skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I don't think we should be incentivizing people to show up to work under threat of homelessness/starvation like we did in the past, even if it may be more effective. If people want to live their lives in the "comfort" of SNAP and SSI, I'm personally ok with it. The market will adjust and maybe those blue collar jobs will begin paying even more (or people will adapt)
Yes but I'm saying I would not accept that as a customer.

People are not going to happily accept the old "bundling" cable TV model that they hate, having experienced the much more open internet model where you really only decide how much bandwidth you want to pay for.
I would challenge the "no motivation" part given that the speaker that gave this talk works at Google.
But your ISP owns you. They will charge YouTube and Amazon as well. You'll end up paying $120/Mo for your connection again.
That is happening in my country too, https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/feb/10/la-paz-cable-...
If you count sub-broadband connections, sure.
You’re getting downvoted a bunch here, but I believe your basic point is valid. To take it back to the GP: SGID bit and other such OS and/or filesystem specific semantics are not the best measurement of someone’s overall UNIX understanding.

Now, IMO asking someone if they understand what the difference is between chmod <octal notation> VS chmod <friendly notation> is and why it exists is a bit more telling, because this touches down on what interface most unix filesystems try to present and also how they’re implemented to a degree.

The specifics on any given system are just a manpage away but the general understanding only really comes from having absorbed some actual unix interactions.

And certainly knowing more than just Linux should get one bonus points...
If you want to have the most minimal Windows setup:

- Don't use an antivirus

- Stop unused services running in the background (e.g: services.msc)

- Turn off all vision effects including compositing and animation

Then you might want to set up a firewall to block all the nonsense like SMB, NetBIOS, etc. You can also set up a cheap old machine to act as your firewall, reverse proxy cache, antivirus/antispam, etc.

You can set up a script to turn on all the printing related services when you are actually going to use a printer.
As someone who is not in the US and will not suffer any negative consequences of this, I'm interested to see what will happen. We know the catastrophe hypothesis - ISPs will throttle content, customers will lose badly, innovation will plummet, etc. We also know people outside the tech field disagree with that and some seem to think the opposite could happen [1].

Honestly, I wish our societies would do way more experimental policy i.e. do away with policy like Net Neutrality on a smaller scale for instance, for some cities, counties or states and analyze, evaluate, and iterate.
Test it, have the states and/or cities cooperate. Why not? Its like taking a step in gradient descent you're trying to find a local minimum and you have to try things to know what direction to move in.

Why does it seem almost all major policy in the US (and the world for that matter) is either let's force it down on everyone from a federal level or just let states decide but have no strategic plan for evaluation, test, and iteration going forward?

[1]. https://www.forbes.com/sites/washingtonbytes/2017/07/12/brin...
>Comcast and Verizon were already caught drastically slowing down Netflix and Youtube

Actually no, all three incidents you mentioned (Netflix being slow on Comcast, Netflix being slow on Verizon, Youtube being slow on Comcast) were caused by peering issues. These are not net neutrality issues, contrary to Netflix's massive PR campaign to convince you otherwise.

The actual issue was Netflix opted not to peer with Comcast/Verizon, and instead funneled all their traffic through Cogent and Level 3.
How exactly would an automated sobriety test make use of a qualitative metric?

Is a score on a video game quantifiable enough for you? There are so many "brain training" games that do nothing but score you on your observation, working memory, reflexes, etc. Back in college, everyone had to participate in the psych experiment test pool, where many of the experiments were coded in extremely rudimentary Visual Basic, to show video clips and record the time intervals between on-screen events and keypresses.

That's more objective than a human checking your eyeballs to see if there are too many involuntary movements, or making a subjective determination that there weren't enough social displays of submission to the tester. And it scales better to have X computers set up for employees to test and clock in at the same time than to have a supervisor processing the whole line one by one.
I'm kind of the first type, I just wake up every day around the same time. I'm always ok in the morning (relatively no difference between getting 3 or 8 hours of sleep), but after lunch there is quite a difference depending on how much sleep I had the previous day. I have to make a decision and go to bed at the right time, otherwise I lose the next day's afternoon.
Neutrality advantages incumbents compared to startups on the content side, but not as much as it advantages ISPs over incumbent non-ISP content providers.

There is not much that has driven Google over the past decade as much as preventing market power at other levels of the stack squeezing them out (it's why they've invested heavily in preventing anyone else from controlling either mobile OS or desktop browser market, and even taken on Windows in the consumer space with ChromeOS.)
SO worked with Dave and his lab while in grad school. On this stuff, Dave is right, trust him.

On most meteorite and asteroid science in the field, take it all with a grain of salt. There's not much data and they are pretty 'dark' as objects (low albeido, low mass/gravity, long periods, very tiny in a telescope, etc). Mostly, they are guessing at stuff. It's kinda funny how worked up they get over pretty much no data (as compared to other astro disciplines).

That said, extra-solar objects are super cool, bust mostly from an isotopic % standpoint. We then infer a lot from that stuff.
There is nothing special about Silicon Valley except for cultural differences and being one of the greatest value-creation centers in human history, one that people around the world keep trying to replicate. And, mostly, failing.

You're also basically wrong about the history of business. Your theory of "I get to take it all" is relatively new in the scheme of things, an artifact of high financial liquidity, rising inequality, and a shift in political power from labor to capital.

Again, feel free to do something different than the Silicon Valley model. But please stop pretending like it's just a weird coincidence that it has been enormously successful and is different than how business is done elsewhere.
You should try tree style tabs for a few days
> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/one-b...
Because a market solution with ISP is a pipe dream spouted by "conservatives" trying to win over people to vote against their own interests. If you start an ISP, there's a good chance the incumbent is going to fight you tooth and nail.
are you a paid troll? what good comes from selective throttling?
You can get a DoD Clarence without a drug test. Mass testing is often not about Drugs as much as a proxy for other things.
And Netflix refused to do peering the way everyone else has done peering on the Internet because they wanted to pressure ISPs into installing and maintaining OpenConnect boxes on their own dime. Netflix has been an incredibly poor actor in this whole saga.
Dmiva is a team of professionals who are “creatively brave”
Sure, but they're not listening to public comments anyway so it really doesn't matter.
What I don't fully understand is why isn't larger tech companies like Facebook, Netflix, Google, Twitter, Amazon, etc. making a big fuss about this on their sites to warn their users and help fight against it? Are they not as worried about this? Does it actual benefit them in some ways cause they can box out smaller competition since they can afford to pay ISP's or something?

For example, if Facebook saw this as a real threat, even a basic banner at the top of their site could help warn and give action to those people who don't understand this or are not sure how to help?

I just don't fully understand why I'm only seeing people post about this on social media, but the companies used in majority of the examples of what it will effect are so quiet about it? Can anyone explain this further on why they are not making a big deal and informing their users to help fight this?
One thing that might release some of the pressure around addons would be to make Gecko more embeddable, the way Blink is.

We've started seeing a lot of alternative Blink UIs (Brave, Vivaldi, new Opera, etc) alongside apps built on it via Electron. Those alternative UIs do things Chrome extensions can't, even including things Firefox 57 lost the ability to do.

I don't know how close to that state Gecko is right now, so maybe it would be less work just to recreate the necessary APIs like they're already doing. But if not it could help bring back some of Gecko's market share, which is at least as important as that of Firefox as a whole.
It looks like they maintain plugins for other IDEs - notably Eclipse https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-eclipse

The root cause seems to be the community. Few Kotlin developers use anything but an IDE so there's little motivation to bring tooling to other editors like LSP would
> You don't want to start someone off doing power lifts.

While I agree with most of your comment, this caught my eye, because that's exactly what "Starting Strength" by Mark Rippetoe (an HN recommendation, I might add) does. Granted, Rippetoe points out, multiple times, to start with the empty bar. It's also probably not a bad idea to have your form checked, although I lifted for a year before doing so, and the only time I've injured myself was a bodyweight exercise (situps, which aren't part of "Starting Strength").
Regression in Linux 4.14 – using bcache can destroy the file system
Here's a free tool to make it easier to contact your reps about this, made by the EFF I think:

https://democracy.io/#!/
I know Google/Facebook/etc would never do it, but it would be great if just for a day or two the big 3 would null route any traffic coming from D.C. in protest.
I couldn't pass a field sobriety test well rested and stone sober most of the time - this isn't a reasonable test.
Or just fix the policies.
https://imgur.com/r/combinedgifs/
Joan Feynman Found Her Place in the Sun
> that doesn't mean I have the same sense of humor as every other nerd

Of course not. Think statistically significant rather than about absolutes.
I say it also has to do with them just not caring about what their users want. You’re still gonna buy an x86 processor and AMD has their own ME-like tool too. What are you gonna do, run your desktop on ARM or RISC-V?
There is similar problems with the software that runs pacemakers and other such devices, in which the source is not made available. The protection of users against themselves is an easy example of the intrusion of technological rationality and production for the sake of production in capitalism in which the totality of experience, even life itself for such people, is administered living.
Servo was designed to be much more embeddable.
So, so much this. I am really sick of the double-faced bullshit nature of companies extolling their work-life balance and then going nuclear when anyone exercises it. At some of my jobs it really didn't matter how much work you did during the commute or at home - no, what actually mattered was are you at your desk after 7pm showing your "dedication". You could've been literally watching /dev/random on your screen but it counted.
This is from NIST tho...

Who you may remember....
http://www.ams.org/notices/201402/rnoti-p190.pdf
That's why I said, "on popular routes" (I probably should have said "on busy days" instead). When the number of available seats runs low, the price quickly surges from 22€ to 48€ (or even higher). 48€ vs 75€ with Bahncard 50 is not a huge gap anymore. 150€ also is for "Flexpreis" which isn't really a 1:1 comparison.

Comparing both pricing models isn't really that straightforward, which is why I left it out of my initial comment.
How can you state that you don't support eugenics, but you want to take a set of people and put them in a more hostile environment. That is going to kill off people, in the set you defined, which is eugenics. Your idea about there being enough societies that people can find one that works for them has some merit, but I don't see how that fits with you choosing another group and moving them to an area with less resources. That's not people choosing a society that works for them, that's conquest and exile
The vast majority have some choice. The average household can choose between their telecom or their cable company. In some areas one or both of those companies don't provide broadband, but in the bulk of locations they do.

And while 4g service isn't a true replacement, it provides enough competition to prevent the AOL-ization of the internet. At a certain point, people would choose more expensive wireless over absurdly locked down wireline.

So while Comcast does have a monopoly in some areas, people would switch to Fios or Uverse or local DSL in the areas without monopoly if they tried anything too bad. Hypothetically comcast could try to monetize only in monopoly areas, but that would be a hard sell and it would be very transparent.
I keep hearing how great blue collar josb are, but looking at glassdoor, most of them seem to be in the $30k - $50k range in my state
This is a great example of a time when you should go home, get some sleep, and everything will work in the morning :)
Not much. I hardly know emacs (would love to learn more though...) and am using sublime as my editor, but have learnt just a few shortcuts to be productive in orgmode. Currently I run emacs just for my orgmode tasks and org-agenda which is fantastic.
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They say "There are no bad dogs, just bad owners." I think the problems are cultural.

(a) Two working parents or a single parent family may result in children "being raised by wolves" to some extent. These are good parents/people but child rearing is a time intensive business.

(b) Lack of jobs for young people. In my neighborhood, a lot of lawn mowing jobs are done by services instead of the neighborhood kid. The "entry level" jobs are often taken by older people who can't afford to retire.

(c) Single child families where parents spoil their children resulting in a sort of learned helplessness. I can't think of anyone of my friends children that mows their parents lawn of shovels the driveway. The dad or mows the lawn and snow blows the driveway. My brothers kids are the exception.

(d) Lack of exposure to real world failure or responsibilities. How many parents are going to let their kids walk to school never mind use a chainsaw or go hunting by themselves?
Does it? "Half two" would certainly not be common in the US, but certainly folks are familiar with "quarter of 2" which would mean 1:45. If you told me it's "half two" I would assume it means 1:30, not 2:30, as a native (american) English speaker -- although I have taken a couple quarters of German in college so perhaps the German is sneaking in a little bit?
"not an option for most Americans"

OK.
How many cents on the dollar? Women and men in product markets (2016)
I'd like to read your opinions on what this means for the evolution of the internet outside the US. Will the US internet become somehow separate from the world wide web ? Will it be harder or easier for international companies to have access to the US market ? and conversely will it be harder or easier for US based companies to have access to international customers?

Thank you for your insights.
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A bit OT, but I blame artificial lighting and (especially) in-the-home, always-available, on-demand, hyper-stimulating entertainment on glowing screens.

I once spent a couple weeks living only by candlelight after 8:30 or so, no screens. It's hard not to get enough sleep that way. You can still read, play board games/cards, write, study, play or listen to music, prep/cook food, talk(!), and tons of other stuff, but go figure, those things don't tend to keep one from going to sleep at a reasonable hour (you may be surprised at what's a "reasonable hour" for you when literally far more total entertainment than was enjoyed over any entire given year in the Imperial capital of Rome isn't available at your fingertips).

Netflix, cable tv that's on 24/7 (not my thing, but lots of people use their TV that way), video games, news feeds, mindless browsing, "who was that one guy in that one thing? Hold on, I'll look it up", what's Trump up to now? (better check!), a few thousand lumens of artificial lighting after the sun goes down, and so on... you'll put off sleep for those, maybe without realizing it ("it's not like I even feel tired yet", sure, but you would if you hadn't been playing Playstation or watching Netflix or scrolling through Facebook in a bright room for 2 hours straight, and if you didn't have the option of doing the same or similar for another two hours)
> "If you like your cable company"

I've never once, in my entire life, heard anyone say they like Comcast.
Instagram/Square/Yelp/etc are freeing white collar workers to quit their jobs and start new businesses. The businesses add jobs directly, and the quitting creates a vacuum that causes increased job supply at their old wage and below.

AI will accelerate this massively, much faster than automation can take jobs away.

Long term it will lead to a crash in the highest paying jobs, as the market is flooded with workers who have management and tactical experience. Rather than a big spread between $10k-$1m, we’ll see a huge cluster of workers around $100k.
Why did you type this?
It works the same in Catalan: un quart de dues is 1:15, as in "one quarter of the hour 2". If we go full into it, we have as valid and used constructs "un quart i mig de dues" for anything around 1:21-1:23 (one quarter and a half of 2, which would be 1:22.5)
People were mad when Pluto got demoted. Can you imagine the riots if orange lost its status?
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Flixbus bought MeinFernBus a couple of years ago, followed by the Postbus passenger service, which was a major consolidation of the market.

I'm not sure if the prices have gone up much in the last year despite the drop in bus competition. I always had the impression that the inter-city buses were competing pretty hard against non-consumption, and Mitfahrgelegenheit services like BlaBlaCar. There were a lot of highspeed 1:40 trips between Berlin and Hamburg that simply weren't happening on Deutsche Bahn for 60-110€ but made sense as 3 hour trips for 9-20€. Bus liberalization also seemed to result in DB introducing more slow trains that could compete on price on popular routes. Market liberalization has been a big mobility win for the young and less wealthy.
Firefox 57 was directed at people who moved away from it, to Chrome users, I'm glad it has made an impact - however, it has upset many people who were using it as their main browser and who depended on a number of extensions which used APIs which were disabled.

There's talk that some API's will be built back, and hopefully with the increase in new users it should be worth it.

For example, on Xubuntu, a low resource friendly Linux distribution run by many on devices with small screens, Firefox 57 now is unable to hide the title window bar and unable to customise the size of tabs, reducing available screen estate by about an inch. In development versions of Firefox, they are enabling CSD for Firefox windows, so in a few months this might be better for the title bar, and in the article it seems as if theming tabs are being addressed.

A particular bug for me is the second time they removed being able to change to the next tab by mouse wheeling over the tab bar. They removed it in Firefox 34 or so (it was default, in built function) and pointed to using Extensions as the workaround. Now they have removed these very extensions that enabled that.

If only an extension could change userChrome.css! That would solve many people's problems.
P2P doesn't really help there. Hardly anyone gets a routable IP address so everyone needs some rendezvous service anyway.
Small companies and startups will not be big enough to have any impact. It will be more expensive to keep track of them than they are worth. And most startups are cloud-based now. They will just pay Amazon or Google for whatever bandwidth they need.
Many such comments get flagged not because they're political, but because they're inflammatory and lacking insight. Civil and substantive comments, which have at least a chance at inviting thoughtful discussion, are what we're after.
> I've heard this, but I haven't seen recent statements to this point

More recent coverage than your March article on Netflix: http://fortune.com/2017/06/15/netflix-net-neutrality-fcc/

And Google's current (and thus, more recent than your 2015 article) action page on neutrality:

https://www.google.com/takeaction/action/freeandopen/index.h...
But the people who chose a browser for speed already had Chrome. Now the people who would choose a browser that lets them run their software of choice, on which they have been relying on years, have no browser.

There are hundreds of people tweeting about how Firefox 57 has ruined their browser experience, and they are representative Firefox users -- the kind who have been using it all along, and relying on all the software Mozilla just broke. I don't think Firefox will gain market share by alienating all these people, while attempting to beat Chrome at its own game.

I wonder if there is any set of circumstances that would cause Mozilla to realize that making a new browser and calling it Firefox was a bad idea. If market share still continues to tank -- like were they realize for every person like the parent commenters, there may be many pre-existing users who have no reason to use Firefox anymore -- would they then admit it was a mistake? My guess is there is no such set of circumstances... witness the fact that Mozilla originally cited declining market share as a motivating factor for this big change, but then recently we have stories like this https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/25/new_war_for_mozilla...
No, the 3rd one is 4:30 not 14:30. Quatre, not quatorze.
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Not OP but I've worked places that in London (not exactly cheap to live), they pay a junior developer £18,000 or so - which is under $23,000. In ad agencies, in particular, this seems quite common. Usually by job hopping said junior can bump that by £10k in one go but it doesn't stop the fact people will try it and see if they can get away with it.
Many traffic lights around the world use buried loops of wire as Hall effect sensors (for example, to register when a car is waiting to make a left turn). So that would pass the sense-think-act test, I'd say, even without considering Smart Traffic Lights[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_traffic_light
It doesn't really make sense to go after small fry start ups. They don't have money and it would be an administrative nightmare.

But Netflix is already getting a better deal than start ups at many ISPs. Netflix gets free rackspace for their CDN servers. No start up gets that.

There is already a "fast lane" in many ISPs and Netflix gets it for free.
I have wondered if it's not an increasingly difficult problem for Google Translate that, as it becomes more popular, it is likely to see more and more training data which it itself helped generate.