skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dont necessarily agree with the following but its a devils advocate argument I rarely see shared, and it has a lot of merit. Like everything, this issue is shades of grey.

Bandwidth is a limited amd expensive resource. When government mandated price controls are in effect ("Net neutrality" is a marketing meme) this expense is effectively socialised across the entire country. It is illegal for a telco to go to a hospital and offer a dedicated nine 9s reliable robot surgery link (technically its just illegal to charge a fair economic price for it but same/same). So the cost gets divided up, averaged out, and smalltime users end up paying a big chunk of the cost while people above the magic median point get massive benefits. YOU subsidise the cost of the BigCorp. video conference call between Sydney and Tokyo every day. You subsidise the cost of your neighbour streaming The Bachelor every night, and make it illegal for me to pay a higher price for the quality of service I need to work. Its a total mismanagement of resources. If the consumer was forced to bear the true economic cost of their internet usage then of course heavy users (like Netflix subscribers...) would end up paying more. Not directly to Netflix but the true cost of their product still goes up. This is obviously bad for Netflix/Youtube/the top 1%, who are the ones extracting wealth from this thing we call the internet. These whales love having their infrastructure costs socialised. You dont even have to be a Google customer for you to be giving them money, no wonder they're so rich!

Blocking freedom of people to publish on the web doesn't have much to do with net neutrality. This is big company lobbying and public propaganda from the tech industry. Tech companies are the new oil barons, in 80 years when the bio lobby is pushing for access to proprietary databases and end "Data detention" (you heard it here first) we'll look at tech giants the way we look at oil companies lobbying for clean coal now.
Na. Giving a shit is the only thing that actually changes stuff.

And it's not harder since NN is dead. It's gone and by 2020 people will understand the opposition to axing it's short existence was pointless. We should focus on what you appear to agree matters more; more competition.
net neutrality != government mandated price controls, so the argument goes nowhere. Companies can charge whatever they want.

The other problems you describe could be solved by making false advertising illegal. Don't offer unlimited bandwidth, unlimited transfers or any of this mumbo-jumbo if you can't technically fulfill the promise. It's not your neighbors fault if he uses the Internet for whatever he wants to use it, whether that includes high or low bandwidth use, and if that interferes with your streaming, it's your ISPs problem to fix the issue or sell plans with proper bandwidth limits.
Lack of competition often comes from municipal governments granting local monopolies. Good luck fighting that out city by city.
You don't have any trucks involved when you buy gold, just some entries in a ledger changed. Some gold funds buy futures not physical gold too.
> Yes, if you're a $10m hedge fund or a small family office. But not if you need to manage $400bn; then you (really) want a custodian.

Who, if they are competent, will happily print out a bunch of keys on paper and lock them in boxes, and charge you a 75 basis point asset under management fee for that service.

What has that really accomplished though?
Yes. I believe you can connect the file to a Mac; I don't remember if I pulled the file off that way or emailed it to myself.
If you can demonstrate due process and reasonable effort to secure against breaches, your doing your job. For instance with described procedures, sane defaults, locked down environments ect. But if you're a CSO and have not described threatmodels, workflows, and security practices, then you've not done your job and should be held accountable for data breaches.
I never met Bill's parents. But I do know that perfectly pleasant people can fail catastrophically when confronted with a deep conflict of interests. It happens all the time. When the chips are down, most people will choose whatever they think preserves the status quo with the greatest likelihood.
Where did you source that?
Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments regulating most of the Internet must treat all data on the Internet the same, and not discriminate or charge differently by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or method of communication.[1] For instance, under these principles, internet service providers are unable to intentionally block, slow down or charge money for specific websites and online content.

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Quitting your job with only 4 month worth of savings, with a new mortgage, to enter an industry known for its oversaturation, extreme competition, and high luck element for indies ? That's insane. Maybe I'm just risk-adverse.

That said, I think he actually succeeded, despite appearances. Managing to release a working game in 3 month, that actually got sales, is a feat in itself. The game will keep trickling sales, if he's a developer he can probably find a job in a few weeks and enjoy the now-passive income so I'm not too worried about him. Keep cranking out games like this one and the income will pile up.
Same with Spotlight search on macOS:

Type "pho", it suggests Photoshop

Type "phot", it suggests Photo Boot

Type "photo", it suggests Photoshop again
Paid posts on Instagram are advertising and need to be disclosed as such in many countries. Reviews are generally not paid for because it presents a conflict of interest between the person reviewing and the product they are reviewing which is detrimental to the people who want to know if they would like a product.

That said you can definitely pay for advertising through 'influencer' coverage. Probably out of the budget range of all but the most well funded individuals though. Which is part of the issue as most people assume making a good game is enough rather than looking at the business holistically and properly budgeting for marketing.
If like me you are from the UK it can be hard to appreciate how well aligned our country is to starting businesses, the origins of protection for companies originates with corporate activity around the 13th Century with the http://www.merchantsofthestapleofengland.co.uk/ and since then, with corporations holding large amounts of wealth and power, UK law has developed in step with the demands of corporations, coupled with historically low corruption in government and civil service, beneficial tax arrangements for new businesses, a tax system that helps recoup losses on investments and high level of security we are well supported in starting businesses and should appreciate that others are not so fortunate.
GDPR will come into effect in about half a year. Everyone is sitting duck about exactly how to implement things. When this gets into effect, companies will take it seriously - the fine is astronomical if you fail.
Braking and acceleration - once you get x tons of anything moving, it generally wants to keep moving. Trains are tens of times longer than trucks, brake significantly less often, and have a lot more horsepower for acceleration.
What gets me about this is the tiny scale of things. This is the first time it really dawns on me just how small of a success a game might have to be and still have the developer going (hard as it may be to reach 700 sold, apparently).

Honestly, this puts things into an entirely new light for me. I feel like buying, playing and then thoroughly interacting in the community of a game can really have personal impact on the indie developer.
I disagree. As a private person I would feel a lot more secure if I could pay someone to safely hold my cryptocurrency for me.

I trust my bank a lot more than I trust myself to keep things safe.

This seems to be a controversial opinion in the crypto-space :)
But it's not result of Net Neutrality, but the lack thereof... What makes you think that China has NN?
>It's worth noting that we are still in that period and we've only just started to see the economic slow down effects

We've been in the transitional period for over a year now. The whole period is only supposed to last about 30 months or so.

Moreover, as far as I can tell zero of leading indicators (shipping, retail, etc.) indicate that this cataclysmic 20% drop will ever come.

We haven't even had a quarter of contraction that can be blamed on Brexit - and we had one of those in 2013!

At what point do you stop saying "too soon to tell"?
Like this?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=196320.0
Yes. Ads are distractions from things I care about. This sort of notification is an attempt to make me care about something.
One thing I’ll never understand is people taking drastic action like this but then not naming their abusers. It’s not the first time I see it happening, and I just cannot comprehend it. It is irresponsible towards the community at large, towards other children, and the justification (the risk of not being taken seriously) is incredibly flimsy when you are willing to witness with your own life. Then again, somebody taking his/her own life is not likely to be following a completely rational train of thoughts.

I do understand the grievance against his parents. My uncle killed himself at 26, as a way of having the last word against his parents - a hard-working couple who raised 5 boys; they were only guilty of not fully understanding that the age difference between parents and child, with the last two kids, was probably too high from a cultural perspective. I wish there was a way for kids to simply opt out of their family when they decide it’s just not working out. As society we allow that only in extreme cases, but maybe we could solve a lot of problems by making it easier for everyone.
Exactly. It has nothing to do with price regulation.
Google “crypto steel”
> Keto diet is terrible for you.

Because?
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He's also lying, there are fast lanes in US already:
https://www.networkworld.com/article/2226901/opensource-subn...

We learnt about this from Snowdens documents in 2014.
So argue for federal NN instead? It's so odd, can you not think of some alt universe where local monopolies are preempted regarding physical internet access? You are arguing for the logical (data) FCC parallel (or you think you are, I disagree that NN means that but lets not go there).

When local monopolies block data, they get sidestepped. It's not like water gas or electricity. 4G is fast. Heck I'm happy here tethered to my old 3G phone.
He should mention it's essentially reboot of the classic Dungeon Master game, that was a very popular title, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Master_(video_game)
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Cassandra also functions as a time-series database, and does quite well with tick data such as this. Many financial institutions rely on it.
I don’t really see the same positives as you do here. I see someone who really didn’t think through the decision to quit their job, may have lost their house over it, and who still appears to have not found a replacement despite running out of money already.

It also appears he would have launched the game without quitting his job, seeing as he seems to have done most of the work before he quit.

> The harsh reality is the casual games market is brutal from a business perspective - that's not your fault

It’s not his fault for the market being tough, but it is his fault for launching another rogue like 2d pixel art rpg, with no real unique feature into an over saturated market, with no marketing, and not enough cash to deal with a single business expense. He’s lucky his girlfriend put him up afterwards, and this piece might even net him a few sympathy sales, but this is definitely his fault.
ultimately the issue is laws in favor of the incumbents, while more competition would absolutely be a better solution long term if laws aren't being made to ensure net neutrality laws are definitely not going to be made to allow more competition.
There are current laws that are trying to be repealed. These laws don't make it illegal to build dedicated lines and charge fair prices for that so I don't understand your argument or why this means those current laws should be repealed.
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really? Think I've done that once or twice in the last 2 years... YMMV
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Even that seems like a huge requirement compared to New Zealand where the only requirement is I file my taxes every year. If I want limited liability that costs NZ$115 +GST (though by that time you’re normally gst registered so that doesn’t matter)

There is the matter of provisional tax though, so an accountant does help.
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"... just getting the business prepared ended up costing me about 550 more dollars than I was expecting. That's one month out of the 4 taken out."

You saved 2000$? OMG I would wait until 10000€ at least (Spain).

At the end, he says: 'I know I can get hired for a good salary again but I don't think it will happen this year'.

What do you mean by good salary? Because if you say you have a low mortgage in a low cost country but that only gave you like 2000$ savings for the game...
So basically you just debunked your original argument.
You should expect much worse! (and be careful investing in the Apple ecosystem either, because I doubt they have the restraint to avoid doing just as bad on the desktop)
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Premature abstraction is pure mathematics
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Three years + voting + a number of more years for execution is a long time to wait to possibly get back to an open internet (with real competition for web services as you seem to like).
I recommend being careful from whom you take advice.
My main point was that professional therapy and counseling is very expensive, even in social countries like Western Europe. Free resources are all exhausted and often bad, private therapy is 100$/h. Now even if you earn decent that's a lot of cash but people with issues usually barely have enough to pay rent and food.
And as to meditation or "talking helps": NOTHING changes reality. I can do all positive thinking I want in the end I am still surrounded by endless suffering and misery.
I'm pretty sure being number 1 on HN will give him some sales. So a post-mortem can be part of a good marketing campaign.
Sure, and then he failed to put a man on the moon.
As these announcements get a lot of attention from non-rust devs it might be worth linking to what ? Actually does somewhere in that.
It clearly has price regulation bundled up in it. Oldest lobbying trick in the book, attach your agenda to something nobody can disagree with. Censorship and control over who sees what is a totally seperate issue to what it costs.
Cognitive therapy takes this approach. Distorted thoughts cause distorted feelings, in that an emotional reaction to an event/situation is dependent on a perception/interpretation of it. i.e. a cognition. Faulty cognition -> faulty emotion.

...therefore, taking such feelings as "true" (as an assessment of reality) is mistaken.

I bring this up is because cognitive therapy can be practiced from books, without having to share with another, if that is an obstacle.

Of course, having a true friend is an even better and easier way. And a funny thing is that by its nature, it's easier to spot faulty cognition in someone else (from the outside) than in yourself (from the inside). So, people can help each other.
Like net neutrality will come from U.S. or with President of U.S. Don't forgot, it's your boat that are sinking. Do you see U.S. falling down? because it's what happen.
You are right, but if you ever been to a country without net neutrality then you will notice that the "free" volume goes down and the facebook/youtube does not count towards the volume. Do it's basically doing exactly what everybody fears. However, if you would charge facebook/google for using the infrastructure it would be another case... But let's be honest, they never let that happen.
I'm a Muslim and you got it wrong.
Yes - I agree, the point is that most of the time an Excel "app" is solving a very specific problem using data coming from some other (internally managed, usually legacy) system.
Like: I run a report, transform the result in .csv with some ultraedit macro, slurp it up in Excel and off I go.

(off I go can often being something like: upload the result to the same or a different legacy system, again in some custom format).

Maybe I can pester my own IT dept. to add an extra option to the report so that it spouts off a .csv directly. That's all, the rest still lives in Excel.

Then I am free to play with data as much as I like (take also in account that in some cases you want these in a Excel just to be able to manipulate them better, while the old app works record by record, you can make changes across a thousand records using the Excel interface... and keep also in mind that this is maybe something you need to do once or twice a year, when you renew your catalog prices or whatever).

Now, what is the cost of:

- going out on the market looking for a SAAS that can get my data exactly in the format I use internally, applies the required transformations and send the result back in a format I can use

- assess that the SAAS vendor is indeed trustable for my desired level of security, SOX compliance, etc.

- add one more vendor to my portfolio of vendors/licenses/purchasing orders

So the reason not to go to SAAS is actually a combination of security/external resource dependency/cost/bureacracy.

Where "cost" is mostly inertia+sunk cost fallacy. I am sure that a SAAS may cost less than the hours spent manually doing all the stuff I mentioned above (including mantaining the Excel spreadsheet) but the latter is a "hidden cost" because it something that happens infrequently and is part of the normal chores of whoever is using the Excel sheet itself.

While introducing a new SAAS app will be an IT cost (to identify/approve it, add a recurring subscription etc.)
That kind of redistribution of wealth is obviously not going to work for everyone, or more likely anyone.
I would make a different caveman analogy. Hand a caveman a gun. He probably won't be a better rifleman than you (or someone). Really bad form and technique. But, he'll probably be a way better hunter than you, shoddy rifle technique or not.

Caveman were better than you at a lot of things. They knew how to find squirrels
Of course it looks like C, it's using a C interface to interface with Ruby. Normal Rust does not look like that. Your comment is quite frankly entirely pointless.
Azure and GCP do now.
Android took a big step in this direction in Oreo, with a built-in central manager of the permission and notification settings of every app on the system :)
Is traffic shaping website specific? I thought it was just related to packet size, etc. — as in, British Telecom may throttle bandwidth at peak times for data that looks like it may be videos, torrents etc.

In my mind, this is very different to allowing YouTube load faster than Vimeo
Ask HN: Advice on learning an apps file format?
I have a lot of Apple Notes. I want these notes on platforms that are non-Apple. I thought this would be a good learning experience to learn something new while scratching a personal itch.

However, what ways are possible to find out a file format, like Apple notes?

Use a packet sniffer and start looking at each packet when I am working with notes?

I honestly am drawing a blank on how to even get started.
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> Show me a regulator who is able to do any of those things with cash transfers of USD?

Holding and/or transporting large amounts of cash is extremely fraught, especially across borders. US legal authorities regularly seize cash without due process and without meaningful judicial recourse. Most US banknotes are contaminated with cocaine, so it's prima facie laughable that a narcotic-detection-dog alert on a pile of money is seen as sufficient evidence that the money was obtained via the drug trade (thus allowing its seizure) -- yet this is a very common tactic.

The ability to transact in cash is meaningless if governments (and entities authorised by governments, look up "sewer service" or "gutter service") can seize cash without even a pretence of due process.
I can compare how this system works in UK to how it works in other EU country and cannot agree more. In UK it's very simple and straightforward.
From website:

"Served as co-lead counsel for the largest settlement in world history against Big Tobacco, and at the time the largest automotive, antitrust, ERISA and securities settlements in U.S. history."

https://www.hbsslaw.com/attorneys/managing-partner/steve-w-b...

State of Washington, et al. v. Philip Morris, et al. $206 billion / Hagens Berman represented 13 states in the largest recovery in litigation history.

Visa-Mastercard Antitrust Litigation $27 billion / The firm served as co-lead counsel in what was then the largest antitrust settlement in history.

Volkswagen Emissions Litigation $14.7 billion / Member of the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in the VW consumer litigation and part of the Settlement Negotiating team

E-books Antitrust $560 million / The firm took on Apple and five of the nation's largest publishing companies in an antitrust class action regarding e-book price-fixing.

Charles Schwab Securities Litigation $235 million / The firm was lead counsel in this action alleging fraud in the management of the Schwab YieldPlus mutual fund; a class settlement was approved by the court.

https://www.hbsslaw.com/success-record/victories-and-settlem...
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Great app. Looks slick. Love the dark theme. Please add support for more exchanges.

IMO, TradingView is a better alternative
https://www.tradingview.com/
Open? Like the ~25 years before 'NN'? I was there. Competition works. NN is just a typical BS branding for "More Rules". It's step 0 in the standard manual on mission creep.
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"With peering, there are two methods that connectivity is formed on. The first is where direct connectivity is established between individual networks routers with multiple 10Gigabit Ethernet or 100Gigabit Ethernet links. This sort of connectivity is known as “private peering” or PNI (Private Network Interconnect)."[0]

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/internet-routing-a...
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He leaves in Romania not in Spain.
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Not just Python, JVM langs too (and other runtimes w/ fast C interfacing, e.g. node w/ neon). JNI is actually incredibly easy with Rust. I've even used some advanced features of the JVM via JVMTI and exposed it via JNI all in Rust as a learning exercise [0]. Contemplating writing a fuzzer using similar tech soon.

0 - https://github.com/cretz/stackparam
I use USD when talking about "money things" on the Internet as well. Translates better to others, even those who don't use USD. Since you can see USD prices on every HW release, software, etc... most people have general idea of its value.
Maybe Steam isn't the best distribution channel. Get creative. e.g. A big selling point of your "coffee break" game seems to be that you can easily jump in, step away, then resume later. Find someplace where people spend time bored and waiting, and get them playing your game there. It would sure make for a more entertaining alternative to those boring progress bars at websites where you download big files. Point is, find someplace your game will stand out as being unique and cool. Even if you have to go back to work for a while, hope you don't give up!