skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Signing up with phone number doesn't work for lots of young people I suspect. We don't have phone numbers of friends anymore, for example I have no phone numbers of even my closest friends, we have been communicating via internet since we have been teenagers (started with ICQ, then moved to emails then FB then whatsapp, never really needed to share our phone numbers as we don't ever call anybody nor send SMS).

This might be just specific to very international people like me who travel and work in many different countries so our phone numbers change often and keeping track of that is almost impossible.
> Netflix has 52 million subscribers in the United States.

Put another way, about five of every six Americans doesn't subscribe to Netflix.

> 55% of Americans watched Netflix in the last year.

That article is based on a "study" whose source is an online survey (surveymonkey) with 1046 respondents.

> 98% of Americans think internet speeds need to be improved.

Blogspam article which cites, though does not link, to an alleged study from Cambium Networks. Cambium Networks sells WISP equipment.

> Roughly 50% are 'satisfied' with their home internet speeds but this is according to the FCC, which has lied to me a lot recently.

Wow, that's a serious misrepresentation. It says that 50% are "very satisfied" with their internet speeds, but you conveniently left out the line that follows: an additional 41% are "somewhat satisfied" with their internet speeds. So it's really saying that 91% are 'satisfied' with their home internet speeds.

The broader point you can take from that document is that, between two different studies, only 20% of homes had respondents who were aware of their network speed... It's not a tremendous leap to assume that most people are not savvy enough to understand whether their network issues are caused by their ISP, or whether their network issues are caused by an old and flakey combo-WAP-router-modem that lacks modern developments in things like traffic shaping. A lot of hatred for ISPs probably comes from misinformed consumers cursing their ISP for network slowness that is actually due to wireless congestion or old/slow computers running a virus scan.

> This is a natural result of lightly-regulated monopolies and oligopolies. It doesn't mean that their choices not to invest are somehow best for the long-term growth of the internet, in any way shape or form. Their monetary incentives are not aligned with long-term growth of the Internet.

My argument is that there is no real monopoly, the average internet user has a lot of choices that meets the needs of their usage patterns-- usage patterns that seem completely alien to HN readers and reddit users.
Checkout the closeup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYbNlgQyz84
Microsoft has the choice to change that behaviour now that they own LinkedIn. It seems that they choose not to.
We know we’re all being analyzed eight ways to Sunday, but it’s in poor taste to remind us of that. A local bicycle club sent an email saying essentially “we know who’s been opening these club emails and who hasn’t. We’re watching you!” Guess who’s not a member of that club anymore?
Informed gun advocates can actually make a pretty compelling case against gun control, but few are interested in listening. Canada's gun control IIRC isn't that much stricter than the US's, yet there's significantly less gun crime. As Michael Moore pointed out in "Bowling for Columbine" culture seems to play a significant part.
Sure but I doubt it. For example after initial students on college campuses who started using Facebook, it has spread to older generations and people in 30s, 40s even 50s now use Facebook.

With Snapchat I don't see such trend. It has no website, only a confusing mobile app with horrid UX that most people can't figure out and is mostly used for adding pig noses and cat ears to pictures by teenagers.
End of an era... I remember buying a helio ocean over an original iphone because it had support for AIM.
I've played thousands of games of go. I understand go strategy. I don't understand the interface.
Neither of them is really high-powered, believe me. :)

But using one with old B boards could be excruciatingly slow at times, which is why I just had to upgrade mine - it’s since become a lot more productive in the sense that my tests take around 5 minutes instead of a whole hour :)
Hong Kong trains (and consequently, platforms) are a lot longer, meaning a train can fit a lot more people. They also run more frequently, especially during traffic hour. Mind you, Hong Kong trains also gets full doing rush hour (it's not rare to have to wait a train or two to get in, meaning 5 minutes top).

What annoys me in Singapore, especially with the East West line, is that there are so many people in the morning, yet the trains are tiny and run every 4 or 5 minutes only. You actually have to fight your way to get in and squeeze. I know the Downtown line doesn't seem to suffer as much, as there seem to be a lot less traffic (I assume the wealthier people who live along this line take their car?).

Hong Kong is bound to fail at some point though. They can't add more trains during rush hour, it's too late to make the station and trains longer, and some station are at saturation already. One of them, Admiralty, offers to commute on the same platform (i.e.: exit the train, walk straight to meet your correspondence). There are so many people that you sometimes hardly can exit the train, as the platform is too packed by people trying to get to the other train.

The density of population in Hong Kong (for the actually populated area, not the land as a whole) is staggering though, in my experience / feeling, a lot higher than Singapore or Tokyo/Yokohama.
I find myself confused about the tangle's tip selection algorithm. It seems that a new transaction must choose non-tip sites to confirm, otherwise the overall number of tips would decrease (since only one new tip is created while two become verified). The tip selection algorithm only seems to mention selecting "edge" sites.
Makes me think of the way Bear.app inplemented Markdown mode into its note taking experience. Looks similar.
RIP.

Browsing friends' creative AIM away messages were the precursor to that Snapchat status(?) feature I hear about.
> Seriously, silicon valley playing the role of "poor ole me" content provider that's "with the people" trying to defeat the big bad telecoms was completely absurd. I mean good lord, I am supposed to believe GOOG and APPL and FB and AMZN couldn't match lobbying efforts? Please.

What's not clear is how much money Google, Facebook, Amazon and Netflix put into firing up the keep net neutrality campaign, but I'd assume there was quite a significant war chest available, judging by the size of the outcry. There were "viral" vids showing up on Reddit for example where the channel looked a lot like it was run by a think tank or similar.
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I would love to see a cost analysis of a company moving to GCP/AWS.

We were a 6M customer flash sale company sold for $200M. We had 3 devops engineers mostly helping developers with designing the system and pager duty - mainly because 24/7 was to demanding for only 2 people. We were SOX/PCI compliant.

Hosting costs all in all by year were around the same as the salaries I'd say.

People who moved to AWS/GCP, would I save costs in this scenario moving to AWS/GCP?
Why is that surprising or disturbing? IBM has long ago moved towards becoming a service company and if they want a large slice of the Healthcare industry pie then they'll have someone focused specifically on that.
Initial Free Offerings as an Alternative to ICOs
Plot twist. An 8th planet is found orbiting a distant star with AI’s help.
After years of rubbish in the UK press about the impact of regulations from the EU, they can add protecting fish, bird and most likely human health to the list of 'harm' done. I'm glad the EU still cares about the environment.
Yeah, it's cat.jpg all over again, yet on an even more personal dataset. You'd think it would be obvious by now that this is a faux pas.
What does OTB and DS mean in this context?
That you won't have to sell your bitcoins doesn't imply the "whole economic system collapses". It just means you can buy all the goods and services you need directly in bitcoin.
That's also why vaccination is sacred, and anything done to harm it, or using it to cause harm, should be treated as a crime against humanity and have perpetrators dragged in front of the international court.

I'm, in particular, thinking of the assholes from CIA who thought it was a great idea to have its agents pretend they're being vaccinators, while in reality doing genetic testing in search for Bin Laden's family members. The resulting, fully justified, fear caused huge damage to Polio eradication efforts, and has cost some innocent health workers their lives.
Simple online color viewer
* plugin system

* console & web console

* dealing with testrpc and tests is much easier in embark

* better documented and more configurable

* embark CLI more powerful and has help, while truffle almost doesn’t

* truffle has so many trivial bugs that are unresolved for months, usually no even word in reply from developers. Embark developers seem to fix bugs faster.

* integration with IPFS, Whisper OOB.

* probably forgot something else important. Overall experience is so much better with Embark.
Or actually, Swiss German. Most people in Germany don't even understand Swiss German.
The two pieces of media referenced in the ancestor comment: On the Beach, and Doctor Strangelove.
We all know that services like this relies on a tonne of statistics, we also know that very little to none is personally identifiable. So it feels like trying to manufacture outrage over it, that it's flaunting how much 'scary data' you have on the users to say that a file has been accessed 56 times when everyones grandma would be fine with a viewcounter on every video.
Show HN: A lifeplan py script to plan activities
AngularJS vs. React Comparison 2017
> Android was the fastest to adopt, took about 2-3 years still though

Is that true though? The first iPhone released in June 2007, the first Android phone (already with proper touch interfaces) came out a year leater, in September 2008.
We did in a fashion- ever since the nukes made all mortals outcome in a war equal- those animals more equal then others avoided the slaugther.
state-regulated crypto currencies. It might sound strange, but Russia might be the first country that starts this practice. I wouldn't be surprised if Mr. Putin will make it part of his play book for the upcoming presidential elections. When it might be China. Once USA will throw Mr. Trump out of the WH and the sane person will rule the country, they will want to regulate crypto as well.
Completely agree. Even if it would be really bad for the ecosystem (it would likely have little impact), the benefits are so very vast out would be worth it.

This is an example of score insensitivity. How many humans die each year of malaria? If this was in Europe or America we would already have done it.
SWOT analysis of Ruby on Rails
On The Beach
Doctor Strangelove
Most software engineers would qualify for L1. One of the other requirements of L1 is that you need to spend a year in the company office outside of the US. During that year, you will learn some of the internal processes and technology used inside the company, which then will count as specialized knowledge.
Google is useful to everyone no matter if you're just a casual internet user or very technical, but a google page is like 80kb so it's not relevant in the conversation about what usage patterns are pushing the need for improvement of internet infrastructure.

Things like streaming media, file sharing, big game downloads, etc. are what's contributing meaningfully to filling up pipes and making it necessary to improve the links. And my point is that HN readers are far more likely to take part in these usage patterns, and underestimate how many Americans have zero interest in using the internet that way. They think that because their usage patterns could not be met by a cellular or satellite internet plan that it means that it wouldn't fit the needs of most everyone else, either. It's just not true.
I guess OTB = "On The Beach" and DS = "Doctor Strangelove"
Yeah , I do think there are those who believe in a collapse of normal economic systems but the reality is that things would probably just transition to it.
Really neat, especially focus mode. I don’t think we’ve problem space of note taking plus outliners yet, so anything with a new twist is welcome (and all the more so if it doesn’t use any weird formats).
No, in person voter fraud is well studied and considered so uncommon that it is a red herring. If it were truly considered a problem then mail in ballots would require some proof that the correct person voted. That's the low hanging fruit for vulnerability of voting, why isn't it fixed? You can't even catch the perpetrator! Because rural voters who support them would scream, they don't care about fixing the gaping security hole.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/12/16767426/...

1) has identity politics has been shown to be such a loser for republicans?
2) since more people voted for Hillary than Trump, is "universal" loathing actually a problem for presidential candidates?

Roy Jones won 6/7 districts and lost the popular vote. Pretty much the definition of gerrymandering,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/13/how-d...
By the way, I (the user you had replied to) fully support your phrasing, and even your comment — my original comment was a bit unstructured, so your question was valid, as it was easy to miss if someone doesn't know the German system.

So I am especially disappointed by the downvotes and the unasked for moderator action your comment got — it asked a valid question.
Reshuffling buttons when they added ribbon is what I would classify as "changing the color", not really a new functionality.

There are many things lawyers, bankers, consultants and accountants would need that Office doesn't do. Linking a spreadsheet to a powerpoint document is a nightmare right now. Linking spreadsheets between them too. There should be a way to express a UDF as a spreadsheet so that people who can't code could create their own UDF. I love Apple's Number canvas approach, where a sheet is not a grid but a canvas on which you can add grids or charts, and they overflow with a scrollbar. Etc.

There are lots of new functionalities they could add that would make people's life better. Instead these products barely evolved in 20 years. Click the "fx" button in excel 2016 and you will get the same non resizable dialog box with a tiny listbox and a search box that doesn't search anything than in Office XP.
> My point was simply that, as a matter of strategy, it would not be in YC’s interest to “vertically integrate” as you suggest.

Why do you believe this to be the case?

YC has sucked a substantial amount of oxygen out of the lower tiers, to the point where no matter where in the world you are as an early stage investor YC competes. What in particular do you feel will stop YC from doing the same thing for higher tiers, where - as far as I can see it - the only differentiating factor is the size of the tickets?
Both parties are irrational, but about different things. Both largely shaft their base and serve different segments of the oligarchy.
Anyone who seriously and unironically bases any kind of world view on either:

a) Memes, or
b) Lines from The Matrix

is probably not someone to take seriously.

In a catastrophe like our whole economic system collapsing (presumably somehow leaving Bitcoin's internet/mining ecosystem untouched) the last thing on anyone's mind is going to be computer money.
Some figures: I got my "every second month" injection of Eylea this morning, https://www.macular.org/eylea-injection-treatment. It cost $800 Australian dollars. Under our health scheme, I get $600 back. The guy beside me in the waiting room has been having injections for 17 & 1/2 years, that is, since the year 2000. He gets state-assistance to fly down 800 km to our capital city from the country. The lady across the aisle from me in the packed waiting room, has a relative drive her down from a regional town every second week, as she has macular degeneration in both eyes, with the alternate eye being treated on alternate visits. I give you these cases to illustrate that a lot of money is being presently spent on treating this disease. I have heard the incidence of macular degeneration in Australia described as an epidemic. Obviously, everyone would like a cheaper, longer-lasting treatment. That's what I am hoping the modified-virus treatment provides.

The figure that jumps out of the page for me in the modified-virus report, http://www.aips.net.au/news-events/the-florey-medal/2017-pro..., is "This therapy has been licensed to US company Avalanche Biotechnologies Inc., which has raised over $400 million to progress the treatment through clinical trials and bring it to market." This figure of US$400 million takes my breath away. I note one of Prof. Rakoczy's clinical trials in Australia on 32 patients was done with a AU$370 thousand grant, among others, https://demo.ands.org.au/long-term-follow-gene-therapy/10789.... I guess the US$400 million trial will be more extensive. This means a few more years will have to go by before this comes to market (if it indeed does).

I have found an open source article about Prof. Rakoczy's trial, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5161436/. I note they removed the vitreous humor to place the modified-virus under the retina (termed a vitrectomy), recording that "It is not yet clear if subretinal injection can be done safely without vitrectomy". They seem very pleased with the results of that phase 2 trial.
Thanks - sorry, I should have just put the full names.
Is it just my techbubble, but how can such a law come through, if the general public opposes it so much?
I mean how corrupt or ignorant have you to be to not notice this.
Made-up "relatable, viral" ad campaign fires back.
If identification were readily accessible and free then it would be a reasonable measure. But we don't live in a country like that-- instead we live somewhere where banks and credit unions get away with using SSNs for identification they weren't meant to provide. Once /federal/ IDs are free, readily accessible, and easy to replace when lost/stolen we will be ready to ID voters at the booths; that just isn't going to happen for a long time.
The AI felt Neptune is better off elsewhere, so it moved the planet to an orbit around a distant star.
Solving a Problem Isn’t Always Solving the Problem
Requiring ID often is voter suppression. Democrats repeatedly offer to support these requirements if ID is free and easy to obtain. Of course, republicans often actively work against that. In 2015 in Alabama, DMVs in predominantly black (and therefore democrat) areas were going to be closed closed by republicans in power, making it harder to obtain ID for democrats. Republicans have repeatedly been caught talking about how voter ID law is pushed only for partisan advantage. Is it really surprising the democrats are wary?

Yes, voter ID requirements, while not necessary by any metric I can see, sound reasonable, but they are being abused as a tool for suppression. If republicans truly care, they just need to include law that enforces free and easy access to ID for everyone.
Analytical techniques are incredible today. It's not unusual for the lower detection limit to be parts per billion or parts per trillion.

One ppt is 1 mg of material (smaller than a match head) dissolved in a cube of water that measures 100m on each side. Bigger than an Olympic sized swimming pool.

So the fact they said neonicotinoids were detected means nothing. The real question is how much was detected and dose that level have an impact on living organisms.
Ajit Pai Explains Life After Net Neutrality
> I've been to China and you can get thrown in jail for saying the type of things we say re. our political environment.

It's jail vs sacking; different aspects of the same reaction.
FPTP isn't really democracy, let alone whatever the electoral college is.
What is a SMS-only virtual number and why should you use it?
Carthage – A simple, decentralized dependency manager for Cocoa
If the gene makes individuals less viable, the distant cousin without the gene is going to outcompete carriers of the gene. Unless we come up with a way to inject a gene into all individuals in a biome simultaneusly, but in that case all offspring are going to have the gene, drive or no drive. If the gene makes offspring more viable, how will it wipe out anything, except maybe the individuals without the gene?
My last mail in ballot was rejected because the state of Texas thought the signature on the ballot and the signature on the envelope didn’t match.

So much for my scribble sig.
Unless this number is real and you are one of the 53 persons. I would definitely not be ok with the tweet if I was one of them.
Actually I'm surprised this article hasn't been flagged yet. Many of us feel the same, but it's unusual to discuss these things openly. Last time I saw the discussion was triggered by Google sacking Damore - and almost all discussions were flagged as soon as SF woke up.
The linked paper says this:

> we recommend here that ecological thresholds for neonicotinoid water concentrations need to be below 0.2 μg/L (shortterm acute) or 0.035 μg/L (long-term chronic) to avoid lasting effects on aquatic invertebrate communities

I assume the map refers to these values. μg/L is the same as parts-per-billion in case anyone was wondering.
30 bucks per USB LED Light, 15 bucks per USB cable... they don't choose cheap components.
> It's the most recent example of throwing net neutrality out the window.

Net neutrality is about the middlemen in the network, not the endpoints. You can't just point to every unfair or unethical business practice related to the Internet and call it a net neutrality violation. Net neutrality has a more specific meaning than that.
Yes, people are quick to forget that Obama's FCC was not anxious to implement these rules and did not do so until the very end of Obama's term, presumably because they knew it wouldn't hold up very long and by getting it done in the administration's final gasp, they could keep it as a feather in their political cap and pass the burden of "net neutrality repeal" onto the next guy.

Interestingly, amidst the jokes about Tom Wheeler leaving babies to the dingos, I don't recall much of a lament over the "consequences" of electing Obama. It wasn't until after this point that Wheeler reversed course, likely after the party realized this issue had teeth with one of their important constituencies. This "you asked for it" anti-Republican line is pure opportunism.
For anyone, like me, who is not familiar with the cat.jpg faux pas:

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3078-trust-is-fragile
The trouble is there is no individuating information at the first meeting.
This makes the hiring (like most hiring) subject to prejudice. Which may or may not be justified or accurate. What was measured was difference in hiring rather than performance.

Unsurprising at all. The cure is either blind auditions or extended trial periods.
Or impartially designed tests.

Tricky question is who is supposed to bear the cost.

That is if they problem really is of big magnitude and worth solving in the specific case. Which is done by measuring the magnitude and outcomes rather than detecting presence of prejudice.
Then investigating the causes by hard analysis rather than politically biased guesswork.
the fact that it looks really cool likely has surprisingly strong effects on student motivation and work/attention levels, leading to more learning, which is the sole target here