skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hate to say "I told you so", but conservatives (sometimes) and libertarians have been warning the country for ever about the pitfalls of centralizing important things like this under an unaccountable federal bureaucracy. If you're opposed to this ruling, you're most likely reaping what you sow.
The lack of choices in the US "democracy" is laughable compared to malty European, parliamentary democracies.
The alternative is government power realizing that limiting internet access under the guise of free markets is a great a censorship and control tool, and getting used to that and never doing anything about it regardless of who is in power.
mobile carriers were specifically excluded from net-neutrality rules.
> The entire tech industry, including some of the wealthiest companies in the world, will most certainly rebel against any attempt by ISPs to threaten net neutrality

Have you noticed not many tech companies have complained? Did telecom win by attrition, or did they negotiate after the last failure?
Considering that guns keep being sold to people they absolutely should not be, a registry makes it easy for the FBI or ATF to get flagged when an "unallowed purchaser" attempts or succeeds to make a purchase. Then they can know to either confiscate (because of an illegal purchase) or start monitoring heavily. Previous mass shootings were by people who should not have been able to purchase, but lack of a registry allowed them to "slip through the cracks."

Another scenario - the FBI is monitoring radicalization in a small community. They check the gun registry to see which of the people in the community becoming radicalized are actual potential threats and zero in their investigation on those individuals, to prevent a shooting.

Etc. Basically just makes law enforcement's jobs more feasible.

The government doesn't have the resources to "confiscate" every registered gun owners' guns at the same time, and so we would be well aware if a confiscation by a tyrannical government is coming, and all of us weirdo militia folk and preppers would already be putting the sandbags out. Trust me, some of these guys are practically wishing for it.
That just gets the browser makers castigated by the tech community. Every time, say.. Google, intents something new, the entirely predictable incoherent screaming starts about how it's another Microsoft IE/ActiveX.

Nevermind the fact that the landscape has changed to the point where that isn't a realistic outcome anymore.

Nevermind the fact that in the instance I'm describing (which was something like WebASM or WebSockets.. it was WebSomething and I can't recall the name), they had submitted their proposals to the standardization groups, with no change on the volume of the noises.

I wish people would decide whether they want browser makers trying New Stuff or they want New Stuff coming from standards bodies only. There are upsides and downsides to either way, but I really don't beleive that BMing browser makers whenever they try New Stuff is even sort of constructive.
Nasa finds solar system filled with as many planets as our own
> cheesy

That's the point. Star Wars was/is an homage to Flash Gordon / Buck Rogers -type serial pulps, and the moviehouse feel of that 20th Century Fox fanfare can't be beat.
Mostly what you need is a lot of money and a legal team. There are some government granted monopolies in certain municipalities, but by and large I understand it's just a money problem. The incumbents have tons of established infrastructure; you're starting from scratch.
Even with the electoral system, this is wrong.

When a policy issue comes up, politicians look at their constituency. An issue may be very important to certain demographics, but if those demos don't vote, they don't care.

One of the single best ways to get your voice heard is to vote. Even if it doesn't have direct impacts, it drastically changes what politicians look at. They won't vote to your every whim just because if it, but they'll try to gain your vote at any opportunity they can. Lots of small decisions add up.
> Your website, BTW, serves itself as ISO-8859-1

Thanks! I didn't realize that, since it worked fine in all of my browsers, and nobody has said anything about it.

It's a simple HTML page (from some Jekyll templates), served up through an AWS S3 bucket, and I just learned that while it auto-detects mime-types, it doesn't do this for encodings. Fortunately, there is a way to specify it by hand [1].

[1]: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/1346#issuecomment-3332...

Should be fixed now.

> And after looking at that on the website, that is a very interesting approach.

I've been surprised by the response to this. It's the 5th or 6th design I tried, and the first one I didn't totally hate, but I've had a user tell me it's super cool and I should feature it more prominently.

One of my philosophies is "When in doubt, show the user their data".
Time to take down the internet.
A simple solution to a stupid problem.
Etsy Announces Move to Google Cloud
"Proud to be one of America's 8 companies."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFKoGtgg6Mo
A rather naïve reading. People are stupid. They may even prefer the "simplicity" of tiered packages. They'll roll over.
The tool panel is pretty much identical in its entirety. Layout, which tools go where, icons, etc.

Edit: Seriously, guys, it is, I'm not sure why I'm being downvoted:

http://otms.wikispaces.com/file/view/PS_tools_Wiley_Media.jp...
Huh. Is Japan company trying to reach to the moon? Haha.
If you meant a single word of this essay, HN would not be a place where people are routinely banned for being critical of your portfolio companies, or for expressing any political idea that is even moderately leftist.

You're a vile hypocrite. And there's nothing to debate, there. It's just fucking true.
Comcast and Verizon both throttled netflix for a while, before getting smacked. What do want to bet that's back in force, as soon as tomorrow perhaps? They've got all the code from last time ready to go.

https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/7521304546.pdf
The MIME guys: How two Internet gurus changed e-mail (2011)
True, but the parent poster didn't blame it on Trump, he blamed it on the Republican party:

> But it's predictable that one party would have appointed someone like him and not the other.

It is fair to blame this vote on Republicans, given that the vote fell along "party lines".
Perhaps, but there are all sorts of sophisticated people with all sorts of valuation models for crypto, etc. What you are saying is just disagreement about valuation. I mean, if bitcoin is irrationally priced, there is a way to express that view by shorting bitcoin futures.
The Collapse of Complex Business Models (2010)
Nope, Thunderbolt 3 exclusively. That's the 2016/2017 MBP, iMac, and iMac Pro.

Mini-macbook is USB-C without Thunderbolt, Mac Pro and Mac Mini are still Thunderbolt 2.
You’re entitled to your opinion. Appreciate the discourse!
I think you’re looking for the term populist, not extremist.
It would be but wireless providers weren't covered under net neutrality, it only covered wired connections.
What is the "entire tech industry" really going to do when the ISPs decide to fundamentally change how the Internet works? It seems like access to consumers, which the ISPs control, is pretty important for a large segment of the tech industry.
Different people have different ideas of what a basic income is. The definition I first learned is that the "basic" in basic income means that it forms a base upon which you can build further in come. It's not about satisfying some level of basic needs. It can be any amount as long as everyone gets it unconditionally.

There's an optimal amount of basic income for social prosperity and it would be an amazing coincidence if that amount happened to be exactly enough to provide for people's basic needs and nothing more.

I agree that basic income won't kill ambition. But I don't think it's because we're withholding money from people. It's because people are naturally ambitious and competitive. Just because you have wealth doesn't mean you don't want more.

Maybe some people won't be ambitious, but that's not exactly a problem for those of us who are.

> Contrast to welfare where if you earn anything the welfare is taken away.

Yeah. I agree with you on this part.
Wireless. Interesting observation. I have often considered trying to startup a wireless isp or wireless mesh network to provide fast net for cheap. But the wireless tech has never scaled well and the speeds have never kept pace with wired.

Even the latest MM wave hardware rolling out would be ok for now but tomorrow? Who knows how much of an upgrade path you will have in terms of speed and capacity.

Wireless doesn’t need to be gigabit to the home. 200mb/s would do a few streams of 4K and then handle most of everything else you need. Throw in caching and I don’t think you would need to offer gigabit speeds.
If you did you couldn’t support many folks per station.

I wish wireless was a silver bullet but it’s shaky at best imo.

It’s clearly the ONLY option for breaking the back of the incumbents. Especially if you only rely on private building access and bypass street lights and utility poles.

Thoughts?
If Verizon/others start throttling Netflix again they (Netflix) should just start making ISPs the butt of the joke in some of their original content, or make content directly calling them out.
I agree with your premise. I'm just reaching a different conclusion.

As a permission issue, the bot _may_ have been authorized and authenticated, however the company was sent a C&D letter that revoked all authorizations. That is why I say that logging in and accessing the resources did not constitute authorizations.

If a C&D letter would not have been sent, I think I'd agree with you.
> The free market is not a solution here.

That's not the problem. The problem is that this is not a free market. The ISPs have effective control of the federal government and many state governments, and use that control to block competition from e.g. municipal ISPs. If the free market were actually allowed to operate, it would very likely solve the problem.
While in SF / SV, can you feel the general air of the ideas acceptable here? A small experiment: take an idea which obviously contradicts that air, and imagine rationally discussing it with people who you typically meet in SF. Will it be more than slightly uncomfortable?

Scott Alexander wrote this great piece, I leave a link to it here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything...

For instant enlightenment, search for the word "Bodhidharma" and read the short parable.
Do you have a good solution to host your E-commerce website?
It's not failing. North America is fine; people still want to move from other places to our place. Let's not be drastic. Let's sit down and listen and be calm.
> Python has lambdas so you can still write: (snippet)

Do you seriously consider this less of a hassle than branching on a frigging bit?
> Republicans were voted by the public

Even this claim is arguable, given gerrymandered congressional districts and inherent overweighting of low-population rural states in the Senate.
> HBO is hamstrung by its lucrative cable tv deals in the US

I'm not sure this is true. HBO Go is available for subscription in the US, is available on many streaming platforms. Additionally, you can subscribe to HBO through Amazon Prime (among other places; I just happen to use the Prime subscription). I can't comment on differences in marketing spend or consumer goodwill, but from my perspective, I see the same level of service between HBO and Netflix (though admittedly, Netflix is usually more stable).
The way the timestamp is chosen depends on properties of the transaction. In the worst cases, servers must wait until the true time interval has passed an older commit before assigning a timestamp.
Seriously! I'm playing the world's tiniest violin for 90% of people upset over this. Reaping what they sow, if you ask me.
Please don’t call out facts a divisive just because you don’t agree with them.
> Your comment exemplifies what the OP is criticizing.

I'm not sure how writing about my opinion is the same as shutting down discourse

> By writing off the people in SF and Alabama as "zealots," you've closed the door to reasoned debate and to educating them on their miscues.

I have lived in both the South and SF for years and I'm posting based on my experience. Yes there are always exceptions. At the same time, I don't find it useful to ignore the culture or trends at large. Different places have specific, unique cultures.

> people occasionally take unjustifiable stances, but that doesn't make them unreasonable people.

I could be wrong, but the point of Sam's post is that more people in places like SF and Alabama don't just occasionaly take strong stances. It happens a lot more often and these stances are so entrenched that they're more akin to religious beliefs, where it's just hard to even entertain alternative view points without offending people. It shuts down discourse and thought.

In terms of having conversations, I'm not on a mission to change the status quo; I just want more freedom to think & speak especially when I'm trying to relax. Logically for me, it makes little sense to be in an environment where everyone will suffer due to the topic. I'm not saying that it's wrong or bad to 'educate people on their miscues'. I'm just saying that it's not for me.
Hey, take a look at the guidelines for HN. Its preferrable to have comments here that have something to offer to the discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Your example from Portugal is a mobile plan where you can buy additional data.
Are people still starting hosting companies? I mean, it’s not like there isnt a shedload of hosting available.
1) Republican voter support is broad for net neutrality. Multiple sources have shown this pretty consistently.

2) The Republican deregulatory ideal (if it works at all) only works if competition exists. It doesn't. The market can only have a chance to work if it exists.
Local governments have been legally prohibited from making exclusive ISP franchise agreements for quite a while now. IMHO the only thing really preventing local competition is the economic aspects of laying multiple physical wires to residences giving the setup strong natural monopoly conditions.
No, that just means it's not a democracy. One can listen to a bunch of comments, disagree with them, and choose to do the opposite of what they say without being arbitrary.

His determination actually demonstrates the lack of arbitrariness. Arbitrary choices are held lightly and easily changed. This was the opposite.
Because I, for one, didn't know it was happening and therefore could not participate. My chance of having my opinion count was zero. So pretty much by definition the poll is not representative of the universe of people-who-include-me. And by induction of all the other people who had no chance to participate.

If you want to know more, I recipient looking up the 1936 Literary Digest poll for US President, one of the most famous screwups caused by non-random sampling: https://www.math.upenn.edu/~deturck/m170/wk4/lecture/case1.h...
> Trump is under every microscope waiting for an impeachable offense.

Come on. Congressional Republicans held seven separate Benghazi investigations in an attempt to pre-impeach Clinton.
The economic theory of net neutrality – and space lasers
Clinton has been demonized for decades by the right. Right wing media turned her into the boogie woman who elicits a visceral, emotional response from Republicans. It's so ingrained, they're still talking about her daily on Fox News, because they understand the effect she has on the Republican base.
>the states chose Donald Trump as president

The states, yet not the people

Sure, he won with our current system, but even school children think our current system is silly
That's exactly what I am hearing from my friends at amazon here in Europe. So far, however, it had no significant effect on the performance
Cool new course! I'm thinking about taking their Practical Deep Learing for Coders course at the moment: http://course.fast.ai/
> You get to choose a basket of issue positions at the same time as a legislator's personality.

And this is at best -- it assumes your elected representative even holds their campaign promises, which is maybe a long shot.
So an open-access network (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-access_network).

This is done quite successfully in other countries around the world, like New Zealand where we mainly have one infrastructure provider (selected and monitored by the Government), who must offer fair and standard pricing to any ISP who wants to add value to the network.

As a result, we have many ISP options throughout the country and competition between providers is high.
But the EFF isn't arguing that any shady aggregator should be able to vacuum up anything. LinkedIn would still have the full right and ability to implement limits, blocks, or so on to prevent this. LinkedIn could still make it against their terms of service and pursue a civil suit. It just would stop LinkedIn from being able to pursue felony hacking prosecutions against people for accessing a public webpage with a script.
There's been no actual proof of throttling. Congestion is not proof of throttling.
This reminds me a lot of what I read about phantom limb pain in V.S. Ramachandran's book Phantoms in the Brain[0] and the kind of treatment he helped pioneer for that.

In the book he describes an innovative but quite lo-tech approach using a cardboard box and cleverly arranged mirrors that enabled patients to visualize the missing limb and effectively, as I understood it, rewire their brains to reduce phantom limb pain.

That example does make me wonder how critical the digital component of the treatment is. The article notes:

> Patients were then encouraged to engage in a dialogue with the avatar, who was controlled by a therapist.

I wonder if this would work with similar effectiveness using puppets or actors or perhaps even mirrors.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantoms_in_the_Brain
Are you aware of the thread_first and thread_last functions from toolz?
> It also doesn't seem like the internet regulatory state of pre-2015 was a disaster.

From 2010-2014 similar rules to the 2015 rules were in place, citing a different statutory basis; these ruled were struck down in 2014, with the court pointing to Title II, be basis of the 2015 rules, as the available statutory basis for the kind of rules adopted in 2010.

From 2014-2015 there were no open internet rules in place, but the industry was operating in awareness that he FCC majority was drafting new rules with similar objectives.

And FCC net neutrality policy existed from 2004-2010, working on yet a different mechanism, which was struck down by the courts in 2010.

And before that, things get complicated, because even though there was no net neutrality policy for broadband in general, there was also very little broadband of any kind, and what there was often, for much of the pre-2004 period, fell under different regulatory regimes based on the underlying technology (cable as cable, DSL under telephone related rules.)

So, perhaps none of the pre-2015 regulatory states were a disaster, but repealing the 2015 order doesn't returns us to any of those states, or even to a condition where the law would allow the FCC to reimplement them. In fact, it gets us farther from any of the 2004-2015 states than the 2015-2017 state was.
Pennebaker and Ellington: Daybreak Express (1958)
Im not criticizing, if there is one thing the nazis did right was being a never ending example of what not to be/do.

That said, I have not read Mein Kampf and its a similar situation. Is everything in that book ideological garbage? Maybe, maybe not. I actually dont know what its about!

But trying to find that out in public can get you beat and people will clap in encouragement if that happened.

Hell, I would be even afraid to google that book in amazon.
This reminds me once again how much of our reality is in the brain. So, if you "think" you hear voices - you do, if you think the thing you hear are just your thoughts running wild - you do that and act accordingly. I guess in the first case you would be terrified (after all you hear voices) and in the second case you could be amazed (what a cool thing your brain is since it can imagine voices, "their" thoughts, etc.) How much of the bad things in this world and in life come from wrong perspective... :(
That's just not true. The FCC are appointed by our elected representatives. Why do you think they even have to pretend they are accepting public comments on things like this? If the FCC does something bad, like this, we have the ability to elect better representatives, who will throw out these telco stooges and appoint people who represent us, not the large telco monopolies.
I'm okay with comedians writing bad jokes or telling them during open mic. Our society is somewhat tolerant of that. Al Franken did get elected after his rape joke was published. Though in hindsight that is an awful example.

But the unreasonable people saying "gay people are evil" are not even pretending to be joking. They have killed.

So I think Sam lacks empathy. Try this thought exercise. Replace the word "gay" in Sam's essay with "white" or whatever group you belong to. How does that make you feel? Would you want to work with that person? How well do you think that will go over in SF, HN, or America?
As unpalatable as you think that sounds, it's also exactly what we do with car insurance, and has worked mostly fine there for decades, excluding enforcement problems and illegals.
> Time will tell whether electing an extremist candidate was a good idea or not.

And in the meantime, who cares if the country is lit on fire? That's the future elected officials' problem.

Sarcasm aside, I actually agree that we need to speak with our vote. I just wish we didn't have such large swings of the deregulation penis in the meantime, and instead we had cool-headed, logical people at the helms of these agencies and our Executive branch. I suppose it's too naive of me.
What is Ethical Design?
I just spent a fair bit of time on this question last week and here is my new setup. (Previously I used a mixture of mendeley with goodnotes and an Ipad pro with apple pencil).

Currently what I have moved to is using zotero on the desktop as the master store. This works well with the chrome and firefox plugins to auto add papers.

I use feedly to monitor RSS feeds for each journal from my phone, and then pull them up on the desktop once every so often to add to zotero. On the ipad pro with apple pencil I use papership to interface with the zotero library. It's annotations are usually good enough, but if I really need to do something fancy, I'll export it to pdfexpert, annotate it, then move it back in.
>I will say that there is an enormous difference in day to day racial tension in west Georgia compared to the SF Bay Area. In Columbus, from McDonalds to hospitals, there was barely submerged but obvious tension between blacks and whites.

Probably because Columbus GA is 45% black and San Francisco is only 6.4% black. Hard to have black/white tension when one of those groups comprises such a small percent of total population.
Indeed. However, most politicians take their election as a mandate for all of their public positions.
Personally I defer to economists http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/net-neutrality-ii
Good point.

It's just a bit strange that there was less protest from the giants this time than in past Net Neutrality battles. It's beginning to seem like a number of these large web companies have become ambivalent to the issue.
Safer lung cancer diagnosis with first VR and GPS-guided procedure
Since hyaenas are not going to promise to marry you or claim to be an Albanian prince to get sex forcible rape is pretty accurate.