skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YC is unique in the list that you give insofar as they're likely to not benefit from a repeal of NN, whereas the consolidation of money and influence in the big four has made the repeal of NN very attractive to them, and they're not inclined to fight it. Wall street, private sector don't care, they can reason about the repeal of NN and migrate to where the lopsided gains will accrete as a result. The money and market share at stake for these big players creates a suicide pact that pits them against the sentiment of their users and the instincts about freedom of the Internet that brought them into tech in the first place.

Direct action is required. Go vote. Route around broken Internet. Hit them where it hurts them.
> Neither Tether nor Bitfinex disclose on their websites or in any public documents where they’re located or who’s in charge, but information is available elsewhere.

> Jan Ludovicus van der Velde is CEO of both Bitfinex and Tether, Torossian said by email on Dec. 3. A LinkedIn page for someone named J. L. van der Velde, who identifies himself as Bitfinex’s CEO, says he speaks Dutch, English, German, Italian and Chinese, attended National Taiwan Normal University from 1985 to 1988 and was previously CEO of PAG Asia Inc

I'm continually amazed that people will put $1,000s of dollars (or coins, or whatevers) in the custody of an entity whose location they can't even identify, let alone locate.

The only thing I can see stopping them from running off with whatever assets they currently do have are either:

- They're extremely profitable.

- They're broke.

- They're scared of mafia style entities following up where regulation hasn't.
Hmm, this is very debatable. I know about a dozen or so people who developed software for kind-of-online-casinos (well known UK bookies who have online games on their sites and I'd say they definitely operate legally) for years. It actually had been a full-time job for all of them. None of them had any problems finding their next job(s); however also none of them is US-based. As usual, YMMV.
It's not proof, but "you just have to trust me" when talking about hundreds of millions of dollars is potential evidence of something shady.
There's also addons that let you remember a choice per site.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-autop...
I have an LLC I started that makes a coin (Тедер) I'd like you to use for transfers between exchanges. Here are the details:

- Тедер is backed 1:1 with USD.

- 800M of Тедер exists

So, what is the problem?

- My LLC has the USD, trust me. But I won't prove it. Because I don't have to.

- Also, my terms state we make no agreement that we will honor the backing.

So does that sound like something you would invest in?
Well, look at Germany. 4 weeks of holidays required by law, additionally 10-15 days of public holidays, and 35-40h work weeks. Productive as hell
When you see all the talk of “bargain” talent: remember that so much of what happens is about labor costs. Are Apple employees overpaid? Consider that their work has made it the most valuable company in the world. So are they overpaid, or are other companies simply unable to capitalize upon their talent as well as Apple/Netflix/whoever?

Everyone loves capitalism until it’s time to pay someone for their work.
Well, a multi-machine scheduler.
Devils advocate argument:

I work at an e-commerce company that is designed and incentivized to sell as much product as possible. Are we taking advantage of "shopping addicts"? Where is the line drawn between capitalism and morality?

Sidenote:
Casinos also exist to provide entertainment value. I don't mind spending $20 on blackjack just to play with my friends and talk with new people. Just because there is a subset of individuals that can't handle that entertainment responsibly doesn't mean that the business itself is immoral.
If people want to pull dollars out of bitfinex, and can't redeem tethers, then the price of bitcoin will skyrocket on bitfinex due to tether hyperinflation (we're probably already seeing that, and have been for months). People will be buying bitcoin at basically any price on usdt denominated exchanges, and start moving them to other exchanges to sell. At that point, you'll start to see price differences between usdt and usd exchanges, as the bitcoin price skyrockets up on bitfinex and drops on gdax.

Probably at some point, bitfinex will become insolvent and shutdown withdrawals entirely. Not sure what will happen then-- probably the price of bitcoin collapses in a general panic.
I am always concerned when I see developers think they are their problem is it's own special snowflake that they need to write something custom to handle cross cutting concerns like configuration, database access, logging, security, etc.

It makes it harder to ramp people up when you aren't using a popular package (preferably open source with an agreeable license) and there is usually only that one person in the company that understand it's weird quirks instead of being able to Google for a solution to a problem.
I which I could send you a private inbox. I will definitely be interested on moving to NM for family reasons. My github account is huherto.
Dependent Types for F#
Or he could have just said "massive linear algebra"
The problem is when talking about anti-intellectualism, people say "Midwest" instead of "Rust Belt."

I grew up in Minnesota, so to me "Midwest" is Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, maybe Michigan and Illinois.

But the anti-intellectualism streak is really in the Rust Belt, like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, West Virginia, and sure, parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, and Michigan.

The apparent contradiction of anti-intellectualism and high educational attainment is due to broad brush strokes in our definition of "Midwest." Minnesota especially doesn't fit into that mold.

Moral of the story: you guys need to get off the coasts once in a while.
As someone who waited for the new server CPUs, the microarchitecture made a few changes that should substantially improve its performance for data-intensive workloads:

- 6 memory channels (instead of 4)

- new CPU cache architecture that should show big gains for things like databases

- new vector ISA (AVX-512) that is significantly more useful than AVX2, in addition to being twice as wide

The first two should be instant wins for things like databases. AVX-512 isn't going to be used in much software yet but it is arguably the first broadly usable vector ISA that Intel has produced. This should enable some significant performance gains in the future as code is rewritten to take advantage of it. (Not idle speculation on the latter, we're queued up to get some of this hardware for exactly this purpose. Previously vectorizing wasn't worth the effort outside of narrow, special cases but AVX-512 appears to change that.)
The only solution is to own your company, otherwise an impersonal set of shareholders own you. The IPO removes moral degrees of freedom. Everyone, build SMEs!
I believe a lot of it depends on what you want to do within Unity, but whenever someone asks me this question, I direct them to Brackeys youtube channel. Very good tutorials to build a good foundation of what is possible. This knowledge can then be used to go down a more specific path of learning.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Brackeys
Yes, we are desperate for a representative government. May we have one please?
Well, they're also on the regulatory radar, now, almost certainly. Now if they try to run off, that turns into a fugitive-like situation versus a potentially just oops-type one. There's a lot of leeway for business fuckups in most jurisdictions. Although in this case, there seems to be a strong case for fraud, so who knows.
It isn't Android that's slowing down your old phone, it's apps. Time-to-market trumps everything else, especially efficiency. So until an app category matures and incumbents face competition, efficiency is a nice-to-have. To be fair to your comment, often enough it's Google's own apps that bloat. But you can run a cut-down suite of apps in 512M.

As for LTS editions, you can't have those because the bsps for the chips in those cheap phones eol sooner than the "long term."
Yes, but there’s only so fast that so many plows can clear so much snow. Horrendous road conditions are still very much a reality.
Are you expecting no developers who reside in India who use Google's Go apps to ever also develop apps using Google's Go language? Can you imagine how difficult it will be for Google Go Search to decide which intent that person had when they search for a Go related topic?
Sounds like whataboutism. Pointing at the dirty neighbors does not clean your own house.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/venezuela-w...

If you distrust all news sources that disagree with your point of view, I don't know what else to say.

This study was conducted by Venezuelan universities.
> comments being written by russian bots .

Let's tone down the McCarthyism a bit shall we?
Surely that is an argument about how resources should be allocated? Should resources go to a large number of poorer people or a smaller number of more wealthy people?

Also, the catch is that development tends to reduce population growth. India (for example) may be growing rapidly now, but if they succeed in eliminating poverty then population will stabalise at some point. People will simply have fewer kids. So why not just wait until population stabalises naturally?
Another excellent resource for learning Prolog is the book "The Art of Prolog." One of the finest language texts you will ever read.
You might want to think about what business you want to work in. Then develop the best technical skills for that business.

For example, my company works in the marine industry. Our SW team needs to also understand the limitations of working on a ship.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. I'm more on the socialist spectrum myself, but even I see what you and the higher comment is saying.
The more they tighten their grip, the more star systems will slip through their fingers.

What ever happened to the ~2003 promise of local WISPs and wireless mesh networks?
https://postmarketos.org/ will try to achieve this. But it will have a GNU/Linux userland, not an Android one.
Bittrex also uses USDT as their base, though.

And I don't know who else. I think this is bigger than Bitfinex.
lol reminds me of that xkcd about Douglas Hofstadter

https://www.xkcd.com/917/
They have publicly refuted the claims, but people are still running around with pitchforks.
Metered usage is not a violation of neutrality.

Varying prices or manipulating quality of service based on the endpoint's identity is.
Is there any strategy I should use for turning on old electronics that haven't been turned on in a while (or links I should be looking at?) I still have a Commodore 64, Apple IIGS & a Mac LC630, but I haven't turned them on in a few years. For instance, maybe I should plug the devices into an APC UPS, so at least I know it's getting clean power?

I'd be sad enough if starting them up caused them to stop working, but I hadn't considered the possibility of them catching fire....
> I work at an e-commerce company that is designed and incentivized to sell as much product as possible.

Yes. Why wouldn't it be? That's why regulations regarding advertisement and fair pricing were created, even though they're not very effective in the digital world. Still, it could be a lot worse.
Google Go - the app

Google Go - the language

Android Go - the OS

I really wish Google had thought of this name better. The best name that Google has ever come up with for India is Tez, the payments app.

It means "fast", so has good recall. And there is literally no SEO competition.
It's not Netflix vs SSH, it's Netflix vs Your cable company's video service.
Thanks, will fix as well
This kind of thinking paradoxically makes investing in those ventures profitable. The "vice" has extra returns because there is less investor competition.
What are our alternatives for wireless and wired ISPs? I'm done with the incumbents.

I'm familiar with Republic Wireless and Google Fi, but I'm a long-time iPhone user who doesn't really want to switch. Are there any similar carriers who fully support iOS?

Given the control wired home ISPs have, what are the alternatives? Is there a good, reasonably affordable wireless alternative?
Watch the ad. If you want to read the article it’s the cost of doing so. Otherwise don’t read it.
Imagine the beginning of the new meshnet. It'll be like the internet was in the beginning. A bunch of computer nerds. I actually would kinda like that.
I'm always intensely wary of Yegor's articles. On the one hand, I do agree with him on many points. On the other hand, I couldn't agree less when he makes statements like "objects should be immutable".
So you are confirming the neighbour does indeed have a dirty house too?
Why limit to online casinos? WMS Gaming creates tons of slot and video lottery terminals, wouldn't it be just as unethical to work there than on online casinos?
Korea? Japan? Taiwan? The US?
It's disturbing the degree to which this attitude is common for things like climate change, tax reform, net neutrality, etc.

To some degree, of course we have to adapt to what will happen. But as a society, we're supposed to have standing on important issues for the population as a whole.

There will be harm, routing around it is inhuman to those immediately affected. Seeing "opportunity" in every case is capitalistically narcissistic.
Absolutely. Good regulation is that which effectively disincentivises anti-consumer behavior. Businesses are playing risk/reward games all the time, and regulation should just pile on some huge extra risk in places where it's needed to protect consumers, and the health of the market as a whole.
Very good point. The distinction may be that a casino operates on the premise that playing will make you rich some lucky day - whereas when you shop, financial loss is not obfuscated away as a means to your big payday.
This looks pretty cool! However, I think it would be annoying to have the tests automatically running as you're typing. What happens if you accidentally create an infinite loop or run something dangerous?
As a person who enjoys playing the lotto, losing money in poker, and buying high/selling low, yes. It is unethical. But most things that are fun are. I feel OK with gambling and do it every day in one of those three activities, but I have an income to support losing a few hundred dollars per day and it only kind of hurt.

I wish that casinos had to do more to ensure the person gambling had the ability to lose the money, but that adds a lot of regulatory burdens that a lot of people would find onerous on free market enterprises (I don't, but that is a political discussion not meant for this topic).
What ISP is this??
I think I messed up my branding.. I think GKE and GCE are now the same thing?

I was thinking GKE = Kubernetes, and GCE = was their "run container on a VM" thing, but I think GKE and GCE are the same thing...
Because Google is trying to build the monopoly they have in America in India as well. They are specifically targeting the market they hope to gain capture in.

A lot of users may prefer a locally-branded competitor because they feel it is properly tailored to their needs and culture. (I've specifically heard Yandex understands the interests and needs of Russian-speaking users better than Google, which is not a shock.) Presumably, specifying "India-first" is intended to convey that these apps are developed specifically for Indian users and their needs.
With job market as it is in EU and recruitment hell in the industry I would take any decently paying job, sorry.
I used to work for one and was not proud of it because I felt our products did not provide any value.

My boss had this theory how betting small amounts of money is just another form of entertainment people enjoy, just like going to the cinema or playing a video game, and thus we were in the entertainment business. I didn't really buy it and I wondered if he truly believed it himself.

Not everyone has a chance to work on world-changing, truly innovative stuff, but there's a lot of productive, useful work to be done, and I just think that online betting is not one of them.
Yes, but the marketing machine still makes you want that shiny thing that you don't need. It will make you happy for about 5 minutes.
I'd run Cat 5 and use Raspberry Pi's and relays and such. Generic materials and material methods are the way to go with any construction project. Maybe some solar panels and lead acid batteries. It's a systems integration problem. A dependency on the app store has low reliability over a five year period. Wireless systems will be increasingly vulnerable because they are consumer devices and therefore have short term firmware support (and the FCC prohibits sale of wireless devices with user modifiable software in the US).

I'd put it another way, a functional smart home is primarily a design, engineering, and construction project not a shopping exercise.
Is working for McDonalds unethical? Well yes, because people get obese and live shorter lives.

Is working for Tobacco companies unethical? Well yes, because people die from cancer which was caused from smoking for example.

Is working for the bank unethical? Well yes, because most banks make people buy bonds that have a high profit for the banks but lower for the customers.

Is working for your local grocery store unethical? Well yes, because you are again making people fat by placing candy at the exit so you profit more.

Everything is unethical to some extent, just decided what level you want to be on and be happy.
I like this article. I hate cherry picked statistics.

For instance, average GDP per worker is much higher in Norway than the U.S. This proves that large numbers over large numbers may in fact be smaller than small numbers over small numbers. Especially if the small numerator (Norway GDP) is relatively large because it's dominated by a single factor (oil wealth).
Tobacco kills around 10x more people than heroin (at least in the US).
Not only that, I haven't seen any improvement to consumers in the two years that we've had FCC oversight on this.

The only places I see improvement are in markets that have managed to create competition between providers. And that tends to only come from municipal players entering the market as the large ISPs (Comcast, Charter, ATT) generally avoid entering markets that have an established player as they'd actually have to compete.
In other words, "let's ignore the message and shoot the messenger"?
It really depends on your own position on Gambling. I'm of the mind that the same kind of person who throws money away at a Casino would have thrown it away somewhere else. I see nothing wrong with selling a person a service they want.
By 30 GB do you mean the 1 GB per day (for a month) plan which some carriers provide nowadays? I've seen it cost in the range of Rs. 350 to 500 from some carriers, which sort of matches your numbers about GB and price.
Yes, but that applies to just about every programming job too. Is programming unethical? I mean your are automating jobs away. It certainly harms lives.
"_Long-Term_ Capital Management": established 1994, collapsed 1998.
It's like the "_People's_ _Republic_ of China" or the "Union of Soviet _Socialist_ _Republics_" of "fake it till you make it" names.
>or point to how the 2014 change fixed issues that were common place.

2014 Reclassification was a response to a legal order brought about by Verizon suing the FCC, from 2010 to 2014 NN was in place under Title I regulations, The Courts ruled the FCC exceeded its authority under Title I and if they wanted anything like the Open Internet Order the ISP had to be moved to Title II

Internet Service was also regulated under Title II from its inception until 2005 when it was reclassified by the FCC under Title I

As to violation here is a list, this is not all inclusive but is a good starting reference

https://www.freepress.net/blog/2017/04/25/net-neutrality-vio...

>> they know they can use net neutrality to force what they want to relieve costs on their business interest and never have to pass it on because all onus will be on service providers.

This assertion by the ISP that companies like Google are getting a "free ride" is moronic. It fails to identify who the consumer is of these companies, it is not Google or Netflix, it is the average homeowner or resident who pays and obscene amount of money for these companies to go out and pickup data from Internet Peering Points. Google and others also pay money to send data out to these peering points.

This idea that if Verizon and Comcast can start charging Google will be good for the consumer has no basis in reality or history. At best it will simply increase the already extreme profit margins for the companies. Companies with a Captive Consumer market do not "pass savings" along, why would they there is no other competitor around for the consumer to change to.

>>I remember the last time it was all regulated, my choice was ISDN provided I could get it or T1 provided I could get it or just suck it up and stay on dial up. With lack of regulation new players came in with higher bandwidth and made it available to me increasing competition

WOW, that is extreme revisionist history...

Had nothing at all do with advancement of Technology, no, it was all regulations that prevented everything

Jesus. are you for real
All the resources suggested in replies to the parent thread seem great. I also found that somebody put out an illustrated guide to Kubernetes networking on Medium:

* Part 1: https://medium.com/@ApsOps/an-illustrated-guide-to-kubernete...

* Part 2: https://medium.com/@ApsOps/an-illustrated-guide-to-kubernete...
It's probably an impression pushed by people who didn't regularly use those versions of Windows.

W7 performed great and W8.1 (I skipped 8) only improved upon that speed and power efficiency. W8.1 with Classic Shell and before Metro spread throughout the system was my favorite OS-stays-out-of-the-way Windows.
I highly doubt the next administration will do that, for a few reasons

1) Once the cat is out of the bag it's a pain in the ass to put back in. "Hey Comcast and Netflix, your fastlane agreement is now null and void". Tell that to every ISP and software company that made such an agreement.

2) It's hard to get the government to pay attention even when there are people sympathetic to your case. Getting Tom Wheeler to about-face was a huge effort.

This isn't to say it CAN'T happen. I'd just prefer for NN to not be removed in the first place.
Which city and ISP?
Exactly. Online casinos are just the tip of the iceberg here. Unbelievably large sums of money and grief are lost and created respectively in real world lotteries and casinos which nowadays are almost entirely computerized - thus made up by developers working in tech companies.
I think people being able to see him as a human instead of the cutthroat business man has helped. I have to admit having some hate for the guy while he was still in charge of Microsoft. Now I can look at him in a different light...or maybe that's just because Ballmer took over...
Can someone explain what a spot market is in this context?
Very cool library that Jack implemented here using an idea from my blog. We are using it in production. Works really nice.
Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market
>We need an engineering code of conduct - too many tech folk happy to take a dollar in return for building stuff that makes the world a worse place

Too bad that it is a very subjective idea. What your friends who work in online gambling think has a negative effect on society (and thus could be said to make the world a worse place) does not seem that way to me. I see HFT as market makers and bankers as something necessary to keep capital flowing. Of course, there are still industries that I feel cross the line when it comes to ethics as well, but I'm sure there are many who disagree with my opinion as well.
Could we please not take this discussion right into the same old tired partisan politics?