skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an incredible up front cost for wired infrastructure and even Verizon was unable to turn a profit in the long run. Go pull their earnings reports and look at the performance of their wireline division (phone, internet, tv, etc...). It always lost money except for one year where they turned a million or two profit. That's why they sold it off to frontier who will invest the bare minimum and just run it until it breaks. This cost is what's preventing competition. Providers are betting hard on 5g wireless, it requires much less last mile infrastructure (you don't have to run and maintain connections to people's houses).
The ACA was actually a conservative plan that is actually good for people. In some sense, you could argue that everybody agreed with it until it became a partisan issue.

NN is also good for people and also has bipartisan support (from constituents) but just got repealed. Yes, the sky won't fall but it is now a little darker.
The content ownership example that I provided is absolutely not enough to merit blocking the merger on its own, just one example of consolidated power that will likely come up in the event of a hearing.
As a Verizon customer, I'd rather live in this magic world where I can switch ISPs than have net neutrality, but there is no meaningful competition in my building that doesn't suck more.
This was shockingly charitable. So many leftists hate the tenants of science, western culture, and wealth that they want to crush it under their heel.

The same people who oppose life extension on the grounds of the environmental cost probably applaud uneducated africans having 7 kids.

The people who oppose understanding a genetic basis of intelligence would tell you that each human is blank slate with equal potential to every other human.

The people who oppose wealth are the ones who advocate for full luxury socialism/communism.

Frankly, the only reason we have so many voices opposed to these good things is because our welfare state is too generous - people can survive on food stamps and ruminate about the moral evils of capitalism. If they had to get a job, their idle hands would do less of the devil's work.

It's good to see people waking up to the intolerance in San Francisco. I used to enjoy going there, now whenever I visit I have to change my phone background (away from a picture of a greek sculpture and the quote "tradition is not the worship of ashes but the preservation of fire") so no one tries to accuse me of being a n*zi and derails the business at hand. The world is worse for the intolerance but hard times make stronger people - what the world needs is titans and if we make a crucible for the titans then mission accomplished.
I remember having an argument with a distributed systems professor about whether banks were AP or CP. He said that they were strongly consistent because they would always have redundant network links to prevent partitions, and refused to consider the hypothetical case of a network partition.

That was the day I dropped the course.
> He's referring to …

I know; that was not what the comment he replied to was referring to.

The comment he replied to was referring to the actual much better performance of one of those C++ benchmarks game programs, contributed just 6 weeks ago.
Define “remote area.” I can name a half dozen cities with cheaper cost of living within ~6 hours drive time of NYC. Pittsburgh. Buffalo. Rochester. Philly. Newark, DE. I don’t think communication systems are the problem. There are cities that have low(er) cost of living.
> Title II is not a great solution to Net Neutrality. The only thing I disklike is there isn't a better option already in place.

Sure. But it was an attainable solution, which is much better than no solution at all. It's not like Pai is going to find some other way to protect NN.
Appointed by a candidate who lost by 3 million votes
And yet it was a party line vote.
One more step.

The direct feedback mechanism is voting, for people who draw maps that determine who get's elected to have the power to determine the composition of the rule-making bodies.

You could even argue it's how people spend their money that determines who has money to chose who get's to draw the maps etc.
Call your Congressperson and Senators today and tell them that you want them to enshrine NN into law. And then vote against them next time they’re up for re-election if they don’t. In the case of your Congressperson, this will be next November.

Phone numbers are here: https://www.battleforthenet.com/
Yeah ditto, avoided Amazon Linux for ages since I didn't want to replace my .service files with shell scripts, forever/monit etc, and logging to 'local4'.
adjective

based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.

"his mealtimes were entirely arbitrary"

synonyms:	capricious, whimsical, random, chance, unpredictable;

(of power or a ruling body) unrestrained and autocratic in the use of authority.

"arbitrary rule by King and bishops has been made impossible"

synonyms:	autocratic, dictatorial, autarchic, undemocratic, despotic, tyrannical, authoritarian, high-handed;

mathematics. (of a constant or other quantity) of unspecified value.
Sorry, where do you see this? I see a lot of slides devoted to the "in-between" of random forests, perceptrons, etc. The jump from supervised to unsupervised to RL also makes sense, since RL is a different learning paradigm from the other two.

I'm as exhausted of the ML hype as anyone else, but I believe this deck tempers expectations.
I was about to say people think in Democracy every vote counts the same. It doesn't. Imagine quality of people's life in big cities if majority living outside would be playing first violin. The latest Presidential race is great example how Democratic election works.
This reads more like "Journalist Arrogance"

Technology is evolutionary.
But it's predictable that one party would have appointed someone like him and not the other.
Alas, I don't have metrics. Just seemed noticeably faster on the more expensive Postgres plan.
In case you want to hear both sides of the argument:

http://exponent.fm/episode-133-two-terrible-options/
Hillary would have been far worse.. Trump is under every microscope waiting for an impeachable offense.. Hillary would have had full immunity to take bribes as she pleases.
“You know the black guys, they had to do three times as much work just to be accepted because they were black,” Yellin said. “And I had to be three times as good just to be accepted.”

The entire time I was growing up in the 70's and 80's, my Korean parents told me, again and again, that this was how it was going to be for me in this country. This is how in-group/out-group psychology works. That's how people are.

There is a huge difference between people who will make you work 3 times harder, but will accept you in the end on merit, and people who won't, no matter what you do. It's the same difference as between people who can listen to and learn from their enemies, and people who can't listen no matter what. Some people are subordinate to truth and beauty beyond themselves and their particular world view, and some are not. It's the former who ultimately move the world forward and the latter who unwittingly hold it back.

People who see you as a human being, regardless of your outward signifiers? Those people are rare. They are geniuses of one sort or another.
As with any other system where a product is delivered over someone else's product, a negotiation will take place, money will change hands, and business will resume. That's normal.

Google and Netflix wanted to implement rules prohibiting a perfectly normal transaction in business because it would cost them money, and framed it as the public good. I'm entirely okay with the two giants having to pay more, it provides Google and Netflix's competitors additional room to breathe and innovate.
A competent lawyer can fix this if your NY-based employer attempts to put such language in your employment agreement. Speaking from experience several times over.
The "last mile" is a utility, and by its very nature will always result in monopolistic control.

It is impractical and irrational to wire up a home to multiple ISPs with their own fiber channels. Each channel could cost tens of thousands to install.

Instead the "last mile" should be a non-profit funded by ISPs who lease the channels. The non-profit is responsible for installing the "last mile," upgrading it, and repairing defects in it. The ISP is responsible for everything that happens from the exchange upon up (inc. pricing, support, peerage agreements, interconnects, etc).

This way you can still choose Comcast if you wish but may also have several local ISPs competing for your business. When you choose to change no engineer needs to come to your house, they just plug and unplug you at the exchange.
It may be for the best over time - the innovation that comes from the decision is likely an increment over where we are now - and possibly have wider benefits that just enabling NN.
The way I look at it, the existing regulation only really held things back a bit from getting much worse. For things to get better, there needs to be an impetus.

I talk with a number of Americans (especially on Freenode and over mailinglists) whose only options are satellite (which explains partly why they're still on IRC) or installing their own point to point radio network. All the current rules mean is that their only available ISP has to tell them explicitly that they'll be sabotaging BitTorrent traffic. Leased highway conduit space or leased dark fiber, and a loosening of (other, more administratively significant) regulations would have an outsize impact on the cost of the last miles of radio and/or fiber backhaul, instead of just adding pages to the subscriber agreement.
Where I live (Southern Idaho) it isn't just forest burning, but also the desert wild lands. The burning is now worse because of invasive species of grass (cheat grass). So now the cheat grass is pushing out the native grasses and sage brush because the seeds tolerate burning better, and the grass grows quickly....much faster than the native plants. To make it worse again, the cheat grass dies out in summer faster creating a greater burn hazard.

I jokingly say my area has 5 seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer, Smoke, and Fall.
Yes, you're right, regulations make it more difficult.

But if startups have taught us anything, it's that businesses find a way to disrupt existing economies even in the face of regulations.

Ironically, Net Neutrality (NN) is itself a regulation. One of the reasons we reject NN is because creating regulations often has unintended consequences. We believe it's better to not have the regulation and let the free market and open competition sort out the details.
> I have to bring in in my wife

Excellent point. :) What is the point of finding the perfect fit, after all?

It's so that the person (or persons) whose opinions you care about think you dress well and look well put together. That is an important piece of data.
The intent is to let different parties bring their concerns to the attention of the FCC. It is not a vote. Every public comment could advocate for one thing, and the FCC is perfectly in its right to do the other.

The only federal elections are for the President, Senators, and Representatives. This is not a direct democracy.
I wonder if there's any potential for this to be used for 3D avatars in VR. I imagine it would be fairly easy to do. Not much of a market yet, but perhaps in the future.
Is blocking of VoIP traffic not covered by other anti competitive behaviour regulation?
Ajit Pai was appointed to the FCC by Obama, your elected official, and was designated FCC Chairman by Trump, your other elected official. So it looks like you voted wrong twice in a row!
Imagine pure democracy mixed with social media... Horrific
If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.htmlh
My solution has been to unfollow everyone. I still get event notifications, I can still use messenger, but I don’t see ads (the home screen thinks I’m a new user), and it’s one less endless feed to be addicted to. I check it every couple of days, and spend 0 time on site.

Less work than it sounds like. And as you say, bad for them, good for us.
> self-righteous, smug and viscerally hostile attitude to other parts of the country

I'm not sure what this has to do with "political correctness." People being jerks isn't the same as demarcating hate speech and saying that it has no place in public discourse.

I think what happens is that someone will propose something that another constituency worries will have violent outcomes for them, and they push back saying "that's unacceptable." Then the first party gets defensive and says that they're being tone policed instead of engaging with the substance of the complaint. For people like me (white men) this can sometimes be the first time when our presuppositions are challenged, or that we're told that we might not be totally objective, rational observers in a chaotic universe and its very very easy to get defensive.

Further, it's important to understand that people who worry about "PC" as a threat to the free exchange of ideas are actively having their rhetoric coopted by others on the far right who are actively trying to move the overton window into a place where they are able to espouse things like racism in public without backlash.
Just because it's not the FCC's "job", it doesn't mean that overwhelming support for Net Neutrality is wrong.
You're totally ignoring the fact that the previous administration had the power to make Net Neutrality permanent... but did not. They took the 'easy' FCC route, just as the current administration is doing right now.

A half-assed effort, at best from your 'good guys'
That's because they prioritize fighting a culture war... Over a minor issue like NN.
who was appointed by an elected official (Pres. Barrack Obama)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajit_Pai

I'm simply pointing out that we empower and trust the "good people" we elect to choose "good people" they appoint.
I'm not sure I'd use the term "direct feedback mechanism" to describe voting for an elector who votes on a President who appoints a commissioner to a five person committee for five year terms.
Etsy moving to GCP
I totally agree with you. I believe group polarization [0] causes forums on the internet such as this one to exaggerate how bad something is going to be and this is one of those times. My biggest concern is if something actually world-ending were to be about to happen it would be sort of hard to tell by reading Reddit and Hackernews. Because the users of those collectively dial the alarm severity up to "catastrophic" several times per year, and it is a case of crying wolf almost every time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_polarization
I completely agree, but when I was walking to the train station this morning with a 25F blast of wind going straight through my coat I was actually thinking how great CA would be. :)
Even Newt’s been in the DC machine for decades, he probably doesn’t even watch college football.
i only compared facebook with tv yesterday when i read the other news on how one of the previous executive of fb was feeling "sad" for how facebook is gaming our life to make it more addictive...but there is limitation to television and at that time you could not take tv in your pocket so it was limited to your home

also tv is a one way broadcasting system when facebook is like 2 way system ...
It's intentionally designed so that good people can sometimes do something unpopular in the public interest.

Except in this case, it is not in public interest
Electing Trump makes Americans look like fools, but Congress is where the action happens (ACA repeals, despicable tax bills, etc). Repealing the clean power plan? Natural gas and renewables are crushing coal and nuclear, and nothing is going to stop that. Rolling back net neutrality? Citizens get involved in local municipal broadband deployments (as it should be!) where governance is controlled by the local electorate.

I'm putting principles (edit: autocorrect fixed) first. I don't fault you if you don't, but what I "stand for" (people taking an active interest in the political landscape) is still going to come to pass, even faster than previously with Trump having been elected (while notably, he has very little control over actual policy). Congress will see more tilting towards progressives under a Trump administration than it ever would have under Clinton.

Step 1: Set fire to house

Step 2: "Do we have your attention now?"

Step 3: Progress
if you don't reply with reason you're a troll
> > By giving people money to spend, it unlocks the economy's potential to produce wealth for the people.

> This is a corollary to the myth that wealthy people hoard cash. They do not.

It depends on your definition of "hoard." I agree with you that they don't literally stuff it into mattresses... usually.

> 100% of their cash is invested, even the money held in a checking account (because the bank loans it out to people who spend it).

I agree. But a question we might ask ourselves is how much of that money is invested productively. In other words, how much of it flows back into the hands of the consumers for the purchase of useful wealth that benefits them? The answer is: not all of it.

Then we can ask ourselves how much of that money flows into the financial sector and accumulates there without fueling the productive economy. The answer is: some of it.

From the perspective of the productive economy, the result is the same as if rich people were stuffing their money into mattresses.

So that money needs to be replaced. Historically, to the extent that we've replaced that money, we've tried to do it through the labor market and we've been moderately successful.

One of the things we do is monetary stimulus that increases the amount of lending in the private financial sector. Some of that lending goes to the creation of jobs that we probably don't need. It also destabilizes the economy by fueling credit bubbles like the one we saw collapse in 2008.

Basic income is an alternative. If you prefer, you can think of it as a form of fiscal stimulus that would allow the Fed to normalize interest rates.
A big problem is that the gov't is double-dipping on the benefits of higher education. They both benefit from higher taxes on earnings as well as interest of education loans.
Why are meshnets not popular and why is no one talking about them?

Can we start some discussion about software like cjdns?
I can't substantiate or refuse your Deanian Loss Theory here, but I do agree we abandoned swaths of voters (we being Hillary Clinton, I say while suddenly experiencing acid reflux). But where did the machine fail most? The swing states, the states that 'matter' for these elections. As per my parent comment.
Comcast is committed to free and open Internet, nothing to worry for now https://imgur.com/gallery/RPgJf
For me, the paper was of interest because of the ways that Spanner reduces the surface area of faults through controlling the networking and the application of a global clock.
Cute but demonstrably false. If Trump weren't President, this action would not have happened. Your failure to oppose Trump contributed to that.

Vague discussion of "a broken system" obscures the concrete reality and the results of your choices, which is likely why you choose to discuss the matter in this way.
To add to that as someone who grew up in Dallas, Texas, has lived in what many consider the most "liberal" parts of the U.S., and now back in Dallas (Texas forever); The thing I hear the most from people who have moved to Dallas recently or visiting is "Everyone here is so nice".
I hear it all the time. Even work colleges who are in town for business. I heard one say a few weeks ago how nice people are here after somebody waited a little longer holding a door open than what is considered normal.

I guess I've lived here most of my life and it's normal to me. You can literally strike up a conversation without almost anyone random and you won't get a disdained look back.

I think, in Texas at least, don't know about other areas of the south, many people will be surprised from how open people are in the cities. Now, in rural areas... yeah, no promise there. Rural people will love you at first site, but if you mention anything anything that contradicts their bible or the right to have a gun, most likely not. The cities surprise people who visit here though. They were not expecting the acceptance of things they thought everyone in the south was against.
I haven't looked at the W3C fork of our work, but in the actual HTML Standard (maintained at the WHATWG), menu was not completely removed---just the mostly-unimplemented context menu feature. We left menu as a semantic alternative to ol/ul for menu-like lists.

See more at https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/2742

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For more on removals within the WHATWG process, see:

- https://whatwg.org/faq#removing-bad-ideas

- https://whatwg.org/working-mode#removals

There's also the case of things like marquee, which are not removed, but just marked as obsolete and something that web developers must not use. (Which in practice means that conformance checkers like https://checker.html5.org/ are required to complain about them; it doens't mean there's some godlike web-developer-enforcement committee going around preventing you from writing code that uses marquee.) Their implementation requirements are still in the spec; see e.g. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/obsolete.html#the-mar... and https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/rendering.html#the-ma.... (Same for frame/frameset, by the way.)
Netflix is on the trajectory to becoming a monopoly, yes. HBO is hamstrung by its lucrative cable tv deals in the US, which prevents it from competing effectively with Netflix in the streaming market. They will keep making money hand over fist from cable tv until suddenly they don’t. If Netflix is Google, HBO is Yahoo. Amazon in this analogy, of course would be Bing. At a glance they seem to have what is required to compete with Netflix: Deep pockets and technological competence. But to compete in this market is for Netflix a matter of life or death, whereas for Amazon, it’s a side show.
As for the multitude of smaller competitors, they are all the search engines we’ve forgotten the names of or never heard of to begin with.
Personal opinion from first hand observance: Tolerance died approximately 3 years ago.
>if you can't find the courage to have a reasonable debate about your ideas..

The problem is that because of growing social polarization reasonable debates are becoming increasingly rare. Hoping to have a reasonable debate with people who are not looking to have a reasonable debate is silly and has nothing to do with courage.
They're meant for the older Mac Pros that could still have normal Nvidia GPUs in them. They just happen to work perfectly fine in Hackintoshes.