skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people will leave Comcast in droves

At least those with a choice, which I'm guessing isn't the majority of people. Comcast pays my building to ensure that no other ISPs are allowed in the building. That's very common, at least where I am.
Can anyone in the US explain why the government/FCC is so eager to abandon net netrality laws?

Was it demanded by the electorate? A promise in a manifesto or something?

I remember the topic of NN coming up a few years ago and was largely defeated after public outcry - has public mood changed since then?
Incorrect. Look at applied computing for medicine/healthcare, those things are strictly regulated and analyzed because of their potential to harm. A 0.001% overflow in your twitter app makes you restart your phone, a 0.001% overflow in your pacemaker means you die. Immediately.
The reasoning I understand is that it enables the sort of monopolistic practices that historically have been restricted. Offering $20/mo "Facebook only" or $10/mo "Just email for Grandma" plans has providers competing more on what destinations they (don't) restrict in their Internet access, and less on actual speed/latency of the service. Larger providers could then roll out near-$0/mo "Email-only" plans at below cost, specifically to squeeze out the smaller providers previously trying to eek by on their equivalent $10 plans, and then retire those plans once competition is gone. Selling at below cost to kill competition is predatory pricing, which has spawned antitrust claims in the past in other markets.
Oh nice! This is what I'm interested in! What kinds of things can they and can't they do without supervision? What is common in practice? Is there a good place to read about how this all works?
I expected the app to somehow "understand" the brand name and that the meaning(s) would influence suggestions. I don't think that's happening, or at least it's very basic. I tried "Cloudera" and "Red Badger" and got very similar suggestions none of which had to do with the name at hand.
New PaaS for cloud native apps
> Think what would happen if your power/utility company was driven by profit and not solely to provide a critical service.

Southern California Edison reporting in! Bilking consumers for all their worth!
> your own little dialect of the language which is opaque to any 3rd party reading your code unless they take the time to unravel your macros.

This exact same thing happens with functions, too. At some point, a third party will have to read the code to understand it. You don't know what a function does until you read its implementation either.

Often, having a domain specific language (even if the domain is very specific to the application) will make the application easier to understand.

If you write code in say, Go, then sure, a third party will be able to look at a loop and be able to figure out the mechanics of what it does. But that person will still not understand how the application works. They will still need to learn both the domain and the structure of the application. And with the right macros, the application will likely be smaller and better organized.

Avoiding abstraction doesn't magically make it easier to understand the solution to a complex problem.
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You will enjoy the video in its entirety, if you haven't seen it.

https://vimeo.com/9270320 ~37:00 he covers:

El Emam et al (2001): The Confounding Effect of Class Size on the Validity of Object-Oriented Metrics

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/935855/
There is. It depends on the mobile OS and device.

We deal with this routinely. Solutions tend to vary.

On iOS just use SSL kill switch (if you are jailbroken). If you are not jailbroken you don't have a lot of options. On Android there are some well documented approaches. Usually decompiling the app and adding to the local app's cert store will work and then rearchive and sign it.

Function hooking key network calls can work as well. It is pretty much required that if you want to do serious tinkering or assessment you need a jailbroken or rooted device. This can be a significant effort investment, but once done is generally reliable.
Comcast has a monopoly position in many, many parts of the United States.
"One middle ground between Excel data silos and the utopia of a centralized system is a shared document store like Sharepoint or Dropbox." ... 100% agree, and add I find that Google Sheet is the best for this role: 1 source of truth, modification history, read/write permissions and shareable. I am now starting to use spreadsheets for use cases I would have strongly objected in the past. I'm surprised Google sheet isn't more mainstream.
Very fair. I have seen people share opinion pieces as news articles before too. Very similar to the ads that look exactly like articles.
> Here's a purely economic argument: if there is an expected profit from self-funding but it is less than that from receiving the Medicare funding, and there is a perception that the Medicare funding only exists because the argument has successfully been made that self-funding is not profitable, then making the smaller profit from self funding would put at risk the possibility of receiving the larger profit through Medicare funding, and administrators might determine it is not worth the risk.

No, that doesn't add up. Hospitals only receive $80,000 per resident from Medicare. If residency programs were profitable at level P, they could increase them from N residents to M residents, where (80000 + P)N < P M[0].

Furthermore, hospitals that currently don't receive any money from Medicare would simply expand self-funded programs, because they wouldn't be losing anything by doing so[1].

There's also no way that hospitals would be doing so much to preserve a mere $80,000 stipend, because increasing the number of physicians is in their best interest - it allows them to decrease their expenses (physician salaries) in the long run.

> That's all speculation, just like your purely economic argument is just speculation.

No, it's not speculation; it's exactly what hospitals, government employees, elected officials, and industry analysts have pretty much all been saying for decades. And it's supported by the actual evidence at hand, including all of the financial figures that they publish.

[0] Of course this doesn't work if P is a decreasing function of either N or M, which is the entire point - it is decreasing, and in fact, is already negative for the current value of N.

[1] Except, of course, if P is negative - which it is.
A+ concern trolling.
OK, but there are definitely plenty of clear cut cases and Twitter has historically had issues dealing even with these. This isn't an issue of media in general, we're talking about Twitter, that's what the article is about.
> But this is all just marketing

Apple has a very strict internal culture of protecting user privacy.
>There have been loads of studies on various metrics, but none have actually been any better than simple lines of code

True, but that doesn't mean SLOC is a very useful metric. Say you were to rewrite a large Java codebase in a language that eliminates all getters and setters. You will have greatly reduced the number of SLOC, but it is very unlikely that you will have reduced the number of bugs very much.

In other words, going for the low hanging fruit of programming language design wouldn't necessarily help much. Bugs are not evenly spread out over the entire codebase.
If we allow you to buy "facebook-only" service which only serves FB, Twitter, and related services...what happens to Gnusocial, which isn't on that list? By permitting discrimination by content, you are implicitly allowing an ISP to cripple services at their discretion. Perhaps a better example: would it be fair for Comcast to cut any connection to AT&T or Time Warner's sites?
> They artificially limit the number of doctors available by capping the number of medical schools, which also allows the existing schools to crank costs to astronomical levels

This is such bullshit. Nobody is artificially limiting the numbers. Schools are accepting and graduating more doctors than available residency programs.

Right now the biggest bottleneck in the process is the number of residency spots. There simply isn't enough bandwidth for hospitals to teach graduating medical students to become independently licensed doctors. Medical schools will happily push as many students as possible through (and they are with new schools opening).

The problem is training a resident is extremely expensive and comes with a lot of overhead. The government pays hospitals about $110k to per residency position. While this incentivizes some hospitals, many are facing issues with finding willing and qualified staff to come teach at their hospitals. It's hard to convince an established doctor to take a pay cut and take on more work to train students.
This is a big reason why the NHS is a lot more affordable, average wage for a GP is still something like £90k, but it's not in the hundreds of thousands. Staff costs are just a really big part of the total cost of providing care. The rest of the benefit is making clear cost:benefit decisions on buying drugs, reducing bureaucracy from the insurance system, the ability to centralize and scale care without so much replication, etc. But doctors salaries are still a big part of it.
A Silicon Valley startup is quietly taking over U.S. classrooms
Bitcoin dashboard on CLI
What we should really have is municipal fiber running to each home the same way as we have municipal roads and water/sewer lines. Then anyone could set up business as an ISP and provide service over that publicly owned infrastructure.
S/he’s saying that this argument

> they've calculated that the marginal benefit from accepting a single resident at a lower cost does not outweigh the risk of being forced to provide the same discount to their existing residency positions.

only holds up for schools with existing residency positions, which there are many without. If a residency were profitable without the subsidies, one would expect to see those non-teaching hospitals launching residency programs. Especially so because they don’t have to worry about threatening the subsidies which they aren’t receiving.
In most markets, the customer only has one option, or two bad options.
They also aren't a democracy, so not really relevant.
This is it - this is what baffles me, thank you for posting this.
For profit hospitals and doctors do not have to accept medicare or medicaid patients. Non-profits are required to to get non-profit tax exempt status. Some providers are more efficient then others so a statement that medicare reimburses below cost is not accurate. Maybe some procedures reimburse below cost but not all do. It is also not rational for these profit seeking doctors/hospitals to accept medicare patients but they do which directly conflicts with your statement that hospitals only do profitable things. One could argue that medicaid and medicare patients are sicker and there are more of them than most so they provide a larger revenue stream than private insurance covered patients (and they also require more procedures). If you didn't have these patients then your utilization would be lower and therefore your COGs would be higher as well. Also you might not be able to scale your hospital to take on the profitable procedures. Residents are also lower paid which give the hospital greater incentive to have them treat the medicaid/medicare patients as well. So logically it is better to employ more residents if you have sufficient patient load since it would reduce COGs.
VPN tunnels that go over port 443 SSL are difficult to throttle w/o affecting other services. They'd have to throttle by destination address, which can be more complex when available VPN endpoints are geographically distributed.
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It seems that they are following the same direction as Google's and focusing on the software and self-driving equipment as opposed to building a car from scratch.
That is because there isn't a good solution. You can get away with repackaging an IPA and hand modifying the binary depending on how they are performing the pinning, but it is always going to be time consuming to do it this way. If you are serious about tinkering you pretty much need a jailbroken device, which is getting harder to maintain by the year.
Get your act together, do you even realize that you’re a criminal?
There's a reason chefs don't use multi-tools; purpose-built tools always beat generic tools when you need to maximize efficiency on a task.
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> I don't think either of those companies would cease to exist if their code bases leaked online today.

A serious Photoshop clone that can match PS feature for feature would wipe Adobe, people cannot wait to get rid of them. 25% of MS revenues comes directly from Office and another 25% from Windows or other commercial offerings that are basically driven by Office, so yeah, MS would survive a working Office clone, but they would be deeply wounded; they pulled all the dirty tricks in the book to keep competitors from integrating seamlessly... having the real code responsible for their formats available in the open, would hurt them massively.

These companies are as big as they are because they did the right moves at the right time, and now they have spent so many man-decades on their codebases that nobody can realistically hope to catch up starting from scratch; but having a good look at their codebases would likely kickstart oozes of competitors with very good chances to replace them in a very short time.

> For the general company, I think leaking access credentials is a much bigger (but easier to fix) problem than leaking the source code itself.

Credentials are a mean to an end: protecting something. If you are Ashley Madison, your valuable IP is your database of users and their preferences; but if you are Microsoft or Adobe, what credentials are protecting is your source code. Adobe survived their user credentials being leaked, like so many other companies. They would have hurt much more had they leaked the entire PS codebase.
No, Weston is pretty much the reference compositor for Wayland.
Does not accept non-english brand names.
You've given an extreme example, not worth replying to really.

> I don't know what bubble you live in

The "bubble" that the vast majority of devs live in where on-call isn't a thing?

> If you don't want a call out

I won't agree to one, nor sign a contract where it's listed.
For example if you have to sum a columns of numbers and one of them was mistakenly input as text, rather than throwing an error, it will just ignore that entry.

There are ways around that. Here's something I just put together as an example:

=EXACT(COUNT(A2:A6),COUNTA(A2:A6))

That will only return true if all the cells in range A2:A6 contain numbers.

There are other approaches that would work, if that doesn't suit you.
I attempted to read some comments and address "these guys concerns" but it's just a cesspool of misinformation. They appear to think this is some authoritarian government doctrine and ignore the real world.

Here's my argument. I would be fine without any form of net neutrality IF consumers had a true choice of ISP. BUT, I've lived in 4 different states and 6 different cities in the past 12 years and have only ONCE had a choice between different ISPs. Comcast and their ilk have created monopolies in the majority of markets, therefore to enforce the free market it is necessary to force them to provide equal access to internet traffic.
I generally think of HN as far right not far left. But, I think it's bias in how we react to things not HN.

Granted, not an American Republican party sounding board, but in terms of actual right and left political spectrum.
When I worked at a large investment bank we spent a ton of time and effort on a system that allowed equity analysts to use excel and sync their data back and forth to the firm's centralized system. it was a great approach because it kept the analysts happy, who were all masterful excel users and thus very efficient and happy with it.

Joel Spolsky's essay "Controlling Your Environment Makes You Happy" comes to mind.
New, Memory-Optimized Amazon EC2 Instance Types Drive Database Workloads
What does Mir offer compared to Weston? It still sounds pretty NIH.
My point is people are okay with sites self governing till self government evolves into the loudspeaker for the other side and then they want regulation.

A better way, in my view would be for twitter to allow people to subscribe to groups and those groups have their own moderation. Obviously some things would be subject to regular laws like immediate threats of violence, doxxing, etc.
Can I ask for clarification? If I'm managing passwords with 1Password on both my Android phone and my Windows desktop, how can I effectively use my TOTPs as a second factor?

Is it enough to run the TOTPs through the Google Authenticator on my phone (alongside 1Password on the same device)? I'm unclear on what kind of separation is "useful" separation and looking for the "right" way to set this up.
> Some providers are more efficient then others so a statement that medicare reimburses below cost is not accurate. Maybe some procedures reimburse below cost but not all do.

I never said all do - I said that in aggregate, Medicare reimbursements are 7% less than COGS. "Efficiency" doesn't really enter the
picture, because COGS isn't driven by efficiency (ie, overhead); it's driven by upstream costs.

> So logically it is better to employ more residents if you have sufficient patient load since it would reduce COGs.

Nope, none of the stuff you mentioned falls under COGS.

> One could argue that medicaid and medicare patients are sicker and there are more of them than most so they provide a larger revenue stream than private insurance covered patients (and they also require more procedures)

This is the classic "we'll lose money per customer, but make it up in volume" argument.
Malcom Gladwell goes over this story on his Revisionist History podcast.

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/08-blame-game
> It's different. Macros can change the language grammar

But that's the point. When you can't change the grammar, you instead end up writing in a different language that doesn't even have a grammar, and encoding it in the base language plus a bunch of horrible configuration.

Look at Spring for an example.
What ISPs will do when net neutrality is eliminated
"Grsecurity will rather terminate userland programs or, in some rare cases, panic the kernel if it finds itself in an undefined state. This is exactly what you want if you care about security, but it's not a trade-off everyone is happy with (including Linus)."

If you really cared about security, you'd leave the box unplugged.

"I remember many bugs that were uncovered by PAX_REFCOUNT and yes, occasionally panicked the kernel where a vanilla kernel would run just fine. They usually found and fixed those within hours."

Speaking as someone who has done middling large scale production administration, that's not reassuring.
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Horrible UI
To refresh the crawled cache the search engines have. I've never given it much thought, but I guess it would be refreshed when queried. I will add it to my bash script for funzies.

Here's the implementation in the sister comment:
https://github.com/thom-nic/jekyll-s3_deploy/blob/master/lib...
Don't forget mitmdump. It is a great way to log sessions and chain to other proxies at the same time.

Also, mitmdump is one of the best and fastest ways to get ahold of web requests with Python to modify it on the fly.

http://docs.mitmproxy.org/en/stable/mitmdump.html

I have been using mitmproxy over Burp for day to day web app hacking these days. But we still use Burp scanner for lots of chores. I almost always chain through both to then go back in and use Burp features missing in mitmproxy (exploring site contents, etc.). But those are edge cases mostly needed for professional use and not for tinkering.
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Just FYI, Excel has that too. Check the 'Get Data' options under the Data tab.
Not really google's problem. You've done what they wanted you to do. Search! The problem will most likely exist on any other search engine at that point -- if you care to use them in the first place.
What sector are you in?
The loopholes were deliberately built in during the drafting of the law, the European Council forced the Parliament to include them. It was widely reported on at the time.
You're investing 8ish man-hours for a possible job. The company is investing more man-hours for a possible fit. I don't think compensation is fair, but that's not to say the company feels the same.
I agree with your scepticism about solving the commute traffic with a self-driving silver bullet. The research for traffic flow [1] says that, with human driven cars, a slice of a 4m wide lane will pass about 1000 people/hr in cars, about 7000 people on foot or bicycle, and about 10,000 people by bus.

That means that to get competitive flow with buses, self-driving cars need to deliver a tenfold improvement in flow. Since in traffic cars are quite tightly packed already, you probably can't get much from putting them closer together, so even if self-driving magic gives you two doublings of flow on its own you still need to more than double the speed limit to compete. I can imagine this working only on roads dedicated to self-driving vehicles, with no pedestrian crossings, so now self-driving cars benefits only materialise if they eat up a chunk of the public space.

You might get a bit of improvement from vehicle sharing as well, but it seems like a really complicated way to attack a problem that already has an OK low-tech answer, at least in high density areas.

Where I live the census says that about half the commute journeys in the area are less than a few miles, for which cars of any sort seem ridiculous to me, for the able bodied. For those who aren't able bodied or have a long journey all the able bodied car users on short trips are using up a scarce resource that they need!

Throw in the health benefits of active transport, and the health cost of particulate emissions (still a problem with electric cars, since a decent chunk comes off tyres and brakes) and it looks like a wash to me. Then again I am one of those awful bike people, so maybe I miss the point.

[1] Litman 2017, Brun & Vuchic 1995 etc.
>Who exactly are these "communists" wanting to get rid of?

It's this kind of ignorance that will drive Twitter into irrelevance, once they eliminate all opposing points of view. It will exist as a community but not as a source of information.
> We already have. It turns out that patients generally don't want this. When given the choice, they generally opt for the practitioner with more training (the physician) over the one with less (an NP or PA).

That's because there's no price consequence for the majority of people in that circumstance. If the doctor costs $500 to see, the 2 year example costs $50, and the person actually has to feel that cost, it's very obvious which one they will choose.

Most working Americans get heavily subsidized insurance from their employer; most of the rest get almost entirely subsidized coverage from the government. Accordingly, very few Americans ever directly touch the cost of care. The majority of all Americans never get anywhere near that in fact. That's one of the big reasons why we're spending a trillion dollars per year beyond what we should be.