skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When people talk about "the internet" or "internet services" they don't just mean a website. There's a whole load of work that has to be done to get the data packets from A to B and create our awesome industry. Ending net neutrality would allow the value created by "the internet" to go to all parts of the stack, instead of just the very end of it. And the base parts of the stack needs the money waaayyy more than the tech giants with 60% profit margins. Again, funneling money from the poorest part of the industry to the most profitable parts is pretty crazy to me.

So it's not less ads, just that some of the profit from the ads would go towards the base infrastructure, which is a good thing.
I agree. The ability to employ people from just about anywhere makes demand very sensitive to any wage increases.

Further, the economy doing well when people see wage increases reinforces that marginal increases in income for the 99% highly benefit the national output.
> If you are worried about it no longer feeling in the moment after asking for consent, let me assure you that if they want you as bad as they should, it won't be given a second thought.

This is a phenomenal point. If the "moment" is so fragile, that it can be totally destroy by asking for consent, then it's also very likely too fragile to take any action.

If you think "if I ask, then it might ruin the moment", then you also have a huge chance of making someone very uncomfortable.
I hope that people here will enjoy this amazing video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbSu2PXOTOc) as much as I did. I knew that crows are smart, but this is clearly the next level of intelligence ... By the way, I have discovered this video via the relevant cool project's website: http://www.crowdedcities.com.
The only issue I have with keybase's git service is performance, right now. Otherwise, it's a godsend for personal projects you don't want to make publicly available.
Data release: list of websites that have third-party “session replay” scripts
I've found Source Tree to be fine to use. It's a GUI but it uses actual git names so trying commands isn't as scary. Other clients make up names and sometimes hide a lot of the magic to a scary dangerous level also harder for someone to tell me what to do and me to follow what they mean vs just doing it on Source Tree. Just wish it ran on Linux.
Read Genius by James Gleick if you want to read an excellent biography on Feynman. It includes lots of great details about his childhood.
From listening to the women in my life: extremely common in most (all?) industries.
> To put Greyhound into context for you, the driver sits in a box made out of bullet proof glass.

I've used Greyhound many times over years, and I don't recall ever seeing that.
I have heard that as well,
but to the best of my knowledge I don't believe it is accurate. Here is Wikipedia, from the Space Race page.

>The Space Race began on August 2, 1955, when the Soviet Union responded to the US announcement four days earlier of intent to launch artificial satellites for the International Geophysical Year, by declaring they would also launch a satellite "in the near future". The Soviet Union beat the US to this, with the October 4, 1957 orbiting of Sputnik 1, and later beat the US to the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961
(It looks like this article is substantially derived from https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2002-04/my-mother-sci... )
The opposition research against Sanders is brutal.

>Sanders’ 1985 trip to Nicaragua, where he reportedly joined a Sandinista rally with a crowd chanting, “Here, there, everywhere/ The Yankee will die.”

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/201...
You don't need to think ME is a secret NSA backdoor to know it's a terrible "feature" from security point of view.
Say "Well I don't know, but I asked hacker news and here is what they said"
I don't know much about her and why she's leaving, but I do remember her from two years ago or something when she announced, with quite a fanfare, "The Machine". I was excited about that, and even bought HP shares as a result.

Not long after that, HP stepped down from most of their ambitions with this thing[1]

I don't know if that explains Whitman's departure, but I would not be surprised if that was taken into account.

1. https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/207897-hp-kills-the-mach...
if that is true, then being a different gender is something that is 'teachable', and not at least part 'innate', i.e. biological preposition for trait and behaviors that are predetermined in early pre-birth, and/or early childhood, and not imprinted by society/media/etc...

aka, by now, we'd have the "gay cure"......

if you believe that there is a predisposition of some individuals to act to have gender specific behaviour (girls acting as girls, boys as boys, or girls as boys, or boys as girls, aka trans), then you believe feeling 'trans' is not a choice, but acting on it it is, and to me the "feeling" part of it, is part of the gender.

If you believe gender is a complete social construct then you can say being trans, gay, etc.. what you attracted to, and what you want to be is a choice as well.... and that can be changed, aka.. the 'gay cure' people were sent to hospitals for in the 50s and 60s.

And here where it baffles me. Some of this feminist/transhuman thinking, have more in common with ultra conservative thinking then actual true progressive thinking/values and are not rooted in reality.
Thats good , on the contrary Facebook continues to steal data. One of former FB employees has confirmed that the social media giant cares more about data collection than safeguarding your information
Can I ask where you live?
Agreed, it looks like the dividers that a lot of public buses will use.
That sort of magic isn't right and if you don't find the source then you'll probably end up with more and more weird bugs down the line, to the point that nothing will work and you won't know why.

My first suggestion would be to familiarize yourself with valgrind to make sure that you aren't accessing memory that you shouldn't be. Next would be writing tests so you can isolate problems like this.

When you've got 58 different systems interacting you'll occasionally come across some weird problems that you can't replicate, but they should be few and far between.
I’m against net neutrality if you are allowed to choose your ISP. Where I live (Boston) I only have Comcast. Trees even block satellite. If we allowed any ISP to lease the line from Comcast and let me choose service, it would be different. As I only have Comcast, it is a monopoly and I’m opposed. But with true competition, I could choose from a range of ISP’s, even theoretically free broadband that would be ad supported.
I don't like that future either, but it's not quite what I'm saying. I definitely feel you on the fatigue. My point is that it's a mistake to just say "I'll wait till they come around" and not try to figure out how to make ethical communication based on facts that has as much pull as carpetbagging alarmists. Hardline pro Comcast types would be any Neo-Liberal, Big biz Republican, and some libertarians.

We lost this battle a long time ago[1][2] is the real issue. However, they don't have absolute control over sending electrons around in a box, nor how distributed systems work in absolute. Innovation has stagnated as an entire generation of the greatest minds build an advertising scheme. The internet is fucking broken in a bizare way. As it continues to fragment, it will be a lot like our transition from AOL to an open web.

People not in the know will be given palpable bullshit to keep the fat cats in slow braised bushmeat. People with a pursuit of knowledge and innovation will move to platforms that are harder to access by the masses, fragmenting the utility we have now but giving a lot of power to the people on the inside track.

This is already happening in restrictive places like China as well as basically everywhere else. Hiding information and connections in aggregates of other data. Building out online dark nets as well as physical mesh networks. I see the LimeSDR playing a huge role as the web gets shittier than it is. An open source transceiver on a chip that can do everything from UHF to 5G, you can connect to an existing provider, but at any sort of density removes the need to rely on single points like cell tower networks. Also expanding to use any bandwidth or multiple with a software modification. I just bought their $3000 "Network in a Box"[3] and am building an LTE neighborhood darknet (3 Kilometers!) with my buddy. We are going to get repeaters and DIY phones to anyone in range and grow from there.

The alternatives to the system don't exist yet, but innovation will not stop just because they want to sell more Thor DVDs. I'm pretty tired of it too and it feels bullshit to say "this" is over, but it is. Now we just have to take what we've learned, build something better, and learn how to bring the ignorant on our side to prevent it from happening again.

I know it won't happen, but it is an absolute fact that no one actually needs facebook. Every single one of us could shut down our account at the same time and change the world in a big way.

There isn't a google replacement yet (don't tell me DuckDuckGo), but maybe we can bring webrings back.

[1] https://thenextweb.com/eu/2017/06/09/pirate-bay-founder-weve...
[2] https://webfoundation.org/2017/04/sir-tim-berners-lee-respon...
[3] https://www.crowdsupply.com/lime-micro/limenet
Yup. Also Confidential transactions, mimblewimble, sidechains, drivechains,... even bigger blocks. People forget that bigger blocks could come to BTC too, but devs are making the safe choice to try scaling with ways they know won’t compromise security or decentralization first.

People have had cheaper alternatives to Bitcoin for a while now (ETH? LTC?) and yet BTC is still valued significantly higher. There’s more to this game than a cheap digital payment.
Every two three years we have to do the same fight over and over again? :/
Where does Ikea use pozidriv? Any Ikea product I've bought is all hex drive.
> While it does take about as long to become a skilled carpenter as it takes to become a software developer (and a strikingly similar mindset too).

Sorry for the non-contributing anecdote but I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. Once you start to understand things more clearly as a system and how to work on that system you come to realize it's a lot of tacking things together any way possible.
> there's a long time delay between when demand rises and when supply can rise to meet it

Yes, exactly. The demand curve shifts right and the markets find a new equilibrium (most likely at a higher wage than the old equilibrium), but there’s no “shortage”. It’s just markets clearing at a different price level than what people are used to.

Calling it a “shortage” is like saying every time Starbucks raises their prices there is a shortage of coffee — at the old price, sure, but not in absolute terms. That’s not how equilibriums work.
Back in the day our teaching assistance got pissed off that most people were using Emacs as if it was Notepad, and spent the rest of the programming lecture teaching how to use Emacs instead (about 1h).

Which then became my to go editor in UNIX systems, until IDEs finally became a thing on UNIX.
Apple HomePod – a missed opportunity
AWS launches ‘Secret Region’ for intel customers
> You see, Bitcoin was created after the 2008 crash where the banks, the organizations we've trusted with our money for a century, made some deliberate and knowingly poor decisions and they lost a lot of money for many of us.

I hadn't heard about that. Which banks lost their customers' money in the 2008 crash?
Edit: Fixed a typo in the title.
that only works as long as they actually compete on neutrality rather than collude.
The idea of hosting issues along with the repo seems intriguing. Does anyone have experience doing the same with git? Seems like some people are doing it:

https://github.com/duplys/git-issues
Software developer, ~4 years, $50k, $0, location: TN, USA
Your arguments don't make much sense.

Network neutrality is not Ma Bell style regulation. NN will not freeze things. Don't know which oligarchs you are referring to, but any NN laws are unlikely to stop them 'garching.

Killing NN is unlikely to kill all the small players. In fact they might rather thrive by using NN as a competitive tool.
SunOS 4 definitely had this behavior, and I think it's even older than that — it probably goes back to 4.1bsd.
You can also record the TOTP secret in your automated login script, next to your password, and generate the token on the fly right there.

It's things like that that make me wonder why TOTP tokens are supposed to be conceptually different from passwords. A TOTP scheme involves knowing a master password, and nothing else.
Also for all the people just roasting this guy. He's actually already shot himself into the air with these rockets (you can see them on youtube), and does nearly kill himself since his parachute is so shotty. But he's actually fucking doing it.
> Title 2 is important because opponents are claiming they are for "net neutrality" too.

The opponents on the FCC (well, the 2 of the 3 that were on the FCC then) voted against the most recent proposal under Title I that preceded the current Title II reclassification. Insofar as they claim to support net neutrality, they oppose any regulation, regardless of basis, that would enforce it.

> If you're making less than $75k you may want to mention that you don't want your taxes to go up while you're at it.

From my experience in a legislative office, for anything short of an in person meeting with someone you have an established relationship with, you want to keep any contact to a single subject: if you want to address two issues, make two separate contacts.
HN has plenty of randomness that may float or sink a submission. That's why the mods themselves have been experimenting with resubmission of potentially interesting links that didn't get any traction.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184343
I was a land surveyor from 2000-2008, it's a subset of civil engineering. But unlike CE, there's a lot of field work and a small amount of office work. In my case I'd say it was anywhere from 80-90% field and 10-20% office. But even though surveying is hardly unskilled labour and usually requires a degree, it was still subject to the same effects the grandparent comment mentions: constant layoffs in winter, culminating in 2008 and the subprime mortgage crash (which, surprisingly to some, affected commercial property) when all 12 staff surveyors at the office where I worked were laid off on the same day for good, with no expectation of being called back ever again.

It will be no surprise to anyone reading this that land surveying is dead now, especially two/three-man team land surveying. Nobody was trained during those "gap" periods, and meanwhile the older generation of baby-boom surveyors (of which there were many) retired. Furthermore, LiDAR, scanning, survey-grade GPS, and robotic total stations meant that some engineering firms cut corners and took a chance by sending CEs out into the field solo to do the field work. That dynamic ensures no training of new surveyors in the field is possible.

EDIT: I'm a developer now.
It pretty much was: ARPANET. And the instigator for all computers was the need to more quickly compute nuclear warhead trajectories, in real time, to make it possible, as well as efficient, to murder as many fellow humans as possible while also defending against the same by an opponent.

But yeah it might be nice to make it just work well, without any respect for and to whom or what. All that matter is how. It should work well, how do we do that?

Some cities are deciding to build their own infra. Good. Now if only they'd explicitly adopt their surrounding rural areas and include them in the program. Because this same FCC is dropping the subsidies for rural internet and telephone.
Mastering Emacs by Mickey Petersen is excellent: https://www.masteringemacs.org/
These are horrible counter arguments.

The only two that even remotely relevant are seatbelt laws and gun laws, the other two are not even laws.

For seat belt laws, there was evidence that such laws increased pedestrian injury rates and severity. Whos to say that outweighs the benefits of forcing a few people to wear seat belts that are already in their cars?

For gun control, to say this in american context is weird. The US barely has gun control so to say it like its absolutely needed is odd.
> If you could compromise GitHub itself there would probably be higher value targets (source code for upcoming AAA games

I'm intrigued. Why would that be a higher-value target?
Supersonic wind tunnels have existed since the 1920s and Mach 3+ versions were built in Germany during World War 2 for the V2 project. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_wind_tunnel
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15741108
My only complaint about ido-vertical-mode is that it seems to be very slow for long lists. This is why I'm looking for an alternative. I tried helm and ivy, but both of them behave frustratingly differently compared to ido.
That's amazing. What about chalkboard writing? I imagine that would be louder, have more protracted strokes and the patterns could become more easily absorbed through watching the board.

I should add though, that "clean your room" would be a pretty safe bet in most parent/child relationships.
You are too trusting and optimistic, which doesn't work well given irreversible nature of Bitcoin transfers. Would you let me, a total stranger, hold your Bitcoins?

If not, then you should definitely not let British Virgin Islands based Bitfinex hold them either. Use less risky options based in USA or EU, so you are at least protected by a decent legal and regulatory system.
They're only banned in the US due to a perceived choking hazard (Cue sarcastic "Only in America" comments). I don't see what the association with gambling is?
Wow, what a shitty non apology. A longer version of "I'm sorry you felt offended."

“That was never my intent,” he wrote. “Collectively, you mean the world to me, and I deeply apologize if I have let you down. I especially want to apologize to anyone who has ever been on the receiving end of an unwanted hug or any other gesture they felt crossed the line in any way, shape, or form.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/DrugNerds/
"Trap" hasn't had a negative meaning tied to it in our past circles (chans/Rizon), where I think it might have originated.

If someone didn't see it through that lens I could sympathize being offended by it, but even then I'd personally take it as a compliment as being "passable" ~
After watching Google's privacy violations closely for more than a decade, I'm pretty sure this was intentional and someone got a bonus for coming up with the idea and implementing it. Google's real motto is more user data == good.

Saving location history in a local file is not the same as sending it to Google, just like cutting your finger is not the same as getting your hand blown off.
They want to rewrite everything in Rust, including the JS JIT https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2017/10/20/holyjit-a-new...
>I should exploit that to the point that maximizes profitability.

And not take overly egregious actions that would force a government intervention which would probably lead to actions that damage my monopoly and harm profitability.
If it is, it's still stupid. As other commenters in this thread have mentioned, he has exposed the fact that his star is a contractor, and opened up the possibility of a competitor essentially hiring away his product.

Yes, this story has introduced a whole bunch of new people to HQ. But it's also reinforced how important Scott is to their product. Not a good position to put yourself in.
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Yep. My dog will chase things, but he wouldn't know what to do with a prey animal if he caught one.

He's good at attacking the food bowl, and that's about it.
When wireless gets good enough to replace most home set ups, being an ISP will become a race to the bottom, and I have to imagine that Net Neutrality (audited by someone reputable) will be a consumer demand that helps differentiate.
The evidence is they do the same thing as insurance* companies. The conglomerate/merge regionally. So they buy up all the small competitors, while excluding any meaningful competition amongs the big players. Are they colluding? Maybe not explicitly over lunch, but they know what they need to do and direct competition, as if they're commodities, would be bad for their shareholders.

* health care pre-payment with no residual value plan
Thank you for building this list! Always wanted a dark mode on Slack, and I love this hack. I have now set my Slack on "Low contrast" mode and it's not being hard on my eyes.
I read an old article on how Steve Jobs got a Google recruiter fired for contacting an employee. What a piece of shit.

Edit: found the link

https://pando.com/2014/03/25/newly-unsealed-documents-show-s...
Compositors already do that, you render into a compositor managed texture and the compositor simply uses whatever is there so applications can update at their own leisure.
They plan to replace that with Pathfinder https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/11/14/Fearless-Concurrency-I...
I've posted this comment before in another thread:

I oppose net neutrality regulation. In principle, I don't think there's anything wrong with an ISP prioritizing certain kinds of traffic over others, so long as it does not have an anti-competitive effect.

For example, I don't see how Netflix paying Comcast to zero-rate Netflix traffic is fundamentally different from Amazon contracting with mail carriers to subsidize the cost of shipping for Amazon purchases, or even -- to use an example another commenter made -- an appliance manufacturer contracting with electrical utilities to subsidize the cost of electricity used by their appliances. So long as Comcast makes its zero-rating program available to all content providers -- including their own -- on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, I don't think there are any competition issues.

I've heard people argue that zero-rating makes it harder for smaller content providers to compete, since they won't have the resources to subsidize their customers' traffic. As I said in another comment, that's just the nature of business. Being big affords you certain advantages, like economies of scale. This makes it easier to compete on price. Smaller companies have to compete in other ways.

In my view, the real problem with the telecom industry in the United States is a lack of competition [0], a problem caused at least in part by municipal [1] and state [2] governments. With more competition, net neutrality would be a non-issue. Consumers would just stop using ISPs that unfairly discriminate between traffic.

[0] http://www.nationalreview.com/article/410353/net-neutrality-...

[1] https://www.wired.com/2013/07/we-need-to-stop-focusing-on-ju...

[2] http://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadblock...
I agree with you about Google, but it's more than fine for the people to be surprised and/or outraged. That's how this gets fixed...

Google said they're taking steps to fix it. Surely they wouldn't lie to us.