skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might be worth reminding everyone of a dead Microsoft project called VSTA, which was basically a live .net IDE embedded in Office. Effectively a mini visual studio inside any office application, where you can write any .net language. This would have allowed people to script in VB.net, C# or F#. Microsoft killed the project before it shipped (but licensed VSTA as a scripting tool for third party apps for a while). It's a pitty. I think this would have been a better solution than python.
Los Angeles is too big for that over the entire area but parts of LA like North Hollywood could become an opportunity to setup a microwave wireless ISP that covers an entire neighborhood in LA like North Hollywood or Santa Monica.
Personal MS Word anecdote: Word 2016 can successfully open and render my final year University project report, compiled in 1996 using Word 6.0. It contains a bunch of embedded images, tables and moderately complex diagrams drawn using Visio 2.0.

The report is saved across six .doc files, due to the size limitation of the 3.5" floppy disks we were using back then.
As an Indian, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to make of your analogy...
It's some kind of philosophical ethics problem that we can't experiment on humans even though there would be a net benefit. I feel like there are morally unintuitive solutions that may help - perhaps criminals of certain kinds, who have damaged society, could repay their debt, in part, by volunteering for trials we can be sure they understand. We might also leverage The suicidal by offering, after therapy, a way for them to live in comfort while contributing to humanity as experimental subjects.

I realize the mind recoils instinctively at these ideas, but it seems so frustrating and horrific that we have to delay life saving medical advanced due to insufficient experimental subjects.
I hope the guy at comcast searching through false positives gets paid.
How ever did society function without the Internet? Were all leaders just dictators leading up to the 90s? It's hyperbolic crap like claiming this is the very foundation of free speech that leads people with opposing views to disengage, leave you to your echo chamber, and then surprise you when they pass regulation that represents their views.
The typical proposal from the leftist NIMBY camp is to harden rent control, eliminate no-fault eviction, and require that any new housing production be allocated to existing needy residents by government lottery. Optionally add downzoning to reduce landlord incentives to let buildings die of neglect (no opportunity to build anything more profitable). This effectively makes it impossible for outsiders to displace anyone.
Quite its common for those caught hacking whos parents have money - that they suddenly become diagnosed with autism which pisses off those with autism
Glad to hear that the Excel team is finally listening to your requests on this one. It's been a long time coming.
Too bad they weren't interested during the TC days. If it does happen, it would be great if you could get the Cloud Numerics effort rebooted as well. There might still be a few people from our old team at NERD capable of resurrecting it.
Excel VBA is not .Net though. It's plain old VB code in text files inside the .xlsx, and you just have to trust it (or not).
If having a different opinion and stating it in a sarcastic way is a problem for you Americans, then net neutrality is not your biggest problem.
That's a great question, one that I wish all this energy would go into addressing.
True, and it's probably also worth noting that even "single gene" diseases can still be environmental illnesses; dependent on a modern condition or conditions that didn't occur a hundred thousand years ago or more; and nonexistent (despite the presence of that gene) back then.
And when a market doesn't take care of itself the people are the ones to suffer, no matter which party they are part of or voted for.

Mortgage industry was self-regulated and politicians just balled out the bad actors.

It is about "finding" simple and reliable regulations, since there is no true "etched in stone" regulations.

Regulations have a shifting baseline. Say 100 fish are in a lake. Regulate that only 20 maybe harvest a year. This goes on for 10 years and in the 11th they are all gone. Write once regulations do not account for changes in the environment / market environment.
Seriously tho, I know at least 40 persons from my inner circle that left FB in last two years. To be honest, I feel stupid by ever registering but what now. Guess it's times for other, Facebook does not add any life-social values at all.
5G networks could very well change that. Right now people rely on LAN, however it's very possible that with the growth of 5G people will just use over the air internet rather than having their own setups everywhere they go.
Google fiber was a flop as those of us who played in the ISP land knew it was going to be.

Being an ISP is running an sewage treatment network. It is not sexy.
This is to script spreadsheets, not build the next Netflix.

I would hate a typed language in there. Besides most static typing systems are ridiculously weak and introduce more headaches than they actually solve.
I know it's heretical amongst the Finance types... but one of the few reasons to use Sheets over Excel is for its scripting abilities. This will remove that advantage.
One day the people may wake up to realize some things. Like voting R or D does not matter because they share the same di5k to eff you with. There is no difference between the two parties. None. The rhetoric is different but the actual voting records show they are the same animal. Beholden to the same military industrial complex/corporate masters.

They may also realize that if voting actually changed anything it would be illegal.

Neither of which I expect to see in my lifetime. I also have little faith in the intelligence or critical thinking of my fellow countrymen when they can’t seem to understand the above or do anything about it.

Just not a lot of faith. Others will argue I’m wrong. As the red white and blue di5k keeps pounding them in the backside.

As George Carlin noted when you are born in this world you are given a seat to the freak show, when you are born an American you are given a front row seat.
Good, all of the damn Netflix traffic is affecting my online gaming. /s

People can bluster all they want about price increases, but this is something that's been a long time coming. Netflix has increased the scope and variety of their offerings over their lifetime, especially the addition of Netflix originals (the real ones, not the per-market-originals). I would expect an increase in price.
Many seem to think that the right to vote on zoning is embedded in real estate ownership.
The question is how much those architectures encode insights about how to play the game well, vs just how to play the game at all. After all, you have to teach general-purpose humans the rules of each specific game.
I guess there is nobody from 163 people who starred subj on GH who works professionally with photopea. So it's a fun and joke, no more.
Responding to edits:

> Programming languages are mathematical objects and always have a formal semantics, regardless of whether someone has taken the trouble to write it down or not.

Not true for the usual plain-english meaning of "programming language". Plenty of things we call programming languages take a "the implementation is the spec" view, or simply can't be assigned any useful semantics in a way that's at all aligned with the defining characteristics of the language in question. Even in, say, Haskell, io explicitly lacks formal semantics.

> What I'm saying is - the formal semantics that most languages have preclude the existence of compound values. Without those, you can't define interesting functions, and thus you can't program in a functional style.

Python tuples are perfectly cromulent compound values. Python has a bunch of builtin classes for which the equality operators that are available in the language are all kind of useless, sure, but that's true in almost all languages.
> On the one hand, I view the early internet as saving me/raising me.

There is also the path not taken: perhaps you'd have been better off without the Internet.

I do not know you nor do I believe I can make these value judgements. Just a thought.
I think this is true, but it also ignores the fact the U.S. does not have nearly as strong anti-fraud and competition law as in Europe.
Ask HN: Newsletter platform suggestions
Hi! I'm planning to start a digital culture newsletter as a hobby. Searching for platform options to use for sending emails, I though asking the HN crowd would maybe help me find the perfect fit. What I'm looking for is:

- Plain-text emails: I'll send plain-text only emails. Because I'd rather receive plain-text ones.

- No tracking: I don't need it. Knowing how many subscribers I have should be more than enough.

- No tracking links: I do not want the service to obscure the links behind tracking links. I don't need to track what readers do with the mails. Mailchip does this.

- No lock-in: I should be able to export my data at any time and say bye.

- Initially free: I'm a student, and I'd rather not invest any money in this until it's got some traction and can pay its bills through for example a Patreon campaign. The free until N subscribers plans would be the most useful.

And finally I'd like to avoid anything anti-privacy, as I value privacy very highly myself.

I plan to spend this weekend reading ToSs and FAQs so any help is more than appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Who cares? The whole eye prescription thing seems like a shakedown anyway. Keep paying for a new Rx every 2 years if you want new glasses/contacts even if you can still see crystal clear with your current prescription.

I got a glasses prescription 5 years ago and haven't paid for another one because I can still see 20/20. I order my glasses from Zenni where you can just punch the prescription in and get the glasses in the mail.

This is a non-story.
I recall seeing in the wild an HTTP User Agent string that included a EULA for the server stating essentially that they, not the client, were on the hook for any BS if they failed to immediately close the connection.

IANAL but, uh, seems legit... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>"Python is great for scripting and for small projects but ..."

You mean like Dropbox, Evernote, Ansible, OpenStack etc.
I still remember my excitement after getting my first iphone (4), and how fast later i realized that my happiness visibly worsened. Now after 25 years working in IT I’m saving money to start a new life in the countryside.
I tremble when some people says we must teach programming to children.
An appeal to popularity is not really a logical fallacy if someone is arguing that something is (effectively) unpopular.
Local loop unbundling as in the UK does.
People are doing that because he is a piece of sh*t that has sold the American people to corporations (I am not American).
Ahhhh Annapolis... Home to a big naval academy & supporting infrastructure/economy. That sounds great. My hope is to find a sweet/similar deal somewhere between Laurel & Crystal City.
Until the line infrastructure is no longer owned by the monopolistic ISP / cable companies, talking about competition is all pie in the sky.

The problem is a portion of the US has no good network infrastructure. Another significant portion of the US has only 1 provider servicing them with decent internet connectivity.

A new market entrant will need years to dig and install adequate coverage for even urban US locations. Meanwhile, the US consumer will suffer shit service and outright market manipulation.
I wonder just one thing, why Google, Facebook, Amazon and Netflix didn't do real move about this?
The US is such an absurd country. You can buy guns and a lot of serious drugs that are labelled as supplements freely, yet you need a prescription for lenses...

Do you also need a prescription for glasses?
Yeah, I think this gets to my core objection to the essay. It presents as being in favour of free speech, yet also implicitly says that anyone questioning progress (in more or less any form) is dangerous.

The idea that you should be able to say or do whatever you want and also be shielded from criticism of those ideas is silly. Especially when you're some of the most rich and powerful people in the 21st century. No-one is stopping you from doing anything, they're just questioning you about it. If you can't (or don't want to) answer those questions then maybe you should consider why that is.
Ive found on my 16GB phone I can either have the facebook app or every other app that I want but not both at the same time . It takes up an insane amount of space for a mobile app and they for some reason need to update it once a week. Needless to say I use the browser now to check fb.
No need to do wireless.

Contrary to the claims made if one is to remove municipal blocks fiber is very easy and very cheap to install. What makes fiber installation expensive is municipal regulations
I've got Comcast gigabit, in San Mateo county.

I took the time today to inquire (again) with Wave/Astound, Sonic, AT&T about FTTH.

AT&T gave me the worst rep humanly possible. I spent 20mins on the phone with her for her to still utterly misunderstand my question, as she was apparently unable to understand or speak english. I already knew Gigapower was not available, I just want SOMEONE to tell me when they plan to offer service at my house, less than a mile from the Redwood City / Spring St CO. No luck.

Sonic did the usual "maybe if you sign up for DSL and you talk all of your friends and neighbors into signing up, we'll vaguely consider bringing FTTH in 2050".

Wave actually had me enter my info and said someone would check my neighborhood (!?) and get back to me within a couple of days.

I'd love to pay, whatever, $1000 to get someone to bring some FTTH here and subsequently make it available to neighbors, improve their local service offerings, etc.

We'll see.
While I agree in general that this is a trend and we will see more of it, keep in mind that Pai was an Obama appointee (at the request of McConnell) in 2012 and Trump simply promoted him to Chairman.
WA Gov. Inslee promises to keep net neutrality in alive in state
Unfortunately, MyPy doesn't work well with libraries or third party packages and treats external objects as `ANY` type. You can work around this with stubs but it's not fun writing type annotations for third party objects / functions. typeshed exists for the standard library and various popular third party libraries[1] to solve this very problem.

[1] https://github.com/python/typeshed
You must be young?

I remember a time when you couldn't text to other carrier, while Europe had it since the 90s.

I remember how your carrier would not let you use facetime/skype etc....

Anyway, you are paying for access to internet and you should have it.

This is akin to letting a private entity building a private highway on a public ground, and the owner of the highway can say: Only Audis and BMWs are allowed here...
This would be awesome! I've built some tools using VBA and found it to be the most painfully unpleasant programming language I've ever used. Python is by contrast the most pleasant!
I think you are underestimating how resource intensive advanced editing with Photoshop is. I think you can get a lot of basic stuff into the browser but then you'll probably hit a wall.
Uhh, it literally says "Google Cloud" right there in the headline. Not AWS.
USA is a democratic republic...

Also, USA is the world empire AKA superpower.
> There is no difference between the two parties. None. The rhetoric is different but the actual voting records show they are the same animal.

Er, no, actual voting records of Congress and regulatory agencies like the FCC show a whole host of issues on which the parties are very different.

Including, relevant to this discussion, the consistent absolute partisan split on net neutrality at the FCC.
HTML had tag omission and other minimization features from day one since HTML is based on SGML which formalizes these notions. If by mix of various syntaxes you mean CSS, then I have to agree with you. There never was a need to define a new syntax for item/value pairs; plain markup attributes were and are sufficient for presentation properties.
Well that is not really true depending on if the state has ever regulated something in the past. For example cars used to come with CA emissions standard as an item because CA regulated air quality before the federal government. It is not in cache right now but I believe they way it came down was if the state has regulated in the past and the state rules are stronger then the federal then the state wins.
Ah, I should have read the original post being replied to more carefully.
To its defense VBA litterally hasn't been updated in 20 years. It's hard to hold a 90s language to the 2010s standards.
Off topic but why Notepad++?
That makes no sense. If california voters did anything other than voted for the candidate with the D next to their name, not everyone would assume their massive pile of votes will always go Democrat. California voters matter way more than any swing state, it's just so predictably one-sided that nobody bothers to waste time there.

The same thing would happen in a pure democracy. No candidates would spend time placating any large population centers that consistently vote one way. LA/SF/NYC issues would be irrelevant because everyone will just pick the D each time anyway so it will still come down to appealing to groups that might change their minds.
I've never heard of him, and probably so haven't a lot of people on Twitter. I don't see why we should give him authority
It would be a shame if your VPN was in the slow lane and could only push 56k because fast lane services being sold to "unsavory" businesses were against policy at the 2 major residential ISPs you can choose from.
Or Google...
What a joke
Probably because Google extends really really good deal to them for the PR effect.

I don't think Etsy should consider itself as a competitor to Amazon, they simply can't. On the other side, AWS already has so many success stories that they are unlikely cater to Etsy specifically. That makes GCE the best option out there. As to Azure, I think people trust Google more as to cloud-based technology than Microsoft.
You realize Kim Jong Un wants nukes so he doesnt get the same treatment as Saddam and Ghadaffi right?

Its just a self deterrent.
You may disagree but saying that it doesn't make sense is quite a stretch. I will nonetheless address your points :

1) Throttling is addressed by decentralizing the web with technologies such as Web Torrent. If every user is a seeder, there is not much the ISP can do. At the same time, the reason tech giants may not be happy with this approach can be understood, but then it is their choice and ISPs should not be blamed. Once this category of heavy traffic is out of the way, with regards to FQDNs if the traffic is lightweight, then throttling wouldn't make anysense. My guess also is that discriminating based on FQDNs provided lightweight packets would be blatantly anti-competitive. It would be similar to denying access based on race. Also, keep in mind that the only thing ISPs are saying is that companies driving more traffic (namely streaming companies) should pay more. So the chinese-like firewall you described is highly unlikely.

2) Too slowly, you can't make a product based on any of the disruptive features as of today. Support is barely existing and not mature enough. If they really wanted it, it would already be done because while the modern web is progressing slowly, these companies manage to iterate much more complex features on their other products. For example, while we've been struggling with the shitty Internet Explorer, Microsoft managed to literally roll out their very complex enterprise cloud business and scale it from zero to a multi-billion dollars segment. This and the .NET Core stuff. Similar things can be said of Apple and Google. Let's be real. In 2017, we should be at the stage where all the backbones are long done and they are rolling out their implementations of the bluetooth spec.

3) Prices may go up on Netflix, but they'll go down on comcasttube.com (if the service is not outright included in the ISP subscription price). Then they'll go down again on Netflix. Regarding the point on the richness of the web, this is not the way I think it will pan out for the reasons I explained. And part of my point was that, with this regard, tech giants getting real with the modern web has much more to do with it than NN, despite the rational currently being pushed by the valley.
Does it matter? If he's still keeping in touch with the friends & family that he truly cares about, then anything he "misses" probably wasn't important enough for those people to mention to him in person / text / chat / on the phone / whatever.

And if it wasn't important enough to mention, why care about it?
Older, wealthier Americans are the new renters
Speaking from today's perspective, you're correct. But it won't be long until all the third parties et. al figure out they too can get into the paid access game. Contracts will be revised. Rents will be extracted. Because there are no regulations to put a check on greed.
Possible, but... Russia being able to mobilize faster at the start of WWI than the Germans believed possible diverted enough additional troops East (busting their original plan) that the German invasion of France was too weak to succeed. There may be a better argument for Russia being stronger than could reasonably have been expected. Granted, French-subsidized railways and Austrian incompetence were very large factors, here.

The follow-on Kerensky government proved even less effective militarily, although it can be argued that the consequences of a century of mismanagement favoring the 1% wasn't easily reversed.

Malaria has defeated many an army and invasion; yellow fever, too. The fall of Rome has been blamed on a severe plague; particularly the fact that Rome was hit last, and therefore weak when it's neighbors were recovering and stronger.
If "Office Space" chronicled the 1990s, and "Silicon Valley" the 2000s, "Idiocracy" may predict the 2020s. Mike Judge for Prophet?
I've been buying contact lenses online for around a decade now and never once had to prove I had a prescription.

It's saved my ass a few times while traveling.
Just as a nit, "font-size:10pt" is a lot worse than <font size="2"> from an accessibility perspective. <font size="2"> is "one notch below the user's default size". If the user sets a 20pt font, it's going to be larger than 10pt.

You could use "font-size: small" to get the size="2" behavior.

(Also, "font-family: Whatever", not "font-face: Whatever".)
Here is a suggestion: If you're going to write yet another tutorial on elliptic curve digital signatures and you find yourself explaining the operation of the group law: you've probably messed up.

ECDSA and friends work fine in an abstract group model. Virtually everything interesting about the signature algorithm is indifferent to the details of the group. Moreover, the group operator will remaining largely opaque except in a false-knowledge monkey-see-monkey-do sense without a substantial amount of number theory education that these sorts of tutorials never provide; and which aren't really that useful except for implementers (and if an implementer is learning it from one of these tutorials I fear for the security of the result).

So I recommend: just present the idea of an abstract group and its relevant properties, then continue on with the high level algebra. For most people this would be a lot more informative.