skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One Important thing to note was that while religious undertones certainly existed the main goal of colonizers was economic. So I wouldn’t be surprised if the first alien ship to arrive on earth would be an exploratory mining ship trying to basically mine earth for water/minerals and would wipe out anything inconvenient such as existing life.
> Nope. Not in comparison with the rest of the world.

It's a very bold statement for someone who spent 2 months in Singapore. Maybe it worth listening to what local people are saying?

And yeah, it depends on what you mean under "rest of the world". If you compare to Africa (with all due respect!) then yea, I would agree.

> Have you ever ventured outside of Singapore, I wonder? Are you even aware that the 3-5 minute interval between trains, air conditioning, seamless connections with other transport, no rubbish on the ground, no graffiti, trains less than 10 years old is not a rule but an exception?

Mate, you're not the only one travelling, chill ) I don't care about graffiti or train age, all I need from transportation system is to deliver me from point A to point B with maximum speed and comfort. Let me ask you one question - do you know any country where metro goes down for hours quite regularly?

I'm not saying Singapore transportation system is bad - it is definitely among best, but it's way too early to call it the best, especially after train collision with 28 injured last month, tunnel flooding because of negligence, few incidents that leaded to MRT closure for hours.
As a Gen X, I have to say:
Grow up.

Guess what: despite a CS degree from a fairly prestigious school, I started out my career sucking shit on the help desk and fixing bugs in legacy code.

You need to suck shit at the start of your career, learn, and advance. This also means living in a shithole apartment and eating Ramen instead of blowing your cash at da club or on a new car. It’s been that way since the industrial revolution.

You are not special. You are not snowflakes. We cannot hold your hands. Work it out for yourselves, just like we did, and the boomers did before us.
Sweet. That's from Yes! Magazine, headquartered just up the road from me here on Bainbridge Island, WA.
Interesting read with some interesting points, some make some sense, and I'm all for a fresh look. The article lost me on this quote:

"What we need to understand is that while ISPs aren’t currently regulated by the government, they are already severely regulated. Not by government. They are regulated by YOU. You are their customer. You are the boss. You hold the checkbook. ISP companies are regulated by profits. That’s right, profit is the regulator. Like every company that is in business for profit, they have to answer to their customers. All successful businesses are constantly sniffing; trying to figure out what customers want. Profit makes them care about you. Customers will only voluntarily hand over money if it’s worth it. Right now we have de-facto Net Neutrality, because that’s what you want. That’s what we all want."

This is the same worn-out saying around "the invisible hand" and "competition will force ISPs to keep net neutrality"

Well, it's not like they never tried... there rules are there for a reason.

I mean, maybe it will work, but if all ISPs start offering "internet fast lanes" and "social package" (and it's not like companies didn't collude before) then the invisible hand will be infeasible.
I don’t necessarily agree though. I’ve seen books first trying to introduce linear transformation without matrices and frankly to a beginner it’s even more confusing to be told f is linear if f(ax+y)=af(x)+f(y). Some students really need a concrete grasp of matrices with actual numbers they are familiar with before going into the abstract definition.

I’ve seen worse though: those that attempt to shoehorn abstract algebra in the process by first rigorously defining a field.

And no, teaching multiplication doesn’t involve memorizing a formula; it’s a simple mechanical process of arranging one matrix on the left the other at the top and multiplying/adding their corresponding rows and columns. Once this process is familiar to a student, they will have no trouble writing out the formula with nested sigmas.
Had I followed his advice, Fidelity would have wanted their borrowed TSLA shares back a long time ago, and at a significant loss. The only reason he can stick to his own advice in the face of a 60% run-up on TSLA this year is because he’s a lot more loaded than I am.
9 Things We Learned from the 2018 User Generated Content Report Study
>"They don't allow even mild automated searching, the price per thousand searches is prohibitive and you can't get past the 1000'th result so you need to use combinations of words and other imperfect means to go deeper."

Can you elaborate on what you mean by price per 1K searches and a 1K search result limit? Is this a B2B Google offering for search? Is this offering posted somewhere?
I presume at least one thing it is a reference to is the Rwandan genocide.
This is such a classic hacker news comment
I was actually thinking this about the movie/tv industry recently. in order to get better, it has to get cheaper / less quality / quicker turn around times.
Yes I agree! The majority of citizens are stupid and should not have a say in how a society operates!.
My pride will be all I need when my livelihood is stripped away by those more powerful than me. I will fight against them all by myself until I become the most powerful! That's how everyone else has done it! Going solo.
Also a possibility of ad hoc suburban networks, where each phone becomes a cell tower. User ISP.
the town itself is definitely suburban, there were horses outside the high school tho, and the way UIL lines were drawn we were grouped with a bunch of actually rural districts.
Democracy isn’t something that automatically makes you a space faring civilization, neither is it necessary. The Roman Empire got pretty far while enslaving millions of people. It’s not a stretch to think that the Age of Science could have happened under Roman tutelage had it not met its unfortunate demise
and Dow Jones, HarperCollins, realtor.com etc. In the UK, 20 radio stations and The Times, The Sun and The Sunday Times. In Australia, The Australian, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and a hundred others.
I can’t be bothered...
> are you saying this person voted for Trump to "own the libs"?

No, that's not what I said nor is it what I implied. He voted for Trump because, among other reasons, he thought Mrs. Clinton was a terrible candidate and would make a terrible president, and he personally weighed that more heavily than what he knew of Trumps disadvantages.

I don't agree with that assessment, but it is reasonable.
I am not saying you have to follow, just read :-)
This comment makes me think you didn't read the article. Do you understand how difficult it is to even get a job "sucking shit" right now? Do you understand that if you get that job, it doesn't pay as much as you got paid when you had it, because wages haven't risen with inflation? Do you understand the years of experience and massive student debt you'd have to get into to get the college degree to even get your foot in the door of this job with inferior wages and benefits to the job you got just out of school?

> You need to suck shit at the start of your career, learn, and advance. It’s been that way since the industrial revolution.

For many - perhaps most - millennials, there simply are no opportunities for advancement. There is no reward. People like me, who are software engineers and do well for themselves, are the exception. The arguments in the article are economic, and grounded in economic data and realities. Ignoring those systemic problems because you're doing just fine is just willful ignorance.

> You are not special. You are not snowflakes. We cannot hold your hands. Work it out for yourselves, just like we did.

Nobody's saying anyone's "special." The whole point of the article is that no millennial is getting what previous generations got - nobody is asking for special treatment. The ask is for treatment equivalent to what their parents got, the same treatment that you received. We can't "work it out for ourselves" when we have no power, no money, massive debt, poor wages, no benefits, no retirement plan, and no way out. We can't "work it out" when your generation - and those before you - are draining and then destroying the social safety nets that you relied on to get where you are.

We don't deserve the privileges your generation had any more than you did. We deserve it exactly the same amount. Why do you blame us while you rescind them?
Excellent point. Wars have (albeit morbidly) allowed for drastic changes in all aspects of human society as well. But maybe a war based society can only progress until it invents planet destroying WMDs. After that the cost of war becomes intolerable to progress
Thank god! Thank Heavens! Thank TRAI (Telecom regulatory authority of India)

We specifically opposed tampering net neutrality just this year.

But is it just a matter of time for India to follow suit?
I'm glad that I'm not alone in that experience (albeit from the development side). A two week turnaround for a development VM would be amazing; on average, we're closer to a month from request to logging in.
Would something like

https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/490099/Bytecc-Interna...

work?
That's an interesting split regarding the trajectory of public infrastructure given technical advancements. My concern is that the U.S. government no longer has the runway to fund public infrastructure projects. Corporations, today more than ever, have become the new governments.

Besides the net neutrality reality, I reflected on a random scattering of realities:

Apple gets to decide how much tax they pay and to whom they pay it.

Facebook can control who gets elected, how happy your kids are, and how many friends wish you happy birthday. It'll take credit for some of this work depending on which way the wind is blowing.

Twitter decides who Trump decides to punch or blow up.

Google unleashes new species of mosquitoes.

Auto manufacturers tend to lobby CARB more than the other way around with regards to auto emissions.

Meanwhile the U.S. government is spending $67,000,000,000 building a wall that I wouldn't call public infrastructure.

How long will it be until a Stripe-like service gives you citizenship or removes your citizenship from a government? Machine learning-based immigration, the President will personally build the model :(
This looks like iA Writer meets org-mode. It looks nice but the platform limitation is a bit discouraging for those of us that work across multiple platforms on a daily basis.
The court of appeals did no such thing. In your second link, the most recent decision, it wrote:

> Does the rule lie within the agency’s statutory authority? And is it consistent with the First Amendment? The answer to both questions, in our view, is yes.

This was the majority opinion, although one judge dissented and said it did violate the First Amendment.

The court did mention a clause in the FCC order then under consideration about ‘edited’ services, which is what your first link takes out of context. The order itself explicitly allowed for such services, so as far as I can tell, the court did not opine one way or the other on whether ISPs separately have a First Amendment right to provide them. This isn’t as big a loophole as it sounds, though. Describing the order’s requirements, the court wrote:

> That would be true of an ISP that offers subscribers a curated experience by blocking websites lying beyond a specified field of content (e.g., family friendly websites). It would also be true of an ISP that engages in other forms of editorial intervention, such as throttling of certain applications chosen by the ISP, or filtering of content into fast (and slow) lanes based on the ISP’s commercial interests. An ISP would need to make adequately clear its intention to provide “edited services” of that kind, id. ¶ 556, so as to avoid giving consumers a mistaken impression that they would enjoy indiscriminate “access to all content available on the Internet, without the editorial intervention of their broadband provider,” id. ¶ 549. It would not be enough under the Order, for instance, for “consumer permission” to be “buried in a service plan—the threats of consumer deception and confusion are simply too great.” Id. ¶ 19; see id. ¶ 129.

> There is no need in this case to scrutinize the exact manner in which a broadband provider could render the FCC’s Order inapplicable by advertising to consumers that it offers an edited service rather than an unfiltered pathway. No party disputes that an ISP could do so if it wished, and no ISP has suggested an interest in doing so in this court. That may be for an understandable reason: a broadband provider representing that it will filter its customers’ access to web content based on its own priorities might have serious concerns about its ability to attract subscribers.
QArchive is a small header that helps you extract archive's in your Qt Apps
1) performance, including multi-sheet setups, should be better than the current Macros.

For maintainability reasons, in one personal experience, I moved in-cell macros to VBA, and saw significant degradation in performance (my excel was calculating financial instrument attributes, based on raw input data (store in separate workbook with the same sheet)).

So my ask would be that Python-based scripting would not just be the same as VBA in speed, but faster than in-cell macros.

2) There needs to be easy-to-use capability, to be able create XLS files with the new language macros, from within other programs.
So that the new Python modules can be written out together with data from within other programming languages (and MS-supported libraries to replace or augment something like openpyxl, and similar libs for other langauages will be much welcomed)

3) I think Python as a choice for Excel is a good idea. It should be a language with 'duck typing', and that has support for Data Frames, Reactive programming. And in that light, I would like to see that Python's Pandas are first class citizens in being able to address Excel cells, participate in graphing, pivoting, etc.

4) Version control within the excel file... may be this is going beyond the original ask... but I think the spirit of introducing Python into excel, is around better SDLC/reusability. And so local and remote version control models should be supported.

5) I personally do not care if other MS Office tools (eg MS word) support Python. Would be nice.. but for my needs, this is not relevant.

6) a type-checking mode to be able to say, this Module will type check the data it uses... at run time.
Comcast is not your average private company because they hold a monopoly or oligopoly position in many markets.

In effective marketplaces, we trust the choice of purchasers to do most of the necessary work of making sure companies really serve the public. If some ISP in a competitive market decided to shut off access to all Republican-leaning news and commentary, we'd expect many people to switch to an ISP that didn't censor. But if Comcast did that, many people would just be screwed.

I agree that censorship is the pervasive silencing of voices. I disagree that Twitter can do that. Twitter may kick some people off their platform, but the Internet's open nature means those people can set up their own website. ISPs in noncompetitive markets, on the other hand, can indeed censor material, because many people will have no easy way to get that material.

That's why common carrier regulations predate the Internet by decades: some societal infrastructure is too important and too prone to capture to leave it up to the whims of individual executives. You could make the argument that Twitter is that kind of infrastructure. But given that only 20% of Americans use Twitter even once a month and a much smaller number use it daily, I think it's hard to say it's in the same category as the telephone or the Internet itself.
There were quite a few civil wars in Africa to pick.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Africa and search for 'war' to find a few.
I'm also in the pro-NN camp, and have been for a very long time, and my observations match yours: the pro-NN propaganda this year is definitely a lot more about hype and emotions than it is about facts.

I think it's really just because it was successfully made into a mainstream political issue. So now you have to appeal to the mass audience, not just IT nerds; and we're just seeing the same tactics that is routinely used to whip up support (or opposition) to other stuff.

I'm actually weirdly uncomfortable about this. It's like being the guy who has cried wolf for many years, and now half of the village is there with you; but you see them pointing at rocks, logs etc, and insisting that these are all wolves, and we're all going to die now. It really made me question just how many people who happen to share my political positions, do so because they genuinely understand and agree with the policies, and not because it's just what you're supposed to do when you have a certain identity (liberal etc).
Moving to Metal Episode II
Of course.. this is the pressure that all public companies face; the pressure to forever increase shareholder value @ whatever cost :-/.. Sad. I wonder if FB is "too big to fail" or if there's a chance that more moves like this might actually hurt the platform?
Love it. Use it daily. I even use it with iA Writer and nvAlt.
> Everyone is using virtualized environments and have capacity to spare.

I don't understand this argument. Startups usually do not have money to have physical servers sitting around just waiting to be utilized, not to mention the IT resources to stand up those servers just in case someone might need them later. You're saying that everyone has a ton of servers sitting in the rack just waiting to have containers deployed to them? Who?
So your 'evidence' is based on a group that purports to see the economic future? That's hardly evidence.
Actually I don't think any wallet will let you do that. How ever, you can install breadwallet on another phone/device (don't mess with your existing one) and restore with your backup seed (12 or 24 words one). Electrum is another good wallet for desktop that supports all kinds of seed words where you can again import your seed words and re-spend them. The newly installed wallets will let you spend it again because it has no way of knowing that you already spent it.

Good luck.
That's not what I meant.

Here's what I'm getting at: if you really cared about someone, you wouldn't settle for the bare minimum of passively consuming their uploaded photos and status updates.

I posit that Facebook is popular among people with scattered friends and relatives because it makes them feel like they care. However, in my opinion, truly caring about someone warrants more than just maintaining an awareness of what is going on in their lives by consuming their content on your news feed and occasionally clicking 'Like' or posting a comment.
Getting the data to the server is difficult when you work with several 1 GB files. It's OK to do cool stuff in the browser but I think the professional use cases for Photoshop are better met by native applications written in the fastest language available.
I think I've never really got the point of a good type system until I started using Elm and then wandered into the rest of the ML world, learning the so called "Type-Driven Development" method.

After some time doing that a Java project came up, so I grabbed Lombok, Vavr and started writing Java as if it was just another ML (immutability first, paying attention to side effects and so on) and the whole thing made sense. More sense than all those years of OOP teachings. The code was easy to debug, easy to reason about, easy to change. And it was Java. And that just stunned me for life.

Then of course, I started using TypeScript for React development and giggled like a little girl every time I had to refactor something, for I KNEW that it was very unlikely I'd have to stare at the debugger for long periods of time in a wild goose chase like I often had to with plain JS.

But the trick was to learn the way of doing things in the languages that really guide you towards that path.

I can definitely recommend that you try Elm if you're into frontend development, or something like F# if you want native. As far as docs go, the Elm guide and fsharpforfunandprofit.com are both great; the latter I can recommend regardless of your language choice for making typed functional programming make sense. I can also recommend the book Type-Driven Development with Idris, which has also been an invaluable resource to really understand that way of doing things.
It had nothing to do with Obama's preference.

Obama was required to appoint a Republican to the commission per the rule whereby the agency's commissioner seats must be split between the parties, with the tie breaking seat going to the party in control of the presidency.

Following these rules, when a Republican seat opened on the commission, Obama asked Mitch McConnell for an recommendation, and he suggested Pai. When Trump took over, Obama's FCC chairman Wheeler left the position, and Trump put Pai in his place, and replaced his former seat with another Republican, Brendan Carr.
What's the breakdown of the $50k/month/customer at the very beginning? Is most of the cost the equipment or leasing the backhaul connection?
I replied to a comment that said this:

>You’ve misrepresented everything you’ve said, and your argument isn’t even conclusive

Why the double standard?
I don't understand why this never evolved naturally with selfish genes and viruses and all. Anyone know? Perhaps cells already have a built in defense for this kind of thing?
The entire premise of the article is that millenials are “special”.

There is near-zero difference between what a millennial faces and what I faced in the last “great depression” coming out of school in the early 1990s, post the 1988 crash.

It took months or years to find a job, and you had to work your ass off when you found one to keep it. I had lots of debt.

Boom and bust cycles are normal. Millenials are not special in being screwed by the timing of their birth.
Yes — but the parent comment says this is for those who use it for the messenger/group/event features.
Yeah I definitely agree there are pros and cons on both sides. Every company is different, etc. What I wanted to point out is mainly that it's naive to think the costs of hardware and bandwidth are always most significant or even in the top 5 most significant factors behind whether or not a company should use the cloud. It's a frequent misunderstanding I see posted both on Reddit and hackernews.
A cryptocurrency without a blockchain (Tangle) [pdf]
Has Facebook got a friends problem?
Nah, US democracy is in dire straits. It is failing. Not "democracy" in general or the abstract, but in the US, as a whole, it is.
You lost me at "pre-VCS". Seriously.
Always a good time for linking the Show HN for Dropbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
I think you'll be surprised by the lack of retaliation and even cheers you'll get around. No one likes mosquitoes. And I think I read somewhere (and I'm too tired to google it) that ecologists believe there will be little to no harm to the ecosystem if they will just one day poof away from the face of the earth. Even animal rights organizations will meh over it.
Looks like UEFI is still defective by design if ROM can be modified without the express intention of the user.
not an exit yet, but the MailChimp founders still own 100% of a 525M+ business.

And they send a lot of email, give back to their community (Atlanta, GA), and sponsor a lot of independent art and media (podcasts).

https://www.inc.com/magazine/201802/mailchimp-company-of-the...