skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm cool with it being considered inflammatory to oversensitive Californians. Their reaction is exactly why people in the other 49 states don't like California. You can't remotely criticize CA at all, it's a wonderful magical land where everything and every person is better than everywhere else. They'll take offense even when they don't meet the profile that the criticism was intended for, just because it might offend someone else in CA.
You don't quite understand censorship.

Let's suppose I put up a website where I accept articles about model trains. You submit articles about how to grow anthrax at home. I pass, in that they are not about model trains. Am I a shocking censor? No.

Or let's suppose you submit an article that is about model trains, but I don't think it's very good. I refuse it. is that censorship? Also no.

Twitter gets to decide what goes on their platform. If you don't like it, you can post it on some other platform. Or just make your own platform, one equally available to every Internet user.

If Comcast, on the other hand, decides to block a site because it's critical of them, then many millions of people will not be able to see it, and many of them won't be able to switch to a different ISP. That is censorship.
Honestly, I'm kind of surprised that there are no laws in place in the U.S., even with them being hardcore capitalists, to prevent such a huge monopoly to choose what they don't want to sell on their marketplace simply because in the past few years they've decided to produce products that compete with Apple and Google.

Bezos' goal from 1997 was to be the 'everything store' as it's succinctly put in the biography about Amazon's rise, and they're doing a fine job of that. I have friends and family that purchase just about everything short of groceries on amazon. But what happens when they decide to enter more markets with their own products and cut off other competitors from selling who don't have the clout or leverage of a behemoth like Apple or Google? If Google had not pulled YouTube from their Fire devices it's unlikely they would have let them sell their products once again. Which shouldn't have even had to happen in the first place.

Also, I think this was only in the US because I was checking Amazon UK last week and you were still able to buy chromecasts and Google Home. This is probably because the EU has laws that restricts companies from taking advantage of their monopolised position and pushing competitors out.
Replying again.

What we need a boatload of small regional networks ( like the one with 100 houses of HOA ) that have an open peering policy. If you can peer out 50% of your traffic at $0.01 per mbit ($100/mo PNIs to CloudFlare, JoeSchmoeNet, FLIX etc) then you have the same non-congested non-oversubscribed exit for 50% less.
packet transit, installation, maintenance, customer service. Also most less technical ISP customers get a lot of value out of ISP managed equipment rental and don't want to buy and maintain a router-AP themselves.

Local loop unbundling for phone and DSL service was extremely successful in the US, there's not a lot of reason to think a government bid process would have done better than CLECs did.
They have this in France. They make ISPs share the lines and compete on their plans to send bits over those lines. If a line is upgraded, they share the cost.
Presumably new web browsers will only drop support for styling these elements in standards compliance mode?
I share your experience. At the time I did a simple cost-benefit analysis.

It was costing me >0 resources (i.e. my time) and was having a net negative effect on me. I was just so irritated by the mind numbingly dumb things that I'd consume while browsing the news feed. Which unfortunately over time became close to 100% of the content on my feed.
Not to mention it's an incredible challenge to share a Facebook video outside of Facebook.
In this case it is a "white bots only" sign, as it allows some bots but wants to block the rest.

Even for those who think that robots.txt should be enforceable, allowing some bots but not others makes it difficult for a new player to have the same equitable access to information as the big players.
On the flip side, the conditions required for life to reach interstellar technology are so rare that life-bearing worlds like Earth are highly coveted.

A planet where you can set up a city and not have to worry about micrometeoroids, radiation, atmospheric composition? Just sleep out under the stars without a suit repair kit handy?

That’s worth killing for!
Then we'd certainly have evidence of this genocidal society no? They'd definitely be actively looking for other intelligent life forms, and if they were systematic in eliminating it, they'd have to have the infrastructure to do so which we'd be able to detect. After all you catch more flies with honey than vinegar, any life form like that would have the interest in finding and eliminating intelligent life before it becomes to big to be a threat, which would probably lead them to coaxing other intelligent life forms into making contact. No, I don't think this is feasible in reality, nor is there any evidence beyond "but what if" for that possibility.
What does it say about your industry, if even people with average, moderate positions are "impossible to work with"?
I can't find a problem with this. If someone wants to fake a prescription, who are they harming besides themselves?

But then again, I also think it's crazy that if I stopped by the drug store to buy some pseudoephedrine on my way to gun show, it would be illegal to sell the pseudoephedrine but legal to sell the gun.....
It's likely cherry-picked. There are many small ISPs who signed a letter saying otherwise:

> We [ISPs across the country] have encountered no new additional barriers to investment or deployment as a result of the 2015 decision to reclassify broadband as a telecommunications service and have long supported network neutrality as a core principle for the deployment of networks for the American public to access the Internet.

https://www.eff.org/files/2017/06/27/isp_letter_to_fcc_on_nn...
Rare per-star or per-planet, but in our galaxy there are an untold number of stars. In the "universe" as a whole, whatever numbers you throw at the Drake Equation the answer is billions of civilizations.
It makes me wonder if in 40 years, the "Cyborg Generation" or whatever will be talking about how those crusty old millennial ruined the world by not doing XYZ which we all know now we should've.

Sure, if XYZ == "protecting freedom of speech." Not doing so might complete the collapse of the US political process, which precipitates a series of events causing the collapse of civilization.

http://78.media.tumblr.com/a7020c8d003c0ccb2168abc4b8b5c8e6/...
>We will never retire

Pretty much it, work your own pension fund. That looks to be the only solution after "havings lots of kids" who will look after you
Jim Chanos: We think Tesla is worth zero
https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf
So explain to me how 70% of the body's immune cells being in the gut is unrelated to how diseases are typically mediated. Pretty please.
> Spiritual Guide - Becky

> Becky is an 8-bit creation living in Brooklyn. You can find her Kickstarter here.

This links to a sign-up for an email newsletter.

Is this an inside joke? Is Becky the name of the artist or not?

Why do I have to ask questions like this about the credits for a piece of professional journalism?
You are really arrogant to believe Facebook is not useful to anybody.
This is a much more sophisticated way of carving up the problem -- for those interested in reading more, Kleppmann has discussed this extensively:

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2015/05/11/please-stop-calling-...
As a little boy, it feels like more and more of the big boys are leaving the playground and taking their ball home?
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I'm not saying they're in the wrong, or that they shouldn't have done this, just that it's a factor that needs to be considered. There's plenty of people in this thread knee-jerk condemning them, and HN is considerably more thoughtful than most forums. It sucks, but there it is.
This is how it has worked for 15-20 years in France, the UK, and probably most of Europe.
> FALSE. The voters were sidelined by both old (electoral college) and new (mechanically-assisted gerrymandering) methods.

More of them voted, for the House of Representatives, for Republicans than for any other party.

It's true that the actual representation of Republicans is outsized for that vote, and gerrymandering played a role, but they also got more votes. (And an outright majority voted for anti-NN parties.)

Good point on the Presidency, though (but even there, it's a hairs breadth either way on whether pro- or anti-NN candidates got a majority of votes.)
Given the precedent of mass political killings in the 20th century, all of the above groups might have their heads bashed in by teens and 20-somethings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution#Death_toll
You would actually be hard pressed to find ANY major codebase that isn't using at least one dynamically typed language in at least some significant capacity.
Asps. Very dangerous. You go first!
Wiping earth clear of humans and still having a habitable planet left over would require far more resources, risk, lives of your own and time then simply building a few colonies on planets like Mars.
By answering their own question, the headline doesn't end in a question mark, so Betteridge's law doesn't apply.
Any time the line is tangent to the curve, you treat that one point as a double intersection. You can show this by setting the line equation equal to the elliptic curve and solving for the x coordinates of the 3 intersections. The double intersection's x coordinate is a double root, just like x=0 in x^2 = 0.

A vertical line is perfectly valid (could be tangent or not), and in this case the "sum" is the "infinity point", which isn't any specific location in the grid but is a useful idea to make the math work. The infinity point is the additive identity: P + inf = P. For the amount of detail in this article, it should have mentioned this.
No, you're testing types and verifying the implementation details of the language. It's rare that a test for logic "incidentally" tests the type system. Usually both the logic and type checks are tested. It's just obfuscated because the bulk of the test is for checking the types and it's easy to look past that.
Many people don't have a choice. Either Comcast or slow DSL from the phone company.
The emotional brush is how you generate any kind of meaningful grass roots support, but I digress...

The article was not blaming baby boomers as such, but the generation always inherits another generations decisions, and will always continue to, that's just how life works.

I feel like your comment is not relevant to the articles core points, and derails discussion to the oft repeated, non-consequential points, the article has a number of interesting points about why millennials face a difficult future, and references reasons why - the emotional parts of it are normal for this style of article and what make it powerful.

Emotion to generate the further interest, references to keep it in some solid grounding - I would say that's a good combination to start the discussion personally.
> The median white household will have 86x more wealth than the median black household by 2020.

I had to look up median to make sure I wasn't confusing it with the mean. This is almost unbelievable. I would have guessed 10x at most.
As an Amazon Fire Stick user I am somehow glad that they did that. YouTube is part of my daily TV watching and it would be be if I would have to change the device just to watch YouTube videos. Amazon s should open more widely their app store for third developers.
Sorry, I just don't see the world in terms of "anything that makes one person better off, necessarily makes someone worse off." That kind of world view is toxic to progress. It completely flies in the face of everything we've achieved in the last 2 centuries.
You've just described Local Loop Unbundling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-loop_unbundling), this has been the way things have worked for 15-20 years in France, the UK, and probably most of Europe.
I have options of cable, DSL, and fiber. With each new ISP offering service to my house my rates have gotten cheaper and bandwidth faster.
Millennials joined a monopoly game in its late stage.
We can agree on many of the things that you wrote:

- You need a combination of genetics + environment to have a phenotype (whether disease or otherwise)

- Several conditions have a relationship with the gut microbiome

Also, I think you will enjoy this absolutely amazing study that found that the gut microbiome drives cerebral cavernous malformations(!!!) by interactions with TLR4: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22075

So, I just don't think that "typically" the gut microbiome is the driver of disease. In fact, it's a rare enough find that people get Nature papers out of it. But, if it is actually typical, then I stand by my assertion that someone will eventually get a Nobel prize from proving it.
This is a good point. The Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are only 141 and 117 AU from earth [1], and they were launched 40 years ago. I have always thought that the most likely fate of the Voyager spacecraft is that they will be stolen -- not by aliens, but by humans of the future. Their positions and trajectories are a matter of public record; everyone will know exactly where they are, and the spacecraft themselves as well as the golden records could be of great value to wealthy collectors of the future. Consider how many times the wreck of the Titanic has been visited/looted over the past 20 years, and when it first sank no one thought it would ever even be found, much less visited.

[1] https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/
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Honestly, as a native of (urban) NC, I felt like TX was very similar when I visited. And the few Texans I went to school with didn't seem to feel too out of place in NC either. We've both got nice people, growing and diverse cities, a solid college education system, and super religious people everywhere just to keep you on your toes... Really the biggest differences I could tell was that TX got hotter and you have crazy long stretches of road with nothing at all on them (which is indeed a uniquely western thing).

But I think the whole concept of "deep south" vs the "new south" is where you see the differences come into play. Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Asheville, and many other NC areas, are great, diverse places that have far more in common with Dallas/Austin/Houston than with whatever the stereotypical image of "the south" is that most folks have in their heads. So in other words, I think TX is just as southern as NC is, and that isn't necessarily anything to be ashamed of.
Yeah, there are many good ways to do this. The US had a similar program up until 2005 where local phone companies had to allow ISPs to rent access to their last-mile wiring at mandatory rates. I like the idea, but I don't think it's practical in the US given business culture and the responsiveness of politicians to lobbying dollars.
Anyone can create their own website. Not everyone can create their own ISP.
Yes, but the point is that they don't have to. Look at 2010.
Related: "Etsy slashes almost a quarter of its staff in attempt to refocus"
https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/21/etsy-layoffs-focus-on-co...
Like most such articles, it mentions student loan debt, making it appear to be a massive problem.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-typical-household-wit...

"The average balance of outstanding student loan debt for households with some debt was $25,700. The median debt was $13,000, and seventy-five percent of borrowers had less than $29,000. These burdens are relatively modest given the annual earnings of these households. The average annual wage earnings among this population was $71,700."

There same example involved a man who couldn't get a job as a bank teller, but apparently had no trouble getting one making more money as a bus driver. (I guess the implication is that blue collar jobs are bad?)
That's an incredibly simplistic view and betrays own biases. For example, point 1 could better be described as "per capita state spending" and that completely annihilates your point.

In the same way, for point 2, you would have to calculate the percentage of funding change per student, not the macro view alone.
Given that the browsers with respect to which you implement the code change under your feet every 6 weeks, I think it's better the standard keeps pace with them than having it give a misleading impression of what you're developing against.
> The problem is that if you go by the fact that someone somewhere has it worse then where's the motivation to change anything?

Initiative. People with initiative tend to be better off regardless of how bad anything else is.

> Should we not be holding our societies to a slightly higher standard than what passes in the third world?

You should hold yourself to whatever standard is most appropriate for you. Crying about how bad life is, or expecting sympathy, probably won't get you what you to where you want to be.

There is a world of difference between sympathy and empathy. One of those is a childish quality that results in nothing positive. The other allows you to improve yourself and the world around you. If you cannot tell the difference you are no position to suggest such opinions of others.
"Maintain radio silence!" - typical alien captain of a typical alien ship
The trend I've seen on Snapchat is high budget high quality production of 1 minute viral videos. Think NatGeo documentary, but delivered as 5 20second videos with captions.

Similar to how a lot of high budget production moved from making 3 hour movies, to making 10 1 hour episodes. Overall more and better content, but in smaller easier to digest pieces.

I think that's a trend that isn't going away. People, especially as they age, have less and less time to stick to one thing. If you can cut it up for them and make it nibbleable, they will go for it.

When was the last time you chose to watch a full movie at home in one sitting? I bet you watch Netflix series instead, or pause your movie and continue the next day.
Url changed from https://gizmodo.com/comcast-to-customer-who-noticed-it-secre..., which points to this.
Another reason to delete your facebook account.
The Friedberg, Insel, Spence book [1] passes your test. Linear transformations first, then matrices as a representation of transformations with respect to a specified basis. Depending on your tastes, you may find it too dry, but imo it is a clean presentation.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-4th-Stephen-Friedberg/...
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The counter argument to this is the YC Continuity fund [1]. It already does invest in some YC co A rounds, and them not investing does not have a negative signal. It is in YC's best interest to try to avoid negative signaling about any companies they've funded as that potentially limits YC's upside.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/continuity/
> Providing you could get your application compatible with lambda.

I know Erica at iOpipe and like what they are building. OpenFaaS is an alternative that can run on Docker or Kubernetes to provide a more flexible serverless environment with containers. Check it out https://www.openfaas.com
I have in fact had many rational discussions with people I disagree with in SF. Around guns, libertarianism, and unlimited freedom on the right and huge taxes on the rich, free healthcare for all, and socialism on the left.

This isn't that hard! The trick is you have to start with an open mind and try to understand where they're coming from. That's true in every place in the US - you aren't going to convince people of your "truth" 99.5% of the time, you're only going to understand their truth.

However! Expecting everyone to want an open discussion or even to hear about your pet controversial topic will make your life hard no matter where you go unless people are pretty close to you politically.
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The point that the GP is making is there is no such thing as "effectively CA". CA is a specific academic term with a specific meaning; there's no reason to introduce it into the conversation if you're not going to follow that meaning.

By all means call this system a "ultra-high availability strongly consistent datastore", but it's still not CA.

(It's all the more disappointing that it's Brewer himself, the original author of the CAP theorem, that's engaging in this hand-waving).
Your statement is factually right, however the only way someone can treat this statement is by assuming you are trying to refute the OPs republican claims. Since I can't downvote you, ill just include an explanation for others on why this comment holds no merit.

Ajit was appointed to the chair under Trump (Republican). Ajit was a recommendation from Republican minority lead (at the time) Mcconnell. Ajit has (to my knowledge) always been a republican member of US FCC.
From the YC FAQ:

"Can we do it without moving to where you are?
Sorry, no. We tried this once, and by Demo Day that startup was way behind the rest. What we do, we have to do in person. We would not be doing a startup a favor by not making them come to YC events in person."

Their stated reason is more about dealing with people face to face, and less about SV. It also sounds like they only tried it once, which probably isn't a big enough sample size considering that most startups aren't successful in the first place. It sounds like they never gave places other than SV a fair shake.
I'm not sure the electorate sees elections the same way.

I think most of them are true Republicans in the sense that they want to elect people they think are trustworthy and then let them make decisions as their proxy. In that case, a candidate can have policies and platforms to convince people to let her be their proxy, but she doesn't need them. She could just have a "trust me, I'll make the right decision" pitch.

Besides, if Trump is an ideologue, what is that ideology? At best it's a new (or at least renewed) nativist spin on identity politics. That's not an ideology; that's a team.
> Yes, some ideas are inherently dangerous. An idea of atoms splitting leads to an atomic bomb, for instance.

You're missing the parent's point. An idea not being acted upon is not dangerous. The idea of splitting atoms is not dangerous and the atomic bomb is not dangerous: An atomic bomb getting built (the idea being acted upon) is dangerous.

Why are full disclosure policies recommended by security researchers? Why is open source healthy for security in general? Why is "security through obscurity" frowned upon? Because it is important to be able to discuss threats in order to better protect yourself from them.

Burying your head in the sand is just a shitty tactic for dealing with danger. Being able to discuss controversial ideas is extremely important, whether it's to better protect yourself from them (eg. extreme-right ideology) or to independently research facts hidden from you by people who don't have your best interests in mind (eg. north korean censorship).

And let's be honest here, from what I've seen of my (left leaning) twitter feed, Sam is being attacked extremely harshly for his "controversial" post. If people here think that the article is wrong, this is a terrible way to prove it so.
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As a proud member of Generation X, I hate how articles like these show a neat handoff from the Boomers to the Millennials.

Many of these same problems bit Gen X, but at least the millennials are big enough to have articles written about their plight!
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