skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I think that you meant your comment to be taken at face value (ie, "disbelief is not an option") you should realize that from a different starting point it also fits well as a scathing attack on the state of modern science.

Before anyone who didn't actually read the link goes off at it - this is a peer reviewed, repeated study - mice react to drugs differently depending on the sex of the researcher

Absolutely. The statistics are text-book standard, and the research is peer-reviewed and published in a major journal, so as Kahneman said about the now discredited priming studies, "You have no choice but to accept that the major conclusions of these studies are true."[1]

It potentially plays havoc with ALL past experiments with rodents

And possibly not just rodent experiments! We may even want to re-evaluate the weight we put on statistical claims across a broad range of fields. I think Gelman covers it well in his article "I disagree with Alan Turing and Daniel Kahneman regarding the strength of statistical evidence": http://andrewgelman.com/2014/09/03/disagree-alan-turing-dani...

[1] To Kahneman's credit, in perhaps the most genuine mea culpa I've ever read, he later confessed that he had "placed too much faith in underpowered studies": https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/reconstruc...
We've had it before, and the way forward is very simple: Internet Service resale at cost.

The major internet providers would be forced to resell to other internet providers access at the costs to the company, including labor, maintenance, etc. Resellers then compete with the company to produce the lowest overhead.
I think this the fundamental problem: so few people have any idea how the internet works. Sending packets is nothing like consuming water. The marginal cost of internet use is 0. But, because all you can get across to people is "series of tubes" the ISPs make out like criminals charging for for bits.

With any luck the next generation will look at bandwidth caps the same way young people today are shocked anyone was so stupid as to allow companies to charge per SMS message.
On your first point, I don't think most (fiscal, small-gov't) conservatives would have much problem with tax incentive for electric vehicles, or anything that generally reduces taxpayer burden. But they are typically vocally against subsidies and grants that favor particular individuals or companies over others -- which is not only unfair, but also adds to more spending. It does little, but to help justify a bigger gov't.

Secondly, SpaceX have been spending millions in political lobbying and McCain's political campaign is among many who benefited from such largess (and his own McCain institute) from Musk. Most Americans don't see this kind of lobbying activities with millions dollars spent on politicians as a "fundamental building block" of a well-functioning gov't, but a corrosive force that serves interests of a few at the expense of the majority, however well-meaning in the eyes of Musk supporters. I personally don't see any problem with organizing an interest group to better represent their views -- or lobbyists -- but when it involves so much money and the final outcome ends in lopsided legislation favoring one particular individual or company over others, it's probably a good time to question their "invest-in-politicians-who-can-help-you" relationship.

Ideologically, McCain's views are aligned with those of the "neoconservative" wing of the republican party -- he's mostly known for aggressive foreign policies, American democracy everywhere, and subsequently pro-Military Industry Complex (MIC) which inevitably all leads to a bigger gov't. While most conservatives are also for strong national defense, not everyone is necessarily on board with permanent warfare and welfare (and police) state and that's why "other" conservatives are so annoyed with McCain.

So, once you put these together, it's not too difficult to see why the holy alliance between Must and McCain is criticized by those on the right. They are not necessarily grounded on "anti-facts" or alt-right views as you mischaracterized here. It's just too bad that your pathetic, uninformed comment had to start with the poisoning the well logical fallacy.
Both arguments are valid at the same time. People do absolutely shop around to skip waiting lines in state-run systems or save money by getting private treatment cheaper (UK citizens getting cheaper IVF in Spain is a common one I'm familiar with), but it's also sometimes true that certain treatments or medications that have been made available in one State that might not yet be certified for clinical use in another. New stem cell based therapies (the merits of which I have no idea...) in some South American nations is one example of the latter.
They were allegedly against Net Neutrality according to the journalist investigation done [1].

Also, an analysis done by the Knight Foundation for the 2014 proceeding showed that the highest number of unique comment where pro Net Neutrality while the only comments against NN where from templated answers [2]

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/a-bot-is-flooding-the-fccs-webs...

[2] https://knightfoundation.org/features/netneutrality/
I thought the same thing but on scroll to bottom more entries were added in "infinite" fashion and as new cities appeared filter worked. Not ideal though.
Wok stir fry: the key to a happy, long, and inexpensive life.
Sorry, I mistook you for someone attempting to add value to the conversation.
I live in NYC, the city is basically sliced and diced by the internet providers. Every apartment I've had I haven't had a choice.
I mean look at how foreign governments are using social media to influence elections across the world. Fake news to fake comments to spread one's agenda.

Edit .. see this top story now on the homepage here about the New York states attorney investigating iNternet fakery https://medium.com/@AGSchneiderman/an-open-letter-to-the-fcc...

I still do not see why there isnt the same uproar as there was previously that stopped SOPA. What's different this time?
If I were to guess, they have connections to American customers, supplies, investors or whatever who might be implicated in some sort of wrongdoing, breaking American laws.

There is no mention in the article of any such thing though.

Basically, there are just these tidbits:

1. Mr. Ye has rubbed shoulders with some famous Americans, like Allen Greenspan and Henry Kissinger.

2. Mr. Ye's think tank has some relationship with the UN and has organized conferences that that "have featured senior American military officials and Chinese People’s Liberation Army generals." (That being relayed information evidently gleaned from that think tank's website itself.)

So I think we have to fall back on general observations about US being the self-appointed policeman to the world. If anyone is bribing anyone's ass anywhere, and it ruffles U.S. feathers for any reason (like some U.S. ventures in that area are disadvantaged), it's a US DOJ matter!
That's not an empty .net core project; that's a sample project that you can run and see a whole website which itself is documentation on creating .net core site.

However, I'm not sure Visual Studio gives you any way to avoid this when you use the GUI to start a new core project. It is however possible to create a non-Core ASP.NET project with literally nothing in it.
Are you non-east-Asian? Chinese police answers to foreigners so quickly that jokes about foreigner-aided-reporting-to-police-as-a-service are circulated.
These exchanges are running off of traditional programming, not decentralize programming correct? Isn't it possible to run them decentralized like with Ethereum or something? Maybe that's too slow? Just wondering as trust mixed with trustless seems tainted by design. I imagine getting some encrypted thing passed with a one time transaction id to transfer from a real fund that when completed, verifies transfer and notes that in the blockchain. I don't know though, haven't done programming DAP stuff yet.
Which "other stuff"?

Sounds like a cool thing you build. I would like to use this. Please ping me on my email address - it is in my HN-profile. (You haven't put your email in your profile.)
Because laziness has never been found and diagnosed in psychology and psychiatry.

It's a moral attribute originally stemming from some religions.
FCC's Ajit Pai: 'Heavy-Handed' Net Neutrality Rules Are Stifling the Internet
As much fun as it is to bash Microsoft and Windows (although, let's face it, Windows has been so much better in the last few releases), I personally think Microsoft, its engineers, as well as its PM deserve (some?) empathy rather than anger for this.

I mean, I can almost imagine how this thing happens. Someone somewhere sometime said, "hey, wouldn't it be cool if xyz?" Someone else replied with "oh yeah, and it's not THAT hard!" And the PM is probably like "well, low risk, too, so whatever you wish."

Then, the feature is thrown together, with or without explicit planning. It probably attracts way higher attention than expected, because either it is hooked into mechanism intended for real important stuff or it can be demoed so nicely (imagine: if you are the developer doing demoing, you probably have the damned tracking number ready for copy and paste). It does not support all operations, because no one looks at it twice after some brief "yo, so cool" moment.

The annoyance may or may not have a bug associated with it somewhere. But let's be realistic. If you are a PM, which one would you choose: "some nobody-care feature is not easy to use" or "if you stand on 1 leg, jump 3 times, press the code of Mordor, Windows seg faults itself". The 1st one is vague and, let's be frank, not that big of a deal. The 2nd one is a big deal: data loss and all manners of unspeakable conditions may break loose. So, any PM would do the 2nd bug first.

I mean, seriously, how would you ensure this tiny corner (which a comment below actually says, "I did not realize it exist") is "easy to use"? No automation tests can catch it. Demoing (again, the developers know how to use it and probably come prepared) won't catch it. A/B testing probably won't even get to it. Its bugs (except if that bugs involving Start menu crashing down) probably have priority between "when I have better work-life balance" and "when the machine is capable of fixing its own issues."

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I will agree that all of these don't justify for a shitty experience. Shitty experiences, no matter how small, are shitty. But then, even LaTeX, perfected as it is, annoys me once in a while. Even Emacs, glorious as it is, has "I swear I will switch to Eclipse" moments. And Scheme has about 70 different ways of doing OO programming, none of which really works for my little case.

So, maybe a bit more love/understanding? It probably helps your (i.e. the users') blood pressure anyway.
It's only corruption if there is some sort of quid pro quo.

If I were telecom lawyer, I'd rather Title II to be honest. Creates more work.
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I wish I had checked in the generated code for some of my very old CS assignments as I no longer have the tools necessary to generate the code. :(
Where? I'm going to bet large sums of money that the vast majority of Comcast subscribers have no real alternative.
Guy did it for free man. Give him a little slack. He's not even a programmer. He does Mario speed runs. He didn't post his video here, someone else did.

And I absolutely disagree with the "Robot voice would be better." That's horrific.
Under pressure, Facebook agrees to give users some disclosure on Russian posts
>Why can't the FTC regulate or prosecute monoplies, which is its job, instead a bunch arbitrary rules by the FCC?

Basically the FTC doesn't have regulation authority over telcos because they are common carriers and thus statutorily exempted from regulation by the FTC.
I used to joke with my colleagues that you never have to write "Excel" in your CV :)

Now that I am grown up a bit, I recognize it can be useful. The real life problem, for me, is recognizing when comes the moment to stop sending spreadsheets by mail and write software, instead.

Or buy it. Lots of people buy sofware, they tell me. Why don't they feel the pleasure of crafting every single bit by themselves?
Does it? Why?

People who perform poorly at their jobs should either be transferred to another position or terminated. Why is this a controversial position?

If you are the product manager in charge of Cortana, you failed big time. Again, this should be incontroversial.
I don't think this is completely true. If someone actually has a meaningful advantage in safety, it's in their best interest to publicize that and use it as a wedge between them and the competition. Bonus points if you can use the ensuing backlash of your competitors killing people to write regulations that lock them out of the market.

Not necessarily what is best for people, but I don't think their incentives are as aligned as you make it seem.
It could also choose to open a steel factory and produce I beams -- why are we not criticizing its low steel output?

Twitter would immediately lose all utility to me if it transitioned out of the business of being a forum/socialization platform to a poorly sourced algorothmic newspaper. (They're flirting with it -- and frankly, it doesn't seem to be going well, because that's not what people want.)

It seems outright disingenuous to suggest that Twitter and the NYT are in the same business, and seems to be based entirely around a false equivalence about "publish". There are multiple kinds of businesses that publish things, and the solution to problems in one domain aren't just to be a differemt type of business.
Have we experienced high-profile auditors, accountants and other "independent third parties" in the financial industry lying, prevaricating, or even acting in bad faith in recent memory?

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article2...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-0209010315sep01-story...
The End of Net Neutrality = the Beginning of the Fragmented Web
The internet as we know it today is the result of years of technological evolution. Now we have the hardware and the benefit of hindsight to make creating networks much easier than it was the first time around. I am suggesting that once NN is dead, alternative networks of free information exchange are going to start popping up. The internet will fragment as necessary for free information exchange.

When discussing this ideas, people often get hung up on infrastructure. Remember that Puerto Rico is enjoying wireless internet infrastructure right now.

And keep in mind that a computer network does not need to support high speed communication to be a valid means of exchanging free ideas- which is what is really at stake with NN.
There is regulation based medical tourism. For example, the Czech Republic is the only country in the "westernish" world which allows a special kind of IVF in which the nucleus is taken out of a near menopausal woman's egg, and placed into the mitochondrial fluid of a young woman's egg, and then fertilized using sperm from the husband, making a baby with genes from 3 people. Women from more western countries pay good money for this treatment.

Whether it is a good thing that it is legal here is questionable. Doctors seem very skeptical of this 3 genetic parent baby approach, and I don't know if it is because it is inherently risky, or if they are just conservative regarding the ethicalness.
Great link thanks. Best floating point essential concept video I have seen.
Thanks for the links!

I don’t yet know enough to evaluate the quality of the instruction here. Why do you think this is a terrible resource?
Trump belongs to the wind.
The content of the communication can be (and many times is) encrypted. Encryption is irrelevant here. You still need addresses of the local and remote to make the connection happen. That plus some pretty simple heuristics are all that is needed to make an informed guess into the nature of media in transit.

You could spin this argument in the other direction and say that the contents in the pipe should be extremely visible and transparent to everybody. It would be a complete violation of privacy, but it will also identify (to everybody) the kinds of traffic flowing and the costs of that traffic in terms of congestion (if any).
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Except for the CEO being changed and having a toxic corporate culture that didn't change and produced the same deadly car across CEO's after promising change but did nothing different--including not stopping production of a deadly vehicle.

I probably should have spoonfed the readers more. They grew up in a world that doesn't need critical thinking anymore so it's probably too much to ask for their brains to activate while reading on a website and have them put distinct ideas together to form a grander one.

Must. Downvote. Comments full of facts but from people I dislike. Must.... errooorrrrroooorrrrrr. 505.

It's okay. Every time I see downvotes here, I know I said something great but I just pissed someone in power off. I'm used to being a minority oppressed by a majority in power. It's no big deal. The system just builds people like that these days.
"Our business is being regulated, so let's stop trying to make more money," said no business ever. A business is not going to stop making a good investment in their market just because there is regulation.
"Giving the government near-total control over our internet access is going to introduce more problems that it would solve."

Prove that is part of it, otherwise never utter this lie again.

I am so sick and tired of shills posting this lie with nothing to back it up.
I built an email newsletter system using Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, S3, and SES.

I think it is a perfect application for that stack because it gets nearly 100% uptime and durability without having to worry about keeping a server up. Even if I was handling 1000 requests a day, it wouldn't be worth keeping a server running, but if it grows I can scale it up quickly by just turning a few knobs.
That's true. I still don't see the connection to self-driving cars, though, and the idea that regulations "come at a cost and that at some point the costs can become prohibitive".

GP is concerned about "regulatory capture", but the UK/Spain example you gave is about states being faster or slower to allow access to certain medical techniques, not corporations exploiting the system to lock in their market dominance.
> what Canada does and require ISPs to sell Internet access at fixed wholesale rates

Actually, it's access to the last mile that's sold a fixed rates. The ISPs lease aggregated links to the last mile network depending on how much capacity they need. These ISPs have their own internet uplinks. There are ISPs that are just pure resellers but I'm not sure if this is regulated.

But even this had a net neutrality issue. The ISPs leasing out the last mile access started to throttle certain traffic (bittorrent and VPNs) for their customers AND the customers of the ISPs that leased the last mile.

Recently the fight was over access to the new FTTH connections.
Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link 50 years ago
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What about all the people who have lost their jobs after a company goes under due to horrible product teams? If someone isn’t pulling their weight, you have to boot them for the greater good.
Every single interaction I've ever had with Cortana has been complete garbage. It's worse than the old-school "simple string match on installed applications and files on disk" in every way, yet has somehow supplanted it?! I wish there were some easy way to completely uninstall this frustrating garbage in Windows 10 and go back to the simple interface that just worked.

I cannot even begin to count how many times I've tried to search for an application by name that I know is installed, only for it not to be found, then have to manually navigate in Windows Explorer to Program Files (or Program Files x86, damn you Microsoft) and launch it by double-clicking on the executable itself, which was named exactly what I thought it was and yet Cortana couldn't find it.

I never want to perform a web search from the Windows start menu. If I want a web search I'll do it in Chrome's address bar. When I type "notepad" I want it to launch Notepad, not query the web!

Does anyone think that Cortana is an improvement? How did it even get launched in this state?
The article echoes something I've been thinking lately, which is we won't win unless we go on the offensive. We need to rally around collectivizing the entire infrastructure of the Internet as a public good. Clearly the corporate interests are going for the kill. We can't be fighting every year just to maintain the same ground - we need to tackle this problem at its root.
Scroll up, Stephen. These quotes are in the thread at the heart of this discussion, and they are pulled directly from the article.

I mean... I appreciate getting downvoted for reading the article and addressing it directly, but if there are indeed adequate residency spots then you are disagreeing with the article and would be better served to focus on what it gets wrong instead of attacking me for making rather rudimentary observations that follow from its core premise.
Removal of Net Neutrality benefits the largest players. Which is also why Americans sure as dawn will lose it with their current legally corrupt political system.
You realize that all utility networks are regulated and have been since the advent of electrification and telegraphs? There's no neutral here, it's a fundamentally regulated industry. Exactly what solution would you offer that isn't in the form of regulation?
Perhaps, but HIPPA compatible cloud services is newsworthy, especially with a name brand client.
Headline clarification: Bitcoin mining consumes more electricity than the electricity consumption of 159 individual nations, not 159 nations combined.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/21/fcc-net-neutrality...

Not only are they removing federal rules, they want to prevent states from making their own rules. That seems an extra special kind of awful. "Big Government is overstepping its bounds with regulation, so we're going to have big government step in and prevent local governments from making their own choices."
> stole others fingerprints

IOCs don't really work that way. It's pretty unlikely that FireEye, et. al. would be fooled by copypasta binaries.

But there is an interesting point related to this: US corporations are clearly going to the mat for their host country's intelligence services. Note this in the context of the dozen(s?) of cases of foreign election interference the CIA has been involved in.

I don't think there's any doubt that Russia interfered with the US election. But I do find it interesting that GooFaceAmaSoft are deafeningly silent on the transparency or policing of their host country's own psyops.
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I'm not sure why i'd want to use this site when i can just go to tradingview
Prove that your concern somehow is more real under Net Neutrality than without. Seriously. I am sick of this lie being tossed around. Did you completely forget the NSA just setting up shop inside AT&T's switch room? What about Net Neutrality or the lack thereof would change any of that?
It’s stated within the first 4 sentences of the article...