skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haven't read TFA but I'm going to say the internet most definitely falls under 'interstate commerce' so California isn't able to regulate it.
That's how they justify it, but empirically it doesn't seem to be the case. E.g. liberals are pretty tolerant of minority groups with more extreme opinions than average conservatives. E.g. muslims are pretty strongly against homosexuals among other things. But they don't receive anywhere near the same level of hate and vitriol even moderate conservatives will get.

I think it's just based on how much of a threat a group is. If conservatives were a tiny minority of the population like Muslims are, no one would care enough to hate them.

>wants to deny a group of people to marry the person they love? Do I have to tolerate someone who wants to control a woman's body?

This is super uncharitable btw. Imagine a conservative saying "why do I have to tolerate someone who literally wants to murder children?"
You can use Messenger via the website. No need for Messenger.app...
Or, we can accept that ideologies are how we all make the majority of our decisions and then work to create a convincing ideology which combats the systems of power/corruption we're currently dealing with. None of this going to go away with facts and logic.

Change never happened because someone spouted a couple damning facts and shamed people with power.
> Actually the voters elected a Democrat. The electoral college elected the Republican.

You mean 48.2% of 58% of eligible voters elected a Democrat. You can slice it many ways but the electoral college is all that matters.
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Welcome to democracy! Political fights can last for generations, and we're still relatively early on in this one...
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Hand Rolled Recursive Descent Parsers
Where was Google and Facebook.. they did nothing vs. them previously taking action against SOPA.
Not saying its unpalatable to me, I actually agree it was necessary to force everyone to buy health insurance. I'm simply pointing out how the SAME legislation can be demonized or embraced, depending on how its spun. I bet if this were some alternative universe where Republicans were pushing ACA, it would get demonized as an attack on the poor by the other side.
Hulu?
What makes this extra ridiculous is the fact LinkedIn built its business on scraping not publicly available information but private address books of unsuspecting users.
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> The actual HTML specification which browsers follow

...is found here: https://chromium.googlesource.com/

The reality is that the WHATWG (a) only writes descriptive standards, describing what already exists, usually with pseudocode and prosa instead of ABNF or EBNF (see the URL standard replacement), and (b) only describes something once it’s actually been implemented on larger scale.

On the topic of what standards are supposed to do – prescriptively shape and replace what exists – the WHATWG isn’t useful. WHATWG "standards" are the equivalent of Microsoft Office Open XML, a standards body just taking an existing implementation, defining whatever it does as standard, and doing it so incomplete that the result is useless.

Yes, WHATWG and W3C are doing the best they can do in the current climate (where Google can roll out QUIC and SPDY before even any standard is defined across websites accounting for 6% of global traffic, 65%+ of web browsers, and 85%+ of mobile phones), but this is just misleading. It helps no one to pretend to do standardization work when you don’t actually have any power to decide anything – neither WHATWG nor W3C can actually force, or even ask, Google to change SPDY or QUIC. They’re papertigers.
I'm not sure what having a social life has to do with anything. I haven't sat down to watch a TV show for over a decade, but by some great miracle, I have a robust social life with friends and plenty of activities to do. When a friend asks, "hey, did you see the latest Star Wars movie" or "how 'bout that great Sportsball game last night??" I just say no, didn't see it, and we talk about something else. I know, it sounds crazy.
> Also, these days various vendors sell machines with linux pre-installed so that's an option.

I have one of those machines. It's from Dell. Hooking up an external monitor doesn't just work. The scaling across the Ubuntu UI is all messed up.
While it may sound easy to change a polymorphism (and even there only for a single base, don't get me started on larger structural variants), do not forget that you have to apply this one single change to 10 ^ 14 cells (or even just 1 in 10000 cells is 10 ^ 10), while evading the immune system and not inducing any detrimental other mutations. For a software developer it always sounds so simple just to fix a single spelling mistake but that really isn't it.

(+ obvoiusly the stuff from the other comments about how hard it is to determine the cause to begin with)
RCN, Verizon FIOS

Also look into
Starry, webpass, and netblazr - all are wireless internet providers and your eligibility will vary greatly depending on what neighborhood/building type you live in, but it is free to inquire for all.
It's a repeal of federal rules so California is free to create their own laws regarding this issue.
> routinely banned for being critical of your portfolio companies

When people say this always I try to point out that the opposite is the truth. Maybe I can't convince you, but I want to reassure any silent readers who might worry about this. Literally the first rule of HN moderation is what we moderate less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is involved. Plenty more on this at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... if anyone wants it.

> You're a vile hypocrite. And there's nothing to debate, there. It's just fucking true.

Even though this breaks the HN guideline in bannable ways, it feels like more of a cri de coeur to me, so I'm going to leave it up for now. But really, you're just making things worse both for the community and for said coeur. It would be better to speak more directly about what you feel, and if possible to connect it with what others are saying. I mean really connect it, as opposed to throwing something in opposition. You don't have to reduce any of your views to do this.
Point well taken, we'll iterate on this and add some background on Lambda.
> And This Doesn't Apply To Google Wallet

> The thing is, these rules don't even apply in the case of Google Wallet, because Verizon isn't blocking anything. Why'd I bother explaining them, then? So you can see exactly how they don't apply.

> Unlike the tethering app that requires root access, Verizon isn't actively preventing the Wallet app from being installed on phones. That's all Google. If Google wanted to make the Wallet app compatible for every Verizon phone in the Play Store such that you could download and install it, it could. There is absolutely nothing to stop that happening - but the app wouldn't actually work.

[0] - http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/05/01/a-brief-history-of-v...
> While you are right that some feature engineering is needed, there's no reason DL can't be a part of your workflow.

I (and, I believe, the earlier poster, too) never implied you can't use deep learning on such examples. What we (I think, both) were referring to was the claim that it would absolve you from feature engineering. (Which I understand you also refute.)

> For more of the basics, my book on deep learning might help as well

Congratulations on your book, I know how much hard work that is!

Disclaimer: I make money with deep learning, too... ;-)
Ah OK. I missed that, now your comments makes sense. Thanks.
Of course, but I'm sure being a name brand helps them negotiate a larger discount.
Repealing net neutrality helps FANG. They can afford to pay the consumer ISPs rent-seeking. Nascent competitors can't.

That's the future - where Comcast customers get enough bandwidth to stream 360p videos only from sites that pay Comcast for the privilege.
No, not true. The Bay Area is ideologically safer in only two regards: you can criticize the city, and you can criticize the government. If you have personal beliefs that are even a tiny bit different from orthodoxy, Beijing is a far safer place.
It's totally ISP/monopoly related, but convincing the government to keep net neutrality regulations is generally viewed as easier than convincing them to break up monopoly telecoms. It was hard enough getting them to block the AT&T/T-mobile merger. The last time a company's been threatened with being broken up was Microsoft in the late 1990s, and they got off with a slap on the wrist (albeit one that made them reluctant to enter new markets, which opened the door for Google & Facebook, and Apple's resurgence, in the early 2000s).
True, as of current only distributions from the account are taxed (and are taxed at current income rates, what happened to make the account grow doesn't come into play). Good clarification!
You actually only need a phone number for Tinder, making facebook even more useless.
It's close, but not quite there. I don't see vibrancy or features from standard text controls.
Forcing back ends to be 'sick': how to cleanly remove a back end and insert it again
I think you're generalizing too much. The overhead for bare metal only exists for certain use cases and apps.

We run about 3 cages (~4k pieces of hardware total) for about a tenth of the cost of what we've priced out as AWS/GCP. This includes DC staff to swap/provision hardware, leases, capex, and our bandwidth contracts.
>Bitoin is not a stock, it's a currency. It'ss value lies in its utility.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Bitcoin's current transaction fee is like $20, and the value of Bitcoin itself has gone up 25% in the past week alone. If I bought a pizza last week using $20 worth of Dunning-Krugerrands, that same pizza would be $25 this week for no reason. That alone makes it useless as a currency.
Tons of competition. I have a choice of multiple different fiber line providers, government copper phone line provider, a bunch of different wireless options, and then multiple different ISPs who run over those different fiber or copper lines or 4G towers.

Generally small towns would only have access to 1 fiber or copper line provider (generally Telkom our useless government supplier), but multiple ISPs running on that line so it's not that bad, but I live in the suburbs near a city so I have a lot more choice.
I think agricultural collapse is a much more likely scenario then us running out of oil. The book 1493 all about the ecological exchange of contact with the new world has some phenomenal perspective about it all. Our high input monocropping is pretty tenuous. Look at the lifespan history of commercial pesticides and fungicides, they used to be 30+ years around the turn of the century. Today, a newly discovered pesticide has a lifespan of about three years before it becomes not effective. The extreme lack of genetic diversity in our crops is a time bomb waiting to happen. If you think the Irish Potato famine was bad, it's going to be a mere footnote to the kind of agricultural disasters we will see come out of the next century. Rubber trees are a particularly vulnerable piece, 99% of all rubber produced in the world comes from southeast Asia from a handful of clones brought over from the Amazon. They can't monocrop rubber in South America because of leaf blight. Yet when that blight makes it over to se Asia on somebody's boot, things are going to get weird fast. No rubber means no industrial hoses, gaskets, and tires. We don't have any economic means to reproduce natural rubber. All the computers in the world won't make a difference
I think you just coined the phrase. Let's take a page from the alt-right playbook and meme "No Facebook February" in to existence.
That's because the skills and traits that get you straight As in school are not the skills and traits that produce innovation and greatness. The former relies on conforming to set expectations and the latter involves either ignoring those expectations altogether, or exceeding them to such a degree that they can barely be said to apply at all and in the process setting an entirely new baseline.

Anyone who has any understanding of American history and our national character can see why we're attracted to nonconformists who achieve great success.
Or they just start talking with your other friends about it and leave you out.
Now you are just changing your analogies because you didn't read the article.
No. The entire history of the internet has been built and developed under NN principles. It was merely codified by the FCC in 2015. Companies regularly violated these principles in the past, and the FCC has previously intervened on behalf of customers. Now, there are no protections, with the FCC stating that it will no longer intervene for these violations.
Going to Mars doesn't have to cost 200 billion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Direct
RESIST!
The WHATWG specs contain a lot of innovation, but change more rapidly. In many cases WHATWG specs are living documents that gradually evolve and adapt to changes in real time.

Conversely the W3C specifications are fixed to versions and are occasionally patched with updates. The W3C process is incredibly slow and conservative, which frustrates developers on the bleeding edge. Due to the slow process, thoroughness of that process, and formal versioning most software vendors prefer to implement against the W3C publications as more stable or reliable.
> Second, if story points are not an indirect measure of time, then why are you pointing stories? What does the pointing gain your team other than fluff?

The points can (and should) be assigned before the work arrives. Agile planning is a little more nuanced. There's business valuation (points from business development) which then become stories that are estimated during/over another sprint. The points don't correlate directly to hours because you haven't assigned points or know what resources will be on the estimated sprint. That is the responsibility of the Scrum master to handle. If people are vacationing, sick, replaced or there are new hires, you put a variable time-value on the points. Most importantly, you put a few stories in the current sprint off the top of the queue and pull as time allows. Telling the engineers that "all these stories must be done by the end of the sprint" negates the whole process.

> Finally, I have not seen, and you have not presented, evidence that engineers are good at estimating.

In general, nobody else is capable of coming close. That being said, I've blown up estimates to maximum by inquiring about specific details (what file, function, library, what repo, do you have creds for that, how long are the code reviews, etc) in a majority of tasks because some engineers are good as estimation for specific implementations, otherwise they concede on identified complexity/meta-process. Small, Medium, Large seems like the correct approach.
Yes, but bitcoin's authentication is via ECDSA. Elliptic curve discrete log is solvable with Shor's algorithm, but the qubit calculation would be different.

Wikipedia seems to indicate that 2330 qubits and 126 billion Toffoli gates would be required for elliptic curves with 256-bit group size, although I wonder if the endomorphism of secp256k1 gives an additional speedup.
> Sorry, I may be incorrect here, but from what I understand net neutrality only came into effect two years ago in 2015.

The 2015 regulations were a replacement for 2010 regulations. The 2010 regulations were struck down in court on the grounds that they exceeded the FCC's powers under Title 1 of the Communications Act; the court told the FCC they would have to classify ISPs as Title 2 Common Carriers in order to enforce net neutrality.
Author did not explain how he created X_train, Y_train, X_test, Y_test.

I am pretty sure he was fast enough to create it in 10 seconds or less.
Do You Really Need a Computer Science Degree in Today’s Market?
Please don't be offended, I am only pointing this out because you are obvious very intelligent and expert in the field.

>If your somewhere

*you're

I only point it out because I know some people discount comments that have grammar and spelling errors.

Thanks for the super informative posts!

Edit: I guess I offended, based on the downvotes. I only pointed it out since it was used incorrectly in the posts. I was trying to be helpful, apologies if I was being a dick.
Here's one that I found interesting - the Dutch school placement lottery: https://medium.com/social-choice/why-a-dutch-court-stopped-h...
So, to be clear: your ideas are dangerous and must be suppressed. An easy way to do that is to fire you after we all complain rending our clothes. See: Damore.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/05/01/a-brief-history-of-v...
>Artificial neuron (aka perceptron)

These aren't synonymous, a perceptron is a type of artificial neuron.

Also confusingly, 'multi layer perceptrons' might not contain perceptrons at all.
I didn't mean that statement as my own opinion, I'm simply pointing out how the same legislation can be demonized or embraced based on how its spun. But you can't tell a Republican that it was actually another Republican that came up with the idea of ACA, they simply can't get passed the fact that its coming from terrible horrible Obama so it must be bad! Just as Democrats don't want to hear that it was a Republican idea.

I agree that political branding is whats toxic.
Ask HN: Best book structure
What is the best book structure you have ever read?

sidenote: we are talking about technical books.
Facebook forces you to download the app to use Messenger when on an Android device (possibly others). A third party app is required to avoid that ridiculousness.
I had one who went full lunatic, pizzagate and all. Does anyone have good theories as to how (and I mean cognitively how, not a description of the phenomena) this happened especially more in this last cycle?
Because when it's a utility you can't treat different traffic types differently and QoS suffers, especially in domains like satellite internet
We've got a CI pipeline that deploys Lambda functions via Terraform and Jenkins. There are some slightly tricky bits but it's not really that hard to do.
GCHQ prompts users to download and execute obfuscated code
This is not true. I live in the South (Nashville) and I've heard (and overheard) multiple disparaging comments about people from the coasts. It's not like they're obsessed, but they talk about NY and CA as much as NY and CA talked about the South when I lived in both places.
If we had Fiber everywhere, would bandwidth arguments still be applicable?
2015 was when official rules were put into place to protect Net Neutrality. But before that, ISPs had generally worked in a way favorable towards Net Neutrality. But then they started to act against Net Neutrality and then the rules were put into place.

So, you could argue that we've have net neutrality in principle since the internet existed (or at least up until 10 or so years ago when ISPs started to push back) but we have only had Net Neutrality enshrined in regulation for a couple years.

It appears that going forward we will have neither.
Title II actually exempts telecoms from FTC regulation. Rather than pushing for special-cased laws to mandate how the Internet is operated (which bans a lot of things I don't think are justifiable to actually ban), we should be pushing for a reawakening of antitrust enforcement. Anticompetitive behavior is already illegal, and the tools already exist, in law, to deal with it. Let's get the FTC back in the business of busting up monopolies and fining anticompetitive behavior, regardless of what industry they are.

Anticompetitive behavior is a problem that exists well beyond just telecoms, and getting back into trustbusting would do wonders across the board for consumers.

Google, one of net neutrality's principal backers, obviously is not fond of this approach.
So you're the D that never read the paper?
And yet, we don't get things like that changes page from the WHATWG version. (Unless you want to dig through the whole commit history)

It's absolutely a fiction, but at the same time, this at least attempts to be a standard.

The WHATWG version seems more like a reflection of "oh by the way that's the rules our browsers are following this month. Your's truly, the browser vendors."
> To the extent that tolerance is a virtue, it refers to tolerating other people for what they are, not what they do. There are gray areas here of course

The gray areas are miles wide in many cases. Tolerance of what people are is fairly easy for most people to agree on, but in some cases what people do and what people are is disagreed upon. That is, to some degree, the crux of the debate about homosexuality still. People disagree on whether it's something people do, or are. At the same time, an older debate under similar grounds (but, ironically with less evidence for it being towards the are end of the spectrum) is religion. Are you a Christian, Jew or Muslim, or do you just practice those religions?

I don't think boiling it down to are and do particularly helps for a lot of the really controversial topics we are currently dealing with.
Is this open source? If not, I'm having trouble in seeing the point of using this when GIMP exists.
Wrestling pictures!
Americans love an underdog. Bonus points for an underdog pitted against an authority figure. Extra bonus points when that authority figure is in academia.

The attraction of this tale isn't that Smith got a bad grade on the paper or even that he was a mediocre student, but rather that a scrappy undergrad had a great idea but his prof couldn't see the genius of it.
"We towed it outside of the environment!"
Of course it depends on the use case, but for smaller functions it definitely reduces dev work. For AWS, Lambdas can be versioned and aliased. Blue green deployments are trivial since you can switch Lambda versions on the fly. Rolling back and invoking dev versions are similar.
WHATWG standards don’t even deserve that name.

A standard is something like ISO EN DIN A4. It is defined in cooperation with every stakeholder involved, it is specced, it is tested, and a stable definition is created. Everyone builds against this definition, and it works fine. The standard deprecates everything that existed before, and replaces it.

That is a standard. It’s authoritative, basically immutable, and it is prescriptive.

WHATWG "standards" come after the fact, only consider whatever browsers implement, refuse to ever deprecate anything (unless browsers have already deprecated it), and almost always just are "whatever Google Chrome does". That’s a disgusting abuse of the word standard.

WHATWG "standards" are the equivalent of Microsoft Office Open XML, a standards body just taking an existing implementation, defining whatever it does as standard, and doing it so incomplete that the result is useless.

Yes, WHATWG and W3C are doing the best they can do in the current climate (where Google can roll out QUIC and SPDY before even any standard is defined across websites accounting for 6% of global traffic, 65%+ of web browsers, and 85%+ of mobile phones), but this is just misleading. It helps no one to pretend to do standardization work when you don’t actually have any power to decide anything – neither WHATWG nor W3C can actually force, or even ask, Google to change SPDY or QUIC. They’re papertigers.
I think his very-well-known inconsistencies on policy matters makes it hard to argue that he won on the merits of his policies. His personality, attitude, and his not being Hillary Clinton seemed to be more important.
I am continually amazed by what's possible in a web browser these days. I'm also amazed by what a single person can accomplish. That said, this failed my first test: https://www.drupal.org/node/1480428
Interstate commerce for some, but not for others.

The modern 'conservative' stance towards the affairs of the day.