skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a majority of customers wouldn't even care if this happened, then why is it the internet doomsday? Seems like you can't have both sides of the argument. Unless I'm missing your point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
There are drug testing companies that exist solely to farm out the work to a lab and remove any marijuana hits from the results. Some companies in places where weed is legal use these.
You probably mean the German expression "dreiviertel zwei".
This expression is however not used everywhere in Germany because in other regions it may be said as
- "viertel vor zwei" (approx. "quarter to two") or
- "Dreizehn (Uhr) fünfundvierzig"/"Ein Uhr fünfundvierzig" (The exact time as you would read it off of a (digital) clock/watch)

When I imagine it from the English-speakers perspective, I think "viertel" (quarter), "halb" (half) and "dreiviertel" (three quarters) are probably to be understood like this:

"halb zwei" = "half two" = "1/2 2" = (2 - 1 hour) + ((1/2) * 1 hour) = 1.5 = 01:30
Those companies got big enough that net neutrality now works against their interests.
Or the ISPs will pressure companies like FB and Youtube and Twitter into changing their speech policies to unblock hate speech or face throttling. Those tech companies already 'throttle' users who do not meet their orwellian standards.
> cheaper on amtrak, and 1 hour faster.

Amtrack's schedules are fiction.
In my opinion, not many care until of course it becomes a serious SEO no-no to have slow loading pages and the exact metric to hit Google's ranking.
And our mistake here is not finding a way to explain it that doesn't require reading a book.
Mods of r/Bitcoin maybe involved in hacking and vote “attack” on r/Bitcoin
You are fooling yourself if you think that this won't affect you just because you don't live in the US.
I’m a big fan of calling non-software people muggles :)
I always find it a bit strange when people talk about shortages of non-price-controlled goods and services. When you say that the industry is "short on construction workers", there's an implicit "who will work for what we used to pay them." It seems to me like it's someone who hires in that industry trying to entice more talent to come help lower the price again, rather than an accurate description of the state of the world.

To be sure, bona-fide shortages can occur transiently. For example when a natural disaster happens, it will take time for the local tradesmen to work through the backlog. But at a relatively steady state, it seems silly to talk about a shortage of construction workers. Pay a bit more than the next guy, and my guess is, your shortage will quickly disappear.
File storage - Sia

Verification - Civic/KYC solutions?

Prevent cracked apps - some game theory/staking mechanism that makes you lose if you don't play the official version
and the 4th one is 3:30. I'm also not sure why you introduced "afternoon" into this; it's not said anywhere and it's easier to understand the translation if you just pretend like this is all early in the morning.
quote:
Don’t be so positive
Fully 101 of the 116 models the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change uses to chart what lies ahead, ASSUME that CARBON will be TAKEN OUT OF THE AIR in order for the world to have a good chance of meeting the 2°C target. The total amount of CO2 to be soaked up by 2100 could be a staggering 810bn tonnes, as much as the world’s economy produces in 20 years at today’s rate (see article(1)). Putting in place carbon-removal schemes of this magnitude would be an epic endeavour even if tried-and-tested techniques existed.

(1) cited article: http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21731386-cutting-emis...
Pai is fulfilling exactly what he was appointed to do, which is make the wealthy even wealthier.

Trump's administration is built to enrich 3 groups.
1. Himself
2. His family
3. Other Very Wealthy People
It may surprise you that many workplaces (mine included) are not particularly interested in butts-in-seats hours. Obviously you need to show up to your meetings, but if the work is done no one cares whether you work 8-4 or 11-7.
But it sure will be a heck of a lot easier if the FCC's got your back with regulation that supports anticompetitive behavior.
OneWeb and SpaceX are actively working on making the latter option a reality.
All shipping containers are an identical size - it is a weight problem.
Let me guess, you live in some mecca of ISP options like the Valley? Because the rest of us don't. I live in a major tech city of 1mil+ pop, to the point that a quarter of the city has Google Fiber, and the only ISP options my neighborhood has (12 miles from downtown and in a vastly tech area) is 1 Cable provider, 1 DSL provider, and Directv.

That means my speed options are 300mbps, 3, or 1.5 with 400ms latency.

Such great "options" if my cable provider decides to upcharge me now.
Don't you see that Google does this already with zero government/user oversight?

This deeply cynical view has already come true.
>will not suffer any negative consequences of this

Sure, you won't initially have to pay higher prices for un-throttled traffic, but don't think for a second that there won't be knock-on effects on innovation and consumer choice that affect everyone on the internet.
Suzuki and Toyota’s new partnership a huge deal for India’s electric vehicle dream
Should I also fight for the road and sewage pipe market places while I'm at it? There are some pieces of infrastructure that only make sense as natural monopolies.

I recently moved to Texas and was surprised and rather impressed at their two-layered electrical market. There is one "power distribution company" for an entire region, regulated (I assume) by the state/county. I never do business with them, but they hook my building up to the grid and maintain the lines. Then I choose a power generating company from a wealth of plans and providers, based on whatever criteria I care about.

Doing something similar for internet service would be fantastic, but still requires neutrality from the last-mile infrastructure. Apparently in the UK they've managed something like this through something called local-loop unbundling, which I assume is part of why we don't hear so much about NN from over there.

I would love to see something like that in the US; ISPs will fight tooth and nail to prevent it.
I've struggled with this, too, and disagree strongly with the flagging of political posts. As if the intersection of technology and politics is an annoying childish distraction beneath more clever and neutral discussions about Rust releases or (on today's first page and not for the first time) Getting Things Done.

I feel there's an INCREASE in the intersection between tech and politics, because tech has become more accessible both to the masses but also to the courts and politicians who write our destinies.

To wildly flag posts as political or (StackOverflow-style 'off-topic') is, arguably, morally wrong. I saw an introduction-type post by a new HN moderator a few months back who described his reasoning for reduction of political posts. Alas, the mission is in vain.
Wavestone's web interface for password cracking with hashcat
Your newspaper is reporting many instances of men with their career ruined by a false accusation? Those stories don't seem to make it to the New York Times, perhaps you should diversify your sources.
Take a look at this: https://tox.chat/
Nobody questions your personal ability to voluntarily provide for them, though.

The question is how much the rest of us are involuntarily having to provide for them, and more relevantly, whether or not society is even really being improved if the result is an increasing number of people so unable / unwilling to contribute to society that they can't even be bothered to show up for an interview.

It is very easy to spend other people's money supporting people perceived as downtrodden. It just might not be the solution proponents think it is.
If so many are passing through, and have been doing so for millions/billions of years, then at least a few thousand must have been captured. Line up the right planet and even a high-inclination object can be slowed enough to be trapped. It would be an interesting exercise to calculate what percentage of high-inclination objects might actually be alien.
Toward Exascale Earthquake Ground Motion Simulations for Engineering Analysis
By doing so, Mozilla shows that it cares about his user.

By completely trashing a tool I'd spent years customizing without anything resembling feature parity ready by release? It's not really on the devs to port something when the new system is missing APIs. The "They had 5 years!" argument directed at the addon devs could just as easily be directed back at Mozilla...

Or perhaps by ignoring the loud negative feedback when I and many others said we didn't want paternalistic "thou shalt not install unless we say okay" controls on add-ons like Chrome has?

Or was it instead by ignoring my repeated questions on how to fix a ten-year-old SSL handling bug that causes a great deal of pain for sysadmins? (Vendors have a poor habit of reusing SSL certs - Firefox will flat out tell you to pound sand and not allow you to visit a site with a dupe cert. Chrome, IE, Opera, and I believe Edge will warn you that this is abnormal, but otherwise continue)

If this is how Mozilla cares for its users, I'd hate to see what they consider neglect.
Extracting checklists from Bear notes with Swift
you contradicted yourself by saying:

* in one part of austria (vienna) means 1:15pm (or 1:15am)

* but never as 1:15pm/am
Considering that drug tests for operators of heavy machinery are mostly about legal liability, has a system like you propose ever been tested in front of a jury?
Executive orders issued by him.

No doubt Trump wants to screw CNN, but the courts will not care what he wants. That was my point: "don't give a rat's @ss" meaning thy will not follow /bow to him.
You can get sued for anything. Especially if you have money -
it gets some people into the mood "why would they have money which I should have instead?" Getting successfully sued is quite different thing.
Netflix is a special case, because it was generating some unbelievable fraction of the total internet traffic in the US for a few hours each evening. The internet was not designed for such large amounts of traffic in such a short time all coming from one source. Almost all cases of Netflix throttling or blocking turned out to be due to legitimate traffic management of overloaded links.

I believe most of the cases where Netflix ended up paying were also to deal with the effect of the large traffic on peering arrangements. You have networks that have a peering arrangement where neither charges the other for transit for the other's traffic, relying on the fact that each is sending on average about the same amount through the other, so it all balances out. Netflix traffic greatly upset that balance.

I'm not sure that even now the Internet can really handle a Netflix-like service well. Netflix at least partly addressed the problem by putting their content in a CDN, often making arrangements to host their machines right in ISP data centers, so that the Netflix load would be coming from all over instead of just a small region.

That can work for Netflix, and the next few things that get big, but how far can that go? We can't have everyone that gets big putting machines in ISP data centers, can we?
Interestingly, Skype is still functioning fine.

In case it goes, does anyone know a good alternative to connect from the US to China that didn't require VPN usage in China? I've found wechat's call quality awful.
We did. And we lost it. It was obvious this would come under attack but we didn't mobilize when it mattered.

Yes, you could argue that one candidate didn't know how to use email and the other couldn't operate her printer, but it was us who failed to make it an issue.
Exactly. The only downside I imagine is that it could give false-positives to retarded people. Reaction speed is pretty well correlated with intelligence.

I suppose the system could compare your current score with your baseline / sober scores. Or, mentally slow people would simply have less tolerance for being fucked up at work.
I'm wondering where you are getting your information from. Particularly, when I search my own zip on ISP search sites, I get anywhere from 4-6 providers even though I only have 2 options. There's possibly a discrepancy between what's reported and what customers actually have.
Its taking away title 2, not enforcing draconian content policing like PIPA and SOPA
Confused as to the deletion of comments as well. The parent didn't seem to be alluding to any confidential or classified information specifically enough for it to matter, merely its existence, which is obviously already public knowledge
The nice thing about Reddit is that content is strongly encouraged to group into subreddits making it easy to filter. My only problem is the opt-in model. I'd rather it be an opt-out model, show me r/all minus the blacklisted subreddits. They added a filter to r/all recently but it is limited to only 100 subreddits and is a pain to manage on mobile. So I wrote a script that periodically signs in as me and hides posts from subreddits I've blacklisted. It was initially getting the list from a google sheet but I've recently done something smarter. I have the script auto-subscribe to all new subreddits it sees on the front page and then monitor whether I stay subscribed. If it notices that I manually unsubscribed from a subreddit it takes that as a sign to blacklist that subreddit. It works amazingly.
So you're saying they pocket the difference rather than using reduced overhead to maintain competitive prices?

Interesting hypothesis... I was under the impression that many farmers operate on thin margins these days.
Data stored in multiplying bacteria
Just as an example, not getting shit internet speeds around 7:30 when everyone turns on Netflix.
I really like your idea, but it has legal implications (accountability) because your neighbours would end up doing things on the internet on your account or vice versa.

I would suggest to do this in combination with a VPN but 1) even with OpenVPN those are often insecure 2) they cost additional money 3) with these new FCC rules their bandwidth might get limited.
Iirc the netflix CEO himself said in the beginning of this that net neutrality is good for small to medium upstarts and bad for incumbents. Netflix now is an incumbent with enough bargaining power to get a good price for that access and fastlane. Netflix future competitor won't have that bargaining power and will be forced to offer their product more expensively.

Same with all the big e-businesses
To hear him tell it, when he first started as a lobbyist he was advocating for organizations that weren't getting their interests adequately represented in government (at the time cable and wireless companies). As FCC chairman he continued lobbying for those whose interests were not adequately defended - the consumers.
Unless, of course, I'm so incompetent that I accidentally cut a hole in a load-bearing wall, broke the tools, and had to call a pro in to fix it all.
Yup. There's also rumours it holds the secure enclave equivalent, so getting root into this means you're double fucked:

https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/932730696614813696
First thought is that this would be a fun situation for the Underhanded C Contest, but it seems rather similar to the 2009 scenario:

http://www.underhanded-c.org/_page_id_22.html
Seems to implicate the CTO of Blockstream a VC backed company to the tune of ~$50 million. Wonder if it will lead to his resignation. Account hacking isn't exactly just a t&c violation.
> As someone who is not in the US and will not suffer any negative consequences of this

I think you've under-considered the political aspect of centralized control of online media by incumbent players of a similar political bent in the US and the effect that has beyond the US, as well as the degree to which the money to be made in the US—and thus US market conditions—effect globally-available internet services.
If a service's servers are run in the US, "ISPs" could charge more to that service to pipe that data out of the country using their lines.

It would only affect international people if a company's servers only existed inside of the US, which exempts all large startups that have co-located servers.

It would affect all traffic of people in the US though since the ISP can charge services to pipe in to their lines and charge consumers to pipe out of their lines.
> Why would ISPs want emulate that failing model?

When you control what people see, you control what people think. Dismiss that as tinfoil malarky if you will.
As a consumer Im paying Comcast for quality access to all of the internet. Its their job to deliver on that. If they allow their peering points with T1 providers to clog up, they are not delivering on the service I purchased.

Also, Comcast isn't a transit provider. They're an eyeball network and should expect heavy inbound traffic levels. Also look here: https://www.peeringdb.com/net/822
Their locations are all in the states. Most settlement free agreements require diverse meeting points around the world. Right now the big providers are hauling Comcast traffic across the oceans. So their large market share in the US is already getting them preferential treatment from the other providers.
If you care about personal privacy and security of your friends and family, you should discourage them from using Android.
Living hinges can have lifespan in the millions of cycles with the correct materials and design. I'm sure it's possible to make an Ethernet connector that doesn't break easily, but it would cost more, and people aren't willing to pay.
No employers will not make reasonable accommodations. Business is profit over people, you requiring accommodations means more effort for them. Just try to tell your employer you have depression and see how "reasonably accommodating" they will be.. capitalism is disease
In June 2017 they were still talking about a wageless recovery:

http://www.thehour.com/business/article/Wageless-U-S-recover...
As a native (American) English speaker, "half two" is nonsense to me, but if I had to guess at a time the closest thing would be "half past two" (2:30), so I'd probably guess that first. I'd never heard anyone say "half until two" or "half to two" and they're both incredibly awkward.

"quarter after", "half past", and "quarter til" are the ones we use.
you don't think they fake documents?
DynamoDB isn't for everyone
From what I gather in the brief comment, the apartment complex only allowed AT&T to install cabling to the building, so those apartment buildings are only serviced by AT&T. The apartment complex will not allow another ISP to dig up their property to install internet service for tenants, leading to an exclusive AT&T monopoly. I've had friends in similar apartment buildings. Calling other ISPs operating across the street led nowhere, as those ISPs would just say "we do not service that address."
Yep, people just hear what they want to hear.

As an aside, I think a more telling example of "customer focus" would be how a business handles things after they "find out it violates the laws of physics" etc. I get the feeling a lot of the "hustle" crowd would deal with that by bending the truth. Customer focus would be: keeping the clients informed early as possible, and some sort of gesture to make things up to them. Basically, "do unto others"
Ask HN: What happened to Parity?
Two weeks are passed since the incident:
https://paritytech.io/blog/security-alert.html

> We are analysing the situation and will release an update with further details shortly.

Does anyone has any news?
> When America was founded, the fourth pillar of government was the free press, i.e. the gatekeepers of information. Today, capitalism and naked avarice have broken the back of this key democratic institution

It sounds like you're not at all familiar with the prior 230 years of American history as it pertains to Capitalism and the free press. Just as one example era, see 1880 to 1930. The market economy in the US was very lightly regulated, today it's extremely regulated. There were hardly any restrictions on press ownership during that time. There were few means to know who owned or influenced which entities, including the newspapers. Literal direct bribery was legal in most regards politically.

Today, the US is barely clinging to being a Capitalist nation. This is an era of innocence compared to when the US was a full-blown Capitalist nation. A better title now is mixed economy. Nearly all industry is extremely regulated. Taxation is extremely high compared to the first 150 years of US history. Government intervention into the economy is the highest it has ever been. At a time in which the US is the least Capitalistic it has been in its entire history, you're choosing to start blaming Capitalism for the weakness of the free press. You're missing a comically large error in the premise.
Even the FCC, back when it was at least nominally run for the benefit of the American people, didn't consider sub-broadband good enough to qualify as competition.
Justice Dept. investigating Harvard over affirmative action policies
There was a spat between NVidia and Sway recently which I'm assuming wasn't the only one?

https://drewdevault.com/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html
> global passive attacker that can control US-based companies like puppets, and is doing so.

And... this is where the deluded conspiracy theorist accusations the upthread poster was complaining about come from.

There's no evidence for any of that[1]. The ME's capabilities (low level system controller with access to all memory and hardware, with special access to network hardware that can operate cleanly along with a running OS) have been known and even advertised by Intel for years. The news of the moment is that it's subject to a few rather embarrassing exploits.

But that's rather better explained by incompetance instead of evil. Yet everyone jumps to "back door" because that sounds more fun I guess. (In fact, to the extent there is evidence of government involvement here, it's in the opposite direction: the NSA appears to have demanded an "off switch" for the ME).

[1] Edit to clarify: I'm talking about the ME folks. Yes, the government does bad things. The EC flaws under discussion in this subthread are not among them, so citing them as evidence paints you as a conspiracy nut and not someone serious about security.
Because high fixed costs make it very expensive for competitors to enter the market. It's like asking why someone doesn't just open up a competing water company in a place like Flint.

More to the point, can you imagine how fast the knives would come out if the FCC announced this deregulation and also a federal universal broadband plan where they use taxpayer money to deliver fiber to the home of everybody in the country in order to insure healthy competition?

On a side note, what do you think the odds are that this plan will remove uncompetitive restrictions on ISP (especially municipal ISP) development at the same time? I mean it's all about competition right? If I didn't know better I'd say that the talk of "competition" was just a smoke screen to hide the fact that this is the "allow ISPs to hold your service hostage with no repercussions" bill.
Who is gonna lose big is flight, on that route. 4h one-way is comparable to flight... 1h10m flight time, plus 1h getting from Munich city center to the airport, plus 1h of pre-boarding time plus another ~45min to get from Schönefeld or Tegel into Berlin plus the inevitable delays on public transport, and suddenly the train is a viable alternative.

Also, in a train you usually won't end up with damaged legs or other flight related issues and you don't need photo ID or be treated like you're a terrorist (patdowns/searching, in addition that your PIR records WILL end up at NSA HQ, no matter what), which is the reason why I do not fly.
You mean Google Authenticator? I have this enabled in addition to SMS.
I wonder if it would be feasible to use this to reduce input lag in an editor?