skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - Gays are about 3% of the US population. Higher in a few big cities, lower in rural areas. Transgenders, maybe 0.4%.

I don't get it. Assuming this demographic fact is correct, what's your point? That they shouldn't be entitled to the same rights as the other 96.6%?

> - About half the US population supported Trump. His supporters have legitimate complaints.

About 63 million Americans voted for Trump. This is not half the US population. Whether half the US population supports Trump or not is pure speculation.

> - Average US Asian IQ: 105. Average US white IQ: 100. Average US black IQ: 85.

Even granted that this is true. Do you have any evidence that this is nature not nurture?

> "Medical marijuana" is a joke.

Possible. But is it any worse than the current opioid epidemic? And why is tobacco legal anyway? Seems like I should be able to choose my poison.
Using SSH Multiplexing (2015)
What do you not like about more competition and how does that relate to anarchists (which, depending on flavor, are often pro-competition and diversity in choice as it's often a prerequisite for a well functioning anarchic society).
Article also discusses the required preparation for safely eating said shark.
US democracy has many more choices because so many issues (marijuana legalization, divorce laws, tax rates, etc.) are state issues.

To some degree, this whole mess is due to pushing ostensibly state-level laws (abortion regulations, for example) to the national level, which leaves much less room for genuinely national issues, like internet regulations, defense spending, immigration law, etc.

It might seem unnecessarily inflammatory to bring up abortion in a net neutrality discussion, but it's hard to get around the fact that appointments to the Supreme Court (which basically sets abortion policy) might have been the thing that convinced enough people to vote for Trump.

So I guess I agree that a lack of choices results in outcomes like this, but U.S. democracy provides other mechanisms for political diversity. They're just not being utilized on certain key issues at this point in history.
lol, that's ridiculous. Then you could charge anybody for anything really.
Ahh. A very interesting one.

I was once robbed by Gypsies/Roma in a rather spectacular way.

The whole family was involved.

Given the fact that these folks roam around the continent willy nilly, it's rather difficult for them to be actually employed. Maybe in the past, as specialized workers?

Point being - thievery and corruption may not just be a more common artifact of their culture it may be an existential and critical part of their culture.

'Running scams' may be deeply integrated into their culture, such as it is a common custom. You go 'to school' from a young age. They might 'learn how to rob' from a young age - because it's their livelihood.

Not only this - robbing people, and a culture of robbing people from a young age, implies a deeply problematic view of others by people in that culture, it has to be deeply cynical.

To be clear: I'm not saying any of this is absolutely true. Someone needs to write the paper.

I'm saying that some negative attributes are a fundamental part of specific cultures. Maybe it wouldn't be too hard to think of attributes of our own culture which are not so great.

But because this would just be a pop-culture holocaust - it could never possibly be discussed, let alone researched.

I guess sometimes the interests of peaceful and polite culture trump the darker truths we may sometimes want to shield from ourselves.
The URL Standard didn’t even consider contacting any industrial vendor that relies on them - e.g. SIEMENS. There’s entire industries out there that use these standards, and rely on them to be stable.

The only participants were all either browsers, affiliated with browsers, or a handful of web serving projects.

Other projects that rely on URLs include everything from KDE to Gnome, Microsoft’s OS to the systems used in your car.

Changing a URL standard and only involving web vendors is basically like changing the A4 paper standard and only talking to the Microsoft Office team, the Google Docs team, and HP’s printer team – while entirely ignoring paper manufacturers, envelope manufacturers, the mail companies around the world that will have to ship the envelopes, fax manufacturers that have to build faxes able to fax the new format, newspapers and magazines that have to replace their paper, newspaper shelf manufacturers that build newspaper shelves for newspaper stores, etc.

Most of the time, it’s easy to only think of the web as browsers and servers, but some of the specs the WHATWG touches go through entire industries, sometimes there are millions of companies that have to be notified months or years beforehand to replace their software, update it, potentially even do a recall, and standardize. Not everything moves as fast as the web.

And this entirely disregards the people that are trying to parse the web with HTML parsing, which everyone loves to ignore. And so many other groups of people and companies.
Not sure how appropriate, but my association with the title and topic is a song from a german metal band, which moved and influenced me a lot, when I discovered it, while also reading in school(and outside) about it...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cE4YRnjrM1Q

And I remember being very upset, that I seemed to be the only one moved by the topic, while the rest of the class, including the teacher, found it booring and just learned about it, because they had to ... blasphemists!
Dear Excel team,

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But not if you consider they have to honor the warranty.
That is really wonderful. Schools everywhere, regardless of country, should really have a mandatory basic financial literacy course. So many people fall into various debt cycles and I feel such a course would be very beneficial at preventing a lot of people getting trapped.
Issuing SSL certificates for any FastMail.com subdomain
> Even for rare diseases, a sure thing would be funded.

Only if there is a ROI. Which also means that even treatments for not-so-rare diseases don't get funded if the majority of patients won't be able to afford the treatment at a price that provides that ROI. Clinical trials in the US or Europe are insanely expensive and you cannot even budget them: Adverse reactions by "male patients over 45, born on a new moon Tuesday"? In worst case you restart the trial, excluding the problematic group to at least get the proof of safety and effectiveness for some part of the population so you can finally make some money...
A few weeks ago I created a small framework called lambdaphp[1]. The site https://www.lambdaphp.host/ is hosted on AWS lambda only!

My aim was to host a Wordpress or Laravel site on AWS lambda without paying any monthly hosting charges. I got everything running on it (sessions, fs, request, etc).

Some things are different though, like when you write to a file using file_put_contents, etc it writes to a S3 bucket instead of fs (thanks to PHP's S3 wrapper), or when you create a session, it uses AWS DynamoDB to do that behind the scenes.

I've created some examples like this sign-in example which uses AWS Cognito + AWS lambda to create a login/signup page[2], file uploader, etc[3].

Of course my project was just for my own amusement but I think this can be good for side project where you just want to host something and forget about it.

[1] https://github.com/san-kumar/lambdaphp
[2] https://www.lambdaphp.host/examples/auth/
[3] https://github.com/san-kumar/lambdaphp#examples
I like jupyter, it's like markdown right next to the code it runs.
These are orthogonal issues. Net neutrality is important regardless of isp options. Not only on principle either, not everywhere will naturally have competition.
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>...The US has the highest "statutory" tax rates but the lowest effective tax rates in the first world for business income.

Lots of people claim this, but it doesn't appear to be true:

>...The U.S. effective corporate tax rate consistently
ranks among the five highest of nations
considered. The only nation with a higher
ETR in each study is Japan, which not by
coincidence is the only developed nation with
a higher statutory rate than the U.S. Other
major nations found to possess a higher ETR
than the U.S. in at least one study include
France, Italy, and Germany, but no clear patterns
emerge; the U.S. outranks this sample
more often than not. Significantly, both Italy
and Germany have enacted rate cuts since
many of these studies were conducted.

https://files.taxfoundation.org/legacy/docs/sr195.pdf
Ask HN: Are there technical solutions to the net neturality problem?
Could one, for example, connect to the sites you want to connect to through a VPN, thereby bypassing extra ISP charges that you might otherwise encounter were you to connect to the sites directly?
Speaking of flyover states, I'm in Kansas and have symmetrical gigabit from Google Fiber. They've recently moved in and I think that if net neutrality is really an issue, competitors like Google will be able to handily out compete the existing companies that already exist here. I tried to get AT&T Fiber for almost a month before finally giving up and getting Google Fiber.
The 10th Amendment is not well regarded by the Supreme Court. In US v Sprague the Court said it “added nothing to the [Constitution] as originally ratified“.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Sprague
An overview of what’s going on: https://youtube.com/watch?v=t7tA3NNKF0Q
I would imagine, and correct me if I'm wrong, but a muni isp that started tomorrow wouldn't have a mountain of legacy copper lines that are quickly deteriorating, and cost a ton of money to maintain and replace. They could start right out of the gate running fiber to the home.
Y Combinator announces growth program for later-stage startups
Exactly. It's damn near impossible to vote with your wallet when your choices are Comcast or nothing.
Net Neutrality – What You Can Do
I'm genuinely conflicted on this perspective, because I feel very defensive of both gay people and free speech. It's a complex issue, I agree that intolerant speech can be more complicated than "it's just words."

What do you think about the choice of the ACLU to defend the neo-nazis' right to protest in South Carolina? I abhor the content of their speech, but I think I agree it's important that it's defended.

On the other hand, what about the restrictions on neo-nazi speech in Germany after WWII? I think I agree that this restriction of speech was a good idea, as it prevented the possibility of that thinking continuing to take root and spread.

The difference between the two scenarios in my intuition is that one feels far removed from being "real" -- I don't sense that neo-nazis are close to taking over American government (Trump jokes aside) so I see it as important to protect it as minority speech; but in post WWII Germany, it was much closer to "real" that the hate speech would transform into hateful action, including restricting speech on the other side. So the probability of the outcome of speech matters (or the popularity of the speech) in my mind, and the more minority the speech, even if abhorrent, the more important it is to protect; but, as the speech approaches majority or becomes "action" then my intuition starts to flip. But it's always maximizing protection for minority speech, and draws a bright line between speech and risk of action.
Challenges exist & will have to be looked at for sure. Incidentally, one of the guys on our team just a gave talk on his PEP for "Secure" Python:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0551/

There's a YT talk as well.
Docusaurus – Easy to maintain open source documentation websites
As long as you don't try to do anything about it, you can discuss whatever you want?
Has that targeted brainwashing been shown to be more effective? I have a feeling that there are enough similarities between folks that watch a particular TV channel to make the profile-targeted ads to be unnecessary. Anecdotally: They usually creep me out and drive me away from what is being advertised, and on top of that it's usually for junk I've already purchased.
I do apologize if my response had such an effect. It was meant to express that things societies may have agreed upon in the past might need to evolve rather than keep enforcing them at all costs.
I’d rather full fat Python but heavily sandboxed with some form of firewall. “Do you want to allow 2018_Stock_Report_Q1.xlsp to connect to api.erp.corp.mycompany.com?”. Codesigning with my something under my corp CA, manage permissions via Group Policy and let users, on a per-endpoint or per-permission basis, authorise things like filesystem access, network connections, etc.
GraphQL Databases – A preview into the future of Graphcool
I never said it was. In fact go back up a couple of levels and look for the phrase, This is not, of course, one-sided. You'll find that I made a similar point from the start.
>>The only thing I want to see on Facebook are the things I can't see elsewhere which are: personal updates and local events.

You can only get personal updates on Facebook?

What a strange thing to say.
Well what a coincidence to see your post identical to mine. I haven't refreshed the page within the time span of you posting so I thought I was the first haha.
How about: if you want me not to scrape it, keep it off my internet??

Actually I'm considering building "API-fication" of websites with bindings for major languages (Java, Python, JS). With luck websites could participate by providing & maintaining a parseable API-sitemap.

This would open door to my 2nd project: orchestration a-la BPEL on top of websites. visual editor, macros, scripting. Call this PIPES 2.0
Because it gets results.
Ladies and gentlemen, behold astrotrufing.
From a security point of view how is embedding python different from embedding Visual Basic? This is not my area of expertise so I’m genuinely curious.
All news outlets report her leaving of her own accord.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/16/apple-vp-of-diversity-and-...

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/16/apple-vp-of-diversity-l...

Please post a source documenting that person being fired.
I meant government-protected physical safety; I should've clarified.

As I said in the rest of my post, I agree with you that there's more room for ideological diversity without being ostracized in many other places.
You hear a lot of anecdotes about how "nobody uses Facebook anymore" etc for years now, but these stories don't seem to be congruent with the skyrocketing user growth numbers that Facebook officially reports.
Thank you - all awesome tools. Kudos to the devs behind these bridges. We did one ourselves, but better ones have come along since then:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu31s7kXPOg
I think it's the "Office Space" phenomena. Everyone is a Peter Gibbons and to paraphrase, 'the truth is that I don't really give a shit, Bob.'

People like the underdog success stories because hey, if they did REALLY start to try over the next few years, it could be them too. But I think that besides luck, the secret sauce is probably perseverance more than any sort of inherent genius. I think the common thread behind a lot of people who achieve remarkable things is just that they didn't mind spending a ton of time banging their heads against walls and being wrong.

Or...whatever, just the 'temporarily embarrassed millionaire' quote for the hundredth time.
So when I google how to do something in Python I will have to comb through solutions specific to v2, v3 and now also Excel? ;)

Aside from that it sounds like a cool idea.
Not because they couldn't make such regulations, but because the ones they did make we're too strict, if my understanding is correct.
I think we mostly also use -ite.. Dallasite
An absolute no-brainer. Python is the new BASIC - very popular with people who have to program to do their work but aren't programmers. It's an excellent choice for a spreadsheet.
First order effects are easily anticipated such that intent can be assumed. Second order effects are not always obvious even to experts in the field and so require debate and consideration. Intent is unlikely in this case without evidence to the contrary.

Of course If your definition of unethical doesn't require intent to harm then this is a meaningless distinction. Another Reason why labels are unhelpful.
Would you please stop breaking the HN guidelines? If you want to comment here you need to do so more thoughtfully.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't need to see a comment thread here to understand the process. I have been following this for 20 years, long before there was a WHATWG.

Additionally, WHATWG lost some credibility when they attempted to redefine the DOM and arbitrarily delete some node types. Granted, most of those types are legacy types not in use by anybody in long time, except for the attribute node type. Browser vendors simply ignored this foolishness.
It would still be a problem. Maybe if one of those providers is benevolent enough to have a sanely priced "package" that promises to treat all data neutrally there'd be a shot, but I think greed would prevent that from lasting if things start moving away from neutrality.
I agree the answer is either more ISP competition, or more regulation. The middle ground is hell.

Any chance this repeal lead to more ISPs? Ajit Pai mentioned it would in interviews, but I don't know enough to say whether that had any merit.
It's the total number, sorry for that not being clear. We will make some improvements that may help clear that up.
The skills that get you straight As in school are trying, being organized, dedicated to seeing things through, and being willing to work hard. That's it. It's just a question of priorities.

I think the big answer here is that there is something that causes both not caring about school and succeeding in "innovation" and business. It's called "wealth" and is the most effective predictor of any kind of success.

Americans are always looking for get rich quick schemes. We love to hear the story, "working hard is for suckers, just have a good idea one time and you'll be a billionaire" -- it lets us blame the poor for being poor (the cornerstone of American economic culture) because they obviously just aren't smart enough to come up with a good idea. We like to say "getting As is for suckers, you don't need it" because we want to feel better than those nerds in school who wasted their energy and time trying hard.
The variance in label sizes is definitely more extreme in women's sizes, but I'm particularly struck by how it happens with supposedly-objective men's clothing. As men's pants get larger, the waistband size becomes increasingly dishonest - despite supposedly being measured in "inches". I'll look for the study, but it can get up to an impressive 10%+ discrepancy.
It depends on your definition of "censored" but culture war topics that are relevant to the tech industry frequently get flagged off the front page.
Ask HN: List of VPN providers
Looking for a list of reputable VPN providers?
Maybe they do something special with noise cancelling? I think it's mostly "We want to sell these, so we're only activating this feature if you use them."
Probability distributions are approximate world models.
There are mathematical tools to management them.
Once you see the world this way, ML/DL becomes more intuitive.
Let's cook some Crystal
Balony. This story might as well be fake, with how little detail there is. There is nothing to draw from this of value.
21 of the last 23 years of the Internet in the US, there has not been net neutrality. Turned out really bad huh.

Net neutrality didn't exist in 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015.
To be honest, I don't think I can defend inviting Stephen Colbert, either. (Especially if he's in character.)

However, commencement speeches do not have a high reputation for academic rigor to start with, so I think inviting an entertainer to speak at one is sort of different from inviting a speaker with some specific experience (either academic, or political/industrial/etc.) to give a lecture.

All that said, keep that Yiannopoulos wanted to read out the names of students without legal immigration status on stage at Berkeley. That's the sort of thing I mean by "antics." I don't think Stephen Colbert does anything of the sort. His partisanship and his satirical character mean that I have trouble saying that anything of value will be lost if he stops being invited to speak at college campuses, but he seems qualitatively different from Yiannopoulos.
I'm missing how that case relates to the 10th amendment, as it seems to primarily deal with Article V.
If I was Facebook, I'd start downsizing my company to a slim and trim archival service, maybe even start charging a fee for executive functionality (like what? I dunno) to help support server costs. Maybe even go distributed content where everyone hosts (encrypted) content and shares bandwidth.

IMHO online social networks have a 5-7 year half life, after that they stagnate and die because the company tries to chase ad dollars (the easiest dollars to get) and step by step degrades their usefulness.

For some reason we don't model business on natural systems (birth -> growth -> reproduction -> death). Seems to me that'd be a good idea if we want to be around in a million years.
Additionally, I think one could easily argue that the interstate commerce clause would prevail as States attempting to regulate interstate commerce. Otherwise, they could only enforce net-neutrality on connections entirely contained within their own state (good luck showing that's the case).
I’ll say it: Python sucks for Functional Programming. It’s just not the right tool for the job (or job for the tool, depending on your point of view.)

It’s a great language for most programmers to get things done in, but it belongs to the school of ‘limited abstraction is for your own good’. For example, no multi line lambda expressions. The argument given is that it would mess up whitespace syntax. Haskell handles this situation, but it does indeed introduce a bit more syntax.

If you need to FP in a general purpose scripting language, I would be looking at Elixir or Javascript right now.
There are specific examples in the comments I quoted. Mr Pai named more specific examples in the transcript I linked to. You seem to be in a state of blind rage and unable to read anything.

If you'd like a deep dive level of information, you could try contacting some of the named companies and associations, like

http://www.wispa.org/

I'm sure they'd be happy to fill you in, if you're willing to listen to them.

This is the signal. Startup ISPs are where the action is starting today.
> The FCC chair talked about how there was very loose regulation of the Internet back in 1996 during the Clinton Administration

Of course, the web was a few years old and the internet was just becoming used by the general public. Pointing to the state of broadband regulation in 1996 is kind of like pointing to the state of automobile safety regulation in 1912.
A Cryptocurrency Without a Blockchain Has Been Built to Outperform Bitcoin
Yet who captures most of the wealth? :)
>But I’m sure the DNC hack was the work of an advanced nation state

Do you have a better explanation? I'm all ears. I haven't heard one.
>aren't programmers

Also extremely popular with people who are programmers and need to do things.

Sorry, this is a frustration of mine lately. Python is a fantastic introductory language. It's also a fantastic general purpose language.

Newbies get turned off of it because it feels too easy, and they know that "real" programming is supposed to be hard.