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>I suppose there may be some rural routes where it's a good option, but I don't see it.

Some rural routes? Google for maps of Greyhound and Amtrak routes to see how many places the train doesn't serve.
Comcast is like the road, not taxis; the last mile is where all the expense is in consumer internet. And congestion charging is a legitimate thing.

Why should Granny have to pay more on her internet connection to subsidize your Netflix addiction? Because equal pay for equal access is that: a subsidy from light users to heavy users.
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Insurance conpanies have an obvious vested interest in the drug war being successful.
> We started with AOL internet and moved to a freer internet over time, all without net neutrality.

no, we started with 'the real internet' and then AOL showed up.
I don't want to carry anything but a phone, unless I have to.

I've been carrying a backpack for work for, I dunno, 4 years now? Lately I've taken to just leaving my laptop at work on weekends and I really enjoy the trip to/from the office those days. I commute via public transit or walk, it's only 2 miles and we have decent busses here in Philly. Not having to deal with a bag of any kind is really nice.

The current MacBook Air has slower CPU (single- and multi-core) compared to the latest iPhone 8/X.

At the end of the day, I'd love to grab my phone off a cradle and then, when I get home, if I need to keep working, drop it in a different cradle and have my window session ready and waiting for me. As a GCP user, basically 100% of my development consists of browser sessions and tmux sessions. That should be really portable state on a phone.
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No. No person owns an infinite number of dollars.

But I will happily bake you a loaf of bread for $10,000 each. In fact, I’d quit my day job to do that. That shortage wouldn’t last long.
"Hey grandma, run this and click Ok. Nevermind, just let me see it for a minute." Don't be a ridiculous strawman, everyone has friends or family they trust that are better aligned to their cause than multinational hardware vendors.
It's also probably hard to enforce unless they catch them in the act.

I don't understand why restaurants are just throwing the grease away though. Companies will buy it, pick it up, and use it to make soap or biodiesel or other products they can sell.
Teaching AI to Play a Platform-Fighting Game Using Genetic Neural Networks
Hello Hackernews, This is my first time posting here and this is a write-up of an AI i'm writing for the game I'm developing. I'm not here to try and market or anything and the article isn't really about the game it's more about the struggles of applying machine learning practices to AI in games. I'm no expert in the field and i'm sure people will have a lot of suggestions on what to try. I read a lot of the machine learning articles here so I thought I'd help contribute, let me know what needs work and what should be improved upon.
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You will have a hard time streaming Netflix/Hulu/VOD on anything < 25mbps.
Hand Sanitizer alters result of breathalyzer in new experiment
Globalization makes me crazy.

Budweiser anyone? It says American on the can.
> I wonder if focusing on making it easier for competitive ISPs to start up would do more towards bridging the gap between the two sides.

Fighting against properties of a service that make it a natural monopoly is usually not going to work as well as limiting the ability of the resulting monopoly to be leveraged. Either, of course, takes active regulation, and tends to be unpopular with both laissez-faire ideologues and the people holding the monopoly.
The concept of "alpha" leaders, especially as derived from wolf pack behavior, has been largely debunked. It was based on faulty research.
How is the sewage re-routed, anyway? I mean, if a core sewer gets clogged for 9 weeks, it's not like with cars where you can simply direct them to a parallel street?

Or do the workers have to blast the fatbergs while, basically, also standing in literal swimming turds around their legs?
That is perhaps the single greatest amount of bullshit in one paragraph that I have ever read in my entire life.
Lederhosen have been around for a while, at least since the middle ages, as they are simply farm worker pants made of leather.

Sure, the romanticised modern version is recent, deriving from German unification and the Rococco period.
Sadly, the main reason IMO this isn't possible is not just that desktop software is designed for the x86 instruction set, but that it's designed for lots of RAM and CPU usage, when it could be slimmer.
There's many things I don't like about comcast (like customer service and that you have to call them back every year to avoid huge price hikes), but the internet service itself is very reliable (at least for me).
It's pretty much the opposite you have to be afraid of. Netflix is a big player and can force anyone to play ball with them. The problem is that anyone not named Netflix will have a much bigger hurdle to reach you.

Imagine you're a startup trying to compete with Netflix, and on top of having to create your business and media content, your customers have to pay their ISP a fee to access your website (or have better bandwidth, or have it not counted in your allocated data plan). No one would be able to compete with them. Now replace Netflix with any <Google, Facebook, Uber, any incumbent really>... and yeah you get the idea.
If you care that much about your privacy and security you shouldn't use a cell phone at all. Your ISP's and network will be the biggest offender of collecting and selling your data.
It definitely did have a lot of value and customers, once they used it, loved it. From perhaps an emergency "this has stopped working" first call out you would have people then asking about exactly the sort of thing you mention with window blinds and become a repeat customer.

One thing we were looking to do was to offer it to companies as an employee perk - so the company would buy a certain amount of hours that could be used. Then staff could have a face to face call with the relevant tradesperson to discuss anything they like. It was too near the end though to get going :(
Those DM's weren't all that discrediting. I read them as Wikileaks trying to extract data from a source (Jr), which takes some convincing. Journalists asking "Hey give us Trump Sr's tax returns so we can dig for controversy" isn't going to yield results.
I am using Android without Google Play Services. Some apps don't give me notifications, but most of them work without an issue. Also, I'm using Firefox with uBlock on this phone. Couldn't be happier with that setup and my phone's battery life.
It's a tragedy of the commons, isn't it? If everyone left at 5PM, I'd be pretty tempted to stay till 6, for a chance to bond with management and get promotions faster.
On a side note, the fact that bank runs are rational decisions and that no FDIC-style agency exists to change the incentives seems bad for cryptocurrency in general.

(Possible responses include both "the traditional financial system and fiat currency is actually pretty good" and "someone should run a reliable FDIC equivalent as a business for new exchanges and new coins".)
IQ can be higher and lower during a lifetime, surprisingly, as long as you maintain brain plasticity.

This works even better for people who think of intelligence as something improvable, like physical skill. You might not start with great ability, but with practice you'll get better.
I think maybe this (barriers to entry) is the crux of the issue. Can you help me find more info on verizon and comcast doing these things?
The adaptations to a world of scarcity that made us successful as a species make us vulnerable in this world of abundance that we have created for ourselves.

We developed our own environment into a state in which we are not optimally adapted to it anymore.
Yes, which is immediately a problem when Netflix is competing with the cable company or one of its subsidiaries (which is the case) that don't have to pay those costs (or as much).

It allows the cable company to effectively tax the competition.
> I don't understand why restaurants are just throwing the grease away though

Space, for one reason. The smaller the restaurant, the lower the amount of space that can be dedicated to a grease trap and a storage tank. In other places, the age of the building (or its construction, e.g. when it's without a cellar!) might make constructing one impossible. Or the restaurant might be in a tiny old street that is not reachable by a truck.
The ISP isn't directly paying that transit price. Level3 or other Tier 1 network providers are. And they set their prices according to their costs (and based on their own competition). Their prices are passed on to the ISPs, who pass it on to their customers.

So, yeah, that transit cost is already accounted for in your monthly internet bill.

Also, it's not productive to try and pretend that the prices levied by ISPs have anything to do with their costs; like all capitalism-born companies their prices are based on what the market will bear. Municipal broadband providers have proven that cost is nothing but a red herring used to justify prices and a lack of innovation.
> The argument that Netflix needs to pay Comcast is absurd.

Absurd for you, not for the carriers. And, unfortunately, they are the ones dealing the cards now.

Outrageous, for sure, but according to Chairman Pai's plan, carriers will be able to charge both consumers and content providers.
You ask interesting questions.

> Do you think that the U.S. government has enough money to influence Intel and Microsoft?

I think the government uses (legal) force and threats to get what they want. The laws are in place to leave no options for the company. The money is more a compensation than a bribery. It could make the companies comply without needing to go nuclear. Also, it supports local companies.

> It is the other way around: both companies spend tens of millions on lobbyists.

Do these lobbysist have any influence on the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc., either directly or remotely through the government? I don't think so.

> William Binney said something. Does it mean that it applies to all companies? Did he mention which companies? Is he a credible source for things that occurred after he left NSA? Is he even a credible source outside his expertise?

All companies? I don't know, and it doesn't even matter. He talked about his time at the NSA. I consider him a credible source, since I have no reason not to.

> Do you think that European countries don't take action? What would you call the anti-trust suit against Google, GDPR, anti-tax haven lawsuit against Apple, and other actions?

Yes, I think they don't take sufficient and adequate action. The GDPR is a good step, but the race is not won by a step. It reminds me of an anti-corruption office in a one-party communist regime. A good thing, but not enough.

Please don't meddle this with taxes. That is a totally different outrageous clusterfuck.
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That makes sense. I wasn't familiar with the song.
Web File Manager which can be used as a middleware or standalone app
> I hate the drug testing bs. How is that relevant? If the worker is present, is sober

Have you ever seen a lathe accident, for example?

You can't spot test for being high on marijuana or pills like you can for drunkenness, so you rely on the urine test to keep everyone on the floor safe from being crushed in a press by a stoned co-worker (or themselves.)
The problem with a hands off approach is the lack of competition. I cant jump to another provider when the quality of my internet service does not live up to my expectations.

Since most ISPs have an effective monopoly there are no economic pressures for them to deliver quality service. So we need government to step in and treat them like the utilities they are.

Also, pretty sure Google doesnt pay for transit. They have a giant network footprint and push a ton of the internet's traffic. They are likely to be settlement free with everyone.
Many people in this comment thread are assuming that a team lead has more experience, or he is more talented then the devs.

I am sorry folks, but this is not how it works. In many companies the earlier you arrive, the better chance you have to become the team lead.

Also nepotism is absolutely widespread in the IT industry. People just simply assign tasks to people who they TRUST. And no-one can tell me that trust can be quantified, because it cannot be.

Having said that I am not arguing that these things would be inherently wrong, it all depends how the team lead handles it's responsibility. If he has talent, he will make the team collaborate and get everyone involved.

If he is just a random guy assigned to a team for whatever reason and he is an anti-talent then he will try to micromanage the shit out of everything and everyone and will simply induce stress, burn-out and discontent.

Also it's a completely different point, but many people are assuming a "chain of command", "subordination" and mindless self-abasement. But the thing is that the dev only has to do as much as commanded by his contract/by the law. If the contract is unclear, then well, the onus is on the employer to make a better contract. So there are many unknowns in this story. But in any case, implying or expecting something without communicating it towards the dev is just simply unethical, unprofessional and lame.

Some other commenters also pointed out that if roles and responsibilities are not clearly defined, then that's gonna cause problems. I fully agree with this. And it's happening more often that not that companies hire people using a generic form which basically outlines the companies rights in detail but it doesn't say a single word about the employee's supervisors, expected skills and tasks or his responsibilities.

And as I argued in another comment below, transparency solves many of the problems which are raising from the failures I mentioned here. It just happens to be more popular to be exclusive, restrictive, restraining and secretive in management circles which is the exact opposite of being professional in my book.
What was the price?

At half the cost, I get it. It's not pleasant, but there are plenty of people for whom the money is a lot more important than the time. Particularly if you're not currently employed, for example.
I travelled with Flixbus lots of times over the last couple of years and their WiFi is either broken or completely overloaded. Toilets commonly didn't have toilet paper or were downright unusable. Even more fun was that the Bundespolizei used to conduct random checks in Munich and pull out one or two passengers who then had their luggage searched for no good reason.
Sorry, no. Nobody thinks of you as a millionaire if you have 700K in assets. Just not what it means. Need that third comma...
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That's not relevant because it doesn't change under a driverless system. Uber already gets "their" cut. The change is that Uber gains as costs what the driver would have paid to own, maintain, and operate the vehicle, and gains as an income what it would have paid the driver. The "driver profit per mile" nicely factors those things together.
A more recent (Sep 2017) article on stepwells by the same author:

https://www.archdaily.com/878527/the-astonishing-vanishing-s...

I've been to the Adalaj Vav (stepwell) near Ahmedabad. Its distinctive architecture is a fusion of Hindu, Jain and Islamic styles. There is an interesting legend behind this. See http://jatinchhabra.com/adalaj-vav-stepwell-gujarat/
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Understanding Form, Function, and Logic of Clandestine Cellular Networks (2009)
I think there's a pretty good argument that if you create pollution you're responsible, at least in part, for people who die early because of it. I also think you could argue that taxing people, and providing no benefit in return, is murderous.

That benefit part is important though, which I don't see your system providing by just removing people.

But let's ignore all that for a moment and just say we go ahead with your system. Why are other groups moved to Australia, Mars, etc but you and whatever group you've decided you belong to get to stay where you are? What makes these other people move, because you asked? Paid? Forced? I am legitimately curious as to how your plan would work
> Visa and mastercard together employ ~20k people and handle much, much, much more transactions than all the cryptocurrencies combined.

20K people (debatable) and a bunch of computers and networks which need to be managed by more people, and the infrastructure doesn't run on sunshine either (yet).

Without laboring the point, if your position is:
* The methods applied by the crypto currencies waste more energy than our current system of currency.

I'll accept this, iff we make sure we've collected data rigorously and we notice that the difference is significant. Even then, there's no reason to give up on the idea of crypto currencies, we just have to make it more efficient.
Bugs. I have discovered two bugs personally, reported them to Coinbase, and those are still unresolved.

For context, I reported couple of bugs to MtGox back in the day, and even MtGox fixed them in under a month which is more than what I can say for Coinbase. I guess this is what happens when Coinbase speed-hired 100 people in one year with no proper team-building exercises.
"However, you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Client-side rendering saves server resources, and allows a single API to power web and mobile apps."

I don't believe I am. There are certainly uses where I openly acknowledge that using a React is a good idea. If you're building something that needs to be a single-page application, for example, then I grant you that concerns of SEO and URLs and whatnot are superfluous. If you have a totally dynamic site, coupled with a Facebook-esque guarantee that your assets are nearly always in the user's cache, and a huge team of front-end engineers to optimize your code, great. But again, that's a tiny minority of teams.

All webpages are "client-side rendered", so that's a bad use of words. That said, JS-based rendering only "saves resources" if you don't count the bandwidth of the user, the amount of code needed to display a page, render speed, time to first render, and so on. I can't count the number of Reactionary sites I visit on a daily basis that hang for 10+ seconds before rendering or peg my CPU -- and nine times out of ten, they're rendering static content. It's an epidemic, caused by people making bad technical decisions, and even big sites like Instagram get it wrong on the regular (Instagram, in particular, pegs my CPU so often while looking at photos that I believe their secret business model is to mine bitcoin in my browser.)

A pure API may be easier to optimize, but unless you've transferred the time you're saving to front-end optimization, I guaranteed that you're punishing your users -- particularly those who are on low-bandwidth connections and/or mobile devices -- with lower performance and higher system demands.
> Who happens to keep desktop peripherals on their desk but only does lightweight productivity tasks?

On the local machine? People whose serious work is done remotely, e.g., using Virtual Desktop infrastructure or cloud services. Heck, with even gaming starting to be doable remotely in the cloud, it's more credible every day that people can live with just light productivity and persistent browser state locally.
History has proved the Luddites wrong time and time again, perhaps this time will be different, but I doubt it.
It should be possible to reduce the latency quite a bit if a Wayland compositor had that goal in mind. It's something we're working on for Sway. Sometimes you have to choose beween (1) render correctly and (2) respond immediately to user feedback. When resizing windows for example, we can scale the old buffer up (stretching it) while we wait for a new buffer from the client, or we can wait to give you that feedback until the client has prepared a new buffer at the right size.
E-bikes: time to saddle up with low-cost energy and no sweat?
pretty impressive response time though.
I agree with most what you're saying, but I don't think NN necessarily goes against it.

While competition is by all means good, I also DON'T WANT ISP controlling what I can access and how. I want ISP simply just provide the service, and Title II does just that.
Outside of a central bank issuing cryptocurrency, you can remove counterparty risk with diversification. Stellar Lumens and Ripples are cryptocurrency based on the wikipedia definition:
A cryptocurrency (or crypto currency) is a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange using cryptography to secure the transactions, to control the creation of additional units, and to verify the transfer of assets.
You can buy a regular phone that has an active community on XDA forums and flash a ROM without installing google services afterwards.

If you can't do that, some phones just let you disable google services. On others you can try getting root access and then disabling them.

As an alternative (or addition for closed-source apps) to F-Droid I can recommend APKUpdater. It is highly configurable, has multiple apk sources, has search and can install apps from Google Play Store.
They generally don't. Try it.
The Amtrak multi-day sleeper car trip is not the romantic experience you are imagining. It is one of mechanical breakdowns, unexplained delays, and reaching your destination hours if not days late.

The actual beds aren't bad though, and the dining car food is decent.
so you're arguing that the ISPs are unable to price their packages at a reasonable value, essentially selling it at cost to consumers, and netflix has to pick up the tab?

thats just silly, come on!

if that were the truth, and it isn't, then they'd need to increase the price for the monthly package or decrease bandwidth for consumer packages.

/Edit: going with your example:
amazon doesn't have to pay to keep the streets in service, despite causing lots of (heavy) traffic through their deliveries.
they pay their delivery provider. just like netflix pays for its bandwidth to their ISP
Note the lack of two companies on the "day of action" site Netflix supposedly supported?

https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12/

Still, good to see they're making statements in favor of NN. Action would be better.
I am also curious about this. I used several plugins in earlier FF versions to reduce fingerprinting / change security preferences and settings. None of them seem to work on 57. The answer seems to be to just flip on "resistfingerprinting". Seems almost too easy... and available information isn't exactly clear.
Steve Jobs Interview with NPR's Terry Gross (1996)
Yep, I was aware of some of those, not trying to defame the good people of Galicia or anything, just trying to say that Iberian Romance languages are all pretty similar, and notwithstanding many exceptions the probability of easily finding nearly 1-to-1 translations of any given text is much higher than for English where you would inevitably lose more information in transit.
>But "no one pays for open source" frequently just isn't correct these days.

I understand it's paid for one way or the other, but to use it, it is free. I'm comparing it to before, if you wanted to try a Microsoft product or something, you had to buy it and once you broke the seal, you owned it* (or the little plastic disk and box).

Also, if the OP was a maintainer, I can see where he would get frustrated. I assume he was just some overzealous user.

Anyway, the fact that open source even exists is probably the best thing to happen to computing since it's invention (and I'm not even much of an open source user).

*No refunds.