skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question: why not use both? If spinning up cloud computing resources is the most cost-efficient way to do those computing tasks, why not have that be the route for doing one-off computing tasks while your own machines run the workload for recurring stuff? Is there overhead for not having 100% of your computing done on a cloud platform that I'm not aware of or something?
Good for The People - bad for Google. Actually those are the same thing.
Maybe Wireless could be a solution, but maybe if one group leads the way, others may follow. The events that brought on the regulation were small, and increasing in influence and frequency.

I don't follow the "Chicken Little" take. I see it more as a downward slope. It will be introduced as a benefit at first—and whatever allows these kinds of companies a significant increase in margin, they will ultimately pursue. If there's something to be counted on in the whole mess it's greed (and, in turn, stock performance). In this way, corporate bodies have one permissible direction.

The wireless situation here in Canada would be more dire, as the same companies operating cable/sat television packages, internet, and wireless tend to be one of 4 conglomerates who own and operate a few subsidiaries. Outside of a small number of independents, we would ultimately be stuck. Considering those same conglomerates own most of the infrastructure, we might be stuck regardless who operates our consumer-level services. (edit) Should something like this occur in Canada.
Ask HN: ELI5 how is the HW encryption in iMac Pros better than standard Macs?
Hi HN. The new iMac Pro is nearly ready for sale, and one of the touted features is a "T2" chip that performs hardware encryption. How is this encryption scheme better than what is currently offered with standard Macs a la FileVault 2 FDE?
Zappa isn't just for WSGI, you can also build massively parallel event driven applications with async task invocation!

https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa#asynchronous-task-executio...

:D
I get that, but when you have that first estimation meeting with the team they inevitably ask what a point is. They get the relative sizing idea but you still need to size the first stories.
Definitely a common narrative. This is from yesterday:

College gets $50 million from student who barely graduated
http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/13/technology/datto-startup-rit...
I absolutely agree that Ethernet is ideal and the correct solution for modern systems. Have you worked with EtherCAT at all?
I've not input prescription in 800 contacts in years and consistently order contacts without a problem. I don't think this as unique a situation as is being implied.
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"We rarely hear the other side of issues and those with differing views are often derided in harsh language."

@king_phil you are helping to legitimize this claim made by @jnordwick
The thing is, even renewable energy sources are not that green. The energy that is diverted for human use used to take part in atmospheric, geologic and biological/ecological processes. It is also disruptive (if less than carbon dioxide emissions).
Perhaps you should start by sharing yours!
Along the same lines, curious, what if it was a WiFi mesh network connected to a gateway node. You could bridge cities/regions by gateway. Inspiration stemming from Havana’s 50mi mesh intranet.
How the hell is the scraper dev supposed to anticipate how poorly-written these particular views are with no backend knowledge? If not an automated scraper, a thundering herd from content gone viral would trigger the same result.
Second this. There needs to be a clear benefit to following someone, and not just because he is a boss put there.
What I would be worried about is that the same practices of monetization that killed Facebook are seeping into Instagram. At what point are they just a poison that slowly kills anything it touches? I think they already are but the deaths are slow.
Milwaukee WI in the early 1900s had a Socialist Major and administration. Voted in to help stop corruption. Turns out his legacy is alive and well today. Summerfest is one of the worlds largest musical festivals. Original grounds for Summerfest was factories along the lake. Him and his administration turned it into a park. Everyone benefits from a park while factories come and go.

Good politicians make a difference not the party. And by no means is the President of China a good politician.
> A very small subset of iPods were filled up with the plus +$10K cost of 'legal' music.

But they were actually filled with some legal music, prior to iTunes there wasn't really "one unified place" for purchasing digital music, most mp3's came from physical CD's people ripped privately.

A couple of flatrate services popped up before/around the same time, but these mostly turned out to be illegal offerings, so it was mostly iTunes which stuck around in the beginning and formed the market.

> While they may have flirted with 'legal' music as a revenue stream

They still have impressive market shares in digital music distribution, they have started to lose ground to streaming services like Spotify and music labels finally adapting to the digital age but afaik iTunes was and still is a major player in digital music distribution.
> Are there risks involved with that? Like for example, they could start playing games with you by saying 'sorry we're doing construction for a week, you can't access your office' ?

Probably? I've never written up a plan using an actual monopoly telco's CO, exactly for this reason. It's easier to find anywhere else to start from, and usually cheaper too.

I only mention it because my experience is mostly suburban / small city related, and I know the majority of small ISP / WISP guys are hyper-rural. They may not have any other options available to them.
Not sure that's always true - otherwise CARB and other such state agencies wouldn't exist (https://www.arb.ca.gov).
No, that was made by Lucasfilm Animation, a division of Lucasfilm. LucasArts is the name of the video game developer and publisher.
> My network carrier already does some anti net neutral things that I like.

What happens when they start doing things you don't like?
There is also pyspread as a full spreadsheet implementation using and for Python: https://manns.github.io/pyspread/
In San Francisco there's local ISP called MonkeyBrains that uses microwave tech to create a wireless network in the city. They put a receiver on top of your apartment/building and then run cat5 or use existing cable. It's pretty awesome and fast. So it can be done. I'm hopeful that people will be inspired to create their own local ISP in light of the new rules.
I'd venture the "without results" caveat just above that link might be why.
This is exactly how we got IE market dominance back in the day.
Evidence Based Scheduling (2007)
"The most watched minute of video made in the last five years shows baby Charlie biting his brother’s finger. (Twice!) That minute has been watched by more people than the viewership of American Idol, Dancing With The Stars, and the Superbowl combined. (174 million views and counting.)"

Not sure why the two use cases are presented as directly competing. The popularity of long form scripted content on Netflix and shows like Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, etc., are huge and not going away even though the methods of distribution are changing from linear broadcast with commercials over cable/satellite to subscription on-demand OTT without ads. That's the transition taking place rather than hours spent viewing 1 minute viral videos taking away from hours spent watching high cost production long-form content otherwise the ratings would be crashing for those shows and Netflix wouldn't be spending billions on production.

Seems like a false dichotomy.

At least a few times per week I go through the YouTube and Vimeo apps on the Apple TV and apart from catching up on late night talk shows on YouTube, and some interesting short-form content on Vimeo, it doesn't at all replace watching high quality (expensive, complex) content from iTunes and Netflix.

The article also doesn't cover live programming at all, which is increasing exponentially in complexity for things like sports (Olympics coverage, specifically) but also a ton of live event production that wasn't possible before complexity (new technology) increases. Again, user-generated live (Periscope, YouTube) is additional, and doesn't replace watching that content either. There's a ton of room for more complexity with new technology for things like the Super Bowl with tiny 4K cameras in each helmet and delivery over web streaming with viewers watching from whatever angle they want, etc., that user generate content has no means of replacing.

The challenge is managing the shift from ad revenue to subscription revenue, and subsequent competition for the consumer's total monthly subscription budgets, rather than complex production being challenged by non-complex (user generated) content.

Unlike the AT&T example listed, large companies are already aggressively moving towards acquiring content rights and shifting to building OTT/VOD platforms, which is a key motivator of the recent large acquisitions like AT&T (ironically) and Time Warner / Turner / HBO, and Disney and Fox... the pivot is underway and whether or not it is successful doesn't seem related to those companies not being able to simplify but rather if they can avoid a fall in revenue from loss in ad sales during the transition process.
Some bad policy there from the FCC. The best outcome now would be if Google + Facebook + AWS, etc partnered and started charging domestic ISPs a price to access their content. Amazon is the elephant here because they can introduce a clause in the AWS agreement giving themselves the power to negotiate like this.

If they did it now, at the outset of this policy, it would be hard for ISPs to claim "antitrust" since the four horsemen would effectively be protecting smaller websites.

The alternative is the charge going the other way, with ISPs gaining the power to slice and dice the internet up, with small websites possibly having to pay more than one ISP.
If you click on the "Share results" button it will generate a shareable URL for you.
No one is absolutely tolerant of every other position. The question is to what degree one is willing to tolerate (or more important: accept) other points of view.
please do that
Oh i get it. My wife loves Facebook. It gives her a perfect easy way to communicate with the people she wants to communicate with.

I don't hate Facebook. I just don't have any reason to use it.

I do hate ads though and i will keep trying to stop them.
The Battle Between Discount Retailers: Costco, Walmart, Target, Best Buy
I think TWC didn't implement any of the anti-consumer technical measures not due to altruism, but due to a lack of technical acumen. They implemented anti-consumer human measures because they had that ability.
I’m thinking something like the onion plus a conglomerate fee for first class citizen level prioritization.
It is a democracy quickly turning into an oligarchy. In a democracy, people's voices get heard. In an oligarchy, $$ gets exchanged. This is exactly what is happening. Rich donors and lobbyists are buying Republican votes so they can avoid paying taxes and screw the middle class. The middle class has been shrinking for decades now. The rich gets richer and poor gets poorer is the best sign that oligarchy government is happening.

Also, as other poster mentioned, socialism != communism. Grab a book, read about it.
It's in the list but when you click on it, it says "Some of the languages you are using are not yet officially supported in Lambda, but there are still runtime workarounds. Here are some resources:" and links to a blog post about running Haskell on Lambda.
First, your condescending tone is unnecessary.

Second, the last Republican president and FCC commissioner, Michael Powell, defended and enforced net neutrality. So this wasn't a given.
Why Consumers Need a Neutral Option
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Matt Mights "Winning the War on Error: Solving the Halting Problem and Curing Cancer" is one that is well worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdmQUlD7P40

previous discussion on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15066805
You can do the same thing (just run a horizontally scalable container for me with per-second billing) on AWS Fargate: https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/

It will also support Kubernetes pods next year.

Disclaimer: I work for AWS.
I would expect you to get ranted at because of its alignment with the Confederacy in the Civil War, which otherwise pretty much defines "the South" as a geographic term in common usage. South = Confederate states, North = Union states, West = a few physically separate states and various non-state territories at the time. At least with the North and the South, less so with the West, these groupings lasted long after the end of the civil war due to the effects of reconstruction and cultural identity related to the outcome of the war.
Their safety net is their lobbying power, which hasn't changed.
As usual, this kind of misses the point. Trampolining for TCO/TCE is fun, but not really worth it. Rather it's cool for concurrency and scheduling, like in Twisted. Dabeatz had a great tutorial in 2009 (using Py 2.5+ - oh my! :-)): http://www.dabeaz.com/coroutines/
Was hoping to find a kindred spirit in this thread who thinks García Márquez's books are utter pap.
I couldn't agree more. When it comes time to sum up this administration with one word, "sad" will be it.
Python 3 supports optional type annotations that you can check with something like flake8.
Net Neutrality and the English Enclosure Movement (2014)
Servers.lol was a side project for us to figure out if some of our own workloads were a good fit. Our day jobs are to build tooling for serverless applications. You can find more at http://iopipe.com
They're really dropping the ball by not using powershell
> Based on similar techniques, many single-gene disorders are effectively cured.

This is a bit of a leap. In principle (some of) the technology "is there" but there is a huge amount of complexity in the steps 1 through 5!

> Yet doctors can't engage in this work without going through the lengthy drug trial process.

I think it needs to be said that the "lengthy drug trial process" exists for extremely good reasons. Were a treatment to be shown to be so incredibly effective during the trial process, based on pre-defined statistics monitored by an independent data safety monitoring committee, the trial would be stopped as it would be unethical not to provide all patients with the clear benefits. (recent example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29132880)

> So instead, they recommend much riskier treatment options including some that would complicate future gene-therapy attempts.

I believe it is unquestionable that doctors should be advocating treatment based on the best available evidence, and that the process for obtaining said evidence is a thorough and rigorous as possible, otherwise great harm can be done (classic example, thalidomide).

I would question the doctor that routinely recommended an experimental treatment which has not been shown to be efficacious
over a "risky procedure" which has been shown to have $X efficacy.

Making patients aware of trials which may be of benefit to them is a valid and valuable part of medical practice, which is not always done very well. This is improving (in the UK at least) with greater numbers of research nurses and the use of databases such as https://www.ukctg.nihr.ac.uk.
>the 'scope' of Net Neutrality as the term is used in the US press

I believe it is intentionally kept vague, such that people who do not support the agenda of Google/Facebook/Amazon may be labeled as "anti Net Neutrality", which simply sounds bad.
It should be noted, however, that in that ancient society, such noble (third-type) relationships tended to be multi-generational; that is, to take place between "allied" families/clans with good working relationships of longstanding. So while there might be no carefully-judged reciprocity between the clans individuals, there was reciprocity over generations between the clans they each belonged to.

He also doesn't mention another common sort of friendship at that time (particularly in Athens) - mutual memberships in small societies of young men whose bond was breaking laws (often sacred laws) together; a form of hazing since any one could turn the rest of the group in and probably get them all the death penalty or exile, their guilt was their bond. In modern times, profoundly embarrassing (or illegal but consenual) hazing activities done in secret perform a similar function. These relationships would look like type-3 relationships from the outside. Slaves or residents, or females (which is to say, non-citizens) would not generally be able to form such noble relationships since they would not have the stability or standing to make them work over generations.

It's very hard to get around the principle of reciprocity in human relationships, because unconscious mind.
Like you, I don't think it's an entirely trivial issue to figure out what should or shouldn't be defended. An article that tremendously helped me shape my thinking on this is "Tolerance is not a moral precept"[1]

In a nutshell - tolerance is a mutual agreement, and the protections of tolerance only apply to those who would uphold those protections. If you deliberately step outside these bounds - "gay people are evil" clearly doesn't tolerate gay people - you have lost the right to be tolerated.

I disagree with the ACLU on protecting neo-nazis on those grounds. They have positioned themselves outside of civil society, with the deliberate goal of destroying that society.

Does that mean we should restrict neo nazi speech? I honestly don't know. I do believe we shouldn't protect it, and I do believe we should shun people who subscribe to those ideas, but does that mean we should make it illegal? It's a very tough question.

It's not what I'm arguing, either. But I am arguing that Sam disingenuously conflates two things, and to make it more interesting would like to get rid of speech that harms his business interest while he's OK with speech that has provably caused physical harm over and over.

He's unhappy with his ethics being questioned, and dresses it up in a free speech argument. That is what I dislike about this.

[1] https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1...
While RF transmissions keep getting better and better, sending data over a link where you own the entire spectrum (Copper, fiber) is always going to be faster to maket a given speed than doing so in an environment where you share spectrum and interferences with the rest of the world.

This week I'm upgrading my connection to gigabit up/down over DOCSIS 3.1. While my own wifi supports near gigabit speeds, it will be a while before whole neighborhoods can enjoy the same over cellular service.
I don't have time to find a source right now, but I think conservatism is declining on college campuses. It certainly is among faculty members.
> The news on there is trash

Since when did Facebook become a news outlet? Oh wait...
> The thing I hear the most from people who have moved to Dallas recently or visiting is "Everyone here is so nice"

I lived in Dallas, it was the only place I've lived where people would yell "faggot" at me on the street. People there aren't that friendly if you look different.
It's also rich, considering video creators have been pissed at Facebook for doing nothing about people stealing their videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7tA3NNKF0Q
Most people writing VBA code for excel are only informal programmers. For example, I never took a CS course in my life but learned VBA and programming on the job. Since then I've learned python and other languages but when I'm doing a home project or something I always come back to python. It's just so easy. I was working on a macro the other day in Excel, it took me a couple hours to get it all working but I'm pretty confident that if I could've coded in python I could've banged it out in 20 minutes or less.

Edit: I suppose my point got a little lost. What I mean is that I highly doubt much Excel code is a "big project." It may feel that way when you crawl through some of the hideous VBA coding I've done but much of this is due to the inexperience of the coder and the realities of VBA. Give me python + 4 or 5 libraries and I could recode anything I've ever made in VBA in 1000 lines or less.
Potentially different. .NET allows signed binaries / libs / a fully signed execution context, Python has nothing equivalent AFAIK.
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Given that there are literally thousands of huge projects using Python at massive scale and hundreds of kLOC, it's clearly not essential.
Great points! We'd like to expand on this to go deeper, and these are great suggestions.
That's a fine personal opinion but I'll add my vote to Python being a wonderful choice for large programs.
It looks like there are very different opinions about whether Silicon Valley culture is more or less tolerant than other places.

However I think those differences can be resolved by viewing tolerance of background and tolerance of opinion on two different axes. In my mind SV scores very high on tolerance of background but low on tolerance of opinion (as in "we don't care how you look like, as long as you agree with our opinions"), whereas NY scores high on both, and places like Japan are the reverse (scoring low on tolerance of background but high on tolerance of opinion -- hope I haven't offended any Japanese readers but that was my impression when I lived there for a short while).
None of my three children were born in the supine position and the eldest is now almost thirty so I am a little surprised to read that it is still common. And while my wife found it painful to some extent it is quite clear that she also enjoyed the process to a fairly large degree. But this was in a maternity unit that had essentially no rules beyond do what makes mother and baby happy, and have the capability to deal with a crisis if it should occur. My wife felt free to arrange herself in whatever position was most effective and to make as much noise as she liked when it got tough.

I think that many women end up going into labour in a fearful frame of mind because of the constant reminders that it will be painful and this coupled with midwives intent on following timetables and doing things their way results in a stressful time for all.

As everyone else mentions, I am aware that my sample is not large and that there are many who have had a different experience.
What's up with those circa 2001 drop shadows in the header? Is that what photopea is best at?
Linux is not the next Windows, and will never be the next Windows. It's been the year of the Linux desktop for twenty years, and it's not been achieved yet. It's very good for the server environment, but it was the next Unix, not the next Windows.
And while Weev totally sucks as a person, IMO, it was wrong for him to be convicted in this case. He was punished from AT&T's negligence.
> I think you’re looking for the term populist, not extremist.

Actually, I meant extremist. The "Trump" party is full of people who want to roll back amendments to the 1940s or earlier.

These are extremist views, in my opinion, and don't represent the average American. Bannon and those who would raise white supremacist marches chanting against Jews can go suck a lemon.
Looking in a window from a public place doesn't use any resources of the company being looked-upon.
The state getting to classify whatever it feels like as a “security” (with all the attached legal restrictions) is meddling.