skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google admits it tracked user location data even when the setting was turned off
It is just money laundering & evading exchange controls. Would use pigeons if they were fast enough.
The issue typically is not that Comcast is oversubscribing their network, its that there is more traffic trying to enter their network from a specific peer than is provisioned. This is what was at the core of Cogent/Comcast dispute. If your position is that an ISP should be required to provide as much capacity to any peer who wants it than that is at least an intellectually honest argument to make. You could further extend that argument that it should be required to peer with anyone who demands it. If you and I started a transit provider tomorrow should, won a deal with a video provider should Comcast be required to peer with us?

This is really what should be at the heart of these discussions, not abstract claims about who is throttling who.
That ones great, but I always like the question of how slow it could fly:

https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-sr-71-blackbirds-most-...
So what?

That’s a private company who customers are exercising their freedom of speech
Can any attorney with knowledge of fair housing weigh in on this? Law quotes states that the ad cannot say these things, but the publishing of an ad in a medium targeted based on these seems like a relatively new ground, since the ad itself is likely fine, but how it is distributed is definitely not in the spirit of the law.

In finance, I'm fairly sure zip+4 is off limits in many pricing models for this exact reason - it is too specific. However, I'm not aware of anything like this in advertising publishing that a given ad has to have a chance of being seen regardless of the protected categories.

Regardless of the law, it's definitely extremely unethical to do this.
Sure. But that's enforcement against the ISPs, not EFF itself.
https://libreboot.org/faq.html#amd
> Fifteen years ago Net Neutrality was the de facto policy. Nobody would dare block a site

The first neutrality enforcement action was almost that long ago (12 years ago) over an ISP blocking access to Vonage (the telephone-over-internet service.)

The first FCC neutrality principles enforced by case-by-case actions were adopted in 2004. While the current Open Internet order is only a few years old, active, official FCC action in this area is not.
Please don't accuse me of being a boring person. I'm not sure why you think that is acceptable behavior.

The nice thing about doing a minute of preliminary research when you have a question is that the questions you ask afterwards will be more interesting.
Wow as an engineer with a master's degree in LA you top out at around 100k which after taxes leaves you with barely enough to make rent. Can't be a housing boom here the locals are being displaced at lightening speed. I have 20 years of experience and a master's degree and I struggle to afford both rent and food but I work 100 hours a week for 40 hours pay to not be laid off. These guys could be making 400k in a union job, and not working that hard for it. We build the future but are allowed a life where we barely hang onto survival in California.
In USA even if you sold cocaine...or your mom, you need to declare it on income taxes. They might not catch selling cocaine but if they catch you with undeclared cash, they'll Al Capone you.

I'm almost certain that all countries have a catch all phrase to include any gains /income.
That's apples and oranges. A house and land doesn't become inaccessible if a key is lost, and the gatekeeper of "ownership of land" isn't the mathematics of the blockchain, it's the government.
I'm not sure that avoiding (some of) the panopticon by aiding and abetting wealth concentration via child slave labor is such "an obvious answer".
You are assuming that regulations exist that have a noticeable impact on infrastructure cost, and that, if these regulations exist, removing them would actually be a good thing.

Hypothetically speaking, there is a "regulation" that prevents me from killing my neighbor and taking their home/land. And removing that regulation would technically make it cheaper for me to purchase said land. But I doubt many people would be on board with those sorts of changes to solve a cost problem.
> Everyone would flock to the ISPs who didn't do this

Alternative scenario is that the major ISPs for a given area would conveniently move to this pricing model around the same time. The best example of this happening in real life, in a similar industry, is how Verizon and AT&T cell carrier offerings often move in sync in term of pricing and features, and not always to the benefit of the consumer.
Kids don't walk to school in many modern neighborhoods because they're not designed to be safe for walking, sliced through by wide high-speed arterials that encourage driving at dangerous speeds. I grew up in a 1900-1920s neighborhood and most kids walked to school.
HQ CEO: If You Run This Profile, We’ll Fire Our Host
The percentage doesn’t matter.

The problem is that the SJW mob is trying to tell FB how to run their business.
You can just close the tab regardless of whether it’s showing an alert nowadays. (I also recommend µMatrix – it’s pretty much a better version of NoScript.)
I am referring to the following mental algorithm I see being used by managers and some devs:
1. My front end guy does JS
2. My backend guy costs money
3. Let me remove 2 and get 1 to do both, it is all JS anyway; completely ignoring that the way you build the two is fundamentally different, with different mindsets. Language is just a small part of the equation. The claim that having a single language on FE and BE will save cash is simplistic and misguided. It is like saying since my kitchen utensils are built of stainless steel and aircraft carriers are built of stainless steel, I will get Le Crueset to manufacture my aircraft carriers
As a German, Flixbus is quite ok. Comfortable buses, and most trips have electric outlets, wifi and a working toilet.

Compared to the train, their toilets are unreliable, they experience way worse delays (30m-1h delay is not unusual from my experience, very understandable since traffic varies), provide fewer routes and have a pretty bad experience at the bus station (small stations are ok, big stations are always chaotic, nobody knows anything, personnel has no announcement system or even megaphones and is trying to herd people around by shouting information). But Flixbus is usually significantly cheaper than taking the train, making them a popular choice among students and other price-conscious travelers with flexible schedules.
That is different from the type of satellite-tv style packages ("Social media package, Facebook/Twitter, for only $9.99!") type of thing that people are talking about with net neutrality.

And the current FTC regulations in question didn't do anything in regards to that issue you linked to?
I have an iPhone specifically because I want to use Google services (Calendar and Hangouts) without associating my entire phone with my Gmail account. A few Android releases ago, I was able to create a new Google account for my phone, with no contacts or anything, and still use Hangouts. It's recently gotten aggressive enough that I'm pretty sure that all my photos, location history, contacts, etc. are visible to my Gmail account and that my Gmail account has permissions to install apps on my phone, so I gave up and got an iPhone, where the only apps that care about my Google account are the Google apps I choose to install.
It also seems to conflate online access to land records with bitcoin.

It's possible that the same folks that pushed MERS (trying to move land records out of county systems and into a private, mortgage industry-controlled system) may be pushing this as a second attempt at the same (just with the word "blockchain").

The only way it makes sense to me is as a further means of authenticating exactly what was done and who the parties were. See "Triple Entry Accounting" for a similar concept (added value from blockchain use): http://iang.org/papers/triple_entry.html
I don't think it was deliberate, to be honest. The bug is really in the game code, but it only manifests when a DirectDraw surface is allocated in just the right way, if I remember the gist of it correctly. Wine likely didn't intentionally fix it - they just changed something about their implementation that accidentally made it go away, and Win10 also changed something that made it repro. I don't actually know if Wine has it again now - it might, I haven't tested that game under it in ages.
My main complaint is that the protective rubber often gets stiff as it ages, which can make it pretty dang hard to remove old cables (until you resort to pliers).
You got it. The
companies I was talking about are covered in the cities you listed.
Yup exactly. There is some research on BNN (binary neural networks) but I was curious how this paper approached it (not really anything of substance here)
I think the issue here is the possibility of digital red-lining. While recognizing race is not racist, treating people differently because of their race is racist.
People who feel no impediments in getting things done are those who feel no need to share their plans, interests or self-perceived successes. They can actually remember more than two things at a time, and prioritize them using their brains.
> The internet was born and thrived w/o explicit net neutrality laws for a long time (~20+ years).

On the other hand, while the internet is approaching its 50th birthday for most of that time there was far less money involved and fewer players with monopoly status over it.

In the 90s, we had dialup and DSL from hundreds of service providers because DSL was subject to a similar neutrality provision which meant that the phone company had to resell access to copper at cost. That's a pretty huge difference: had, say, PacBell tried to steer pets.com traffic to a partner, every single one of their customers had the option to switch ISPs immediately without any loss of service quality.

Unfortunately that wasn't preserved for fiber and there has been massive consolidation in the industry, so most people have a choice between — if they're lucky — a massive cable company and a massive phone company. Many people live in buildings with exclusive contracts for only one company. In that environment, your choices are basically falling back to DSL if it's still available (increasingly not) or going without an increasingly vital utility.

I would be very hesitant to say our past experience is a good source of prediction for the modern market.
Shh you are going against the hive mind of people that watch a fucking comedian and accept his word as gospel and that this removal of title 2 "hurts muh free speech"

Internet companies didnt make fast lanes and shit for 20 years, removal of title 2 and suddenly they are? the fuck.
The first I remember reading about the "Blackbird" was in the _The Uncanny X-Men_, during the Claremont & Byrne run in the early 80's. Their jet was modeled on the SR-71, although I don't recall if they explicitly mentioned that model number.
"The revelation comes as Google and other internet companies are under fire from lawmakers and regulators, including for the extent to which they vacuum up data about users."

Since the FCC is taking the Alan Greenspan approach to a self-regulating market / ISP, which nearly every Republican legislative office support. Which lawmakers and regulators are up in arms?
The potential market for bus travel in the US is high. There are many places with no/limited/unaffordable commercial air service and one of the limiting aspects of bus travel is user experience. Changes to local last mile transport can probably improve that experience. Providing a better travel experience than a Greyhound bus terminal is a pretty low bar.

All travel in the US defaults to dollar store for anyone who doesn't fly business class or just drive. Air travel has been going down market for decades. Roads have been getting better. Trains have remained an eccentricity.
It's not exactly encouraging to see, on the Willow Garage ROS website, that the page seems to have been last updated in 2013 (http://www.willowgarage.com/pages/software/ros-platform). You'll instead want to try http://www.ros.org/
or go directly to the installers, located at: http://wiki.ros.org/lunar/Installation

However, the latest version (Lunar) on OSX is described "This is a work in progress! It really won't work right now... " and I've verified their instructions don't work. Instead, you'll want to use this shim: https://github.com/mikepurvis/ros-install-osx

Hope this saves some folks time.
If you are buying more than a small handful of things, they continually beep and complain about the bagging area as things shift around or have to get moved to make room. And even worse if you are using your own bags.
In a naive implementation, yes.

But to implement this properly, the real estate title should and would not serve the same purpose a bitcoin 'title' does via it's private key.

In case of bitcoin, a private key is literally the ownership of the bitcoins. In case of real tangible assets, the private key would serve as a pretty solid proof of ownership (but not THE ownership itself).

So, in case of a dispute over the ownership of a real estate property, you can point out that you had the ownership of the property via the blockchain.

In case of a theft of the keys, you must provide supplementary documentation regarding the prior ownership of the stolen keys. A pretty neat solution for the blockchain identity is being described by Vinay Gupta[1].

A simplified version is, imagine if the private key using which you purchased the house is stolen from you, then in front of the arbitrator, you present receipt from Amazon, where you used your private key to pay for goods which were delivered to you in your name, an affidavit from your bank which shows that you did business with them (using your real identity) and connected with your private key.

All these 'documentation' (which Vinay Gupta describes as 'insurance') is very hard for the thief to produce.

The same is not the case with bitcoin theft, where loss of private keys means loss of control of the assets (and not merely a 'dispute'). I hope that helps to explain it.

1. https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/a-blockchain-s...
ARM != AMD
I am a fan of muni broadband as a competitive alternative to the incumbents. But wouldn’t that enable a demagogue mayor to issue censorship directives via Executive Order?
For anyone who's interested in this stuff, I highly recommend the book "Skunk Works" – about Lockheed's famous operation that designed the SR-71, U-2, F-117 (stealth fighter), etc.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/en...

Has only 2 US universities, 3 from China and 2 from Singapore (which is crazy, as there are only 4 technical universities in the first place).

I will admit that the US has some damn fine universities, but far from all the top innovation happens in the US.
If you like the SR-71, and are interested in other Skunk Works projects like the U-2 and F-117, the book Skunk Works is a great read (and also a great audio book).

https://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/...
Differentiation is not the same as discrimination. The protected categories exist because harm was done on the basis of these identifiable traits.

If all humanbeings were ethical and always did the right thing (which matched the universally shared definition of the right thing), we wouldn't need these laws. Since neither the universally accepted definition or the universally ethical people exist, we are stuck with the flawed legal system. Doesn't mean we shouldn't try to make it better though.
Side note: in C# 7.0, local functions (which, while not anonymous, are true closures) can contain "yield".
/r/whowouldwin

God I waste a good amount of time writing about fake battles.
Worth noting that it's not functionally all that different in that newgrp spawns a new shell under the current one; aside from the - creating a login shell anyway - but you can do that with newgrp too
No, it is not isolated and it is certainly not disabled. It must run as part of the initial platform boot; whether or not they politely ask it to shut itself down after boot is irrelevant to the core claim being made that the ME is "isolated and disabled" on their platforms.
Well sure, but that seems to undermine the necessity of the blockchain for this purpose right? If the ultimate arbiter is still the government, decentralizing the ledger is neat but it doesn't remove the requirement for trust in the government.
page 29 - https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-17-60A1_Rc...

85. Need for the No Paid Prioritization Rule. The Commission concluded in the Title II
Order that “fast lanes” or “paid prioritization” practices “harm consumers, competition, and innovation,
as well as create disincentives to promote broadband deployment.”189
The Commission adopted this ex ante flat ban on individual negotiations to address an apparently nonexistent problem. The ban on paid
prioritization did not exist prior to the Title II Order and even then the record evidence confirmed that no
such rule was needed since several large Internet service providers made it clear that that they did not
engage in paid prioritization190 and had no plans to do so.191
We seek comment on the continued need for
such a rule and our authority to retain it.

ex ante: based on forecasts rather than actual results.
They absolutely do, but not at entry level. They're the ones who have been doing it for ages, break off to start their own business doing it, and hire people to work for them, and the cycle begins anew. Nobody's doing it because the last 20 years kids have been told that college is the One True Path to being successful and that the trades are for people who can't hack it there. It's hard work and long hours before you really start to get crazy high earnings, but you get there.
Does your library take into account that React really doesn't like DOM manipulation from external sources?

My team did some research on this and decided to write our own visualizations in D3 backed by React Faux DOM [1] for this very reason.

[1] https://github.com/Olical/react-faux-dom
Russia, in Reversal, Confirms Radiation Spike
You can do simple plumbing and electrical stuff yourself. Just shut off the main valve or circuit breaker, change out the fixture (light switch, outlet, lamp, faucet, etc) and turn things back on. As long as you are careful to put wires back in same place it should be fine. And there are plenty of videos on Youtube to guide you.
My T-Mobile LTE connection has twice the bandwidth of Comcast, and decent ping. I can add uncapped tethering for $25. I’m honestly tempted to do just that.

And that’s just LTE, 5g will increase the speeds and capacity another order of magnitude. I think the whole cable monopoly will come to an end rather quickly.
I'm about to buy a house (US) and considered that very issue. I asked an accountant and the answer was that, yes, I'd need to pay capital gains tax on the gains.

On one hand it makes sense, but on the other hand, it could be seen as a diversification into real estate. If instead of personally buying the Bitcoin and house, I bought shares of "moduspol mutual fund", and then that mutual fund bought the Bitcoin and diversified into part of my house, I presumably wouldn't be taxed until I sold my shares in "moduspol mutual fund."

But it's a good problem to have, and probably not worth (legal) avoidance at smaller (< $1 million) values.
90% have at least two providers of 10Mbps+ speed, but only 20% have at least two providers of 25Mbps+ speed.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/us-br...

That could change though as more providers are rolling out fiber. (AT&T just rolled out Fiber to the Home in my neighborhood, and Comcast says they will do the same soon.)
Do you really not think that only allowing certain races to rent houses isn't racist? Please google redlining.
So true. So frustrating.

I'm not a top-shelf engineer, but I'm perfectly capable of working on a team and producing good work. Finding jobs is an extremely difficult process.
Are you 5? Christ.
> Internet companies didnt make fast lanes and shit for 20 years

I assume you mean 1984-2004, the 20 years preceding both the FCC first adopting and first acting to enforce network neutrality rules (under the title “Network Freedom” principles, which later became “Open Internet”.)

Since 2004 there've been all kinds of non-neutral action and an evolving approach to enforcing neutrality responding to court decisions closing off certain approaches until Title 2 was the only thing left.
OnePlus is silently uploading battery stats, kernel panics, ANRs and all crashes
http://gettingthingsdone.com/fivesteps/

Capture everything in your head. Who you need to contact and about what, upcoming trips, list the projects you're working on.

Clarify what all this means. Why am I trying to juggle this information in my head when I can put it into a proper notes app or notebook (it's information, record it, reference it later). If it's a project, add more detail (actions). If it's action, you're good.

Organize it. Put things with deadlines into your calendar. Determine the context of actions (I have to do this on the way home, I have to do this in the lab at facility X on my next trip there). Put things into lists [0] that make sense. Make a shopping list. Have an agenda for your meeting with Bob. Have a plan for your next weekly sprint.

Review everything. We canceled this project, or we shipped that one. Actions that are left open are put on hold or discarded. I missed a deadline, or I finished this but forgot to mark it finished and so those are removed. This is actually dependent on this other thing that I haven't written down yet, so I write it down.

Engage. This is the purpose, this is your life (personal and professional). This is you getting things done and where most of your time should be spent.

[0] Lists is a broad concept. My grocery list is a list, I should fill it out and put it in my car or have it in my pocket notebook so it's accessible when I'm near the grocery store. My projects' plans are a list, but it may be in a MS Project file or an emacs org file, or even both. I have "Fix PR-123" in the main project calendar. But once I get to it, it's in emacs for me and looks more like "figure out this module and that module; update them; update documentation and tests; get it peer reviewed".
The article title is not clickbait.

This is an extremely bizarre reaction for a founder who has already had successful startup experience.
When does an application become a platform?
Non-paywall link: http://archive.is/sw1K9
> a given area would conveniently move to this pricing model around the same time.

ISPs do this too. So does McDonalds and Burger King. And most other industries with oligopolies.

Just because pricing shifts in sync doesn't mean they will all take a major risk in changing towards TV-style packages (Social media package to get Facebook/Twitter or Streaming package to get Netflix/Amazon Go!) also in sync.

And it would have to be in sync. The only way it could work is if one takes a risk and customers don't immediately flock to the other one before they do it too. It's going to be incredibly unpopular and I highly doubt it will be synchronized without some illegal antitrust laws being violated before they realize it's not a good business decision.

Besides I'm not against the idea of having regulation if they do try it. I'm just not convinced anyone will, successfully.