skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Verizon sued to destroy the prior regulatory scheme leaving Title II - per the courts - as the only workable regulatory scheme for NN.

Pai so happens to have been a Verizon lawyer. Surely no coincidence.

Edit: I’m not sure why I’m being downvoted: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Communications_Inc._...
How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox
We have customers that still want support for IE8...

The inertia in some of these organizations is monumental.
Aren't these photos public domain?

I'm sure Wikipedia was involved in a court case against museams that decided that scans and non-artistic photographs of 3-D things like sculptures and friezes didn't give the photographer any copyright claim on older works that were in the public domain.

Unless the person who designed the moulds for the cassette has some kind of claim then I'm not sure this photographer has any copyright either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel....

(edit: I notice there's a discussion about "fair use" way down at the bottom of this discussion, which doesn't seem a popular opinion. I'd say it's not fair use, but only because the photographer probably doesn't have a copyright claim in the first place, but I'm not a lawyer etc. etc.)
Japan is largely ethnonationalist, a strong believer in traditional gender roles, has a culture that individuals should be subservient to the system, has close ties between corporations and government, is highly environmentalist, has a powerful police with few checks on them... while I'd reserve the term "Nazi" for those actually engaging in genocide, it's pretty fascist. There's a reason those people see themselves as aligned with Japan.
I disabled the Bixby button on my S8 and remapped it to open Spotify. It's become way more useful than originally anticipated.
Use a windows vm for the tools that are not available on linux.
How I overcame remote working's greatest challenge
> the fallacy, "if someone benefits, then they intended it".

Slightly tangential, but neat: that fallacy has a name! It's the "Post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc

There might be a more specific named fallacy for when post-hoc happens with regard to individuals' intentions and benefits rather than causes and effects in general though.
This isn't unique at all to Windows. Android had similar problems and if Linux desktop ever caught on the same thing would happen to people.
Fortunately, this problem has an easy solution.

IEEE 802.15.4 UWB (Ultra-Wideband) radios with timestamping functionality allow measuring the time of flight (well, not directly, but it can be inferred from an exchange of messages) of your signal. With some added crypto, it isn't difficult to build a solution which is limited to a specified distance. You can get as precise as ±20cm.

This means that you can build a system which will not work beyond a certain distance, because signals will take too long to travel.

I'm surprised this hasn't been picked up by car manufacturers yet. Perhaps there is too little market pressure.
Always be sure to backup your IPA files (you need the "special" iTunes version for this) so you can reinstall apps you've paid for on other devices.
Neural Networks from Scratch
Cleaning my 22 year old's play area (which is basically the entire apt). And the entire laundry and dish process.

My expenses for work.

Telling people on the internet that they are wrong.
What do you do for variety? If anything.
why does nobody else realize this
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*> the W3C is dead and has been for a long time.

This.

With all due respect to the great vision of Tim Berners-Lee, as well as his historical achievements:

The W3C has turned into an anti-pattern of what to expect from a standardization organisation. In some sense, the W3C standards are the opposite of the RFCs by the IETF.

(and ISO is somewhere in between - they do produce over-engineered crap, but their signal-to-noise ratio is still tolerable, even though it hurts)
There is a conflation of issues here. There's two separate Amazon things: (1) The launcher on the dock by default -- annoying but not subversive -- and (2) search integration, where your local searches would also query Amazon, which used to be enabled by default -- a privacy issue which caused some controversy a few years back. Great grandparent was talking about (2), specifically, so in that context I understood the grandparent to mean only it. However, the wording was certainly unclear if you weren't familiar with the controversy.
how hard is it take a photo of a VCR tape? It shouldn't take more than 5 mins.

OP didn't even bother to brush the dust off.
The PSF awarded $170,000 grant from Mozilla to improve sustainability of PyPI
Sets in Windows 10
Mapping user onboarding (PDF template)
This seems like something we ought to be able to do electronically. I should be able to encrypt a message with recipient's pubkey and a verified timestamp from NIST (for example) in addition to my digital signature, with a requirement for decryption to result in a second call to NIST from the recipient and a record available to me of when it was decrypted.
I’m a weekly listener of Ben Thompson’s (the author) podcast, exponent, and it’s bizarre that he’s making this argument. Many of the last few episodes have made the point that over-burdensome regulation on Facebook would have the affect of harming small businesses’ abilities to advertise themselves along side large incumbents. It’s strange to see him make what appears to be the opposite argument here. Your point is well made and well taken!
For the purposes of gamedev; Windows, consoles and possibly Mac are the only platforms are the only platforms that absolutely matter. If it runs on Linux, that's nice, but if it doesn't run on some common buggy setup you aren't going to see a response beyond "fix your machine". For Windows users you would see crazy workarounds (i.e API hooking) being broken out real fast. Nothing beyond a simple 2D indie game would consider Linux support more than a non-critical "bonus" feature.

You'll also find that people who work on high-performance games (i.e complex 3D) are pretty allergic to using existing libraries, and while it would make sense to use SDL in an example project like this, it's not unreasonable for someone to default to the "proper" way. Beyond things like the basic GL loader, linear algebra and font loading / text rendering libraries, anything that's available is almost guaranteed to be woefully insufficient, more effort than it's worth or loses you too much control. Not to mention you'll inevitably wind up with your own library that provides an equivalent of half the C++ std (even if most of it is implemented using the normal std), which often makes using anything that depends on the usual C++ std pretty painful.

For the above reasons, things like SDL or even libev/Boost.ASIO would only be considered suitable for toys. I can't say I'm too happy about having to re-implement things that have already been written a thousand times over already though.
What are the tools you need that work in both Mac and Windows but not Linux?
> I have a beloved 2015 MBP that I'm trying to keep alive, but it's becoming a little underpowered

The new 2017 models don't have much more horsepower. They just have a worse keyboard and a touch strip.
Diversify yo' assets. I recommend starting with ETFs, ensuring you aren't locked into specific companies. And ETFs don't have the specific conditions of mutual funds.

Several stock ETFs; I suggest one tuned for growth and one tuned for dividends. If you aren't sure, the Vanguard VOO ETF is a solid starting point.

At least one bond ETF: I'm inexperienced there, but they tend to move in inverse correlation to stocks.

Some cash: 6 months of income, if you can swing it.

You'll want to set up a plan to invest regularly, and a regular rebalanceing of the portfolio to ensure one asset class doesn't dominate the others and expose you to too much risk.

If you want to allocate 10% to things like gold ETFs, futures, Bitcoin, etc, that's not unreasonable, but you should do so with the understanding that such a play is a high risk one and likely to result in monetary loss without quite a bit of care.

edit: you have two kinds of risk: downside risk and counterparty risk.

Downside with investing is your money might go away. Barring radical economic collapse, it'll come back, eventually (> 5-10 year span), if you've diversified enough.

Counterparty risk is what if the event you're worried about doesn't happen. Suppose you're worried about a recession. What if it doesn't happen? People were seriously worried about Total Economic Meltdown in 2008. Lot of people got out of the market or didn't get in, and they wound up with a lot less money than if they'd held on. On the other side, guns, ammo, and food supply companies went gangbusters. And, looking back on it, pointlessly.

It's reasonable to assume the bull market will end. It's running a bit long as it stands now. Fine. Do you care if your stock money all drops by half, so long as it's back and more within a decade?

Make a plan designed to optimize for your goals and rigidly stick to it in the face of irrationality.
Well, given how the company is operated and makes money it already does "advertising" a lot. Though it is more like self promotion to sell some kind of micropayment on a particular product. And they make tons of money doing this.

This moves looks like a way to try and squeeze more money out of their user and properties. If someone thinks FB is bad or EA games with micro transactions are bad, try one of Tencent's properties. Then think what will happen with this move towards advertisement.
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Complex == I don't understand it yet or (even worse) I don't like it and I want to rewrite it.

Simple == I wrote it and I understand it.

How can I escape from this predicament?

It's an awful predicament because the concepts don't stand on their own; they have to lean on me for their meaning.
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- Not only big ‘Airport Cities’, but smaller villages with an airport nearby as well

- Flights integration in cooperation with Skyscanner

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We are curious about what you guys think and happy to answer any questions you have!
Knowing how many school bus accident there are, between sleepy/drunk/drugged drivers and other factors, I'm ready to bet that once the tech is there, it'll be a WHOLE LOT safer for your kids. So, heck yeah.
I think utilizing a firewall at the router level would be one way to deal with the problem, but it will take time to determine and implement the appropriate rules (a popular choice on HN is the EdgeRouter Lite3 from Ubiquiti).

There may be Linux equivalents of the tools you use, but it would be difficult to say without you naming these tools specifically.
Such as the Indian dowry jewelry industry.

All other industrial uses are completely swamped by the creation of human ornamentation. But the thing about jewelry is that the gold in it is usually very easily recycled. So it is not as strongly consumed as the gold used in electronics, which requires a greater effort to recover, if it isn't simply landfilled a milligram at a time.

That jewelry use creates a soft reserve, such that it is usually not available to the market, but if the gold price rises high enough, it can start to liquidate, likely starting with the ugliest necklaces.

So it would seem that the majority of the value of gold comes from the human desire to possess a tangible, portable symbol of one's wealth. It cannot be taken from you, unless someone finds you and pries it out of your fingers. Paper assets are more amenable to remote interference. Your ownership of a company via stocks may be diluted. Your fiat accounts may be devalued via monetary inflation or seized with the cooperation of your bank. Your bonds may suffer default. The title to your land may be transferred against your will. But that gold necklace is yours, as long as you're the only one that knows where it is.

As such, failing to invest in gold is ignoring the risk of a major crash in the modern centrally-banked, fractional-reserved, and fiat-moneyed economy, which is subject to boom-bust cycles. Gold is the asset of choice for those that think that government bonds from too-big-to-fail countries are not actually the default lowest-risk investment. But even then, the gold bugs are undercut by the people who buy condos in underground shelters that anticipate the complete collapse of human civilization, along with barrels filled with small arms ammunition. Buffett's #3, #5, and #6--gold is going long on fear--is definitely true.

But I don't think the other quotes are 100% accurate. They have the odor of the Labor Theory of Value about them. Things don't have value because they do stuff, but because people want them. Gold has value because some people want gold, not because it delivers billions of bottles of Coke, or ferries passengers across continents, or summons a driver for you on command. People want gold for different reasons, and some reasons are more predictable than others, but none of those reasons are required to be rational or useful. And that's why the Buffett analysis of gold fails, in my opinion.
Microsoft is bringing clever tabs to every Windows 10 app – The Verge
https://www.hydrominer.org/
Tighter timing constraints could definitely work. If the car requires a response within 10ns you can guarantee the fob is within 1.5m of the car.[1] The only issue is the fob has to be able to decode the signal, calculate a response and transmit it very quickly (or within a very precisely known amount of time).

[1] Light travels at ~30 cm/ns, so a round trip time of 1 ns corresponds to 15cm.
>>Profs are peaking at under $200k, the vast majority well under $100k. Contrast that with Comms directors making $250k.

Comms directors provide more immediate returns, namely fundraising and spinning. However, top professors can write their ticket just to say they're there and earn a fortune on the side.
Maybe in a vacuum it's a bad argument, but this is within the context of Comcast & Friends. Nor is it my only argument.

You're also misrepresenting it with your quote. I don't mistrust them because I don't like them. I mistrust them because of things these companies have done in the past. There's absolutely no good faith in their actions, as shown previously.
Is it common in Golang to not write tests?
I wish I had more than one upvote. If your emergency fund isn't a deposit account that is FDIC insured, its not an emergency fund.

Source: My emergency fund was in a money market fund that was temporarily insolvent during the 2008 global financial crisis.
Aurora used to be a separate pre-beta, post-nightly release channel:

Release <--- Beta <--- Aurora <--- Nightly

In 2014, we rebranded Aurora builds to "Developer Edition" to give it better visibility and ship experimental features that we thought would be interesting to web and add-on developers.

Earlier this year, we sped up our time-to-release by removing Aurora from the pipeline, but we kept it as a separate channel roughly at parity with Beta:

Release <--- Beta <--- Nightly
Aurora <--'

Which is where things are today.
So many things wrong in that article, I don't know where to begin.

I will begin with the part where he contradicts himself in the article, implying the Portugal style zero-rating is no big deal in the first half of the article, and then saying zero-rating could potentially be the biggest threat in the second half.

The second stuff he's wrong about is he conflates (poor) European country prices with the U.S. prices, so from his point of view it looks like the Portuguse have sort of a "first world problem" when they complain that the next 10GB costs only 5 euro if they buy an app package.

His mistake here is that he's not putting things into the local context. Many European countries have 1Gbps cable internet that costs somewhere around 15-30 euro. To Americans that looks "dirt cheap". But to the people in those countries it's just regular prices. It's not cheap for them, which is why most have stuck on the "much slower" 100 Mbps lines and such. So saying that Portuguese don't have anything to whine about because their internet is already "cheap" or whatever, is just wrong.

Another thing is that today's 1GB data plan is tomorrow's 10GB data plan on mobile devices. Data usage is exploding. Without net neutrality (and strong competition), ISPs could leave everyone on the 1GB plan 5 years later, even though they now need 10GB of data for their daily needs, while overcharging them for "app packages".

This way, carriers could move us from a world of "I can visit 100% of the internet on my data plan" to "I can visit only 10% of the internet on my data plan..for the other 90% I will have to buy various data packages, where the internet is split into groups of services."

And again, competition IS the ultimately solution. But net neutrality is there to ensure things don't go terrible when there isn't any competition. If the US wants to get rid of net neutrality, then it should first try to foster much stronger competition at a local level. Then we can begin discussing the repeal of net neutrality, if still necessary.

Also, Ben must have a short memory. Before the previous FCC started arguing for net neutrality, Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon started slowing down Netflix and Youtube. I was constantly seeing people on Reddit complaining that their 50 Mbps Comcast connections can't seem to handle the 3Mbps Netflix traffic.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/netfl...

But seriously, do we really need to spell out why the U.S. ISPs want to get rid of net neutrality? Does Ben actually believe that the ISPs are doing this because the rules have been "oh so hard on them"? Or is it because they want to screw the consumers nine ways to heaven, and having no rules in place, just like when they repealed the privacy framework recently banning them from collecting user data, will help them do that?
Nice! That's exactly the use case we had in mind rebuilding it :D
Ajit Pai isn't right, but here's why it doesn't even matter: he's ignoring the will of the people.

Under his chairmanship the FCC has (1)intentionally made it more difficult to comment on proceedings, (2) ignored the blatant and illegal automated responses that flooded the comment system without the knowledge of the people whose names were used, (3) tried to suppress participation by faking a DDOS, (4) obstructed investigations into both #2 and #3, (5) used debunked claims with debunked data to justify a rules change, and (6) come right out said that comments would be ignored because they didn't contradict the debunked data.

They are lying, and the ISP-backed pundits that write articles like this are lying too.

The one and only remedy to Net Neutrality is robust competition, but we waved bye-bye to that long ago. ISPs have government-granted monopolies (or duopolies), and they are vertically integrated.

We need the protection of NN, it's the only thing keeping the entrepreneurial spirit alive in this country.
Where was I? Timeline puts your Windows desktop right back the way you left it
How does Kotlin multiplatform compare to React? In React I can:

- server side render a page to HTML and send it to browser, or

- send down the React code as JS and render in browser, or

- use React Native to write sorta native Android/iOS apps and reuse some of my JS codebase

Does Kotlin cover the same use cases of server-side render & browser render & native mobile apps?
I'm afraid the "flag" feature has been abused to mean disagreement in this case sadly. Hopefully the article becomes unflagged.

EDIT: no longer flagged, yay.
global BTC mining consumes approx. as much as annual Christmas light decoration in US. UsefuL?
jQuery is a nice example. It was a pleasure to use and useful from the start on. Whereas with some of the modern Javascript frameworks you have to create a huge machine before anything can get done.
A question for any Erlang devs out there. For Erlang neophytes, what are the arguments for learning vanilla Erlang over one of the other ErlangVM languages?
This story reminds me of the dangers of metal grill brushes. Public service announcement, don't use a metal brush to clean your grill. The metal strands can breakoff and if they get lodged in your food and accidentally swallowed it causes serious health issues and surgeons have a very difficult time removing them. These brushes are actually outlawed in Canada but not in the USA.

Here is an article on why they are dangerous if you want to know more...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grill-barbecue-metal-brush-dang...
> Apps made for Ubuntu run fine on other Linux distros so Canonical doesn't have the kind of control and lock-in which MS/Google/Apple.

Yes, that is the bug that these value adds would fix.
Really the argument is what type of service do these companies provide? It should forever be just a "dumb data pipe". Many interests are attempting to bastardize this and call the Service something else to eek out more profit.

I as a consumer should simply be able to purchase "access". That is, I should be able to purchase a pre-defined pipe from my provider. I should be allowed to pass as much traffic in and out that pipe as much as possible to any destination without discrimination. If the ISP sells me a pipe @10Mbps then I should be able to fully utilize it (save for latency/jitter/loss to destinations, etc..). I am paying to pass _data_. It is akin to my power company, I am paying for electricty (say 200 Amp service). My ISP should only look at it as _data_ and nothing more. The moment they put their fingers into my _data_ they are not supplying me a service I paid for.
New ISPs will have to, from day one and on top of all other laws and regulations they need to follow, comply, and be able to demonstrate compliance, with net neutrality.

People with more of a network background will please chip in whether this is easy?

Also, more speculatory:

Free-you're-the-product services are dominant in large swaths of the internet. Free-and-you-don't-pay-for-the-bits-you're-still-the-product could be up-and-coming, but Net Neutrality regulation would kill it off as obviously evil. Who knows, it could be an essential stepping stone towards people being paid for all the data they feed tech companies. Maybe Net Neutrality will lock in free-you're-the-product indefinitely.
Building a spontaneous social network
While reading about the evolution of the camera and pushing away from the wall (or not) it strongly reminded me of the game Tremulous. The initial alien class is a very short spider that moves very quickly and can walk on walls. When running into a corner the camera does a (user-adjustable speed) rotation. The same happens if you jump into a wall. But in this game the solution seems to be more direct- you are always headed straight for a wall, and there seems to be much less wall-walking as "wall-flinging."
Can some frontend dev explain this? I've had a rough time w/ caching w.r.t. frontends, but my perspective as a backend eng is that I have to fight to get FEs to obey the cache headers I send. Near as I can tell, their preference is to tell their HTTP library to ignore caching entirely, and then implement it themselves, where stuff gets cached for whatever the dev thought it should be. These sorts of implementations are near impossible to invalidate.
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