skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although not obvious to consumers, area has always been the bottom line - Gordon Moore used to call the biz 'expensive real estate' (about $1bn/acre)
There is no strongly disagree, Do note.

Also I don’t think there has been any significant change in the underlying economics of it all, so the positions are still relevant.
> there was a study that said the most effective way to fight stupidity is by ridicule

Unless people are just trolling, in which case both trying to ridicule or educate them is not gonna work. Just ignore them. Don't feed the trolls.
When two willing parties are prevented from doing business, this is a market failure. Certain rules are required to maintain a free market, and "you can't pay to exclude competitors" probably tops the list.
Has to be a transient problem, I get ProtonMail as first unpaid search result for both queries they mention.
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Another implementation of this algorithm can be found at [1]. It also includes several other algorithms for acoustic fingerprinting that can serve as a baseline. See [2] for a paper on one of the other implemented algorithms and a comparison.

[1] https://github.com/JorenSix/Panako

[2] http://www.terasoft.com.tw/conf/ismir2014/proceedings/T048_1...
This is a common sentiment and I have a lot to say on the topic, so I'll try to keep it brief:

- You want to keep manufacturing costs low so you can make more money.

- Running Linux requires a relatively large CPU with an MMU and a lot of RAM and Flash. This adds significant cost -- $5-$20 per unit.

- Some devices do enough local processing that they have this hardware anyway (routers, streaming TV widgets, smartphones). In this case, you might as well just run Linux and take advantage of the big software ecosystem.

- Most devices do not require such big hardware. This is where you want something like FreeRTOS (or smaller!) so you can ship smaller, cheaper hardware.
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Yes, I really don't think it's a serious account.
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Bad question.

The question asked was around 'Quality of Service' - this is not 'Net Neutrality'.

Providers probably should be allowed to sell differing levels of quality of service, but they should not be able to discriminate between content or customers.
Did you not read the article? It was eventually "fixed."

> ProtonMail tracked this situation through Spring 2016, trying to get in touch with Google to query why it had vanished from search results — and initially having no luck getting a response. It only eventually got an acknowledgment of the complaint in August after it had tweeted at Google staff.
There was a "fix" in August after a public intervention from protonmail. Did you read the article?
This article is from 2016. Maybe this should be mentioned in the headline.
You can if transport links are really good
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It literally says in my contract that overtime can be considered a necessary part of the job so there's no extra pay. Mind you, doing overtime is rarely necessary over here, and you can compensate in the same month. There's also been an instance where we had to show up at night to do a release, those were compensated x2 (so 4 hours up at night = full day off)
> It is my opinion that the intrinsic value of bitcoin is far far greater than anyone really comprehends

See? It's all speculative bullshit, where people who took a bet on bitcoin increasing price and expect to profit from this price increase are trolling other fools to keep pumping the bubble until they cash out.

Bitcoin is quite clearly a pump-and-dump scheme, and here we see some users cheering fools to keep on pumping the bubble with their cash.

The only intrinsic value that bitcoin has is it's use in money laundering deals, and only in short time scales. That's it. The rest is just speculative fraud.
I don't understand the headline, but the content is good.

It's about Wilson, NC's success in running their own lit fiber network; "lit" meaning they run the retail services too.

Notably they offer a pre-paid plan ($10 min deposit) for $1.15 a day, with an automated system to cut service, and is a phone call away to setup, cancel, or switch between the $40 montly offering.

In contrast to Comcast's gov't mandated "Internst Essentials", Wilson's public ISP offers 50Mbps/50Mbps, to Comcast's 20Mbps/2Mbps. And you can't even sign up if you have had a monthly plan in the past 90 days, or have owed money within the past year!

Repealing Net Neutrality would mostly be a non-issue if competition were possible.

Linked in the article [1] is San Fransisco's plan for laying "dark fiber", which, opposed to lit fiber, is strictly infastructure to be leased to ISPs offering services. This setup should largely mitigate NN worries, as there will be ISPs that can differentiate services based on it.

There are times I'd like to have potentially-anti-competitive zero-rating services, but only in the case there is a resonable neutral service available.
For transfers under 500$ (roughly) the fees from a proper bank transfer will be more expensive.

SEPA has basically no fee and is usually next day, with SEPA SCT Inst it'll soon be 15 seconds (and no more than 20 seconds) with the same fees, after which bitcoin can't compete on that anymore.
> Interesting that there is a maximum rate.

I always thought this was to limit the incentive to cram extra working hours in (so as to avoid fatigue), interesting that it's probably more of a negotiation point.
Yeah the latter is always an option, if you're not being collectively worked into the ground and you don't mind.

With the more unionized lines of work, usually pay is lower and the stakes and dangers are much higher. I mean for airline pilots, fatigue puts lives at risk.
[2016].

Having worked at Google’s Search Quality Evaluation team, I can confirm that Google would only manually remove sites from its search results if they violate its webmaster guidelines: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769?hl=en

Of course, there can be other issues preventing a site from showing up in the search results (e.g. site migration issues, accidentally locking out Googlebot in robots.txt, ...). In such cases, the best way to raise the issue would be to report it on the webmaster forum, which is frequented both by smart and helpful users and by Googlers working on search quality: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters
"At the end of the day, just know that we're all people on one team (albeit with very different daily responsibilities). Respect each other's time and needs, and the rest will fall into place."

I do a lot of helpdesk. I've found out most of the time there is a huge difference in information availability between support desk and the rest of the company. Support people spend a ton of time and frustration finding out what the hell a client is talking about, who promised them things and where or what the hell the service level agreement is.

I made a lot of (account) managers very very angry by stating well written documentation and procedures should available to the entire support team. It should be a milestone of EVERY project or else there is NO finished project. People should not be held responsible because of lack of supplied information. Especially when they've asked for it a gazillion times.

This is one of the reason these teams hate each other so much in big companies.
There are still many concepts that transcend the specific language / platform. As I've become more attuned to this I'm sometimes horrified by code that supposedly senior engineers write that egregiously violate separation of concerns, for example. An experienced developer who knows how to properly design and architect software should be able to jump ahead of a less experienced developer who has more years experience developing for a specific platform in my opinion but recruiters don't seem to see it this way
(Apologies if you're joking, but you don't appear to be. Hmm but I'm not sure.)

"Consider the fact that in the social sciences, about 18 percent of American professors are communists.." - whoaaa! hehe. Well, that was the most remarkable start to a sentence I've experienced on HN.

Allow me to stop there, and examine for a moment how much of a fact that is. Well, more than a moment - I couldn't access "The social and political views of American professors" (2007) on that link, and it's 76pp long. It reports a 2006 survey. I think your "about 18 percent of American [social science] professors are communists" refers to pp40-1 :

"Before moving on to consider the substantive attitudes items, we consider three other political identities that professors may hold that would indicate something about their political views: whether they think of themselves as radicals, political activists, and Marxists. We queried respondents on these matters by presenting them with a series of labels - including "radical," "political activist," and "Marxist" - and asking them to indicate how well, on a seven point scale ranging from not at all to extremely well, the labels described them. ...Table 12 shows the percentage of respondents in each broad disciplinary grouping who said these terms described them at least moderately well (giving a score of 4 or higher).."

There's a figure of 17.6% given in the table for professors in the "Social sciences" + "Marxist category".

So, in a 2006 survey, 17.6% of social science professors said "Marxist" described them moderately well, extremely well, or somewhere in between.

I'll leave it there for now, just remarking that it strikes me as rather ironic that the "fact" you asked us to consider came as part of an argument purporting to show someone else's stats were false. I'm not sure of the technical term for what you were doing in your last sentence, but it wasn't pretty either.

Edit: I thought my comment was as usual tangential at best to the main story, but on second thoughts maybe this was a small journalistic investigation of exactly the kind hoped for? :-)
Anyone know about taking astronomical photographs? There's one such photo at the top of this article.

1. The night's sky never actually looks like that. Is it simply that the exposure was long so that the brightness of each object is enhanced? How long would the exposure have to be?

2. What is that pinkish nebula-like band/arc that the photo is centered around?
Are you not familiar with the post-Situationist movement?
The tiny JeVois smart camera has been doing this for a while now, and lots of other kinds of computer vision too, although in a smaller and lower resolution device, also much cheaper at $49 and fully open source.
By "focus" i mean the current window on your desktop that has the focus, as in, the one that's going to receive the input you give through your keyboard. I've seen plenty of people (and it's happened to me too) fumble and accidentally type or paste things in the wrong window. If that window happens to be your browser on a website that does this kind of tracking, that information goes to some random third party instead of the window you thought it was going to.
Interesting, vertical price squeeze is mentioned a few times.

Comcast or others becoming a content provider. If one of them buys Netflix, other content providers will have difficulty to compete if they have to pay a lot for the high-speed lane.

Should an efficient market have regulations against vertical integration?
or "simder"
No, absolutely not.

In the ultimate 'free market' - your healthcare would be priced based on your earnings, and it would be ~90% of your after tax take home pay. Why? Because you'll pay.

There's good reason we generally don't allow price discrimination, or things like collusion, it's not rocket science.

If the Telcos could price discriminate willy nilly over the information that goes through their pipes - then 100% of the profits of the company you work for will disappear into their bank accounts.

Imagine if some private entity owned all of the roads - and the toll was based on your income?

You can't talk about 'free markets' in such a cavalier manner.

FYI - there is one issue with 'Quality of Service' - which completely confuses the question above. Telcos must be able to discriminate based on this - i.e. lower latency, higher bandwidth = more cost. But they should be banned from looking at the contents of the traffic, or billing based on source/destination.
> And the union contract prevents paying more than 150% to fill the slots.

Without having seen that contract, this is almost guaranteed to be false. Most probably the contracts prevents the union to demand more than 150%, but of course the airline is still free to voluntarily pay more than that. This is just a (successful, it seems) PR spin of the situation.
> I hope we can start seeing WebAssembly-pluggable codecs in all of the video/audio paths in the browser.

I have a n00b question though. How would I display the video in the browser using webassembly ? I mean using webassembly, I can do the decoding of the bits in the stream. But how to display those bits in the browser ? Do I use a canvas and directly dump the pixel buffer there ?
Bunch of muppets with advanced expertise in what amounts to convex optimisation theory. What exactly qualifies them to weigh in on how the internet should be run?
Using another build system might seem like a problem, but at the end of the day - it's a list of .cpp, .h files, some defines and possibly some intermediate steps. These rules, list of files, etc. would tend to change much less in a well established library, hence a convert to another build system would not seem that big of a deal, even if two, or more a supported.

Today, Qt, for example has qmake, cmake, qbs? others?

The bazelment trunk, provides bazel rules for building ~30 libraries, among them: openssl, zlib, v8, folly, boost, and others: https://github.com/bazelment/trunk/tree/master/third_party

At work, I'm heavily vested in using Microsoft's VCPKG for new builds of open source libs, they internally use CMake, but then CMakeLists.txt were not even readily available for some of these projects, and the VCPKG maintainers did them.

At some point, or it may already exist, someone would make a converter from one system to another, lossy possibly. For example it's possible to parse everything you need, correctly from a .sln/.vcxproj usign the MSBuild framework, which is now available everywhere (except the actual .props, .target files, which are Visual Studio specific). But on a machine with the Community version of the compiler, these are free to use (should even work under wine). And since a lot of other build systems target .sln, .vcxproj files, this could in a way be a target for a lot of systems to converge, and from there extract what you want:
- List of source, header files.
- Separation between projects
- Defines for each project.
- etc.

It doesn't have to be perfect, but it's possible.

Or maybe from ninja generated files (though not meant to be used that way).

Luckily there is sane way to verify whether alternative build for a project works - simply compile it, and verify whether the produced artifacts are the same, or are close enough (list of produced header files, exported symbols, may go even deeper).

And yes, I do miss the Turbo/Borland Pascal's .TPU files, where no .h file was needed, or Borland C++ simple project file that was just listing line by line the .c files, but back then projects (which I was familiar with) were much smaller, even gcc, the linux kernel and others were much smaller then.
But there's no need for legitimate arguments when there's nobody at the receiving end. The flat eartheres should be forgotten and ridiculed and we shouldn't provide them attention they can than use to find another receiving poor soul.

I can make up any bullcrap and if any I mean any new source picks it up it's free advertising for me regardless how right they are.
If anyone is interested in checking out a fun radio astronomy/data analysis course that touches on pulsars and other phenomena, I can highly recommend the University of Sydney's Coursera course Data Driven Astronomy [0].

[0] https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-driven-astronomy
Interesting, given how at some point they were given as an example of "old software company that actually managed to hop on the mobile train". Guess the mobile train turned to be less important than originally thought (at least from a revenue perspective).
I read a few of their tweets and replies yesterday. It certainly sounds like a parody account to me.

Let's hope the NYT and other mainstream media don't begin writing "profiles" of flat Earthers every week now...

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/11/lets-just-stop-writin...
Yeah, RE appreciation probably has paid out way more than salary in the valley. At least to the avg engineer. Stock options have done well too, but that’s more like top 1%
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The Brits just don't get our style of humor.
TL;DR unions: a collective that can put pressure on businesses. Treat employees better, or they go on strike, see how the business can operate then. This will work for airlines, because if only half the pilots go on strike they'll have huge problems.

Doesn't work for Uber, because if half the drivers go on strike, pay will go up for the other half and more people are likely to work for Uber because the bar for entry is so low. Also no, uber would just raise prices. I'm fairly sure it was unions that made it difficult for just anyone to become a taxi driver though - protecting their own income, limiting competition etc.
That seems like an unsatisfactory explanation. In Germany, for example, although we have a national ID card with a number, that number is almost never necessary to get a service. They seem to manage without it. The only institutions regularly demanding it are the state itself and banks.

So no, a national ID is not necessary for the purposes of creating trust.
You might be interested in a Changelog podcast I did that was recorded a few days ago.

https://changelog.com/podcast/276

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If things get fixed faster when you make a phone call you will eventually end up with more and more people calling instead of e-mailing etc.
Compare the pilots at BA to those at Ryanair. Or the cabin crew.
they are just pretending right?
Exactly - some arguments have already been had. This is one of them.
You're not wrong; if a foreign country can deliver a similar product without respecting worker's rights, it'll screw with the people working at normal income / safety standards. I guess that's one reason why import taxes are a thing, to protect the national workforce - hasn't worked I guess. I wonder if Trump and his cabinet have plans to increase import taxes.
There is nothing 'massive' about a rule that was implemented in 2015 and caused little change at the time it was implemented. In the previous 15 years without neutrality rules, there were a few instances of ISPs acting badly, but those were fairly quickly resolved. Source: https://stratechery.com/2017/pro-neutrality-anti-title-ii/
> we are paying pilots who pick up certain open trips 150 percent of their hourly rate — as much as we are allowed to pay them per the contract

Pretty sure this is not correct. The contract most probably prevents the union from demanding more for overwork, but doesn't prevent the employer to voluntarily pay more.

The 150% cap in the contract is most probably a concession the unionized pilots granted in exchange for some benefit, e.g. "we want a better 401k employer match! Ok, but only if you agree to cap maximum overpay at 150%."
devices could be connected on a home network, without calling home.
Why didn't it happen in S. America, Central America, Africa, etc.? The only consistent pattern distinguishing prosperity from poverty is free markets.

Anyhow, my point was fiat money was not a necessary condition for such prosperity.
I mean, 9/10 of the people associated with the movement (online) are trolling. Just like the original 'alt-right', mainly people making fun of extremists while pretending to represent them.
agreed, you can have better toys if you live elsewhere (though probably not near the ocean).

It’d be good also if these salary surveys were after taxes. Be interesting to compare that.
From their careers site:

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This is not remote work.
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That question is also very loaded. Paying for higher speeds is only about higher data transfer rates. That doesn't have anything to do with net neutrality as, which in fact only imposes artificial restrictions on cherry-picked aspects affecting data communication. In fact, someone could answer "strongly agree" by interpreting that a company or customer would switch their perfectly neutral internet service for a higher tier one or even invest in building their own network.
But the members vote for the elected positions of the union and on the motions at conference :-)
Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. HN-Guidelines tell us to: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It wouldn't take anything away from your response just leaving that question out.

BTT: Why is this even an article on here anyway when the situation has been dealt with one year ago? The title should already mention that it's from 2016.
Poe's Law in action I guess. Spread BS with enough confidence and people will believe it - look at how often The Onion and similar satirical news sites articles are shared by people who genuinely believe them.
For multiple reasons. Which you don’t list.
It’s not legal to use in California after the bill becomes law.

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It's a joke, if you enter a debate with a joke you just continue a joke.

Or that could be a world conspiracy, you know, like the one where Santa and children of the world made adults believe Santa doesn't exist.
Anyone know a good alternative to ProtonMail with no ties to the Israeli Military? Preferably European.
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