skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's part of the bargain: we recognize that these sorts of companies form monopolies[0], and in exchange for those monopolies, we impose regulation to keep them from engaging in the negative, anti-consumer practices often associated with running a monopoly.

We expect that if there were a competitive landscape, the companies that succeed would find a balance between profit and providing the services and quality that customers demand, but we don't have a competitive landscape, so we need to ensure that happens by other means.

[0] My take on why this is ok, and why we don't really want the proliferation of these sorts of companies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15858078
It could be both. Just because they're paying Amazon an arm and a leg doesn't mean they have the ability or the time to do a better job for cheaper.
`-f bestvideo+bestaudio/best` might work: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#format-selection
Razer Surround Pro 7.1 License Key and Crack and Activation Keygen [Latest]
> I've been using http://brunch.io and enjoying it. Far less configuration than Webpack.

I used brunch with a rails app. Breakfast gem. Not as fun to use as it seems, since doing anything out of the norm is almost impossible to find documentation on.

Honestly, Webpack was easier to use, simply because it is easier to find information on the web about it.
I presume part of the advantage of a services they have a lot of compute power (or Asics?) to throw at the task.
Streaming Similarity Search for Fraud Detection (Smyte)
This is excellent.
Interesting intersection of traditions.

Usually Russians watch Ironiya Sudby on December 31, since Christmas is not celebrated.

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Another one that everybody watches is Briliantovaya Ruka.
This isn’t Canada. Your tolls are used to make the operator and the people who operate EZPass a bunch of cash.
Globally? Lol, no. Personally Yes: to the extent that I visit 17 sites every day and all of these most frequently link to each other. Eg: HN pointing to AnandtTech. 20 years ago I browsed 50+ unique sites every week, hundreds a month with very little overlap. The early StumbleUpon was amazing.
Any ideas what replication model they're using under the hood to bring new instances online so quickly?
Right, there are expectations that We The People have created, and -- for better or for worse -- some of them were codified and given legal force.

It just doesn't all nicely fit under one "be cool to each other" umbrella.
How Dollar General Became Rural America's Store of Choice
I dunno if Microsoft could get away with something that extreme without (again) running afoul of anti-trust issues.
Only at the most minimal layer, meant for favicon.ico requests and the like. They are explicit about not becoming a cache or web server.
Electrum lets you do this. You create a seed of about 10 words. Write them down and you can delete the wallet. I tested this. The issue in 10 years time might be that the original wallet source is lost so at least keep a copy of the exe.
> Please explain how is the very same government who allows the communication monopolies to exist, supposed to also ensure that they are "neutral"? It seems awfully convenient that the solutions to problems that government creates is to have more government.

AG Schneiderman didn't address this point, but my take on it is this:

We allow these monopolies to exist because the infrastructure they require to operate by necessity must make use of public land and resources. In the case of wireless companies, radio spectrum is limited, so not just anyone can set up a wireless company. In the case of land-line/cable companies, we really do not want to allow just anyone to dig up our land or set up utility poles in order to run cable and fiber.

So we compromise: we only allow a select few to operate on the airwaves and to lay cable, but we regulate them in order to try to disallow them from engaging in the anti-consumer activity that you can only engage in when you have little or no competition.

There are perhaps other options, such as disallowing the people who build the infrastructure to also operate it as an ISP, and instead lease access to ISP companies at non-discriminatory rates. That brings other problems, too, though it might overall be better. At the end of the day, we have the system we have, and we need to make the best of it. If we could come up with a better system where net neutrality regulation wouldn't be necessary, that would be great, but we still need that sort of protection in place while we work to change our current system into something else.
Southeast Asia letting startups play in the fintech sandbox
That is a pretty bad title. It should be hybrid cabs, not electric cabs, and - coincidentially - I was talking to a London cab driver a while ago about going electric and he reckoned that it would be terrible for business if the cab could not be charged overnight because the only thing that mattered to him was how much his cab would be on the road and his daily mileage comfortably exceeded the projected battery range of any electrical cab offering that he was aware of at that point in time.

Hence the petrol engine, which will more than likely be the main propellant for these cabs, so it is a nice PR move but let´s wait to see how many miles are actually driven electrically before we get all happy.
Yes, you can set up SSH keys to connect to your jumpbox from Bitbucket Pipelines: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/use-ssh-keys-in-b...

At the moment, direct access to your Amazon resources requires an access key configured via secure variables in Pipelines. We'd consider adding support for IAM roles/key rotation if a lot of people would find it useful.
As it stands, according to Bitfinex (who is has same management as Tether) individuals do not buy tether from the Tether (the entity). They buy from Bitfinex, with dollars, transfer internally to Tether, Tether generates new tethers, they transfer to Bitfinex tether hot wallet, who then deposit in customers trading account.

One issue, is that they just revealed this arrangement. The Tether website makes it look like you can both buy and redeem tethers through an online wallet on that site, but apparently nobody has done so.

The core issue is, that despite promising to do so, Tether has not released an audit proving that they only issue new tethers on receipt of dollars.

If in fact they are issuing them unbacked, they can easily fake demand for Bitcoin. Tethers are transferable via block chain between exchanges, and are used by exchanges without access to real US dollar banking to conduct trade in (nominal) across cryptocoin-USD(T) pairs.

It’s unclear whether there have been any significance redemptions of tethers for dollars. There have been ~$800m tethers issued this year.
> For example, to reduce packet size, wherever possible Bolo uses bytes instead of 16-bit or 32-bit words.

Oh, Bolo! I whiled away many happy hours in my youth playing it. I understand that Stuart eventually got hired by Apple and did quite a bit with Bonjour (or whatever it's called these days).

It's still one of the better games around. Be great were there a Linux version.
I'm not sure how convenient this will be for most use cases.

JavaScript in the browser lacks good data manipulation libraries (nothing that comes close to using Pandas, or R). Even loading/saving files with the browser is a PITA (by design really, for security reasons).

I can see a day when JavaScript (or web assembly) has APIs like Numpy and Pandas, but for now It's simply easier to install one of those than try and do everything in JavaScript.
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> 300,000 CPUs

You better have a bloody big datacentre.
Coco 2017
Apple Introduces Search Ads Basic
Google is literally blocking access to the youtube.com website. This is clearly anticompetitive too.
maybe he's a lawman
You have been a customer for over a year but based on someone else's anecdote you feel the need to post a signup link for a competitor?
Is get-iplayer still used?

I suspect it'll need an enhancement from youtube-dl in your case.
> The criterion for general intelligence is actual intelligence, not putting it in ideal conditions and seeing if people are fooled.

Having to do it across a wire is "ideal conditions"?

The initial comment was about "artificial general intelligence". Every single one of those problems can be done across a wire.

Every word that has ever been spoken, every gesture that has ever been made, you can do across a wire.

It's good enough to solve any practical problem in the world. It just won't be "real".

> It seems like you think this machine is going to simulate the entire universe, evolve its model of the universe and therefore perfectly predict its next state -- and on the basis of this prediction provide an answer.

No, it's going to simulate a tiny cubicle with a person inside.

I guess you could call it a simulated universe, but the universe is only two cubic meters.

> I cannot see how a machine is going to actually track the evolving entangled state of an audience of human beings.

Put cameras in the seat in the theater. One copy of the feed goes to a real person, the other goes to the machine. Both can track the evolving state of the audience fine. Neither one should be expected to perfectly simulate the rest of the audience.

> I would be surprised if the universe could be described in less volume than it occupies.

Don't worry, I don't expect the machine to be smaller than two cubic meters!

> A machine can only simulate what is known. The actual behaviour of the universe is much larger than what is known. As soon as we discover something new, then we have a test to prove the machine is a machine.

That's fair. So version 1.0 will have slightly-wrong physics. Do you think that will necessarily make the simulation go awry? Do you think we'll never know enough about physics to simulate a small box with a person in it?
TL;DR Apple uses better (expensive) die & fabrication; it is free to do so as it doesn't need to make markup over their chip.

A while back, I wrote about it in my blog - https://abishekmuthian.com/apples-chipnomics-how-is-apple-ch...
>"Whatsapp's fine too. But they solve a very different security problem than the one you need e-mail to solve,"

Can you elaborate on this? What security problem are they trying to solve?
Stay away from Orwell's 1984.

You will be pissed.
It's a no-go for me. I like the lang but I make games and don't like GC. Jai seems to be in the se direction as Go in other aspects though
Further to that, you can't patch out the telemetry and other privacy-violating "features", without somehow finding an exploit. In fact, from that perspective this is no different than the typical locked-down iPhone or Android.

What's worse than a computer with preinstalled spyware? A computer with preinstalled spyware you can't remove.

When the Lenovo/Superfish thing happened, I commented at the time that it was at least something you could remove by reformatting and installing your choice of OS. Ideally we'd all buy computers with our own choice of software already, but if forced to choose, I'd rather buy one with preinstalled spyware I know I can remove, than one which claims to not have such software and be "more secure".
Fix. Health. Care.
Japanese supercomputer venture, PEZY's chief arrested for alleged fraud
Didn’t they recently let a lot of folks go from Silicon Valley?
Current issuance of tethers is ~$850m, according to the story told by Tether/Bitfinex, these should be held mostly by users. There’s no reason for exchanges to hold (unless they were buying for their own account).
Nginx has widely used modules, business logic can be run in the same worker process with proxy. And it is easy to find enough developers to develop a relatively complex business support system based on nginx module system.

Haproxy itself is efficient as a proxy, however, developing a business system requires a lot of interaction between proxy and the business control processes.
For the long run, consider running pull-strings in parallel to the wiring so that adding additional capability in the future is easier. At some point I think it is possible that homes will bet low voltage power to avoid converting household current down to DC with "wall warts".
Email your representatives about net neutrality
>(Reuters) - Britain’s largest motor insurer Direct Line is offering Tesla Inc drivers in Britain a 5-percent discount for switching on the car’s autopilot system, seeking to encourage use of a system it hopes will cut down on accidents.

Seems like Direct Line is trying to entice Tesla owners to switch to them.

Proof shall be in the pudding if they are safer.

The real question is, why give away free money?I know in the U.S, by law you need auto-insurance, so they(insurance companies) can charge whatever the market will bear. Not sure of U.K.
The only viable alternative is consoles.

Expensive gaming rigs - a bit less so than PC, but for equivalent hardware, about $400 cheaper at introduction, about equal once 1-2 years pass.

Obsolete in 2 years - check

Expensive software - much more so for consoles.

So right now the situation is that if you go for PC gaming instead of console, you'll have about the same expense, but 100 games for PC (and a powerful general purpose computer), and maybe 5-10 on console.
Specifically, the links to stories with phkamp's comments appear to be:

Too many comments to list here in:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4407188

Three comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12251323 :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12253059
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12253175
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12253027

Two comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8812724 :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8814319
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813888
I get that. But as you can surely see, this is not a common use case at all. Less than 1% (number pulled out of the ass) of regular consumers get their laptop stolen. Then among those, very little percentage of people actually care (enough to pay somebody to to secure the laptop properly) about the data stored in the machine. Mandating secure boot and making legit consumers to go through all that just to run their own os is simply bullshit. It's just a method to lock down the machine.
> In the latest FCC Internet Access Services report, 13% of census blocks with housing units (that is, empty census blocks are not considered) have three or more broadband providers. 37% percent have only one option, and 21% have no provider at all. Having a choice is not the norm.

You left out the percentage with two providers, which must be 29% (100-37-21-13), which means that 42% of housing units have a choice between two or more providers. That's not the norm, and it should be better, but given how much of the U.S. is empty space it's not utterly terrible.
I don't think we're talking about the same problem here. If the day comes that Tethers are proven to be insolvent (because there isn't actually a USD in reserve for each Tether in circulation), moving quickly won't make a damn bit of difference. You can't quickly unload an asset when there is no taker. Somebody will be left holding a big fat stack of nothing.

I don't know what's going on with Tethers, honestly, it's not something I've followed very closely; so this may not be a problem at all (and if it's not, I would assume the people involved would be eager to get an audit done and results published so the money train can keep rolling). I'm just saying that unless you believe strongly that Tethers are backed 1:1 by USD, it would be irrational to hold Tethers, even for a short time.

I found it worrying that when the guy they interviewed tried to move his Tethers to another exchange, he couldn't find enough takers (and Bitfinex wouldn't let him exchange for dollars either). So, the argument that Tethers trading at roughly $1USD across exchanges is "proof" that Tethers are sound is shaky, at best. If you can't sell more than a handful of Tethers without crashing the market for Tethers, it's not actually the market setting the price. Something else is going on...something that would be illegal in a regulated market.
BLM?

Black Lives Matter or that Bureau of Land Management standoff?

I wouldn't categorize BLM (Black Lives) as NOT peaceful (or at least in the same category as Vietnam protests). If you mean riots, IMHO it's a separate issue.
None of these are secrets stored in SE, which is what this entire thread is about
What they are presumably going for is ease of use, Istio uses a pluggable service mesh with Envoy being the most common one, and Linkerd being one of the alternatives.

I'm guessing they think Conduit can bring value by being an intergated solution out of the box, and I'm excited to see if they can deliver on that.
PyTorch 0.3 Is Out with Performance Improvements, ONNX/CUDA 9/CUDNN 7 Support
Die, eventually.
It's still called Bonjour. It is the 15th anniversary of Bonjour. Cheshire gave it a section at the very end of this year's WWDC Networking talk.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/709
These are useful tools, but for a pre-1.0 language, it might be worth casting a wider net than people who would even know to take the survey. For instance, I started writing a command line application in Crystal, and there was some deeply strange bug with how stdout was handled -- no combination of the suggested remedies in the github issue fixed my problem, so I stopped writing it in Crystal. I've never returned to the language -- but that means I didn't hear about the survey.
Not just nice for the people who personally went through that change, but it is also valuable for the general public to have such people around. But balanced against having more people with crushing debt I fear that the net effect is negative. A strong "background radiation" of humanities education can have a very positive effect on democracy, it is pretty much the defining difference between a working democracy and a populist nightmare. But if student loans leaved those who have the education no other option than to maximally leverage it to get ahead of others, it will likely have the opposite effect. (I felt tempted to write weaponize instead of leverage.) Maybe humanities education is only stabilizing "background radiation" when it is wasted, on the level of personal economics?
Imageboards use that syntax for quotes as well, italicizing and changing the text color, highlighting the quoted text without the scrolling issues of a blockquote.

I had a userscript doing that on HN for a while along with as other text fixes, and the result seemed quite readable.
It's interesting that both of these giant very much support net neutrality but have no problem balkanizing the internet via hardware.
Rembrandt's Eyes by Simon Schama - verbose but fun writing. Very good analysis of the painter, his life, and how it was reflected in his art.
To actually give the stupid-ass rocket something to do, people in congress have proposed doing a Europa mission. Congressman Culberson is even pushing for the Europa Clipper mission to have a lander. Although it is a bit unusual in that funding for such a mission is contingent on the Europa probe being launched on the SLS rather than whatever rocket NASA engineers decide on.

Aside from that, Europa is quite a challenging environment. The terrain is expected to be very rugged and it is bathed in radiation. The radiation is so extreme, that any probe we can reasonably send is only expected to last about 20 days.

[0]http://spacenews.com/europa-lander-work-continues-despite-bu...
Here's a good explanation but it probably doesn't speak to your dad. It's hard to find a non-partisan resource because literally EVERYONE is in favor of an open, free, "neutral" internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVLiw7ZvzDI&t=12m20s
Yeah it’s funny how the content and service providers want to control the entire internet when they’ve proven countless times to abuse their power and regulate legal content that is not of their liking.

If YouTube decides to start blocking certain devices from its servers, ISPs can at least retaliate, in a free market and throttle their connection to pressure them to stop uncompetitive practices. Since the ISPs must consider the interests of their customers.

Right now there is no check and balance on these behemoth technology companies and they appear to be acting above the law.
was there some detail around what they didn't live up to in terms of their contract?
It's like a bad ass variant of WinRT (or what it should have been)
That looks really interesting. Is this all done at compile time or runtime? After further reading the answer seems to be compile.
"Amazon implemented what was essentially a hacked version of YouTube on both the Echo Show and Fire TV"

What hack? don't tell me that they randomized requests across their network each time. They have announced that they are using generic webivew now.
Do any of the standard's people read HN, or is there a way of submitting requests? The STL could seriously use some improvements. std::string doesn't do most of the stuff you want with a string; updating it to an interface like Python's string would be nice. Having a std::vector::append() would be really nice, so I don't have to remember that C++ uses something completely different from every other language. Convenience things like std::set::contains() would be nice because s.find() != s.end() is not very readable compared to contains().

I'm really impressed at what the standards committee has done, but I'm wondering if we ought to start thinking about a C++2.0 where we can write the C++ that we've learned we want. The poor young-uns learning C++ still have to learn all the old stuff, because otherwise it will bite them sooner or later.
Thanks for the response - I think your thoughts on tax increases are quite reasonable. I agree that it's much harder to swallow a tax increase when it seems as if the money is going towards causes you disagree with, and I also feel that way with this tax bill personally.

Not sure if I understand the double taxation argument though. Say local/state/federal tax is 1%/5%/20%. Without the SALT deduction of any form, you get taxed 26% on each dollar which seems intuitive and fair. I think this model makes more sense than exempting certain amounts of money from each subsequent tax-level, but discounting the actual economic implications, I suppose which model seems more intuitive is somewhat subjective.