skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The U.S. has 20 aircraft carriers.
The next country down has 1 aircraft carrier.
The U.S. also has more naval and air units than both Russia and China combined...aircraft with far superior technology.

With the exception of ground troops and tanks which are sort of becoming obsolete in modern war with things like drones and tomahawks and long range missles combined with the need to cross oceans to deploy...the US has a far superior military.

Combine that with NATO countries who would Ally with us?

It seems like Russia and China even if they combined forces.. wouldn't stand a chance in a non-nuclear global war.

Although I'm open to being wrong.
Wow, thanks! I've been using tmux for about a month now to connect to my server, and I never knew this was possible.
Lib0 engine: live coding C and OpenGL on Linux
I drank less than you, but it was easy for me to dial it down to one standard drink per day on average when I discovered that even moderate drinking (2 standard drinks per day on average, for men) is strongly correlated with esophageal and other cancers. I think the risk increases substantially with every additional drink and takes years to come back down. To me, this was an easy call. Turning it down to just a few strong beers (or glasses of wine) over the course of the week was easily worth it for my long-term health.

Now, I maintain a meticulous Calca document with every alcoholic drink I consume. Keeps me honest and it’s actually kind of fun.
Court: Man's accidental recording of beating wife admissible
I both agree with your desire for to-the-point content and the status quo. [Just now, I was about to list out the pros/cons of these two and decided instead to write the main points.]

The main advantage of prose is that it expresses more than the presented facts -- the character of the writer which is then gauged to estimate the authority of the data. Also well-written pieces can be quite enjoyable to read.

So the big issue to be solved in a 'point-form' platform is credibility. This is typically done by focusing on a subject area. To work as a general platform would require many contributors in areas similar to sub-reddits. And of course discoverability, but that's general and not specific to the format.
Decentralize it! We need better measures of power centralization. When an ISP is effectively able to create its own monopolizing legislation, it might as well be part of the government. The government isn't going to buy them out and improve their architecture, so we need a new internet that is owned and operated by all of us all the time.
> just lowly engineers

He was an engineering _manager_. His official job title was "Leader of Diesel Competence." Let's not pretend he was all that "lowly."
Indeed, while I really want to like the proposal, democracy in the US doesn’t seem strong enough (and the judiciary don’t seem interested enough) for it to work.

It’s easy to imagine the Internet facing a different class of threats, from a united front of spooks, rights-holders-groups, and moralists. I can’t imagine the open uncensored web surviving long, unless it had some kind of mini constitution of its own.

This said, the future under private companies doesn’t look great either. ISPs are uncompetitive, exploitative, and anti-consumer, and the corporations who act as censors (Google, Apple, Facebook) have increasing skin in the rights-holder-group game, and are happy to build censorship machines for lobbyists, spies, and other authoritarians.

Maybe it’s worth thinking about what such a “Constitution for the Internet” might be now, before it completely disappears. (And perhaps while TBL and Vint Cerf have some fight left in them for a roadshow)!
Have you looked into Etsy alternatives like Shopify or storenvy?
I hate it when the top comment is a derail.
Mostly marketing more often than not. Money and greed get what the want at the expense of others
Someone has deleted my comment. Why?
I will say it again. Firefox 57 is faster, with better UI design, i love dark theme option and it works under old Os X Mavericks perfectly. Waiting for High Sierra optimization (is very heavy on cpu) and will use it exclusively.
It’s possible. One way people have demonstrated that ISPs were throttling services like Netflix is by showing that you get better performance when streaming over a VPN.
There is something rather ironic about a white supremacist site using the TLD of an Asian country well known for its extensive censorship. (Yes, I know Hong Kong is somewhat special, but it has been a part of China since 1997.)
Related to the idea of chunking, I remembered 15 words easily, using a clever technique that I read about a few years ago. Instead of trying to remember each word individually, I remembered scenes. This enabled me to remember more than 7 words, because the chunks no longer were words, but were combinations of words.

For example, for the words "king" and "hammer", I imagined a king hammer ruling over his subjects. For "milk" and "fish", I imagined a fish with udders. They're silly, but they work.
pretty sure 'guy' in modern American English is gender- and age-less. As in two 70 old ladies could be addressed as "you guys" too. Surprised me a lot when I was there
But how much of the US GDP is attributable to its 'empire', especially considering the opportunity costs of the human and other capital invested in the DoD? I'd love to see the result of a detailed analysis.
Android 7.0+ does ask for permission to use the microphone when requested, and can be turned off in the settings. I believe this is also on 6.0 but I'm not 100% sure.
Australia did this. Ask any Australian what they think about the NBN, I doubt any will speak highly of it.
For short-term radiation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fallout#The_Seven_Ten_... :

> The danger of radiation from fallout also decreases with time, as radioactivity decays exponentially with time, such that for each factor of seven increase in time, the radiation is reduced by a factor of ten. For example, after 7 hours, the average dose rate is reduced by a factor of ten; after 49 hours, it is reduced by a further factor of ten (to 1/100th); after two weeks the radiation from the fallout will have reduced by a factor of 1000 compared the initial level; and after 14 weeks the average dose rate will have reduced to 1/10,000th of the initial level.
Worth pointing out how great (and easy to learn and master) a mnemonic device it is to create a story from the list...

The skinny cat with an apple on it's head ran after the ball that led it to the tree with square leaves. Each leaf was actually a picture and if you looked closer you could see a head (of a fat cat) in the picture. You zoom in and the picture becomes a movie and you see the fat cat walk up to a house and open the door... etc etc

The more absurd the image you create the easier it is to remember. You also have much better long term memory. It's been half an hour since I memorized the list and I've drawn my attention to 5 other HN posts, but here I am able to recite the list 100% accurately and without hesistation...

Cat apple ball tree square head house door box car king hammer milk fish book tape arrow flowers key shoe

This is nothing against Miller's Law though... as who goes about creating visual stories to memorize user interfaces :)
Good heavens, how do you send SIGQUIT to your programs then?
Off topic: I got all 20. What you do is invent a story in pictures.

A cat was playing with a ball under the tree. An apple fell from tree on cats head. The cat squared around the apple and ran inside the house through a small door into her box. King dad drove in his car, took out huge hammer from the trunk and hit the box of milk. Milk sprayed all over the house and inside the fish tank. Fish got restless and caused a cross bow from the wall to fire an arrow through the book that was all taped over. Mom in her red shoes came and took the key under the flower.
Typical Megan McArdle libertarian "thinkpiece".

Acknowledges the problem...

'Meanwhile, our experience of the internet is increasingly controlled by a handful of firms, most especially Google and Facebook. The argument for regulating these companies as public utilities is arguably at least as strong as the argument for thus regulating ISPs, and very possibly much stronger; while cable monopolies may have local dominance, none of them has the ability that Google and Facebook have to unilaterally shape what Americans see, hear and read.'

Yet refuses to blaspheme the Lord our free market:

'Is this a problem? I think it is. But that doesn’t mean that the internet would get better if Google and Facebook and Apple and Amazon were required to make every decision with a regulator hanging over their shoulder to decide whether it was sufficiently “neutral.”'
These people. You can get a MiG-29 to take you to the edge of space, so you can see the curve of the earth with your own eyes, for around €20,000.
Sure, but that doesn't change anything about the argument you now have to say "no".
My answer to this has always been "Why would they need to?" It drains battery, it sends a lot of data, and would be a huge scandal. But you are already telling them where you are, who you're with, and they have information about your credit, etc.

Instead, I've been using this as an opportunity to teach people why big data is scary. In the past people often said they didn't care that Google could, and do, read their emails. Often responding with the ironic "I have nothing to hide" quote, or "I don't care, my stuff is boring." This pervasive rumor, of Facebook/Google always listening, has facilitated this conversation immensely. I've been able to better explain it to many who are not tech or statistic savvy in the least.

I don't believe Facebook is listening, because they don't need to.
Early on the letter says "Biological systems follow the rule "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny".

That was known to be wrong well before 1991, which is when the letter was written.
Discussion of logistical details on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/933619850806620167
(Potentially NSFW as this is Naomi Wu, aka @RealSexyCyborg)
I literally stopped reading at:

"I don't believe in science," Hughes added.
"I know about aerodynamics and fluid dynamics and how things move through the air,
about the certain size of rocket nozzles, and thrust.
But that's not science, that's just a formula.
There's no difference between science and science fiction."
That's true and to be honest I don’t care too much about pixel perfect.

But I think this thread started with a CMS that didn't even work except in Chrome.
"Initially browsers use the temporary IPV6 address. After a while they start consistently using the permanent one."

This is the most troubling aspect to me. The process of enabling the random ipv6 address would be:

1.Click the "enable" checkbox

2. Check if it's working. (initially, it does)

3. Forget about it for the next 12 months

Somewhere between Step 2 and Step 3, the feature spontaneously turns off and the ipv6 address is leaked, and the user is none the wiser.
> it sends a lot of data

They could send just a transcript once every few minutes.
>The plan, as stated, is to send himself 1,800 feet high in the air

Or just go to the top of a large building
Correct me if wrong, but I think that aside from their web based portal, everything else is open source. So you could control everything via API.

So if they ever did go out of business, you could host it yourself and I'm sure by then an open source web portal would emerge to take the main site's place. (Not to mention that they'd probably just release the web app if they were going out of business).

Hope it never comes to that though, I'd imagine their main bread and butter would be larger enterprise licenses.
Fantastic indeed. For decades us engineers have been blaming the bosses for the unethical shit we pull. Fuck that shit. Be civilized for a change. Don't make evil tech.
Or just blocked.
If you have the means: travel.
I live in DC, with socialize with many others in a similar professional situation as infosec people.

I'll read your site again to not wait on answer here, I'm a huge fan of you after reading your longform stuff on Yemen and seeing your mention of the TS idea before on HN 1-2 years ago. Is there any need for volunteers on the ground. What can I do to help you?
youtube's logic selects the codec, not the browser
Or just go to the seaside and watch a boat sailing away over the horizon... but that wouldn't put him in the spotlight, and this is obviously just another media attention seeking stunt...
Same for me. I tried to switch back to Firefox a couple of times in the past and couldn't do it. Performance wasn't there and the UI would often hang without response.

But Quantum changed everything. I've been using Nightly since this summer and it's wonderful. I now use it as my default browser.
If necessary, do it cheaply. This does not have to involve 5 star hotels. It used to be a tradition to do things like backpack across Europe. Couch surfing also potentially works. I did a lot of travel by visiting friends and family in my twenties.
If you are interested in living in the U.S. (Boston area), CiBO Technologies (precision agriculture) is hiring entry-level developers for our Cambridge, MA and St. Louis, MO offices and we are passionate about Scala and functional programming. See cibotechnologies.com for more info on the company. Email me at walter underscore gillett at hotmail dot com (don’t want to post my work address here due to spam worries, happy to share via email).
Layered approach to protect and promote the open internet [pdf]
An interesting podcast on the topic where the creator of elm discusses the creation (and removal) of signals in elm.

https://overcast.fm/+HSqxOglhQ/17:21
"I'm wondering, if the laws pass, can people use Tor to keep the actual site they visit hidden, and avoid caps?"

Tor will also be capped. So far ISPs seem to be interested in a strategy of capping everything by default, then removing caps for select services. Tor, VPNs, etc. are unlikely to be selected for non-capped service, especially once ISPs start charging for caps (not only is the Tor project in no position to pay countless ISPs, but if it were not capped then as you suggested people could evade caps and reduce the benefit of paying to be exempted).

"would the end of Net neutrality in the States directly affect other countries, and how?"

In the long run it will be a benefit to those countries that maintain net neutrality, by fostering the innovative environment of a neutral Internet. In the short term it will probably have no particular impact on anyone outside the US, other than reducing the rate at which new ideas are brought to market in the US.
How White Nationalism Courts Internet Nerd Culture
I have two products already running exclusively on AWS Lambda as we speak. One of them now counts over 200 Lambdas and is being developed by three engineers.
Not sure what you're trying to say. Are you saying her question is not a reasonable one?
Curiously though, the long-term successful companies* seem to have found a balance between naked profit seeking and "good-ness", usually through either not being publicly traded at all, or by having a single very forceful leader e.g. In-n-out Burger, Costco, Starbucks, Apple.

*Successful long term because ultimately seeking profit above all leads to reputational harm and resulting a downward spiral (or if lucky an oligopoly).
Technically speaking, under treaty obligations, China can't overtly change Hong Kong's government until 2047.

That said, they still have ways to influence the elections.
Fighting Tech with Tech
Part of me wonders whether this is some very clever guerrilla marketing campaign for a new game or something like that.
are you serious, his plan is for only 1800 feet? LOL
Why does he have to be in the rocket? He doesn’t believe in cameras either?
Culture of false positives: why I left academia (Maria Stone)
Add mosh [0] to connect to the server and tmux on the server and you can close your laptop lid, travel, open it again and your processes still run on the server and you're connected.

[0] https://mosh.org/
Thought experiment for both scenarios:

Every significant national government has a major agency in charge of protecting the environment from harmful emissions with many paid engineers devoted to emissions testing.

None of the major national governments except Germany have an agency devoted to ensuring that devices do not en fringe on user privacy.

If you think that Volkswagen is a bad example take AstraZeneca [1]. No one had to prove that they had committed fraud by missmarketing their drugs. Much of the marketing material was publicly available. Everyone who knew the law, knew that they were breaking it.

Or perhaps you could look at Seimens, which outright bribed, using bags of cash, government officials, in order to close deals [2].

Moral of the story, corporations break laws.

If Facebook is listening to you using your phones microphone, that's not even illegal outside of Germany.

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Health/astrazeneca-pay-520-mi...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/business/worldbusiness/16s...
This is a terrifically bad example to choose given the trillions of dollars invested in building roads and general infrastructure that make cars viable in the first place.

It is pretty clear now that cars are decidedly not the best solution to transport. It just so happened that they scaled the best, and now everything is designed around them.

It's just macro vs micro and hardly has anything to do with the product.
I'm agnostic on the rightness or wrongness of net neutrality, but net neutrality makes cord cutting more viable... something Trump supporters who dislike being forced to subsidize certain types of content through bundled packages should be able to appreciate.

"In a world without net neutrality, your ISP may offer one video service for free while charging for Netflix, which eventually means you pay more. Oh wait, Comcast, among others, already tried that trick in 2014. In 2017, the ISPs will get away with it."

http://awfulannouncing.com/streaming/proposed-net-neutrality...
>Lack of scalability was Etsy’s unique value proposition and competitive advantage.

In the same way that many small-scale sites/stores that curate contents can be said to have unique value proposition and competitive advantage. That's not a knock on them by the way. Many are good at what they do and add value. Not everything needs to be Internet-scale but you sort of have to be one or the other.
I should add that something like FStar [0] combines the capabilities of automated theorem proving and a more manual-proof-based dependent type system like that in Idris.

It doesn’t have some of the power of Idris’ elaborator reflection, for example, but it can eliminate many long-winded manual proofs via the SMT solver.

[0] https://www.fstar-lang.org/
Windows 10 "privacy".
I still don't understand why these iron lung users can't switch to using positive pressure ventilators? The entire medical ventilator market uses positive pressure because it eliminates the need to surround the patient with costly pressure vessels, which dramatically improves the quality of life of the patient.
Not all people with such a belief are immutable in that view, nor are all conspiracy theorists.

There’s value in debunking a myth that seems plausible to the masses. In this case, the myth is plausible, and enough people without sufficient critical thinking skills believe it, therefore it’s worth debunking consistently at least within the tech community.
But what's the data one can sell. The post is really vague on details.
> It’s trivial to debunk by observing that many people who say they’ve experienced this are using iPhones. On iOS, apps can’t silently use the microphone in the background.

The same way people believed iOS background apps couldn't record your screen? [0]

When you cannot trust the operating system manufacturer to be impartial, it stops being trivial to debunk.

[0] https://gizmodo.com/researchers-uber-s-ios-app-had-secret-pe...
Concentrations of power are problematic no matter where they're concentrated. At least with those, you have options to avoid them or mitigate them, and they don't have the force of law behind them.
> although I doubt we would pass such a law in Europe since companies here are now as infiltrated into the government as in the States

I'm assuming you meant "not" instead of "now," otherwise your comment doesn't make sense.
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Lesspass is not notable for its approach; deterministic password managers have existed for quite some time.

They're often recommended against, and it's dangerous to use one without a full understanding of the significant caveats.

See https://tonyarcieri.com/4-fatal-flaws-in-deterministic-passw..., the hacker news discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13016132, and notably the top comment there.
I really like Quantum's UI, but for some things (esp Google Inbox) it's significantly slower than Chrome.
The article gives good background about FCC attempts to regulate ISP and the troubles of finding the right framework for it. Where it all falls apart, at least for me, is when it tries to use The Daily Stormer as an example of how net neutrality is "already lost".

And I'm not even sure where to start to voice my problems with that framing. For example, the claim that there's "nothing illegal" about it, which is factually wrong as lots of the content on Daily Stormer would easily break a couple of German laws, and probably laws of a few other countries, as Germany isn't the only country with laws in regards to Holocaust denial.

While I don't know the specifics about the hosting situation of TDS, I doubt what happened there was "a small number of private companies decided to exercise their considerable control over what we’re allowed to read", like the author claims.

That sentence pretty much stylizes TDS as a kind of victim by some ominous international conspiracy, I'm quite certain that's not at all what happened, just like I'm very certain that TDS is still around and reachable for anybody who would want to read it.
Wouldn't it be easier (and better exercise) to get that elevation gain just hiking up a nearby mountain?
Well conservatives/populists definitely think so.
They have been quite clear on social media, that they are angry at being censored on youtube, google, facebook etc.
Some even went as far as saying they trust Comcast to be more neutral than silicon valley.

I fear net neutrality is over, unless we can get bipartisan support, but that won't happen unless more parts of the internet ecosystem get enforced neutrality.
Especially ironic considering they're based in the U.S., which used to be the home of free speech.

"OMG, they're nazis! Shut 'em down!" is the sadly unironic position of most who live in what was once the epicenter of the free speech movement, and is now the epicenter of censorious impulses.
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> Still, Hughes converted to the flat-Earth belief recently, shortly after his first fundraising campaign for the rocket earned just $310 of its $150,000 goal. His second campaign, this time posted after his conversion and with the support of the flat-Earth community, succeeded in hitting its $7,875 goal.

He wants to build a rocket, and he'll say what it takes to get money to build a rocket.
Maybe the best thing to do is just ban attachments altogether at the domain admin level?

https://support.google.com/a/answer/2364580?hl=en