charged with tax avoidance.

In cases where you're not tax avoiding, why does money laundering have to be a separate crime? It comes back to "Money laundering is just a cheat code for prosecutors to get easy points when they can't actually find real wrongdoing."
Could this be the first of a series of "objects" to come our way? Part of a large ejection of some sort?
> a phase of panic terrors, exactly befitting a small world of tribal drums, total interdependence,

Sounds like the current media panic about terrorism, etc.
It shows that this is not a controversial decision at all and similar decision would be probably made in all western countries. Whether there is some Trump vendetta as driver for this decision is not very relevant if the decision is correct.
Yes but this is the first observed instance of a stone that seems to come from outside the solar system and outside the Oort Cloud even, so basically from interstellar space. And its shape and albedo or unusual too, seemingly.
The War on Yourself
Problem is the tether is allready spent. So the exchanges where the tether is spent is paying it out their pockets, no?
This includes a lot of crypto-crypto volume. Just in the top ten, there's $168m Bitcoin Gold, $145m of Bitcoin Cash, $95m of something called "PowerLedger" that I'm hearing of now for the first time, and $84m of Neo.

Is this real trading activity, or is it people discovering that there's no feasible way to trade USD directly for the meme coin du jour?
No mention of Vimwiki yet. I'm a hardcore Vim user so it works well for me.

<Leader>ww to open Vimwiki and <Enter> to follow (and create) links and <Backspace> to go up one level. Works like a charm for me.
The local Walgreens is now closed between the hours of 12AM - 6AM because the police won't respond to any theft calls during this time.
Interview: Nigel Jennings from WP Hero
Can someone explain what is "keyed" Vanilla-JS?
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I am sorry you get downvoted so much.

Just to be clear, I think net neutrality is a Good Thing(tm), but your comment is certainly thought-provoking.

Having a discussion with reasonable people even - no! especially! - if I do not agree with them is part of what I like about this community so much.
> Meditation and yoga breathing are still exotic. Perhaps some day they won't be, and our descendants will wonder how people from our era stayed sane without daily meditation.

Yes! Energy can be experienced very simply after perhaps just 30 minutes of practice (for some - everyone's different). An excellent, clear introduction is "Energy Work" by Robert Bruce. Read with an open mind and practice.

Just because you haven't experienced something, don't discount it.

The dangerous aspect of religion for me is blind faith. If you view religious claims as hypotheses that can be personally verified, you become a scientist.

Yoga is such a scientific system. Kriya yoga is a good place to start, although at some level all of Patanjali's 8 limbs can increase the chance of experiencing the ultimate goal - enlightenment. Today, most people think yoga = stretching. That's just the preparation.
This was at 6AM - Taco Bell near it doesn't open until 7AM silly!
Thanks. I do confess as south-european that probably my reality is a bit biased, as you can still see on the report.

But I do agree from 2012 to 2015 it did change in the direction you meant.
Make it so that on your death or when you renounce your nationality, all capital you own goes back to the nation.
I like the term PEVA - personal electric VTOL aircraft.

And you're right, driving on the road is not the point. The goal is that it's as easy to fly as a car is to drive.
Speaking only for myself, the surprising claim was not “explode”, but “irradiated most of Eastern Europe, if not the whole continent.”
How does this not get immediately dismissed by prior art?
Exchanges don't hold the tether, their customers do. If/when tether falls over, the exchanges won't be the ones taking the hit.
They can censor EFF's website against Australians. There's a Internet censorship scheme available to courts.
I'm not sure if this is still the case, but for some time, Twitter served both EV and non-EV certificates depending on where the visitor was located. I don't think they ever publicly explained this behaviour.
The main point of my post was that them being shitty "because of heroine" is a false premise.
Bubbles, busts, investor psychology…and Bitcoin
Probably. My experience was that they were trying to teach common sense, wrapped up in mysticism and marketing.
My bad you're forced to use heroine then I guess
Maybe we have different definitions of "relaxing".
I know, but it was the only one I could quickly find out.

As teamhappy pointed out, I am kind of wrong, as the data did indeed change for contracts, but was is still low in 2015 regarding southern countries, the ones I tend to visit regularly.

But it would still be nice to know if someone can point out to 2017 data.
Does this count parts of the market that will be gone soon? Legitimate question didn't Starcom recently say they won't issue new certs and will shut everything off in 2020?
Distributing a CA makes it less secure, not more; ultimately the thing that "is" a CA is the private key, which ought to be stored in a HSM and never let out.
Use cryptography to solve problems not legislation. Net Neutrality means nothing on Tor because nobody can be identified via their link connection.
I recommend cs50x: https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computer-science-har...

Top notch quality free course
DoJ seeks to block Time Warner/AT&T merger
Seems strange for this to be part of the Ask HN section.
> In my opinion if you’re lazy enough to warrant a wildcard cert then you’re too lazy to do security properly anyway, period.

You don't present yourself in a way conductive to convincing anyone of anything.
If it were bigger it could have been Rama.
> The only real vote that anyone listens to anymore is a vote with your wallet, and if it comes to that, I'm damn well ready to make that vote

https://supporters.eff.org/donate
https://contribute.itstarts.today//2018
https://indivisible435.org/
Many of you might not know Go-Jek, a pretty neat alternative to Uber in Indonesia (predominantly), cheaper, too, often.

GO offers:

* GO-CAR: like Uber

* GO-RIDE: same, but on a motorbike (cheaper & faster in traffic jams, as you often have eg in Jakarta)

* GO-FOOD: delivers food

* GO-SEND: courier service, picks up and delivers item, eg correspondence or a forgotten USB charger, etc.

* GO-SHOP: buys anything for you

* GO-TIX: buys and delivers event tickets

* GO-BOX: moving

* GO-MASSAGE: well, massage at home

* GO-CLEAN: two cleaners will come to clean your apartment

* GO-GLAM: home manicure/pedicure/make-up

* GO-MED: deliver medicine etc. from licenses pharmacies

It's rather amazing, well written set of apps, and works quite well.

EDIT to fix description of GO-MED and add:

They have 200k+ drivers, and got funding from Sequoia.

https://www.go-jek.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GO-JEK
> I would guess that 70% of our resources and jobs are dedicated to this nonsense

I think that's a wild overstatement, even if you're including every kind of management and public service job in the world.
Anything but proper diet and exercise. Inject it all directly into your bloodstream =)
I know that core developers behind EFL have been begging their upper management for this kind of hardware running Tizen, which would make a lot more sense than hacking Android into something it's not really made for.

Alas Tizen on mobile has been only used for sub $100 phones targeted at developing markets.
Donate money to causes that support Net Neutrality:

https://indivisible435.org/
https://supporters.eff.org/donate
https://contribute.itstarts.today//2018

And make a point to try to either call or directly visit your representative.
Tap RT America on this page, and view all the legit reporters banned by this act of censorship.

https://www.rt.com/onair-talent/
The technology is still too immature. Mobile apps aren't designed for desktop UIs, so mobile apps thrown up on a desktop monitor are going to suck. Desktop apps are usually compiled for x86 and not ARM, so you can't run desktop apps within a desktop environment that's thrown up on a monitor by your phone.

Microsoft has been trying to throw Windows onto ARM for a long time, to no commercial success, because the entire value proposition is the enormous back catalog of Win32 applications which will never run performantly on ARM. So the best bet is Linux leading the change, with Linux on ARM powering desktops and driving demand for desktop apps to be compiled to ARM - but yeah, not going to happen any time soon.
Thoughts on Feature Branches
Is your question what is keyed (answered in the blog) or what‘s vanillajs (javascript without a framework)?
Tether does seem to suffer from exact same problems as LR though, no?

It’s structured in a manner that makes it trivial to establish third party exchangers with no KYC processes. There is no KYC for individual Tether users, who only need to generate a bitcoin address to get started.

Only time they do KYC is when you want to exchange via Tether website directly, which is no different from what LR did IIRC.
Tencent surpasses Facebook in valuation a day after breaking $500B barrier
- Opaque and uncommon/needlessly-unfamiliar command-line management toolkit (seriously, what is so difficult about 'output text, receive text as input' in 2017?)

^^^ PowerShell solves this. (AD,DNS,IIS,Exchange,DPM,Hyper-V...)

- I cannot, yet, fully manage a Microsoft host from the CLI. What I consider to be 'fully managed' revolves around: installing software, updating software, adding/removing/'managing' users, setting up basic server-like features such as simple firewall rules, viewing common log-files ('user X logged in', 'software Y tried to execute Z task, the result was A'), starting/stopping/troubleshooting daemons, etc

^^^ Solved by PowerShell (You can even install a GUI-less version of WS2016 and all these will work.)

- Pick a major config-management system (my direct experience is with Puppet/Chef/Ansible/Salt). Configuring them to play nice with Windows-anything is an order of magnitude more difficult than even the most baroque *nix-like operating system.

^^^ I use Ansible Tower to manage a mixed WS and Linux fleet with great success, I only need to run `kinit` once every day to obtain a ticket, all logins afterwards are passwordless.
Last I heard Australia was getting rid of some media ownership restrictions. I think one reason is the dismal performance of media companies in Australia.
> What's going now with Net neutrality is a symptom of a bigger problem. We need to repeal Citizens United[1] and make the government less corrupted to prevent cases like this.

Your error is in assuming that this is due to corruption, rather than due to Republicans' philosophical belief that minimal regulation and free markets are better [1]. The Republican position on net neutrality is consistent with, and entirely predictable from, their positions on internet and telecommunications regulations going back long before Citizens United.

> But in narrower scope, the best way is to support the inevitable court case against FCC that will follow their expected decision.

Will there actually be a serious court case? There were court cases when the FCC made net neutrality rules, in both 2010 and 2015, but making a rule requires exercising authority, and so the question of whether or not they exceeded their authority can arise, and be litigated.

In the case of repealing one of their prior rules, instead of making a rule, is there really a plausible litigable issue? Since there is nothing that requires them to have a net neutrality regulation, it is hard to see how they could be exceeding their authority by dropping their net neutrality rules.

As long as they don't make a procedural mistake, it is hard to see what grounds they can be challenged on.

[1] Yes, I know that ISP markets are usually not competitive, which is one of the requirements for a free market to work well, but that's not relevant since I'm not saying that Republicans are right that minimal regulation and markets will protect the internet. I'm just saying that this is what they believe.
I find our own modern ROYGBIV odd, with R=red O=orange Y=yellow G=green B=blue I=indigo V=violet

More sense would make: ROYGCBV with C=cyan (or replace the V with P from purple)

The "indigo" and "violet" are so similar to each other (and even a physically narrower band in the rainbow), while something is missing between the green and blue.

I know that it's an analog transition of colors so there are infinite shades and using 7 discrete names does not match reality, but when we do use names they should at least match popular language usage and uniform distance better imho.

Maybe it's subjective?
Euthanasia.

One moron will be replaced with another, and those that mean well will be too few in number to make a large difference; I hope to be proven wrong.
The cult of corporate productivity has totally ruined creativity
There is one remarkable picture of a step well from India, taken by the master photographer Edward Burtynsky. A low res version can be found on this page: http://lenscratch.com/2016/04/edward-burtynsky-2/

(No affiliation, I just love his work)
StartCom hasn't had its own market share since late last year when most browsers distrusted it. It's been reselling certs from Comodo and Thawte, probably contributing to the market share of these other vendors.
He was from Belgium, so the use of Celcius is very logical.
> This new research finds that these RSL features are flows of granular material and thus, align with the long-standing hypothesis that the surface of Mars lacks flowing water. Small amounts of water could still be involved in their initiation in some fashion, as hydrated minerals have been detected at some RSL locations. The authors conclude that liquid on present-day Mars may be limited to traces of dissolved moisture from the atmosphere and thin films of water.

So, this article says there's no water on the surface of Mars, rather than underneath it.

Though it looks like this suggests that water beneath the surface is unlikely to be there as well?
Korean exchanges are 0 fee.
Check this story - https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-famous-photo-of-ch...
If you care about the aesthetic alone, then I would suggest skipping the usual spots and add these to your itinerary:

1. Udaipur, Rajasthan (everything about this city is beautiful)

2. Orchha, particularly the "chattris" next to the river.

3. Khajuraho (the temples are stunning in the right weather)
But that is completely negating that the media markets in EU and the US are completely different.

For instance, a number of european countries have a strong public broadcaster to provide a neutral source of news. PBS or NPR aren't really comparable in most cases.

And in many cases, local stations aren't owned by a corporate entity, completely making such rules irrelevant.
New IoT Botnet 'Reaper' Wreaks Havoc
Do you have an opinion on Sandstorm's use of wildcard certificates and randomized hostnames for each application sesssion? [0] They insist that this provides many desirable security features. (Note that the free HTTPS certificates provided by the Sandcats.io service are renewed every week. [1])

[0] https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/administering/wildcard/#...

[1] https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/administering/sandcats/#...
So while us technonerds wait and see whether our OEMs will bother to push out firmware updates sometime in the next 6 months, remember that 99% of users will go unpatched anyway because grandma never upgrades her BIOS.
Then perhaps browsers should not execute any code from a non-HTTPS source. That would nicely cover the old static page case. Any modifications to the html would be visible to the user.
I'd consider RT more reputable than Fox News, The Sun or BILD. What are they going to do about the others?

There is hardly a news outlet right now that wouldn't print lies if those lies make them money or increase their power and influence, so where do we draw the line?
OOP was very different in smalltalk too. Industry software dev has really strayed away from the theoretical origins it was based in, although I think the tide is starting to turn back now.
Continuous Meme Delivery
Or at least a jumper-select to disable it.
I meant a clone/copy of the (hopefully open) server software of LetsEncrypt stack running as a service on several well known cloud datacenters - of course under a different name.

Why? Not a single point of issue. Given now that it has now 25% market share, it's a high profile target, and given he short cert lifetime aggressive updating is necessary meaning you could receive a underhanded cert in case someone gets access to the high profile target. If Let's Encrypt is not a startup and doesn't plan to make money, then there should be no problem to release the whole service as DEB/package so that every big hosted can run a clone under a different name. Or is LetsEncrypt in the business of gathering analytics and selling the usage data? I think no.
General trends in past year have seen Chinese comapines Temcent and Alibaba shoot up from below top 10:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_...
I know that you asked for arguments pro nn, but I'll try to tackle your 3 points at once...

No, they don't have the right, their infrastructure covers physical space and is in the same category as power grids and sewers, you cannot have a "free market" because the world has space limitations, I would hate to live in a street with a thousand energy cables, ten different providers of sanitation systems and in a permanent construction zone.

Since there's no feasible way to guarantee a real free market, they need to be regulated to avoid the exploitation of consumers that don't have other choices.

And even if we have the choice of multiple ISPs providing the last mile, we will need to keep some regulation on companies that sell the bandwidth to the ISPs.

Physical infrastructure is a different beast than digital goods, companies shouldn't have the right to exploit consumers just because there's no feasible way to provide more competition.
Zeelo raises €1.35M to expand with its on-demand transport platform
Messages Matter: Exploring the Evolution of Conversation
There is no benefit to this I'm afraid. To take a ride on it you first have to match velocities, so you've already done the work to chase it down. Gravity assist maneuvers are the best option we currently have for launching probes into interstellar space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist
>ads isn't a product,

The "ads" (uncapitalized generic word) is not a product but AdWords™ is: https://www.google.com/search?q=adwords&source=lnms&tbm=isch

AdWords is the system that advertisers log into to see their keywords campaigns, dashboards, analytics, pay with their credit-cards, etc. That's been Google/Alphabet's major cash cow.

Google wants other multi-billion profit sources besides AdWords. Google Cloud Platform is growing in revenue but I don't think they've publicly disclosed whether they are making significant profits from it yet.

Their X divisionp[1] is arguably tasked with finding more multi-billion dollar ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(company)
Alpha males has been a part of animal (including human) psychology for millions of years.
It's a good question. As tech folks, we're first in line to see this wonderful dream we have crumble, both from government and private actions. (I'm looking at you, Facebook)

In my opinion the only hope we have is to eliminate anything looking like a Democratic or Republican talking point from our language. We live in an age of people forming up into these two groups and yelling at the other one. If we play that game, then it's much more profitable for the politicians to keep the debate alive than settle it.

Our model should be the temprance movement which ended up outlawing alcohol in the early 1900s. They didn't care which political party you were in, as long as you voted the same way on a very simple proposition: should alcohol be banned or not. (Making it simple prevented politicians from playing weasel-word games)

They were effective. Politicians feared them.

I don't see this happening with tech issues, sadly. Instead, I see the big tech players setting up lobbying firms and the troops all rallying around one party or the other. That's a strategy for a long, losing battle, not a winning one.