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>You will not win hearts and minds with pure rationality when your opponent doesn't give a shit about that.

Where are these hardline radical pro-Comcast types?

>There are responsible ways to make pleas to emotion on a large scale and there are manipulative things that bad actors can do with it as well.

Frankly, the net neutrality movement has failed that test miserably in this latest campaign in particular. It's disappointing to see this from the side I support, to the point that I find myself alienated from the viewpoint altogether and have to remind myself that the policy is the only part that is important.

Exhibit A: https://imgur.com/gallery/CD9H7QU

>I'm not an expert, nor am I an activist, but I have been reading about people studying 4chan's tactics in a post prez45 world. How a culture of open dialog to extreme gave a small group of people a weapon. Erudite "rationals" considered this sort of thing to be stupid nonsense, but it trained an entire culture to be massively effective at steering people's emotions. Their ideas can move faster without the absolute need for sensitivity or maybe because of a pathological need to offend. The current interest is in finding ways to work that radical acceptance into progressive discourse. It's important but I don't think anyone has a playbook yet.

Liberals (in the academic/international sense) used to see these unfortunate behavioral quirks of humanity exploited by fascists & autocrats and vow to be better than appealing to basic instincts and herd mentality. I do not look forward to a world where radicalization and alarmism are viewed as standard tools in a campaigner's belt and reasonable people intentionally spread hyperbole or outright lies to convince the public to go their way.
Isn't Google's project loon open internet, compared to Facebooks free basics?
+1 Perhaps I have said this before, but UX folks have been my go-to colleagues whenever I need their inspsirations for anything ranging from graphs (like monitoring metrics) to debugging since the UX team is heavily involved from the inception of a project and sometimes have more intimate knowledge of the overall architecute of the project than the core developers do.

They are amazing (of course I am talking about the right kinds).
Fossil’s bug tracker and wiki mostly evolved out of cvstrac, which also inspired Trac that you are likely familiar with.

It is similar to trac, more bare bones but about as functional, and infinitely faster and more responsive. It is also completely distributed; do you have a copy of your issues and discussions for the day github eats them?
Once again, for the people in the back:

This would be fine, if our country didn't have a horrific history of oppressive and violent racism that resulted in the immiseration of millions upon millions of individuals, many of them American citizens.

We have that history, we are still struggling under the weight of that history (some more than others, of course), and that is why we "can't have nice things".

Think of it this way, there's a lava flow running right next to the village you live in, which means you have to be careful not to do things that would get people killed. Sure, this can be restrictive at times, but, you know, there's frickin' lava. Right. There. For some reason a lot of people (they tend to have something in common, not sure what) don't see the entrenched institutionalized racism in this country, nor do they seem to consider it a serious problem. It is one of the most serious problems that continues to face this country, and historians are going to damn us (yes us, you, me, all of us) for not having dealt with it properly for far too long. Concerns like the effectiveness of advertisements are so far down the rungs compared to this problem that they aren't worth caring about.
Playing the devil's advocate here - Don't all big media companies rely on some form of CDN providers who themselves have some form of deals and agreements with ISPs or Internet exchange. Example - Netflix in India:

https://www.medianama.com/2017/05/223-netflix-begins-directl...

In which case how does this law change anything? And what effect this might have on CDN providers?
this is a bit tangential, but my grandfather flew U-2's in the late 50s over china. a few months ago my aunt sent me a photocopy of a small essay he wrote about some of his experiences during his time flying, and particularly technical details about flying them. i transcribed it and put it on my blog here:

https://hyperstition.al/u2-james-black/
Precisely. Communications infrastructure is a natural monopoly that should be regulated like roads, electricity, water, sewer, etc. The fact that it was privatized early on the U.S. means we've open pandora's box of lobbying, so it would be difficult to close it again.

The federal government could foreseeably take back some of that infrastructure by building it itself. The last mile is the most expensive part, so why not build a fiber backbone to every public school, and then let the municipal government's decide if/when/how they cover the last mile implementation?
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One thing that hit me is that bezos has a clear vision since 1997. No pivoting or other crap.

He knew _exactly_ what he was building and what his ultimate goal was.
Bitcoin was always digital gold. That was it’s value proposition from the beginning: a return to the gold standard, in digital form.
This article introduced me to HQ trivia which I just installed.
Dogs are natural hunters and carnivores, too. I don't see how they are different from cats.
I've tried to be more selective in what I do so that I can optimize towards success in my career but being too conscious of the choices I make has prevented me from deep diving into anything with any passion. Now I'm just trying to stick to one thing and trying to ignore all the shiny toys I read about on social media or websites like this. It's a struggle.
Mediums of exchange need to encourage usage, not hoarding.
they just borrow to pay off and set their debt deadline further back a bit.
I recently discovered `dumb-jump`, and now use it all the time.

https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump
When using --depth=1 with submodules, git tries to clone a submodule. Let's say its master branch to the depth of 1. However the super project does not point to a branch but to a sha1, so except when the master branch points to sha1, it will fail.

Most often you can get away with --depth=100 or something like that, but what's really needed is a way to fetch a sha1 and not only branches and tags. This is however not as easy at it seems, since only sha1 that are accessible from any tag or branch should be allowed for fetching (otherwise we've a security hole).

I'm not sure if this is implemented in git yet, and I'm not sure if all git hosting providers support it.
I feel this question would apply to downloaded weights as well. Because if the license does apply to the weights, whoever put the weights on the github with whatever license, the original license should prevail. Also, if your process requires that you be safe from license restrictions, we'd anyways have to check the original licenses, right?
As a data point, Japan set restrictions on Gatcha games. It doesn’t mean anything for EU law, but at least there’s a precedent if we ever need one, and they have tangible evidence that led them to go that route.
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Have a shred of evidence to back up your rediculous conspiracy theories?

This isn’t Reddit. If you make wild accusations, back them up.
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Per the HR article:

THR made repeated requests for comment to Jones and McCormack starting on Nov. 7 but received no response.

The story does quote other victims and witnesses, so I don't think your characterization is accurate. It looks like solid journalism.
He pioneered that format, pursued great guests, gave them the space to convey their thoughts in long form, structured the arc of the interviews to pull good stuff out of people over time, and worked relentlessly.

And unlike Gross, he kept his own politics closer to his chest, which, in combination with everything else, gave him access to everyone.

Who else is out there from a younger generation on the way up? Weirdly enough, like the other person said, the Hot Ones guy is the closest I can think of. Maybe someone from the podcast realm, but it's hard to think of someone with the range and intellect. I guess it will be a more fractious world.
>"you are now directly responsible for the code you write, if the company is sued because of a bug you caused, we're suing you"

You're implying HN doesn't want this. If companies pin liability on the engineers, engineers will respond by doing due diligence and ensuring nothing happens that is their fault. This will slow down developement near security critical features, which companies would hate, but engineers are begging for an excuse to do.

Companies would try to hire poor engineers who don't know any better but to take a cavalier approach to security while accepting monetary liability. This is where software engineers would need to organize, not as a union but as a profession. They wouldn't seek to regulate wages, just require that every practicing SE be a member of the profession. This would ensure that everyone who accepted responsibility for breaches was capable and willing to write secure code.

Of course, this is all extremely unlikely. If a breach costs a company several million dollars, then the responsible engineer couldn't pay the fine if they tried. The company would still be on the hook for the rest of the fine, which they would pay out of pocket. They would have accomplished screwing over an employee, and scaring future employees away, to no benefit. If companies were to pin blame on engineers, it would be because they were serious about security, and wanted their employees to be as serious as them, not because they expect employees to be able to cover the fines.

Not every data breach has a material harm. What if private picture were released and made public (ala "fappening")? Nobody gains money by having these pictures, and the original owner doesn't lose money either. Despite the lack of material loss, the owners of the data are still interested in preventing it from becoming public.
> Al Franken’s accuser backed off when the photos of them hanging out being friendly came out along with a ton of witnesses who said they saw the two being friendly the whole time.

AFAIK there's a well-known phenomenon of victims later being friendly with their attackers. In general, it doesn't disprove the allegation (I don't know the details about Franken).

Based on my poor knowledge of it (and in the absence so far of anyone who knows more), it comes from the desperate need for safety by traumatized people (i.e., those in the fight / flight / freeze state), any way they can get it. That includes by later trying to placate their attackers and checking if the attacker is friendly (or safe). Remember, often attackers are someone the victims previously knew and trusted and then that trust was horribly violated, leaving the victim feeling utterly defenseless (i.e., dependent on the attacker's good will).
Just don't fuck girls you work with! It's such an easy rule.
I’m not sure the previous comment is saying in all circumstances. I agree with what you’re saying - because higher officials obviously aren’t able to catch every mistake made by every engineer but I think the parent comment really meant that if there is gross negligence or intent to cover up breaches then that seems like a crime that the individual should be punished for.
As far as I can tell, they both share a minor investor, Barry Silbert. And anyone who thinks that means anything hasn’t been paying attention to what went down regarding the New York Agreement, where Blockstream (standing alongside many others) opposed Barry and won.
There is a ton wrong with what you just commented.

First of all, Google Fiber's strategy was not to make money but to push the industry to start installing new fiber-speed infrastructure, and it was successful (see the new ATT Fiber, etc.). Google did this because consuming it's services (like youtube) instead of watching TV are tied to having access to low-cost fast internet.

You're also not understanding that communications infrastructure is a natural monopoly. Infrastructure costs are the barrier to entry, meaning that even if ISPs make more revenue, they're still not going to have competition. ISPs are no more likely to invest in infrastructure without net neutrality than they are now, making your argument pointless.
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This is excellent. Addressing cargo cult development with its own self. GitHub == git, git == awesome because Linux and Linus, Linux development communications == email (turntable scratch noise)
Yes, all the advantages have been there from the start, but they may not be known to most people. It's really a matter of education and public awareness.

Smalltalk is not the only language to face this dilemma. Nearly every new language that comes to market does, as well. For example, Ceylon, Clojure, Crystal, Dart, Elixir, Haxe, Julia, Nim, Rust.
Ask HN: What are the manual tasks that you do daily in AWS
Scheduled EC2 Start and Stop , S3 Analyzing

Suggest some of the devops tool that will also reduce the manual task .
Calling a game "perverse" is a classic tactic too use when you're losing and can't own up to it. There may be "enough" resources – but they aren't yours to go anywhere. And freedom to do whatever you please with the things you own is the most fundamental human right of all.
I tried yours out and it's definitely superior - I'll be using this in the future for non-secure PDFs. If there is any way to do this offline I'd probably pay for an application bundle version.
If you think vi does basic text editing better, try Spacemacs! I switched over recently (the emacs pinky was real...) and I've really gotten to like the vim-y experience (although now I get really frustrated when I vim on a server and the search doesn't work like Spacemacs search).
There is plenty of innovation going on in bitcoin space. Schnorr signatures, MAST, lightning, client efficiency improvements.
Reminds me of Bryan Helmig's (Zapier) talk at APIDays SF back in 2013 about an API consumer shift.

http://bryanhelmig.com/your-api-consumers-arent-who-you-thin...
We don’t know for certain how much was really stolen. We just have Tether at their word. And if more was stolen than the amount frozen, it certainly is redeemable—for bitcoin on an exchange.
What magical country are you from? I'm going to guess at somewhere in Northern Europe?
I work for a company that loads dirt (yeah ok "Iron Ore") on cape size ships...

Filling the ships up is done with heavy consultation from the ships captain and often isn't as obvious and simple as one (layman) might expect.

Hacking the process is definitely a concern. something we care about quite seriously.
It is comparing programming languages. The study averages over all the language projects, including their choice of preferred toolchains. If there are more effective toolchains available, their lack of usage is clearly factored into the study.
I've previously had to work with an application that was deployed to multiple clouds. In our case, we deployed the whole app to each cloud as an independent environment, so our environments included entries like: foo-production, foo-staging, foo-development, bar-production, bar-staging. It kept the architecture a bit simpler, but in turn required more extensive monitoring and testing. The biggest annoyance was having to setup tools and services multiple times. If you automate stuff it's not so bad, but not all tools can be easily automated.

If I were creating a new app I'd probably contain each backend service to a single cloud environment. Different services can be in different cloud environments, but no cross-cloud services. I'm uncertain the extra complexity would be worth it, at least for many of the use-cases I'm considering. Having fewer environments to setup and maintain is a big win in my book.
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In related news - John Draper (Cpt. Crunch) is dropped from tech conferences for similar reasons.

https://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2017/11/iconic-hacker-...

Comments are interesting. Apparently his was a known issue and people were explicitly warned to stay away from him at the conferences and such.
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Relevance? Bitcoins aren’t mined on GPUs.
If you're willing to try a vim-y emacs, Spacemacs is a very discoverable emacs distribution.
Almost nothing -- if you're doing daily tasks, you're leaving a lot of automation on the table.

I would cleanup old backups and whatnot every month or three, but for the most part, I had a very set it and forget it setup.
I only really enjoyed Emacs once I learned some ELisp (I think I had tried is 2 or 3 times before that). Honestly I find these guides pretty useless b/c you can copy configs and hack together something without really understanding what you're doing but you'll eventually end up extremely frustrated and unable to work around the quirks and conflicts between configurations.

I know the people behind Emacs like to think the system as usable out-of-the-box but I think selling it like that is ultimately a disservice b/c people end up underwhelmed and frustrated - never taking the time to learn ELisp. (the Emacs intro/tutorial is just a "welcome to this nano with annoying keybindings") I actually would challenge anyone to find someone who loves emacs and doesn't know a bit of ELisp :)

Ultimately ELisp is really not that much work to learn - but the root issue seems to me that ELisp isn't really a general purpose programming language and who wants to invest in learning a language you can't use outside of your editor? It's basically a DSL for a managing text and buffers.. It'd be way sexier to learn if it was a Racket or something

I also wrote a little annotated config intro (these are kinda more personal notes for my org/git/C++ workflow). It's a little terse and to the point and isn't trying to sell Emacs, but unlike most guides I tried to document what each lines in the config really means and help the reader learn how Emacs helps you discover more of Elisp as you go. https://geokon-gh.github.io/.emacs.d/ Maybe someone will find it useful! (I'm by no means an emacs expert or Lisp guru.. so if there are problems, let me know please :) )
I'm recommending this post to everybody I'm working with.

Many APIs are targeted to internal teams creating SPAs nowadays. Maybe the same developer writes both the backend API and the fronted app. Those APIs tend to be a wild west of all the mistakes the post is about. Documentation is often sub optimal, not to talk about vulnerabilities introduced by quick and dirty hacks because the team decides that the backend can trust the frontend (missing validations and missing authorization checks are common in the experience of a collegue working on penetration tests.)

Unfortunately such badly designed APIs are going to hinder the development of new functionality for the time being. We're moving from spaghetti code to spaghetti APIs.
That's pretty ridiculous, we're talking about credit card purchases here, which can be trivially charged back, not bitcoin private keys... if you've worked with sensitive info on a Windows box though, that's probably a much worse off environment.
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I don't have a problem with zero rating, the policy you describe prohibits it.

I identify with the fundamental concept that "it's all just bits streaming" and that it could "stifle competition".

But to me both are an oversimplification.

"It's all just bits" except sometimes it's 100 megabytes of video a second and sometimes it's a 100kb HN post and delivering those things satisfactorily does not take the same levels of resources. There was a time when I think that analogy was satisfactory, and I think we've left that time.

And it definitely could stifle startups trying to become the next Google... except I get the feeling zero rating won't be why the next Google doesn't form between patents issues, Google just buying them outright, Google having better response times because of peering, and a million other issues (replace Google with any tech incumbent as wanted)

To me this entire issue is a red herring, the real issue is a lack of ISP competition. That's why we're even willing to entertain the idea of our ISPs turning the internet into cable packages instead of realizing that with real competition no ISP would have the slightest inclination to do something so blatantly anti-user.
If there’s just one takeaway from the article, it’s this: Phillips screws were a niche-specific invention and have absolutely no business being as popular as they are today (except that they’re ridiculously cheap to make). They absolutely suck for every other purpose and it’s a shame they’re as popular as they are.

(Pro-tip: IKEA never uses Phillips screws. They’re exclusively Pozidriv. Get yourself a Pozidriv driver and assembling their furniture becomes an order of magnitude easier and faster.)
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Pinging 8.8.8.8 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=54
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=54
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=54
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=54

Ping statistics for 8.8.8.8:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 11ms, Maximum = 32ms, Average = 18ms
And
Pinging 9.9.9.9 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 9.9.9.9: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=54
Reply from 9.9.9.9: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=54
Reply from 9.9.9.9: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=54
Reply from 9.9.9.9: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=54

Ping statistics for 9.9.9.9:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 17ms, Maximum = 20ms, Average = 18ms
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It's Eastern Europe, Serbia to be precise. You can get unlimited high speed 4G for $30/mo without a contract. Vip mobile.
You're absolutely not wrong. Resistbot has a team of volunteers who will write out, and deliver your letters. Of course, this is hard for us to scale to all of our almost 1.5 million users, but as we speak volunteers are targeting states and districts producing thousands of handwritten letters.

We're actively trying to drive for better engagement through targetted alerts regarding town halls in your area or helping you with voting ( https://resistbot.news/find-your-polling-place-620d1ea5faf7 ). Resistbot is more about helping get people engaged through low friction than be the alternative to showing up and having a face to face conversation with your officials.
Because household dogs don’t retain that behavior in the same way cats do.
What if it's just plain old XX vs XY chromosomes?
Best argument for NN: Let's freeze things now (and saddle every startup/mom'n'pop ISP with Ma Bell-style regulation) so the oligarchs don't become ever more powerful

Best argument against NN: Entrenching today's power brokers will not bode well for the future and will kill all of the smaller players.
Not because you got hacked. No. Hell no. I never suggested that and reject it totally.

We're talking about cover up, if you cover up the fact someone stole private data belonging to other people you took responsibility for. If you try and pretend it didn't happen because you might get away with it then claim you didn't know when it comes out? Then yes, absolutely, you deserve to risk jail time for that. As does your board of directors.

CSOs, senior management, boards of directors should be personally responsible for their own actions. They need to have something at stake that they really dread losing when making the decision "perhaps we can get away with this?"