skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://mobile.twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/92370187109244108...
I suspect that the court in fact found the patent to be stupid (not merely "protected opinion"), but stopped short of writing that into the verdict. The EFF substantiate their "stupid" accusation with reason; it's not just schoolyard name-calling.
This ends up being the case for me for my Android Wear watch. The thing keeps vibrating and I am more tempted to check it out even while I'm in the presence of others. When the phone was in my pocket it took more effort and was a bigger gesture than it is to just furtively look down at my wrist and swipe a few things away.
This is the crux of the issue. Without consumer choice, an ISP can target whatever local regions it wants with specific, anti-consumer plans. Unless there is an regulation to keep them in check..
So what is everyone worried about?

Even if the ISPs did that, I'm sure at least one would advertise "We offer all websites unrestricted, no limits!!" and everyone would subscribe to them.
>>I would say 200 INR gets you a decent restaurant meal.

200 INR too is expensive. Even with a programmer's salary I wouldn't spend that money on one single meal.

Most people who have a need to spend that much are better off carrying their lunch. It would cost you 1/8th of that, plus home cooked food means healthy food in general.
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Is there any international coverage of US news that follows a better format?
Contact your congressional representatives. Resistbot makes this easy:

https://resistbot.io

It's free, and will fax/write your House rep / Senators on your behalf with your own message. Call them, too. It takes just a few minutes to tell the staffer that answers that you want your congressperson to protect net neutrality. Just your name and, usually, zip code (to confirm that you're a part of their constituency) gets your quick opinion tallied.
https://resistbot.io exists now - how will your creation be different?
I did the calculation using quick Google search numbers. for California's state budget $183 billion/ 39.5 million people = $4,600 per capita

Canada ($330 billion - $14 billion in defense) / 35 million people = $9,028 per capita

So Canada spends more. But a lot of US government health care spending is at the federal level. And the differences how, for example, education is funded with a complicated mix of state and federal dollars makes it just too hard to make an apple to apple comparison.
Look, I am all game for attacking fake news. However, this seems to me like a blanket ban which could apply to anyone. For example, Fox News has a slant which one could consider highly misleading. Would they get de-ranked too?

Wouldn't a better solution be to identify the claims in the article and automatically alert the reader that one or more claims have been debunked? Then let the user decide?
> less biased

> vice

I mean come on now; that's just swinging all the way the other direction.
Agreed, but with the exception of EV-SSL/TLS, certs are fungible and therefore no site needs 'real' identity validation, because you can't actually see the identity anyway (short of running cert patrol or opening up the details page). It's also a crying shame that chrom* hid those details in developer tools now -- when before, at least, you had a fighting chance of seeing crypto/expiration/etc details. (Of course, with DV certs being treated the same as OV certs, someone with a DV cert could just forge all of the metadata, as long as they control the domain; DV CA's don't verify the metadata, by definition.)

In other words, I remember faxing data into verisign or thawte back in the day (not even that long ago), but OV is just not worth paying for anymore: OV provides zero value, now that DV certs are accessible. Someone who had access to your domain could just get a DV (or LE) cert and no one would be the wiser.

I'm not sad to say that Comodo wrote their own death certificate (ha) by racing to the bottom. It's hard to beat free and open source.. the only thing they've got to hold onto now is EV, and that's of diminishing value now as well.
This ^ is worth its weight in gold. The ability to adjust speed in increments of 0.1 is really good. You can watch a lecture at 1.7x 1.8x or if the speaker is slow, then up to 2.3x and more...

On the topic of 2.3x video watching, I've observed that "question periods" after lectures are very difficult to watch at 2x speed. It seems the pace of "lecture speech" is deliberately slower for most prepared speeches, but when it comes to live question-answer periods rates jumps up. Has anyone else noticed this?
Net Neutrality proponents have really gone off the deep end. I'd love to see how they react if the only user-visible changes end up being lower monthly bills.
A decent veg burger, with fries costs around 50 rupees in Burger King, in Bangalore. Or you could eat at Darshinis, and they serve Indian meals(Rice, Sambar, Some friend snack, banana) at more or less the same price.
I don't do podcasts, but sometimes I'll do video tutorials, and the best sites (Microsoft University, Lynda.com, etc) have both transcripts and the option to listen at double speed. I always take advantage of both options. Hearing and reading the material simultaneously helps it stick in my mind better, and listening at double speed effectively cuts in half the time it takes to complete the course, which makes me feel SO much better about spending another couple hours in front of the computer at night, instead of going outside to play.
Honest question: is it worth calling my Congress person if they are already vehemently against repealing the current net neutrality rules? Does it count for anything?
Grab your popcorn, this is just the beginning.
I'm against media consolidation in general, but Trump has so polluted the waters with his crusade against CNN that there's no way they'll win the court case. AT&T and Time Warner will enter in his twitter feed as evidence and courts will side with them.

Really the only thing that's preventing Trump from being one of the worst leaders in history is that he's so bad at his job that he can't successfully implement his own bad ideas.
> Thinly veiled ad for Google Cloud products.

I skipped to the middle and this is my thought exactly. I skipped straight into one of the guys rattling off why chose to use three different completely unnecessary in this case Google cloud products by listing off the benefits of them... ugh.

Could be titled: "how to ridiculously over-engineer something using every Google cloud feature you can cram into one project"

Too bad, I had my hopes up.
Can you give examples of audiobooks that have great voice acting?
Amazon, Walmart, and Google were each one, focused company that got to where they were that way. Mergers of companies that scheme on their customers with oligopoly or monopoly tactics have almost always been bad for their customers. Also, if they were so great, they wouldn't be lobbying to block taxpayer-funded alternatives because it's always better when it's the private sector. The municipal versions would be slower, have worse service, cost more, and fall apart due to red tape. Yet, many that occurred despite Comcast et al's bribes to politicians were delivering better and faster service at same price or cheaper.

Better to split them up even further with regulations on things like sharing lines to force them to improve speed and service.
Like the article says, even in capitalist countries with lively economy, public parks are free to enter. And this doesn't even have the scale to affect the economy in any way, as compared with stuff like free healthcare. The Soviet economy survived on unpaid (slave) labor, when that became largely frowned upon in the civilised world, the decline was inevitable.
My main concern with this kind of service is that most of the times I fill out a form it has personal information which I don't want to risk leaking somewhere which is why I prefer local apps that don't transmit over the internet.
This picture from an article in 2015 on the site, https://www.instapainting.com/blog/company/2015/10/28/how-to...
exemplifies the robotic like assembly line of some of these paintings.
Related news: 'Slap at the First Amendment’ - RT America forced to register as foreign agent
> That aside, you have to work a little bit harder to discern religious practices that are rooted in activities that are observably and directly beneficial to individuals and society (meditation, compassion)

Leaving meditation out of this, I think the religious practices you're implying were basic human moral practices adopted _by_ religion, not the other way around.
This is good for the EFF in the short term, but what if the Australian court finds that the EFF is ignoring its order and so must pay fines?

Perhaps in response to US court saying "the Australian court lacked jurisdiction over EFF", the Australian court will say that the US court has no jurisdiction in Australia. The Australian court could conceivably force the EFF to change how its site is shown to people in Australia. Then after realizing that people in Australia can still access the US version of the EFF's site, force the EFF to change its site in all countries.

This sort of problem could become more common, such as the case that Google lost where the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that Google had to remove results in violation of Canadian law from all Google results worldwide.
I'm not sure that most 'readers' are able enough to balance points and counterpoints. If readers were capable of separating fact from fiction, you would think that 'fake news' would be less prominent.
Good. Russia Today is not a journalistic entity, it is the propaganda arm of Putin's dictatorial regime.
I have made a browser extension that helps me put every webpage I read through TTS. I also get current word highlight on text and automatic page scroll. It helps me focus twice as good, I can't even stand reading without TTS support any more.

Unfortunately I can only stand one voice - "Alex" from OSX, at about 1.3x ... 1.5x speed. Other voices I find irritating. I'm following the new WaveNet TTS voices with great expectations, but they don't seem to come near my laptop.

WaveNet: https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...
Google makes no illusion about it any longer, they aim to curate what their users have access to and want to ensure that the curation conforms to an acceptable spectrum of thought.

They are in the business of feeding users advertisements and information, and hitherto that has benefited users with easier access to the world's full breadth of information and ideas. That era is drawing to a close.
I agree that the idea of mindwandering while paying attention is foreign. I think I had a slightly different response than the grandparent, which is to drag the rest of the people in the seats along with me. I am sure there were many people who were bothered by my questions and hand-raising (in 200 person lectures), but sometimes my questions were real questions silently shared by others in the class. I think it isn't uncommon that students treat lectures as very inconvenient 3D video explanations, and many professors are so bored and detached that to veer slightly off course is to disgruntle them significantly. I think of it this way: as the student, paying tuition, your instructor is effectively working for you. If you left, they would not be able to do this part of their job (which some would prefer). If your professor isn't facilitating your task at hand (conveying a holistic understanding of the topic under discussion), then they aren't being effective at what you are paying for them to do, and it might behoove one in such a position to take active corrective action (drag a better explanation of the topic at hand out of the professor). This is all somewhat cavalier as I haven't been in school for a long time, but I feel like it was an approach that helped me, given it is hard for me to multitask as described, and would have helped others whom I have known.
Early days in all these kind of schemes are good. These days drivers don't make much.

There is a wild rush to get your cab listed or attached to some BigCo transport, because you get paid better, plus guaranteed business. Also note most people driving for Uber/Ola are cabs from black money sources. Most government employees now buy cabs and auto rickshaws and do this business, as avenues for spending black money are drying out. So at the end cab driver makes less money.

Most Uber/Ola business in Bangalore is around IT parks, Malls etc. Where there is a lot of traffic during peak hours, and you can't do more than one trip in the morning.
> One of the things that concerns me with such projects is that how they effect other eateries in the area.

Probably less than you might imagine, for more than one reason.

First, it adds another attractor to the area, and while some people will only get the cheapest food others will at least occasionally have a desire for and money for something different or fancier. Those decisions may very well not be made until the person or group is already in that area. This is why many restaurants are often found in clusters.

Second, for some of the nicer options this may mean a shift from people getting everything as cheap as possible (but still more than the cost now) to people being able to save money on 1-2 meals a day and getting something nicer for another at one of those commercial entities.

Finally, while some places that would be most directly in competition might fail other businesses will surely move in to capture the business of the crowds of people who now have a little more money available to spend.
Obviously this is a lazier approach than others that could be taken, but I do think that it's completely fair that a state run news agency would be given less inherent credibility on a wide range of topics(read: any that might effect the nation in a positive/negative way.) How can you guarantee the objectivity of a by-design mouthpiece for a government? You can't.
Good question. I'm in a somewhat similar boat and I've been haphazardly working through the courses on here:
https://github.com/ossu/computer-science

Since I have a good amount of actual development work, I'm doing Algorithms and Data Structures. Then I'll have a go at Nand to Tetris, since I have the book.

There's infinite room to grow from there. Copy the Trello board and it's a fun little game to get through. It's been fun and not as intimidating as you may think.

Good luck!
Another shot across the bow to Atlassian.
as opposed to... putting all of our eggs in any number of CA baskets, where the CA's are basically random companies of random ethics in random locations and where the loss of any one of our eggs means the loss of ALL of them?

It's already gone bad for the security field ;)
But can EFF officials still travel to Australia now?
Fox News probably should get de-ranked, yes, in comparison to generally reputable and truthful right-leaning news sources like the Wall Street Journal.
I'm also extremely disappointing with the lack of SQLite interface with the new Web Extensions.

While it's possible to re-implement Tab Groups with the new API, extensions like SQLite manager [1] will never work again.

I wrote instructions [2] on how to restore lost tab groups after update (involves downgrading and disabling updates).

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sqlite-manage...
[2] https://github.com/Quicksaver/Tab-Groups/issues/560#issuecom...
> _“Good to have Google on record as defying all logic and reason: facts aren’t allowed if they come from RT, ‘because Russia’ – even if we have Google on Congressional record saying they've found no manipulation of their platform or policy violations by RT,”_ Sputnik and RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan said in a statement.

Funny, the official PR rings like a thousand troll posts I've read.

Good on Alphabet, some CSR in this area is long overdue.
It seems to me, that's it's becoming increasingly difficult to call most of these organizations 'journalistic' anymore.
Another industry waiting to be disrupted by a combination of robots & AI, so these paintings can be produced automatically every corner of the globe.

Actually this would make a pretty good YC submission.
im confused, both by what you mean, and how that would help?
> (Of course, with DV certs being treated the same as OV certs, someone with a DV cert could just forge all of the metadata, as long as they control the domain; DV CA's don't verify the metadata, by definition.)

The Baseline Requirements require certificate authorities to be able to verify the correctness of the information that they include in each certificate -- including for DV. See the first subsections of section 3.2.2 of

https://cabforum.org/wp-content/uploads/CA-Browser-Forum-BR-...
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> Missed opportunities for knowledge-sharing that could have helped work go faster

So much this. I've learned a ton from my teammates by listening to them talk through their approach and hearing it develop over time.

As a side note, I'm charmed to see the author is both a software developer and a psychology student. That seems like the perfect combination forthis thoughtful piece on teams.
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A little more info: http://macdailynews.com/2017/11/20/why-does-imac-pro-have-an...
People are quick to bring up donald because his incompetence will almost certainly result in the lawsuit failing and this merger being allowed to go through. That's sad.
Unless the EFF site is hosted in Australia, such a ruling cannot have any effect. A court could force Australian ISPs to block eff.org though. Interesting things could also happen if the EFF used an Australian DNS provider, but that is quite unlikely.
I realize you maybe didn't mean it this way, but anti-anti-vaxxer is one of the most offtopic directions a thread like this could go.

Predictable, generic tangents are the information death of HN discussion. I almost wrote 'heat death' but I suppose heat is one thing they don't lack. Such things overwhelm the intellectually curious things HN exists for, and this article is quite interesting.
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Interesting. I'm curious how the USA and Canada compare on privatization, outsourcing, cronyism, etc.

The domain I know a lot about, election administration, the various US state, county, local governments are being fleeced by the vendors.

From what little I know about education, all the standardized tests, text books, charter schools, etc. are just excuses to divert funds to cronies.
Segment in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtNyOzGogc
>>A couple of them were "for hire" drivers

Most of them are that way. Most cops are into this business, its getting impossible to invest black cash in a meaningful way. There are now capital controls in every investment. Want to buy gold, land, mutual funds, whatever? Get ready to submit you PAN and Aadhar. So they can't spend money that way. At very same time, they can't sit on cash, because inflation.

They generally buy the vehicle in a relative's name, with black cash(Huge second hand market for this). And do this cab business. Most drivers are poor ex-farm workers. So they take whatever they get.

The last time I heard from a auto rickshaw driver, more or less every cop in Bangalore has something like this going.
> the Australian court will say that the US court has no jurisdiction in Australia

One would hope that'd be a given and go without saying.

> The Australian court could conceivably force the EFF to change how its site is shown to people in Australia

Not without jurisdiction over the EFF they can't.

> Then after realizing that people in Australia can still access the US version of the EFF's site, force the EFF to change its site in all countries.

Not without jurisdiction over the EFF they can't.
Actually, only a slightly harder time. If the company hasn't already locked down all the TLD's for their given name, then it's probably a piece of cake to register that company name in some locale and then get the EV for it. (I've done the EV verifications, and they're not really that challenging; and how could they be, since they have to validate companies all over the world, with varying amounts of paperwork, etc.) Keep in mind that companies in the United States are registered (generally with the Secretary of State) in their state, so now you've got fifty different ways of verifying just U.S. companies. Someone registered ringaround, Ltd in California already? Just register it in Nevada, or Florida, or Delaware, or.. you get the picture. Many of these can be registered in about fifteen minutes with a credit card.

But not to pick on the U.S.. if you're from outside the country, the U.S. is actually a pretty nice place to base your company. But, if you were the EV company, how would you verify a company in Nevis or Timbuktu? How will you REALLY know if that company is even legit or if the company just hands out "Corp" or "Ltd" or "IBC" to anyone who pays $50 on a credit card?

EV isn't quite a joke, but it's not really as useful as the companies pushing it make it out to be.
I'm an Overcast user who cranks it up to 3x+ speeds, minimizing silences and voice boosts. The experience is enhanced when you have earbuds (or some type of noise-cancelling). I also find that when I do it during an athletic activity like biking, I somehow can listen to more things probably because I'm doing something rote.

The real key to all this though is when someone finally creates this for online articles or books - sure, I could download a version, format change in calibre and then have it read to me via Voice Dream, but I need a better voice than the technical voices nowadays. I would definitely pay for this.

Lastly, this also occurs in other media for me - pretty much any movie before 1990 can be watched at 1.5X on VLC. Similarly, every YouTube clip is set to 2X usually as well. It may sound exhausting, but you just get used to it after a while.
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Learn and do things outside of your domain, for example learn to play an instrument. The mental gymnastic that music requires (which needs both intuition and rational thinking) will teach you to be more creative and to analyze things in a different way.

This is akin to telling an arts major to learn to program.

Personally, I believe it made my thinking much more visual and geometric (or maybe it was all that Legos I played with)
I wonder if it passed very close to a star and partially melted and then got stretched out by the gravity?
The best example of this is the fact that "evangelical voters" in the Republican primary election chose a venal divorce enthusiast who hadn't been to church in decades over a devout Southern Baptist whose father is a born-again evangelical minister. Hey, that guy looks like us and he was on TV! These people have no ethics; let's ignore them from now on.
There is a subtle but noteworthy difference between first amendment-protected opinionated reporting and foreign state sponsored propaganda.
Even the New York Times is suffering from over-politicization. Sad times.
Congressional staffers don't pay any attention to faxes any longer. The likelihood that your member of Congress pays attention to your contact is proportional to the amount of work you put into it. Faxes used to be good, but Resistbot changed the dynamic due to making sending one frictionless.

Source: A Senate staffer I had drinks with a few months ago.