skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A future in which ISPs are owned by local governments, small businesses, nonprofit community groups, and the people they serve are the path forward and the only realistic way of ending big telecom’s stranglehold on America.

I'd like that. These day internet access is more like a utility. It helps people telecommute, do banking, grocery shopping even, pay bills, etc. If municipalities can handle providing water and sewage they should be lay some cable or provide a wireless solution in a more rural area.

At least there should be some provision where the big telecom companies cannot go around suing and bullying municipalities. Maybe have a Federal ban on states banning municipal ISPs.

If Verizon or Comcast want to come in and sell super-premium FIOS packages with fast transfer rates, they should be able to, but they shouldn't be able to squash or fight against the municipal internet.

The free market competition among the providers is just not happening and will probably never happen in a lot of areas. It has been enough years already, fiber technology is here, wireless as well, but hasn't helped enough. Time to stop pretending and using it as an excuse.
Is Trump able to override the FCC? Talk about a clear route for easy "heroism"
Logging: I just save a copy of the spreadsheet every time I make a tax filing. Do I need anything more fine-grained?

Validation: I'm confident that I can catch duplicated rows and mistyped amounts because Excel formulas verify that the sum of all transactions for each account equals the account balance, and that transfers between accounts add up to $0. Do I need anything more?

Point-in-time doesn't work because I need to keep track of info that doesn't show up in the bank statements. I run a Python script that adds pretty-prints names and adds categories, and I also manually enter check details, category adjustments, business purpose of meals and flight tickets, etc.

I don't use a proper database because to do so I'd have to give up Excel's nice features (or worse, switch back and forth between Excel and the database).
An increasing amount of trade is happening over the internet. It's disingenuous to suggest the FCC's internet mandate is at all similar to radio or tv. I also think the FCC has done a particularly poor job of managing those resources, as well. (This comment is subject to an obscenity fine, thank you for reporting)
I agree, the current Alabama election, and the 2018 elections are going to be very important.

I'm not sure why you think the bad behavior wouldn't happen. [This reddit link](https://np.reddit.com/r/KeepOurNetFree/comments/7ej1nd/fcc_u...) compiled a number of times the FCC has had to step in to enforce NN.

And if the ISPs weren't planning on behaving against NN, why spend the money fighting against it?

But at least we're on the same page now : )
Ajit Pai is an abomination. He is on the same level as Trump in shamelessness and probably more corrupt.
body gets a class ".bx-client-overlay" that has "overflow: hidden!important" which hides the scrollbar
Treasury Department Concludes Fraud Investigation into Internet Safety Software
What changed is that they're trying to become more like Apple or Google in that users buy a series of "Windows devices" and have them tied to their Microsoft Account so that it's linked into all the cloud services like Windows Store, OneDrive, Office 365, etc.. While they haven't actually removed support for local accounts, they've added progressively more dark patterns to encourage people to log in to Windows with a Microsoft Account instead. Last time I looked, there was an outright warning against using local accounts if you create one during the install process (specifically, that if you forget your password Microsoft can't reset it for you).
In what domain? The FTC certain covers situations where ISPs use anticompetitive practices against potential competitors. The FTC does not cover voluntary capitalist behavior that benefits the consumer, such as ISPs preferring to reduce gaming latency over website or email latency. Good.
You shouldn't need a lawyer to pursue them. Assuming you're within the time periods prescribed in the FCRA, you can file your own complaint in your local small claims court.

Before that, I'd send them a letter clearly marked "Notice of Intent to Sue" (on the letter and envelope) stating what information is incorrect, and that you plan to file a suit in [insert name of small claims court] on [insert reasonable date] seeking $1,000 in damages for each violation per 15 USC 1681(n), unless the disputed information is removed before that date. And enclose any supporting documentation, and history of previous fruitless correspondence.

IANAL, but this has worked for me before with the credit bureaus, and I've never actually had to file the threatened suit. My best guess is that threatening litigation gets the case assigned to a legal team that is actually empowered to correct errors. It's a shame that that's how they've chosen to run their business, but then again, I'm not their customer, I'm their product.
"As I understand it, this is a pre-installed app. I do not want my pre-installed apps sending me advertising notifications."
My interest in this is atm is research oriented. I do feel LASP is a great project and I'd like to see more work in this area because I believe there is a general lack of distributed programming systems which abstract away an entire network of computers. I believe that is where the future lies - we do not want to be programming one OS process at a time and use a disparate array of containers, while building very large and complicated systems.

Passing through a causal context seems like a good idea. I'm not that familiar with Erlang but perhaps it doesn't have to be fully transparent? I presume there is a subset of processes that would participate in the distributed implementation and each could be encapsulated by another LASP process that wraps/unwraps messages as they go out/in and handles the metadata?

Btw, some related ideas exist in Croquet/TeaTime as well (http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2003001_croq_collab.pdf)
What is Phishing?
What is Phishing? What Can You Do About It - Stop Scam Emails
Your link didn't claim what you claimed, and what Comcast did sounds eminently reasonable (coming from someone who hates them so much as to use Sonic.net as reduced speeds just to avoid Comcast).
Are you asking how relevant the protocol was in the day to day back when it was popular? Or now?

Obviously, not many people still use the protocol, it has been almost entirely replaced by http. However, I used it a ton back in the early 90s. It was way more useful than the early web.
This is why we need resource pinning in the browser.

The webservice would assert that the resources it's sending now are the same resources it will continue to send in the future. The browser is in a prime position to enforce this.

In the event the resources ever change, then the browser should refuse to allow the changed resources to run and notifies the user what has happened in a way that is at least as scary as broken TLS. If it's a legit deployment (say, because the service has updated the backend), then this should be independently verifiable out of band e.g. via a blog post, a public changelog, etc. The process to accept the new deployment would need to be opt-in. If the user choices not to opt-in, the browser may continue using the old resources that were being served up in the past.

Without some mechanism like this, verification of the claims that services like ProtonMail makes remains intractable.
This article just became my new reply to the question "if I have nothing to hide, why should I care about government overreach?".
> The internet is far more complicated than postage, and the FCC is not equipped to handle it.

The FCC is both equipped and specifically Congressionally authorized to regulate broadband, and has been doing so for years even outside of the ”network freedom”/“open internet” regs.

The FTC, on the other hand, is not equipped to handle it, and (at least per the recent FTC v. AT&T ruling) is statutorily barred from regulating it to the extent that major ISPs happen to also be common carrier telcos, as the prohibition on FTC regulating common carriers applies to the whole org, not just its common carrier operations.

> You aren't going to lose access to your favorite polemic website or torrenting because of NN or lack-thereof. That would be immediately met by FTC lawsuits.

No, it wouldn't. There is neither evidence nor reasoning supporting this suggestion, just wishful thinking. In fact we know it is false, because (aside from the recent case suggesting that they are barred from acting in this area) they have in fact not done so (instantly or otherwise) in any of the instances of blocking which have occurred.
That is because Widows Start search does not do a String.IndexOf(search.ToLowerCase) > -1 but a String.StartsWith(search, EVERYCULTURECRAPTHINGIEVERDIDINDOTNET).

So to find µTorrent, you don't type 'tor' like any sane person on earth will do, but have to "translate" that to µ to a u, and even then it will not show up. I have to type 'uto' to find it. Easy, right?
Most people want NN, when it comes to censorship (this is why I use Sonic.net). They don't want NN when it comes to gaming latency vs. email latency. There's a big difference, but NN lumps them in as the same thing. This is why we should punt to Congress that ensures NN applies to the First Amendment but not to voluntary trade.
> Safety-critical applications like, robot cars

As someone who worked on robot cars before it was cool (Urban Challenge, wut up), I can assure you, Net Neutrality has ZERO to do with safety in autonomous cars.

And if you think it has anything to do with it, you need to be kept far, far... very far away from ever working on them.
I imagine if the police actually did something about public drug use, theft, and mentally ill assailants, there would be a backlash against the perception of a fascist police state.
Excel endures because it's the non-programmer's REPL for data. Like a Lisp REPL, using Excel is nimble and has an instant feedback loop. Click "A-Z" to sort ascending, click "Z-A" to sort descending. Move/hide/freeze columns. If one has intermediate-to-advanced skills, one can pivot the data on multiple axis. None of the centralized systems with even the slickest web GUIs can match Excel's capabilities.

What about Business Intelligence products such as Hyperion? They can provide reports from a defined data model which gets data directly from the database. People can create their pivots and other transformations on the data fairly easily. Is their something that Excel offers that makes it much better than one of these Business Intelligence products in certain situations?
There are so many apps that abuse notifications. I often find that I have to turn a new app's notifications off after installing it.

For example, the Kindle app (on iOS) keeps bugging me about random things that are basically ads for Kindle. The Etsy app does the same. I recently installed the AliExpress app, and it started sending me notifications daily about deals ("Still looking for wigs? Look what we found, just for you!" -- just because I was entertaining myself the other day by browsing through all the crazy crap that AliExpress sells, it now thinks I want a wig).

Apple (and Google, presumably) really should penalize app creators for abusing notifications.
I've read (unsure if factual, can't find a source right now) that the plane's original designation was to be RS-71 (because reconnaissance).

At some point, in a speech or introduction, some high ranking official misread that as SR-71, and after that all documentation was updated to show this new designation.
Nothing compares to the quasar framework.
I think the obvious answer is yes. With conditions that are agreed apon by voters. Voters are not a factor in this legislation outside the fact that it is being executed on party lines.
Looks great, would love to see some exchanges supported that people outside the US can actually use (GDAX is not accessible to most people in EU).
For those of you who feel sad for strangers that you never knew existed until now, why not direct your feelings to something productive like looking through local obituaries and contacting their survivors to show some support and kindness? There are real human beings dying all around us but they don't have dramatic movie-style deaths so we don't care. Even better, don't wait till they're dead. Go and seek out old, sick, and lonely people and make them feel better.

I think news-cycle internet sadness drains our capacity to care about others while also doing nothing for those who died or who're genuinely sad about it. The sinking submarine is interesting, the people on it aren't.
It’s entirely possible (even probsble) that one or more countries involved have tech that they could be using to find the sub much more easily, but which they’re holding back for strategic-secrets reasons. Many stealth/antistealth techniques seem to rely on the method being kept secret from adversaries.
I have a proposition:
You know how Tor works? Onion routing? Send traffic encrypted multiple times through a list of nodes before exiting at an edge?

What if everyone sent their traffic back and forth to eachother. One hop, encrypted, and then forwarded. Just like Tor, but a single hop. Not anonymized, just peer-to-peer distributed.

If everyone did that (build it into browsers) the internet would function _full-mesh_. I mean, that's how IP works, right? Full mesh, peer-to-peer?

Hey ISPs! Good luck filtering on the entire internet.
As other commenters have replied: It's half-baked the same way Java tends towards half-baked enterprise design lasagna and/or design pattern bingo. It's easy to do, and most won't question it.

Also, yes I would propose that a good DSL would be difficult to write for most programmers of any type. Not because of any inherit deficiency in the programmer, but rather because we tend not to spend enough time in a single domain to understand it well enough to write a good DSL.
>The free market competition among the providers is just not happening and will probably never happen in a lot of areas. It has been enough years already, fiber technology is here, wireless as well, but hasn't helped enough. Time to stop pretending and using it as an excuse.

It's important to remember that the FCC is our nation's censor, and will be far more cozy to government censorship of the internet than what we're used to. You're right that free market competition hasn't been as strong as it could/should be in the ISP market, but I doubt that the FCC piling on a bunch of regulations, increasing the barrier to entry even further is going to help. I fear whatever benefits we see will be only temporary and that overzealous FCC regulators will stifle internet innovation the same way it stifled telecommunications for over a century, resulting on Bell.

TLDR: I'm generally for net neutrality, but I think the FCC taking over regulating the internet is going to have a lot of unintended consequences.
> mined blocks of bitcoin being sold at a premium

Is this purely for sentimental reasons (“freshly mined bitcoins”) or are there any practical uses for that? I can imagine coins with no history on the blockchain can be useful somehow.
@jquery:

Trade happens over the highway system, too. That doesn't take away from the NHTSA's authority to regulate it. Just because trade happens over the Internet doesn't somehow make it magically not-communication.

Y'know... the first C in FCC?
> Honestly I'm kind of ok with key reassignment apps not coming with the OS. I can always download whatever apps I want.

I'd agree that the OS shouldn't come pre-installed with major applications. Those are things that I've invested time and effort to learn and where I have a definite preference on what I want to download.

But to having to research little things like key reassignment apps becomes a real chore. Then you have to download and install it, make sure it's not malware, and if you use multiple machines, repeat those steps.

The older versions of the iPhone and the iPad didn't come with a calculator. I don't know if current versions now include a calculator, but having to test a dozen different garbage calculators out of 1000 mind-numbing choices in the app store was a real pain in the neck. Any simple ad-free calculator included in iOS would have been OK.
A very little bit of sugar that's in a pinch isn't any kind of a problem. Even a tbsp isn't that much. The problem is the massive amount they put in drinks of all types...and foods of all types. They even put it in bread for heck's sakes.

In terms of taking the edge off of tomato sauce, shredded carrots works pretty well. I don't use sugar in any of my cooking, and no one has noticed.
Here's the sectors I've worked in throughout my career: Insurance, banking, marketing, entertainment (theme park), restaurants, and defense. Every single one of my jobs in those sectors required drug tests prior to employment.
This program comes with, well, you might describe it as a bit of an easter egg:

https://imgur.com/a/TZVw8

(Screenshots; SFW)
Bad URL (redirects to nautil.us home page). The correct URL seems to be:

http://nautil.us/issue/32/space/men-are-better-at-maps-until...
Yeah I saw that, but even after I removed it and the scrollbar showed back up, I still couldn't scroll with it.
wow that works great! i had abp but it didnt do that
Thanks very much for the info. I've been headscratching about how to read ZFS quickly, now I have some ammunition to convince the ZFS devs with!
I likewise knew Bill. I met his parents once too, and saw his kindness and good nature reflected in them as well. This is a tragedy no one should have to bear. We miss him.
For that part of the world, it certainly was. Not sure what your point is.

Yes, ultimately it failed, but it is difficult to dispute that it was a noble attempt. More will come in time.
How does lasp stack compare to Akka's?
I thought so too, and in case of Apple I still too.

But I got bitterly disappointed by Microsoft, I pay them for Windows and Office, a very simple transaction, right? Guess what, Windows 10 not only displays ads in the startmenu and taskbar. Also it automatically installs Pay2Win gambling games littered with loot crates to the startmenu. Also it tries to upgrade itself whenever it wants (in the middle of gaming, during boot, during shutting down) and not just updates but re-installs a new copy of the whole OS in-place, loosing all customization settings. Also it collects all my keyboard inputs, all my microphone audio and webcam video, my usage patterns, my directory structure, my crashed application incl all related files, the running application list, and sends them encrypted to various cloud servers own by them or third parties (who can tell?).

I thought it is a very simple transaction, but I figured out when a company gets greedy and evil, you cannot trust such a company any more. It's better part ways and to revert back to an older version (Win 7) and prepare to move to a competitor.
You must be able to come up with better criticism than that. Number of people who work on the project, time it's been on github, contributors' employers ... these are completely irrelevant to the question of whether this project is a viable alternative. There's not a single technical argument here! :)

For what it's worth (not much), from a purely superficial standpoint, kdb itself started out as a one or two person project at Morgan Stanley! :D

We've managed to get this thing right in the hot path (not just for analysis off on the side, though that use-case is important too) where a significant portion of global trading happens, in one of the biggest investment banks in the country, and we've had it working in production for four years doing this (before recently open sourcing), having had to make the technical case to many people who are very aware of kdb and what it can do (as far as kdb goes, Morgan Stanley is Mount Doom!).

I mean, I take your point that it's not ubiquitous in the world yet, but in terms of the OP proposition that there are free and technically superior alternatives, it's proof positive.
I'd argue that taking to the street and protesting is also just giving people the illusion that they're doing something useful.

The Iraq War protests were some of the largest in history, and they accomplished exactly nothing (and to your example, look up Malachi Ritscher). Occupy Wall Street was a massive movement and accomplished nothing. The protests against Obamacare repeal were massive and widespread, and seem to have only succeeded in delaying the destruction of Obamacare to the current tax bill. Black Lives Matter is a massive movement that has accomplished meaningful change in a few jurisdictions and nationwide has managed to at least generate conversation, but that conversation has already been largely derailed to the question of whether or not football players need to stand for the national anthem.

Office holders are not beholden to people yelling in the streets but to the people who get them elected. This means the people who show up to vote and, increasingly, the people who finance their campaigns.
You should try to get back in touch. Good friends are hard to find; hold on to them tightly.
Yes, which is why I said "at this rate, America is going to need equally brave and selfless individuals to make a stand and spark similar movements."

Things haven't reached that point, but will soon.
Tesla completes world's largest lithium ion battery in Australia
Exploring the transactions behind the $31m Tether hack
> There's a big difference, but NN lumps them in as the same thing.

No it doesn't. The FCC's net neutrality orders have always included an exception for "reasonable network management", most recently defined as:

> (f) Reasonable network management. A network management practice is a practice that has a primarily technical network management justification, but does not include other business practices. A network management practice is reasonable if it is primarily used for and tailored to achieving a legitimate network management purpose, taking into account the particular network architecture and technology of the broadband Internet access service.

(emphasis mine; source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/8.2)

Prioritizing gaming latency is clearly a "primarily technical" concern rather than a matter of "business practices" - at least as long as the ISP didn't try to charge game publishers for the service. So it would be fine.
The description of their "high-pressure liquid chromatography" technique sounds an awful lot like how one would enrich uranium (you know, as one does.) Did they accidentally invent a better uranium enrichment process (or independently reinvent a classified one?) Or is there some difference between {C60, N@C60} and {U235, U238} that makes using HPLC to enrich it impossible?
A truly sobering read.
My ISP is a local mom-and-pop shop that is using fixed point wireless, which seems like a great solution because it doesn’t require digging up pavement, massively reducing startup costs.
Gender Offenders
I can be wrong, but something similar might happen to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies too.
If you need to edit text in a tree structure, ms-word outline mode is a really good option. Info here: http://www.dummies.com/software/microsoft-office/word/how-to...
Absolutely; I've also worked with screws that were, as far I as I could understand, purposely made of less rugged metal to ensure that when they were tightened against the object they were meant to fasten (made of plastic), they would strip before damaging it.

Still sucks to accidentally strip a screw that really should be that tight!
Everything is truly a gem that makes Windows usable. I use it more than Explorer.
But who is going to determine what gets which priority at what price? The only one who can is the ISP and I don't trust them.
let mut x = 2;
let y = &8;

// this didn't work, but now does
x += y;

Why is it desirable that that work? It seems like it will mask mistakes and make types more confusing.