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I started reading it and found it fairly poor quality sci fi so I stopped somewhere in the first book. I think the bit where they slice a passing ship with newly invented nanowires smacked more of a comic book or 50s golden age sci fi than the sort of “proper” science fiction I’m used to these days. That and the way the characters seem to have such simplified motivations. It’s just not good fiction - and science fiction has to also be good fiction.

Edit: wow, downvoted within a minute for not liking the same sci fi books. That’s a new low in HN groupthink.
Accurate. It's bizarre that a large segment of the country considers these things "differences of opinions" or merely politics.
Classify IPs based on their recent behavior[2]. Most bots behave very differently from the median user, along many different dimensions -- volume of requests, time between requests, visit length, which links are followed, etc.

And if this means that bots are altered to become indistinguishable from users, and therefore have a minimal impact on a site's loading? Well, mission accomplished[1].

[1] https://xkcd.com/810/

ETA: [2] Recent behavior (as opposed to all historical behavior) is used so that someone inheriting a "bad" IP isn't completely screwed over.
Not sure if you're joking, but just in case...

5G in this context means 5th Generation, not 5 GHz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G
I didn't say it wasn't bad.
We aren't discussing good and bad. We are discussing a specific situation that requires govt intervention.

I am implying this is a equivalent situation where govt didn't create rules for grocery stores to call all brands of goods equally.

Also, that is not what a word game is.
If you're hearing this for the first time then you aren't getting your news from someone who is aware of the US Telecom Association v FCC case in which the court of appeals made it clear that because of first amendment problems, the FCC can't prohibit censorship by ISPs.

https://techliberation.com/2017/07/12/heres-why-the-obama-fc...

https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/06F8BFD0...

...and this: https://www.attpublicpolicy.com/consumer-broadband/the-surpr...
So having experienced Ops in both cloud and non cloud companies. A few rebuttals:

- Bandwidth is VERY expensive in AWS compared to what you can buy in Datacenters. A 1 GBPS connection is so "cheap" you can get it and a 42U rack at HE.net for $400/mo ( http://he.net/colocation.html ). That same 1GBPS is roughly 300TB/month. Assuming it's all outbound - that's roughly $21k in AWS.

So bandwidth is a small cost IF you're not moving large amounts of data out of AWS. If you stream media - it can be a HUGE portion of your bill.

- HIPAA Compliance - That and other compliance aspects assumes that you need those compliance frameworks. In enterprise world that might be the case (SOC2 and ISO27k1 are very common requirements for Enterprise SaaS clients). However in the B2C? Users don't care.

- Waiting for hardware allocation. Once you get to a certain size you have hardware spare, typically. Developers can use that for their tests. You can also have your datacenter/operations group work with your developers during project planning so the code and HW can be ready at the same time.

That being said, I don't disagree there are advantages to the cloud. I'm AWS certified, I drink the coolaid. But saying that there are "so many other benefits" is ignoring the fact that there are "so many benefits" to on prem too. There are pro's and cons to both sides.
fyi over VDSL2 you can get 25/2 at 1200m of copper.
You have to have a pretty advanced level of Spanish to get through one of his novels, though. There is a lot of relatively obscure vocab.
We have years worth of instances of telcoms already trying to throttle and filter traffic to their choosing. They were blocked each time. So we know exactly what they will do now that they are legally off the hook.
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No amount of sophistry will help the matter at hand. Spanner considers a true spacelike interval to be some kind of fuzzy clock measurement error (or "uncertainty"). Call it timestamp all you want, whatever shall you stamp when you should have one node on Earth and another on Mars?
Would love if this were open to non-YC startups!
> allsides.com

Wow, I've been looking for something like this. Wish they did more than just the USA.
If cellular data services were not capped (or throttled down, past an imaginary line the phone company rarely shares), then you might have an argument. As it stands, 4g phone service is only a replacement for cable or dsl services for the rarest of individuals. Windows software updates alone will blow you through your cap.
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I was off Facebook for awhile but rejoined this past year. I primarily use it to follow some organizations that post updates I'm interested in.

If a "friend" posts something political or something that annoys me, I just Unfollow them. That means I've unfollowed most of my friends, but I have no interest in partaking in the outrage.
What if Damore had been a woman. What do you think would have happened then.

This is just en exercise in public outrage, not in morality, responsibility or the application of ideals.
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I have no idea what you are talking about. What do you think "the onion" is?
It's not me, it's the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that you have a quibble with, then.

Look up US Telecom Association v FCC (2016)

https://techliberation.com/2017/07/12/heres-why-the-obama-fc...

https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/06F8BFD0...

What? The break the internet movement didn't mention that part? That censorship by ISPs was ok under net neutrality?

https://www.attpublicpolicy.com/consumer-broadband/the-surpr...
Gen X gets rightfully ignored in these discussions because they're less affected by it, having come of age before the big downturn, and less responsible for it, having come of age after the damage was done.

I'm 34, I graduated high school just in time to watch the economic prosperity I had viewed through the eyes of older friends and relatives immediately explode out from under me. I can remember when everything wasn't totally doomed forever, but I never got to experience it first hand.

Gen X did, and while it's not like they haven't suffered along with us since, it's not quite the same. You don't get our sympathy, but you don't get our anger either.
This makes sense, ycombinator always seemed more risk-averse and later stage anyways, from my interactions with them (I've raised from billionaires like Tim Draper and Marc Benioff, but YC only asked us for an interview once). This isn't a bad thing, but it is sad because seed stage funding has been drying up since 2014 (when I raised for gunDB.io), there are some good TechCrunch articles on this "dry up" and I think it is gonna make the lives of a lot of developers harder. But I can blame YC, it matches their model, and they've obviously done a good job at everybody knowing their name.
You have it backwards. These companies can benefit financially from the repeal. But that's short-sighted, and they know it. Innovation will suffer without Net Neutrality, and these companies are more worried about that long-tail loss than any short-term windfall that this would cause.
"Although the program will focus on active YC startups, the accelerator plans on including a few companies that did not previously participate in YC’s core program."
But RSA is exactly the same, really. Instead of point, you just have a number, and instead of adding it together n times, you raise it to n-th power modulo.
> Net neutrality has only been in effect for 2 years or so.

For 11 years, starting 12 years ago; the Open Internet Policy Statement which guided case-by-case action was adopted in 2005, but the case-by-case approach was struck down by the courts in 2010.

Title I-based neutrality regulations were adopted in 2010 and struck down by the courts in 2014.

Title II-based neutrality regulations were adopted in 2015, and repealed just now.
Well, that seems dismissive in a needlessly rude way. I agree that realpolitik drives a great many of the decisions of government and that the true motivations are often papered over with slogans and feel good messages. On the other hand, diplomats aren't all hard-bitten cynics. Many of them are very passionate about the areas of the world they help make policy around. The results are often a tension between the two.

I think by the mid nineties, a lot of people were very hopeful about the opening of Russia. Joining the Eastern block nations to NATO didn't have the same conotation it would have had in 1991 or today for that matter.

On this we disagree but we might agree on a lot actually. There seems no need to be snide.
It's likely not harmless but very positive to spread so quickly. I think one hypothesis is the domestication of dogs. They don't usually track fingers, but they do track eyes and having blue eyes may help there. There are many types of melanin - I believe the gene only cuts out one kind.
California has announced they plan to.
What public libraries will lose without net neutrality
Frankly, though, I think it's not that great. Sure, it has a lot of emotional resonance, but that's because the Vietnam War has lots of emotional resonance. Seen solely as a memorial, it's cold & impersonal. That kinda works, given Vietnam's role as the first U.S. victory[0] the country felt badly about.

[0] Yes, the U.S. won: North & South Vietnam signed the Paris Peace Accords in 1973, in which North Vietnam agreed that the South Vietnamese people would be allowed to determine their own political future. It was only in 1974 & 1975, after Nixon's resignation, that North Vietnam again invaded South Vietnam, breaking the treaty.
And how are they allowed to get away with demonstrably false technical errors on record? There should be some checks and balances here.
A bigot, by what I think is a reasonable definition, is someone whose prejudices are resistant to contrary evidence. If someone is irrational in that way, then it is rational for me not to trust them, especially if their prejudices concern me directly. The fact that everyone, including me, has their own prejudices is not germane.

If someone is angry about something all the time that really (from my POV) shouldn't concern them, it doesn't make them a murderer that should be locked up right now, no, but it could nevertheless reasonably make me wonder if they are dangerous or will "go postal" at some point.
Just to add a specific example - we applied to YC, got to the interview stage, and completely flunked it. But five years on we're successful (although probably not in a large enough market for YC). Wrote about this recently here - https://clutter.errantscience.com/2017/07/31/reflecting-on-t...
It wasn't me! Personally loved the series! I'm always on the lookout for more "proper" sci-fi, so please share! I've been binge reading hard sci-fi this year and can't get enough. And yeah, HN is a tough crowd.
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Comcast is infringing the copyright of every webpage they modify without permission.

They may or may not be, but you are foolish to assert that they are infringing based on on a few select quotes. Are you also going to assert that it's also a copyright infringement every time a browser caches part of a web page to disk, or when a user runs an script to change the layout of a page? Both arguments have been made, but as far as I know, there is no clear precedent for either. For better or worse, US law is based on case-law, and unless you can point to some previous cases where modifying a web page on the fly has been judged to be copyright infringement, there is nothing open-and-shut about it.
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Yes, leftist housing activism is also infuriatingly detached from reality, but the parent comment asked what the government backed alternatives were.
Does Excel have a "plugin framework" for new languages the way Jupyter does? Ideally any language (Python/Julia/R/whatever) can be added by a third party without Microsoft's direct involvement.

The plugin authors would only need to map a language or library's DataFrame mechanics to Excel's table layout. (Microsoft could even use Apache Arrow to represent the data.)

I imagine there would be lots of possibilities by providing "hooks" for language designers to connect to.
I want the ability to use Google/G-Suite as an identity provider to log into multiple AWS accounts. We have dev and prod workloads that run in completely separate AWS accounts. I want to be able to use Google SSO and the ability to select which AWS account to log into
> Isn't it ironic that the only way for a startup ISP to get around the local monopoly agreement is to not provide services which are regulated by the FCC?

Isn't it telling that the FCC is repealing the consumer-protecting regulations, and not the monopoly-protecting ones?
I'd say having a good imagination. Most other skill can be learned in adulthood, but there's nothing like having a child imagination.
So if this was the movie Gravity, we could just scoot voyager over to see it as it passes by.
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I’m 100% with you, but it’s worth understanding the opponent.
> I'll give you a hint: if you are a female engineer, and you are put as a report for Damore, would you ever have a lingering feeling he might be biased against you if he decided to promote your male peer instead of you?

I don't know. Maybe. What we do know if that if someone else shares the same opinion of Damore within google, we will never hear about it , and the bias effect you attribute will still happen but there would be no way to address it.

Not only that, but it might have exacerbated it: someone with the fear of being perceived bias and losing his job will want as few women in his team as possible. How about that possibility?

> Wrong. He was fired because he publicly said "fuck it, I don't believe that women are equal and you have to suck it up." That's his prerogative, but doesn't entitle him to a job anywhere.

He said it multiple days before he got fired. The timeline doesn't add up!
Me too :) I think it was easier for Longmont as it's part of "Longmont Power and Communications" - they were able to run a lot of fiber in existing infrastructure, and right of way was essentially a non-issue.
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And he is wrong with his break down, but what else is new.
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> it might just mean that homophobia is the norm

Or it could mean nobody understands your English. Does @sama even speak Chinese?
> perhaps its time to ponder if a more modern architecture would save you money or positively affect developer experience.

That's condescending and inappropriate (since it knows nothing about "modernity" in architecture), at the same time.
Yeah, I'd like something like this for Europe.
You might be entirely right, but the universe is a big place. Estimates of the number of stars (called Sagan's Number[1]) are on the order of the 3 x 10^23 (300 sextillion[2]). Even if only a tiny fraction of a percent of them had worlds with intelligent life, there'd be a lot of it out there. The bad news, though, is that it's still hard to travel, or even send transmissions, so it's just as likely we're doomed to stay lonely.

(I tend to share your optimism about the odds of other intelligent life being good-natured; we've come a long way in the last 2,000 years, by the time we're out in the stars, I'd like to think we'd all be Bodhisattvas).

1: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sagan%27s_number

2: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/12/01/131730552...
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This is dangerously wrong.

Earlier this year, I noticed something in China that really surprised me. I realized I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco. I didn’t feel completely comfortable—this was China, after all—just more comfortable than at home.

There are many more unsayable things in Beijing than San Francisco, and the penalties for saying them are much harsher (though of course not for Sam, as a very wealthy foreigner most rules simply don't apply). People are regularly beaten, harassed and murdered for reporting the truth about the government in China. Journalism is a very dangerous profession there in ways it is not in the US.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/14/asia/chinese-beat-korean-j...
https://cpj.org/2016/04/chinese-journalist-sentenced-to-near...

In contrast, the dangers Sam runs from being open are that people will be mean to him on the internet.

I am less worried that letting some people on the internet say things like “gay people are evil” is going to convince reasonable people that such a statement is true

This is a really odd statement of a non-problem which dismisses real world life-threatening problems a lot of marginalised people live with. First, reasonable people are not the problem, violent, irrational people who are influenced by bad ideas are. Second, this is not an academic debate over people with naughty ideas, real lives are ruined by the normalisation of bigotry and hatred (in ways that Sam in his privileged bubble has never and will never experience, and apparently can't even imagine). People are murdered, spat on and denigrated even at their funerals when hate like 'gay people are evil' is allowed to spread. Sometimes, to remain human, you have to choose a side.

This is uncomfortable, but it’s possible we have to allow people to say disparaging things about gay people if we want them to be able to say novel things about physics.

Why would those two things ever be related? Why can't we let people say novel things about physics, and call them out when they (for example) harass gay people, sexually assault people who work for them, or do other bad things. Why would we possibly want to excuse bad behaviour because someone comes up with novel physics ideas?

What sort of confusion of ideas could lead to linking these two topics?
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Indeed. I point to Half Life (ST:NG), the Resolution. That's the compulsory suicide episode once you reach a certain age.

As an Xer over 40, I'm definitely more sympathetic to Millenials than the Boomers.

My stereotyping: The Baby Boomers politically have bought off Democrats and Republicans to get the lowest top bracket tax rates seen since income taxes began, but they demand complete payout of Medicare and Social Security benefits without any haircuts, while also exploding the national debt, and supporting optional wars of aggression. This compared to the prior generation who taxed themselves like crazy while still building massive private and public infrastructure, balancing the budget, and having middle class wealth that was the envy of the world.

At best, Baby Boomers are coasters. At worst, Baby Boomers are a useless generation that has given us nothing terribly useful or innovative. Millenials early on grew up with the idea they could coast like the boomers, and then the 2008 financial crisis happened, and they had a rude awakening.

Why do I give more crap to Baby Boomers? Because they've had their chance and they pissed it away. They have left the country far worse off financially, and massively wealth disproportionate, compared to the country they were handed. Whereas the Millenials had been, up until about now, young and entitled to be a little stupid and irresponsible - but they did not make this bed at all.

Anyway, it's going to be up to Millenials and Xers to deal with it.
>Initiative. People with initiative tend to be better off regardless of how bad anything else is.

That's just a truism though. Your advice may as well be "read more books" or "work harder". These are not solutions to the wider problems facing our societies.

>You should hold yourself to whatever standard is most appropriate for you. Crying about how bad life is, or expecting sympathy, probably won't get you what you to where you want to be.

To be dissatisfied with our society and the inter-generational transfers of wealth is is to "cry" and to "expect sympathy"? You've build up a nifty little strawman there that allows you to be awfully condescending, and that's nice and all, but as with all strawmen, it's not grounded in reality.

>There is a world of difference between sympathy and empathy. One of those is a childish quality that results in nothing positive. The other allows you to improve yourself and the world around you. If you cannot tell the difference you are no position to suggest such opinions of others.

Sorry but what is your point? Self-improvement is great and something we should all aspire to, yes! But why then is improving our society off limits? We cannot improve something without first criticising it. I don't understand why you are so sensitive to people criticising where we are just because people in Africa are poorer. It does not make sense to me.
Most SSD manufacturers offer a warranty that is included in the price of the drive. The Samsung 950 PRO warranty is 5 years or 400 terabytes written.
In analyzing this, it doesn't matter what something purports to be, it matters what it is actually used as. By and large bitcoin is a digital commodity, not a currency. That may well change in the future, but that's not relevant to the analysis.
False dichotomies and appeal to the middle are absolutely types of word games. I am sick and tired of "moderate"-sounding weasley arguments that excuse corporatocracy and cronyism as "free competition".

There's only one grocery store in many towns, because the moment another chain opens, the dominant one lowers prices to below what the market can bear. The dominant chain takes temporary losses to drive competition out of business, then raises prices sky-high and returns to business as usual. This exact behavior occurs in many broadband markets.