skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly there is a segment that are close to bankruptcy but most are profitable.
You can't just raise prices and expect to win jobs.
Ask HN: What are some great books for children?
HN,

what books do you think are excellent for children?

I'm particularly interested in STEM books for a 7 year old, but please don't feel limited by that. I'm interested in any books for children that you particularly like.
Agreed, I renovated basically my entire condo using this process, hiring out the jobs that looked unreasonable to try and do myself. I was able to do quite a bit though, youtube is awesome for this.
Except Netflix doesn't care about net neutrality anymore - Reed Hastings claims they are now big and popular enough for it not to matter for them:

https://www.cnet.com/news/net-neutrality-netflix-reed-hastin...
Could you block javascript on that page?
What is the actual reason they shouldn't?

This is a highly politicized topic but it's hard to find rational discussion.

If I built a network I would expect to be able to charge whatever I wanted to whomever I wanted in exchange for the use of my network.

Is the answer that taxpayers helped fund the network so now feel they deserve not to pay twice? How much of the current internet infrastructure is paid for by taxpayers vs private corporations?

Any good sources you'd suggest reading on the pros and cons of each side of the argument?
"The vast majority have some choice"

I challenge this assertion -> please document it.
It's possible that this underestimates blockchain slightly but yeah overall I think she makes a reasonable connection between the two technologies.
So are you implying that the tech giants used in all the examples of why we should be saving this are the ones that don't actually even care, because this would help them stay giants and hurt new competition from rising to compete with them? ...If that's the case, I feel like the media should change their prospective in promoting awareness to fight for the companies that this is ACTUALLY going to effect more so then the ones it won't (the tech giants most have used in their examples).
The privacy changes look quite cool, especially firstPartyIsolate (though it also looks like it'd break most websites -- notably YouTube and similar sites would likely break).

> firstPartyIsolate – This preference makes the browser associate all data (including cookies, HSTS data, cached images, and more) for any third party domains with the domain in the address bar.
News like this makes me think back to this[0] statement by jwz from the Netscape/Mozilla documentary "Code Rush"

[0]:https://youtu.be/4Q7FTjhvZ7Y?t=53m35s
Community colleges and stores like Lowe's or Home Depot often have classes like this, but honestly, with the web, it's easier and easier to teach yourself these days. I wouldn't bother paying for instruction unless I was aiming to become a professional.
There's a step in between Comcast's stranglehold and full mesh nets: municipal broadband/fiber.

The more towns get municipal fiber, the more Comcast's grip loosens, until they're forced to compete at a local level with local ISPs run by people you know and trust who support Net Neutrality.

If a local ISP doesn't support Net Neutrality, drop their ass and use one of the 20 other ISPs that rent the infrastructure from the city.

This is the real shift we need. Net Neutrality regulation will be ping-ponging in various parts of the government for the rest of time...which is a symptom of a much larger problem: the public currently doesn't own the infrastructure, and we need to.
I don't get the twisted priorities here. Extensions can do subversive things like change search engines but useful modifications to the UI are verboten.

Blindly copying Chrome is the wrong path to head down. You end up playing into Google's game of building systems with user hostile misfeatures meant to protect ad revenue.
Hitler Quote Controversy in the BSD Community
In Ontario, there are three major internet providers: Rogers, Bell, and Telus. For the longest time, their plans (all of them) had bandwidth caps, something that would be unheard of in the United States. They used to be extremely ungenerous, about 100 GB a month or worse. (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/04/how-internet-use...)

The other internet providers, Bell and Telus, had an opportunity to distinguish themselves here.

But they didn’t. They had bandwidth caps too. There was a smaller ISP (TekSavvy) which offered 300GB bandwidth caps (still ridiculous by US standards), which they could offer as a result of a law requiring Canadian ISPs to resell infrastructure to smaller providers (meaning TekSavvy has access to all of Rogers’ customer base). Around 2015, Rogers started introducing plans with higher bandwidth caps, and bandwidth restrictions have relaxed (but they still exist).

It took pretty much a decade for innovation-stifling bandwidth restrictions to stop being a thing in Ontario, and arguably only because of a law (i.e. government interference) letting smaller ISPs use big ISP infrastructure.
> And this is very likely the reason for the mistake. See, Google Translate seems to take a shortcut to translating between language A and B, by translating from A to English and English to B.

Although in this case, if you translate "halb zwei" from German→English it correctly translates it to "half past one".
We had a glimpse of the future with Telekom. They looked at startups and offered them faster cheaper access in return for equity.

Now imagine that model with the threat of throttling that startup if they dont comply.
Maybe I'm lucky but that sounds like a bad place to work. I can show up any day or time I want as long as I work the total required hours and don't miss meetings.
That's a good list...a lot of it rings true, especially point B. The chances for me to work when I was young were everywhere. I did mow lawns, I raked leaves, painted houses, and every other odd job that a 13 year old would be allowed to do.

Now I imagine explaining to my friends or wife that I hired a 13 year old to paint our house. With 0/0 stars on google, angies list, etc. It's hard for young people to "break in" to something as mundane as yard work and painting.
New app. Controversial questions and answers for everybody
Psychological targeting as an effective approach to digital mass persuasion [pdf]
Alright. That Hykso MMA punch velocity tracker would make an ideal gift for the fitness minded in your life ;)

Definitely noticed increasing frequency of electric bikes and motorcycles spotted in the wild. Maybe they will become the hoverboards of this holiday season...

http://www.zeromotorcycles.com/

http://www.bullsebikes.com/
"...and now your house is flooding at 3 GPM"
I moved out of the bay in '06. Been working remote for bay companies ever since. Live in a huge house less than 1000ft from the ocean that is cheaper than a studio anywhere in the bay.

From a corporate survival standpoint it's retarded to put all of your servers in redundant data centers spread all over the world but put all of you employees in one city that is likely to be uninhabitable soon.
It's a firewall for attention. One day somebody will build an app like that for AR glasses.
Similar to GTD, I use a technique called "Bullet Journaling" [1] and it's been transformative. It's less opinionated than GTD and I find it flows a bit more readily.

I find it ironic that as a tech CTO I'm connected to my phone and computer probably 80% of my day and love playing with productivity and organizational tools -- yet I've still never found anything better than putting pen to paper!

I keep a small pocket-sized moleskine in my back pocket with me, and it travels with me basically wherever I go. I leave it open on my desk during the work day, and I find I "respect" the notebook more than I respect Asana or Todoist or any other digital app. I guess it's because it's in my own handwriting.

I spend about 10 minutes in the morning going through the notebook and another 10 in the evening looking forward to tomorrow. Strongly recommend this approach if you're looking for a slightly more flexible approach than GTD.

[1] http://bulletjournal.com/
Both Facebook and Google are working at disabling ME. They make no secret that they not trust it.

NSA & other US orgs receive hardware without ME already.

Surveillance is for the rest of us.
" seeing the coverage of unbelievable heroics that people would demonstrate. I mean literally firefighters pouring water into the molten reactor core by standing at the edge of it, and then dying the same day from radiation poisoning"

I heard those hero's had mostly no clue, that they were on a heroic suicide mission, nor did they had any choice in the matter. Knowing a bit about UDSSR I can very well imagine this to be true, but does anyone knows more?

edit:
this article confirms it, but I am not sure if the site is reliable (it quotes the "socialist worker")

http://www.upworthy.com/you-probably-dont-know-their-names-b...
The Papers of Michael Jackson
I don't think it is that irritating as such. But it's the principle. It much easier to convince people that they should be prudent than at which moments jokes are appropriate. I recently found out that some mplayer developer thought it was funny to include "Core dumped ;)" as the last line when you dump a stream. I'm sure that it was funny to them, but less so when you are just trying to figure out if it works after battling deceptive copyright protection, and learning all the settings of different tools, for a couple of hours. Now try and convince the developers that this, or other jokes, isn't funny.

> Man is an UI for people.

Even the man page includes a couple of examples where it isn't.
John Oliver found a good way to explain it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92vuuZt7wak

The problem is that ISP shills that make these decisions don't care about public opposition. They aren't elected officials.
DSL (with VDSL pretty much FTTC), cable (also pretty much FTTC), LTE (if 50 ms latency and relatively low bandwidth cap is OK), and FTTH (if you're lucky and live in such an area) are the 4 options. It is going to be different everywhere in the USA (and world) but FTTH isn't available everywhere, and its not uncommon that either DSL or cable is unreliable.
"Their solution: issue a cryptocurrency" implies they issued Tether to solve their wire issues. This is false. They issued it long before.
It seems that most folks are objecting on the lines of, “imagine you being charged more to access Netflix/FB/Steam”. But that is not how it is going to play out.

ISPs will start charging content providers to be on the fast lane. Now if you are a big co this both good and bad. Bad because you have an additional fee to reach your users. Good because it is a small fee to block out the small guys still in garages who could completely take you out.

This is not about increase in monthly internet bill. It is about kissing goodbye to the kind of innovations we have seen with neutral internet.
It's not hard to imagine 15 years ago Google is a new player on the scene but has a lot of trouble getting traction because their links are being constantly saturated and they have no money to pay the ISP ransoms to provide decent service.

We could still be using Altavista today.
> More to the point, can you imagine how fast the knives would come out if the FCC announced this deregulation and also a federal universal broadband plan where they use taxpayer money to deliver fiber to the home of everybody in the country in order to insure healthy competition?

I think people would be more confused than anything, since this FCC just voted to drastically restrict choice under the existing universal service find.
Only a little over 50% of households have at least 2 high-speed internet choices[0]. I wouldn't call that the "vast majority".

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/50-mi...
I think what he was suggesting was sharing one AT&T contract with his neighbors
Across the entire economy, not blue collar. If you want to compare apples to apples, the data is running right there is the article we are already discussing, no motivated googling necessary :)

Also, talk and data are different things.
I can confirm that in my generation, at least, learning German was seen as a more elitist choice than Spanish. Latin/Greek were optional and very few chose to study them. Ironically at the time I felt that Latin classes were easier, and even more interesting than modern languages, e.g.: we were reading already Cicero in our first year.
1984 rhetoric.
From centennials to baby boomers: apps for every generation
That Husky Racer incident is interesting - particularly because correct weight data was eventually given by the shippers, but that data didn't propagate through Maersk's systems. Wonder if a dependence on removable media had anything to do with it.

> The MAIB preliminary examination of the accident found that the inaccurate container weights were on the loading plan because of a system shortcoming which did not update the operations department when the shipper provided more accurate contents details to the carrier.

> The Deputy Chief Inspector of Marine Accidents has written to Maersk Line advising that its operations department should use the most accurate container weights and ship stability data available. [1]

[1] https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/collapse-of-containers-on-co...
Please don’t call people shills on HN. That’s very rude.

Selective throttling has worked great to make my t-mobile mobile data usage seamlessly switch between email, websites, and video on an “unlimited” plan. They even doe sample my videos to 480p to save bandwidth unless I vpn.

So there’s one non-trolly example of innovation that has made my life better that net neutrality would prevent.

I do not buy the doomsday scenarios. We started with AOL internet and moved to a freer internet over time, all without net neutrality.
Of course, this is meaningless without context.

Privacy from who? Security from what? What's the perceived threat we're trying to protect against?

Everything is a tradeoff. To absolutely protect your privacy, you must never be seen in public or interact with any other party in any way.
Good point. When I said "simply" it was more the fact that all this technology already exists. If you can fit facial ID scanners on a phone, surely you can on a self-driving car. And ff you know the clean state of the car, it's not very difficult technically to detect if anything was left in the car. This could even set a flag for some one to remotely check the camera to see if it's a false alarm. Again -- not very difficult on a technical standpoint. However, even bypassing this theoretical "auto-dirty-detector" you could soley rely on the next rider to mark the vehicle as unsanitary which would dispatch them a new ride, while the old one gets dispatched back to the depot for cleaning.
> Yet everyone jumps to "back door" because that sounds more fun I guess.

IME is (by construction) a backdoor. It's primary purpose is as a management tool, but all management tools are by necessity backdoors. The only distinction between the two is whether the person using the backdoor has ownership over the machine.

> In fact, to the extent there is evidence of government involvement here, it's in the opposite direction: the NSA appears to have demanded an "off switch" for the ME.

It also shows that the NSA is in communication with Intel and is capable of getting them to implement something that large corporations like Google were unable to convince them to do. Which should be concerning, because it makes you wonder what else the NSA might've asked as well.

Also these really aren't conspiracy theories anymore. We know that the NSA and CIA do these sorts of things thanks to the information we learned from Snowden and other whistleblowers.
If on iOS, the app Drafts[1] is a good option for your bottom row. It doesn't take care of typing speed, but it is optimized for time-to-cursor. That combined with the Siri phrase "Remind me to/about ___________ [at [time]|when I get [place]]" is as good as I've managed to get for mobile capture. It does still take discipline to clean these boxes out and get the info into an integrated system

https://agiletortoise.com/drafts/
I don’t think it as as ‘tinfoil’ as people may suggest. Moves like this combined with the lift on local news station ownership restrictions make plans to ‘control what people see’ more and more plausible.
Gobo's a very interesting experiment in social media and news aggregation.

I think the premise for the service is very insightful -- we're inundated with information and we want to filter it. FB, Twitter etc. give us very few tools to do that -- why? Because we're the product, not the customer. They want to customize us. They don't want us customizing them. They want to make our attention as saleable to advertisers as possible.

So Gobo turns that on its head and gives you the power to filter as you like. I think the filters Gobo has chosen to implement, such as "only show me posts from a certain gender or race," are stupid beyond belief and I hope they never become popular.

This post nails the problem statement though.
I'm going to sound like a broken record in these comments, but the most permanent way to save Net Neutrality is if the public owns the infrastructure, not the telecoms.

We need grassroots municipal fiber campaigns across the country until Comcast et al are forced to compete with local ISPs on public infrastructure.

Then Net Neutrality won't be an issue anymore: the market actually will solve it. No need to regulate. You'll have 20 local ISPs to choose from, and chances are they will all support Net Neutrality because it'd be suicide not to.

This isn't an issue in places with real market competition. The best path to that is publicly-owned infrastructure.
Oh, you want to use IPFS? That's gonna be an extra $25/month. For the first 5 GB.
bob_theslob646, we have identified you as being the only person around while a murder was committed. We need you to come into the station.
Surely Google have a French–German pairing, though? There must be lots of works available in both languages.
This is an important distinction and deserves repeating:

The employees a of company (from executive level, down) work for the Board of Directors, who are a proxy for the shareholders. The employees do not work for the customer. If there is conflict between what a customer wants and what the Board wants, the Board wins.
blockchain is still very embryonic, if it has half the impact that IP had in everyday life then it has a long way to go!
I remember my former large apartment building’s internet slowing to a crawl everyday around this time.
Probably because they've made the realization that while it will cost them more money to operate, they actually can afford to pay off the ISPs while any fledgling competition that bubbles up doesn't stand a chance of doing so.
That's easy enough.

You're right - you do need a valid name/SSN/birthdate. It doesn't have to be yours. And if a company wants to be disreputable, all they need to do is keep running them until they hit jackpot.

Because then they can claim that the other people were, uhhh, fraudulent. And this person passed their Everify. It's not like there's any proof that the Everify was run 10 times prior, to find a good name/ssn/DoB.
Further anecdata: Amtrak is a joke in Texas.

Amtrak from Dallas to Austin is a 6h22 trip for $29 (value fare), departing only once per day (11:50am) and taking about 2 hours to reach Fort Worth, a 30-minute drive.

By contrast, there are 11 Greyhound buses from Dallas to Austin per day, from $13-19, and the ride is never longer than 3h40 (mostly 3h to 3h10). There are usually 3-4 Megabuses in each direction per day as well, for around $12 for an unreserved seat.
And then Gnome goes and does it one "better" by hooking the mouse pointer directly to the main render loop...
I hate the drug testing bs. How is that relevant? If the worker is present, is sober, and not hungover what business is it of the employers what the employee does on their own time?
The drugs that are readily detectable are mostly the ones that don’t matter too, while the ones that are more concerning (to me anyway) are either not tested for or are not detectable fairly fast.
And alcohol is ok to abuse. Why?

It would be interesting to test white collar workers.
The big thing I've found missing is discussion of containerization primitives, e.g. cgroups. The other Linux namespaces are discussed where appropriate, but in 2017 it would be nice to have a section on all these together.
My suggestion is two fold. First, personal experimentation on an inexpensive basis. You can buy a lot of basic, cheap materials and tools, and practice specific types of work. You can teach yourself very easily with weekly practice, how to do any type of household work, from drywall to plumbing. Most of it is not difficult, it requires practice and mental effort over time. You get better and better at it. The point is to practice on things you can destroy at low cost, rather than feeling intimidated working on your actual property and fearing causing a big bill via error.

The second is, find people you know that do blue collar work, whatever it happens to be (whatever you're wanting to learn). For example, I know a few guys that work as unlicensed handymen, most of them are quite skilled at what they do, they just frequently work under the table. Pay them for their time to speed up your learning process on specific tasks.
Bingo. More competition, more possibilities.
I just deployed a quick web application wrapper around that tool to make it easier to try out: https://gzthermal.now.sh/
>But the packet's source or destination should also not matter

Why not? It costs my ISP more to deliver certain packets than others. Sending a packet from San Francisco to San Jose is far cheaper than sending one from San Francisco to Sydney. Internet traffic costs are not the same across the world. Transit pricing in Australia is probably the most expensive in the world - it's roughly 20x higher than in the US. Why should ISPs be forced to pretend all traffic costs the same, when in reality it doesn't?
UEFI is larger than the Linux kernel (if you don't include drivers, because UEFI doesn't have drivers). And it has orders of magnitude more syscalls. So Linux is actually better than UEFI from a bloat standpoint.
> I've yet to encounter anyone who actually wants it

Ignoring the security concerns, the remote access, imaging, etc, are actually pretty nice. Better done than most 3rd party IPMI implementations.

If it were open and documented , and able to be turned off, it has value.
Created NASA Space Shuttle Using Pure CSS
Tree style tabs work OK though. Yeah it’s not the same and it’s not as slick as it used to...
Visual inspection for now. I've got an Arduino and a high-speed camera, so my plan for the next step is to send mouse and keyboard events from the Arduino, blinking an LED at the same time, then capture both the LED and the monitor in the video. Then a bit of image analysis. This is the only way to be quantitative and capture all the sources of latency.
It's not even about shareholders - a manufacturer that tried this would cease to exist. Why would an OEM pay for features they don't need or want?