skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The practical difficulty of government regulation as a means of maintaining competition is that when your government representatives are directly sponsored by the incumbents through campaign donations and lobbying, they're motivated to protect their sponsors.

However, when incumbents over-invest in the status quo, if a newcomer can change the game then they can disrupt the incumbent and take over the industry. For example, Blockbuster was once the dominant name in video rentals in the US. Then along came a little rent-by-mail service called Netflix. I suspect something similar will happen to ISPs once we figure out how to remove the current reliance on their physical infrastructure. I have no faith that American politicians will regulate for competition in that field at least while the current incumbents remain the top dogs.

For anyone curious about the actual spending on lobbying and donations, here are the numbers:

AT&T (#9 in lobbying spending in 2016): https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=d000000076

Verizon: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000079

Comcast: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?cycle=2016&id=D...

Charter: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?cycle=2016&id=D...
> We /still/ don't know the contents of the telemetry Microsoft sends back; hubbub seems to have died down. Do we just not care?

Don't you think there are large numbers of security researchers out there just dying to make a name for themselves and to give "M$" a black eye? Unless you believe they're all asleep at the wheel, the only reasonable conclusion is that they've pored all over the Windows telemetry and found nothing worth remarking about.

(... just like the telemetry in every web site, mobile phone, and other apps that we consumers now have to put up with. Telemetry is the rule of the day now.)
The value isn't in the ebook it's in the history of the ebook. Why do you think people pay extra money for a physical book they can buy cheap on amazon.

It's not the content of the book it's the affectional value of the book that's interesting.
Im curious how FastMail and ProtonMail are comparison wise?
I've been using Fastmail for over two years now, and I have had zero spam enter my inbox.

On occasion, I've had one or two legitimate emails end up in the Junk folder, but it's extremely rare.
90% developer tests here
G Suite (formerly Google Apps) supports wild cards so you can use Gmail with arbitraryaddresses@yourdomain.tld.
Indeed - but replying from an arbitrary address is one big downside of G Suite’s implementation. In FastMail you can add <star>[0]@example.com as an identity. Selecting this when composing an email allows you to edit the localpart entirely. Similarly, when replying to an email sent to your catch-all and you have an <star>@ identity for the hostname FastMail will automatically set your from address for you.

In Gmail (with G Suite) one has to manually add every identity they may wish to reply from - there’s no <star>@ option. Additionally, it’s impossible to hide your real email address/Google Account address. It’ll always be disclosed in the email headers unlike FastMail.

I’d love if G Suite would make such a workflow easier..

[0] escape characters don’t seem to work here, <star> refers to what’d you think it does
I get 300GB at 15Mbps then unlimited data at 1Mbps and I have to pay 1200INR for month
I've used Echo in the past along with sqlx and Gorm.

I've found myself enjoying rolling/being more explicit about what it is that I need, so I now build out small web APIs just using a combination of Gorilla Mux + net/http.
I can't wait to use this. Is there planned support for FTP/SFTP? I only saw deployment plans for container-like services. Right now I have a pipeline script wrote using lftp but I'd prefer first-party support for SFTP deployments.
Why is it funny? Is there some obvious explanation for this I am missing? Seen it a couple of times now.
It’s just a normal looking building for that area, or am I missing something?
Ted is bound and determined to make a political point out of self-signed certs. Let's Encrypt being free makes absolutely no difference to his belief that self-signing is completely valid and should be accepted by all.

The pragmatics of people being able to access his website also seems to make absolutely no difference to him.
It happens.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/business/student-loans-li...

Seems bad for both the loan provider (at least in short term) and the student.
Lack of compelling tutorials for beginners? The examples I've seen are either solving toy problems in a complicated way or not understandable at all.
>the hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to create new information.

What's an example of this "new information" human intelligence creates?
Yes. I purchased a home and turned it into a rental, bringing a few hundred dollars of profit each month. I have a Roth IRA that I invest in, and I work very hard to stay out of debt.
What do you mean, how slow it is? I've been using FastMail for a few years now and it's always struck me as being very fast.
your talking semantics. you didn't directly say it, but you did directly mean it.

"It's not like you accidentally become a criminal. Your criminal history directly reflects your judgment and character."

sorry dude, but if you're going to expression your opinions and make statements, either stand by and defend them or just don't make them at all.
> All of these above are money managers of "the people's" 401k's and retirements funds.

Numbers matter though. Most people don't own much capital and it's getting worse year by year. In other words, if I have a small 401k, I'd prefer the cheaper healthcare to a small bump in my meager savings (many don't have a 401k at all).
And yet declaring all business logic was once the way that all decisions would be encoded!
> the Web client is a joy to use

Their web client is the only one I've ever been able to use without wanting to quit email.
Not sure why this is being downvoted because ime there are typically very many immigrants in start ups and running them. Myself included. Although, I'm also in a flyover state these days.
Most people don’t realize it because their market share is almost completely limited to one country. Also, Chinese tech companies are known for being traded at multiples greater than western ones given...investor enthusiasm.

I’m not sure what Tencent hopes to accomplish here. Western users are less interested in platforms and prefer apps.
Oh those foolish startups, trying to buy Enterprise Software online on their own, and not by the clueless CTO going golfing with an Oracle sales rep.
So did you drop out?
U.S. Supreme Court justices suggested they may uphold New Jersey’s legalization of sports gambling, in a move that could ripple quickly across the country and let other states grab some of the billions of dollars now bet illegally.

Should the high court strike down the federal law, other states could move quickly to take part of the $150 billion the casino-backed American Gaming Association says is wagered illegally every year. By some estimates, more than a dozen states could have legal sports gambling by the end of next year.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who sat in the front row for the argument, told reporters afterward that his state is ready to begin sports betting within two weeks if it prevails. The court will rule by June.

Wait, what, why June? It takes that long? I wonder how draft Kings will do after this decision.
I was supposing a hypothetical laser attack because it wouldn't be detected like a missile strike would. Therefore, the political need to respond immediately with all out war would be lessened, and maybe take less precedence than the power struggle.
Exactly. There are much less explicit ways of gaming the system once you're connected. Friends help friends. Just like so many jobs are filled through referrals, lots of marketing takes place through professional connections.
Things you can't do in Rust: variadic Functions
Dear Attorney General,

I am beyond thrilled to see you on our forum. You're a gem to our country and make me proud to be a New Yorker and an American.

In your review of this forum's discussions on net neutrality, what do we consistently miss, exaggerate or get sidetracked by? Are there technical projects we can contribute to or technical problems take on that would help you defend net neutrality?

Thank you again, from all of us.
Exactly so. While he often adopts the mien of those for whom he is a vehicle, Trump himself has no real political philosophy; every pick is entirely transactional.
I just spoke with someone that works with Zeta (former XL Media). She said its not about the data they have but rather how they can run their existing AI over keyboard's of millions of users. 30% of US based browsers have some sort of zeta cookie on their PC.. knowing what they type about is priceless.
Visual Survey of Visualization Techniques for Time-Oriented Data TimeViz Browser
Deploying a browser Javascript application locally does not automatically protect you from serverside malicious Javascript; you have to know a lot more about how the application is structured to know whether it's even helpful.
Thanks for the recommendation! It does seem good.

Bummer that it has a giant search bar at the top of the keyboard, which is an enormous waste of space on an iPhone SE. If you don't give it full access, the same space is used to constantly beg for full access to turn on the search bar, and accidentally touching that will pull you out of your app over to the Gboard app, which gives you a button to open the Settings app.

I can see why they do it. No way to serve ads to the keyboard, so searches are the only way to make money off of it. Shame they had to crap it up though, I'd have happily paid money for this keyboard, but I think I'll have to pass.

In keeping with this thread, I'm not that into the idea of giving Google access to my keystrokes even if they pinky-swear to not use them. We're talking about the same company currently being sued for deliberately working around iOS's privacy protections:

https://9to5mac.com/2017/11/30/google-safari-work-around-cla...
It looks like they have a Jr game - maybe that doesn't ramp up as fast?

My 5 yr old tried human resource machine the other day, got a couple of levels, but that ramped up way too fast for him. I'm afraid that this might ramp up a bit fast, too, but maybe the Jr version would work.

He also plays with "hopscotch" - which is free and a little more free-form. It has some nice tutorial videos that walk you through building various simple games, or you can just do your own thing. (NB - he can read, which helps with that app.)

We're also gonna give the Lego Boost a go this Christmas (partially because I wanna play with it) - it also has a similar block-style of programming, but you get to move a physical robot. (Or any other lego creation.)
Uhm.. apparently you have little to no experience with the US military.

This worked out fine for me, no shooting involved: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35T
The only thing that I complain about with Fastmail is the lack of ability to use the calendar outside of the web UI.

The email side is fantastic.
Is not about React, it is about tools that makes our life easier. If you want you can stick to ES5, no frameworks, no tools but good luck scaling your app to work with a big teams.
Just like League of Legends is limited to one country /s

edit: For clarification, they own a majority share in companies like Riot Games. Their presence is emphatically not limited to one country.
Yeah, it sounds like you've got the right attitude about it. Personally, I failed to get tenure for a simple enough reason - I didn't publish enough and ended up leaving academia before going up for tenure (although after five years I could tell I was probably going to be short anyway). The reasons for that are pretty complicated and mostly tied to frustration at the mismatch between what I wanted to do (and thought professoring would be), and what it actually was.

Again - my teaching was a vanishingly small part of what actually counted at the Uni where I was a professor, and even my research work wasn't quite right. I wrote a lot of interesting software for gathering video data in classrooms (this was the mid 00s) and analyzing student-teacher interaction really closely to show that general models of learning and teacher activity were pretty thin in terms of how they align with actual classroom activity. None of the software or curriculum I wrote was valued in any way by my peers (didn't count toward a tenure case, only r1 journal pubs count).

I had a really hard time getting that work published (too techy for regular journals, to ed-dy for tech journals, and my absolute-favorite piece sat in review purgatory for literally 26 months before coming back with positive reviews and an editorial rejection for being not quite a fit with the journal - this is what ended up sinking me actually, if I had gotten that particular rejection two years earlier, I could have easily shopped the paper elsewhere and been in much better shape for a tenure case).

But ultimately, I was just not happy professoring, as it turned out to not be the job I wanted it to be. Teaching and research are interesting and fun, committee work and being pressured to write big grants and politicking for courses to be offered and all that were not what I wanted to do (stress and just time away from teaching, writing code and analyzing video). Plus side, I'm a lot happier now that I've figured all that out.
I feel these type of commentary often times achieving exactly the opposite of what it advocates, if it ever achieves anything. Maybe because the TL;DR is buried midway through the post, or because the actual reasons to dissuade buying an Echo is nothing new (Privacy and Security? and to be fair, there indeed is something new in the post that I didn't know about, regarding Echo data being used in a homicide investigation). At the end of the day, the impression left in an average reader's mind might be: nothing to see here, but maybe buying an Echo as a gift is a neat idea...
No, it is not a pre-requisite. At least in the U.S., several states still allow you to pass the bar and become a licensed attorney without going to law school.
>Here’s how it works: From 5:30 to 9:30 a.m. eastbound and from 3 to 7 p.m. westbound, Monday through Friday, tolls will fluctuate to maintain a minimum average speed of 45 mph; there is no cap on tolls. Put simply, as traffic increases the toll rises to help manage the vehicles entering the roadway. The tolls change every six minutes.

Seems similar to the "surge pricing" that Uber uses. This actually sounds like a pretty good system for addressing insufficient supply (capacity of the express lanes) -- what's the point of using an express lane if it doesn't actually move traffic along more quickly?

I don't doubt that it's unfortunate to get stuck with a high bill, but that seems like something that will shake out quickly as awareness of how the system works increases.
if its a flat network then there is only one route. The ARP table might be bigger, but thats a different issue.

There is no difference between this and VM hosts.
Weird, I have had the opposite experience.
>Discussion will be about some piece of controversial research, e.g. GMOs or vaccines. People who want to discuss the merits of the research are shouted down by what I can only describe as 'science fanbois' -- anything that is 'against science' must be wrong.

Discussions on reddit (and all sorts of other social platforms) are being influenced and manipulated by people who are being paid to do so, and anyone who denies that at this point is delusional.

Source: I know people who run firms that provide this service.
Better tracking of ownership can be a good thing even when you do need another system for enforcement.

For example, a problem for many low-income people in the U.S. is that consumer loans get sold and resold, often with poor record-keeping, and its hard for the consumer and the courts to know whether a creditor claiming nonpayment actually has a right to be paid. This is described in detail by Matt Taibbi in his recent book The Divide.
News Corp launches new ad network to take on Facebook/Google
Title should say Russia has been banned from 2018 Winter Games. What a stain on the competition and elite sports!

Reason: state-organized manipulation of urine samples in Olympic testing labs during the 2014 Games in Sochi. The facts were mostly known a year ago; the punishment aimed at Russia is new, just a few months ahead of the Games in South Korea.
A sneak peek into multiplayer game development with Unity
Well first of all, you can always pay someone else for baremetal server hosting and support, just like with Amazon. So you don't need to buy and maintain, and you can still save costs - you're renting, just like with Amazon.

Second, even if Netflix's "workload" is variable, they're still using reserved instances. There's no practical difference from those to baremetal machines.

Finally, I am highly skeptical of anyone telling me that five more layers of abstraction make it easier or quicker to write, test and deploy code. Code is code. Servers are servers. Microservices are microservices. Different people are (or should be) maintaining all of these, and if they do their jobs right it should not incur a performance penalty on anyone else.

I will also state the obvious: if you don't hire the right people to manage the right pieces, you will waste huge amounts of time and money trying to figure out what other people have known for decades. This is universal, and has nothing to do with what technology you use.
Russia banned from next year's Winter Olympics
And the Winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin 2017 Is… Lia Diagnostics
The government has been know to do this as well, pay the big three newspapers to run stories especially regarding foreign policy, it's just business. This is why 'don't believe everything you read' is valid more than ever.
Sounds a lot like rational-basis but for administrative rulemaking (vs laws). i.e. the lowest possible bar the courts can impose. All you need is a reason this would accomplish some valid goal - doesn't have to be a good reason, doesn't have to have any basis in fact, it certainly doesn't have to be one you agree with. Just, "can you give me a reason for this law".

So, the reason here is "promoting competition". No need to demonstrate that this rule actually does it (in fact it does not, but that doesn't matter).

Courts ain't gonna do shit on this, sorry.
Why Take CryptoKitties Seriously
Pai has specifically said he wants (and has the power) to Federally pre-empt state-level NN initiatives.
As soon as I saw it was an Oracle product, I knew only pain could be the result.
I haven't had that experience — I have it hooked up as CalDAV to my mac and iphone's native clients.
Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/theaipodcast/ai-games-gtc
That market exists because the market for perfectly secure but completely impractical products is much smaller, roughly zero.
Comparing a college education to K-12 public education doesn't make sense. In general, one needs to understand some mathematics up through Algebra and have some reading and writing abilities to be an employable, productive adult. Whether the public school system in the USA does a good job of providing a basic education is a different discussion.

I’m not the kind of engineer that has a STEM only mindset and I see a lot of value in good Liberal Arts education, but let’s be realistic -- whether it’s because of nature or nurture, there are plenty of college freshmen who are just not going to be intellectuals. Even if it was free (and it would never really be free), it's not a positive thing to encourage them to spend four years majoring in communications or the like.
The price is the interest you pay on the borrowed short shares
Another thing to note, here is that you could do free Community College which costs a lot less and is a pretty good indicator of future performance in 4 year college.

We don't have to pay tuition to Ivy League to get a better more educated workforce.

So if you can pay for it, you are welcome to take your AA classes at a state 4 year, if not, we'll get you a free transfer degree from a local community college and at that point, you can choose between trade, tech, or a major at a 4 year school.

If we detach, 'everyone gets free school' from the idea that we need a more educated workforce to maintain our standing in the world, we can work toward a solution that is a net positive in society and not just a panacea for people who feel they've been left behind.
Would you if it gave you more time flexibility? And could set it to only chats for you, not group?
I read to the part where it says Potter was connected with Bear Stearns. Full stop. This stuff is gigantic scam operated by scam artists outside the typical regulatory structures. In that regard, it is identical to the pink sheets penny stock market of Wolf of Wall Street fame.
Nice work!

Maybe should look at collaborating with BeakerX:

http://beakerx.com/

I personally prefer the legacy "beaker notebook" which did similar things in (I think) a nicer interface than Jupyter.
>The new platform, called News IQ, will pull audience data from sites like The Wall Street Journal, New York Post and Barron's and give advertisers a way to reach specific audiences around safe content.

>While none of these new ad networks are as big as Google or Facebook's, they are hoping to offer more brand-safe content at scale — major selling point for advertisers spooked by terrorist content and suicide videos.

These guys think that they have a chance? Advertisters go where they get most bang for their buck. Time will tell how they do, but it's really hard to compete with Google and Facebook who know their audiences better then the audiences know themselves.
In short ( and in very broad strokes ): there is virtually zero respect for the enduser's time[1]. And there are no incentives ( regulatory or otherwise ) for things to get better on this front.

[1] Note - I literally mean "time". Not security/privacy/safety/property, but more fundamentally and simply "time". Or in way better words: https://youtu.be/upu0gwGi4FE?t=1548
I majored in PolySci, so definitely non-stem. It was tough at first to manage my student loans, but with experience and pay increase, it got better until it was paid off. I knew going into this field that it's not always lucrative, and I would have to follow specific pathways to make a good living. I worry that universities don't teach students the true value of their degrees, and emphasize enough the average and typical salary expectations. There are too many college graduates saddled with enormous debt, but lacking a degree that will allow them to earn enough to pay it back, let alone develop a successful, and rewarding career.
What's a toy problem in this case? Anything where you can replace even part of a dynamic contract seems like a win.
Good point! I think that the decision skews away from the bay area (for startup work) if you're particularly skilled. A mediocre developer can make a load of money, relatively speaking, in the bay area, and might get screwed in the midwest. As a big fish in a small pond, and as a force multiplier, I have more negotiating power here.
A quick few:

The backend, https://github.com/kirel/detexify-hs-backend, for Detexify, http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html.

Parts of BazQux Reader, a commercial feedreader, https://bazqux.com

Nikki and the Robots, a platformer, https://github.com/nikki-and-the-robots/nikki
I can’t answer that question, it does implement server and client and the demo does try to download the whole blockchain on your browser (I’m not sure who has the bandwith to play with that demo)

It’s tho in production use and many people like the project cause it’s a full node implementation.