skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually Title II dates back to 1934.
Ganache: A Local Ethereum Blockchain for DApp Development
Nothing Is More Mesmerizing Than This Traffic Simulator Gone Completely Wild
'Censorship by whom? A bunch of websites that are completely separate entities from ISPs that are monopolies for all intents and purposes?'

Yes, those same web sites that are breathlessly telling me today the repealing NN is a mortal threat to my very existence, who then turn around and engage in censorship themselves.
Millennials are learning as a generation that the real world isn't as happy, meritous, equitable and safe as school and that the world is and will always likely be pay to play. If Millennials want to change the world and succeed they need to start doing it with money.
Yup, it teaches algorithms very effectively with low boilerplate; personally it's my favorite way of expressing dictionaries/hashtables and other data structures. Generators and iterators are super powerful concepts that I didn't learn in college and wish I did earlier.

It also allows a developer to manipulate individual bits, which is pretty amazing for security research or other cases when you want to get low level but don't want to get in the weeds with C.
I'd vote for Lua: faster and less heavy than Python...
Plus my biggest concern for Python would be how well the team can sandbox it. I know in this regard Lua also has advantages. Disclaimer: I am _way_ more proficient in Python than Lua, I just think Lua is a better choice.
Can someone enlighten me on the tech used to create such pages? I vaguely remember someone posted about it but lost the bookmark.
I love Python but I also don’t mind static types. Maybe I will realize some day what this argument is really about, but I expected that day to come by now.
Here come the first lawsuits against FCC’s net neutrality repeal
Fan-Outs vs. TSVs
I already find myself reaching for Google Sheets quite frequently just to do this. I'd love to be able to use Python instead of JavaScript.
I think the title of the essay actually begs the question a bit. The Galileo quote ("Eppur si muove") refers to an incident where the objective facts were on the side of the persecuted speaker. Here the author discusses a clash of opinion: depending on the criteria used to assess its outcomes, or how the technology is developed or implemented, radical life extension work could indeed turn out to be unethical - we don't have access to the relevant priors of the discussants. It's possible that utterances like this give people an impression of unexamined or unearned certainty to which they react negatively.
Whether there are mistakes in the official documents doesn't change anything about the policy. They weren't persuaded because they didn't receive a persuasive argument about why net neutrality is supposed to help. That doesn't mean they weren't persuaded that some of the "facts" were wrong, it means that they weren't persuaded in terms of opinions. The arguments of the ISP are obviously biased and that should surprise nobody. I think it's pretty reasonable to assume the same thing about tech companies. Is e.g. Netflix unbiased when the net neutrality question pretty much came up in regards to Netflix? You would have to be insane to claim that Netflix (or Google, or Facebook, or Reddit) aren't supporting this (at least to some extent) for the sake of increasing their own profit margins.

The Right is arguing for a free market economy and decreased regulation not because they are "going against the facts." There is no fact stating that "net neutrality is necessary for the world to function" or "internet is a human right" or whatever. All of these things are opinions. You have the opinion that net neutrality is needed, but there is no fact backing that statement.

> It is not acceptable to pursue that agenda by ignoring expert answers to technical questions

Here's what you're missing: they don't oppose net neutrality because of what the ISPs said about it. They oppose it because it is a regulation that limits the free market. There is no fact or fiction to this opinion, it's like saying "because there's facts to show that speech can hurt people, free speech should be restricted." I agree that speech can hurt someone, but I disagree that it should be restricted. Does that mean I'm fighting the facts here?
Have you considered that maybe your internet is bad in the heart of silicon valley for the same reason your public transit, housing, etc., is bad? Symmetric gigabit is ~$80/month where I live, and I'm having 2-gig installed in a couple of weeks for $150/month. We've got all our utilities on poles, zoning variances are a breeze to get, and nobody cares that my house never got its final inspection. But we've got lots of Trump lawn signs around so people in Silicon Valley would never stoop to moving here.
Paradigm shifts makes previous systems obsolete. That's why it's not a great time to sell landline telephony or newspapers, and why relying on pre-internet political organizing technology is to cripple oneself straight out of the gate.
Does Lua have anything like Numpy or Scikit-learn?
I've gotta disagree with you on this. Personally I think intelligent life is probably very rare in the universe, the sheer number of factors that need to go right for it to arise, and then the sheer number of factors that need to not go wrong for it to continue to exist mean any intelligent life out there is probably going to find us way more valuable and worthy of co-operation and interaction than say destruction of us for the measly resources of Earth, or enslavement (although I guess enslavement could be possible).

I do also have faith in the "humanity" of any interstellar life that may exist out there, after all a society based on oppression tends to be rife with conflict, and societies rife with instability and conflict don't tend to last. And in my view it would be very unsustainable for any life to maintain that sort of conflict, and at the same time hope to extend a society out into the universe.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. I think it's worth the risk.
> A bit dated now, but still a great read about a Python project done by Java developers: http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html

I included a link to this blog-post in the "letter of intent" (don't know the exact English term) that I sent to my potential employer just before my first interview for a professional (Python) programmer job, back in 2005. I got the job. Good times.
I'd rather not write a bunch of tests that are really acting as a static type checker or, worse, testing the Python equivalent of compiler, linker and assembler output.

That's what the vast majority of testing is when it isn't simply testing mock code implementations.
What if voicing a controversial opinion gets you fired?
I'm also somewhat creeped out by the suggestion that "The notice is typically sent after a customer ignores several emails." - so not only are they injecting Javascript into pages you're browsing, but they're doing it in an individually targeted fashion having correlated it with email they've sent you and possibly data sent (or not sent) via tracking bugs in those emails...

And they're getting it all wrong, sending it to customers who's modems do _not_ need upgrading... Doesn't exactly inspire confidence in their ability to manage and secure the Javascript injection mechanism...
FCC Launches Review of TV Station Ownership Cap
Or an instance of Goodhart's law.
That's all about liability. If they sell you 200mg tablets and tell you on the bottle to only take one, and you take three and have adverse effects, they have limited or eliminated their liability.
Good luck with that considering how much RF we're blasting out into space(you can make contact with the ISS/AmSats on a 5W handheld + yagi antenna).
That combination should make you uneasy, because it's a red flag that you're reading propaganda of one sort or another. Propaganda always contains some truth, but usually not all of the truth, and an appeal to your emotions..
I sent a message to our mayor, to which he responded, regarding muni fiber... It seems the best way to approach it is via a public-private partnership - meaning, we (the residents of our 50,000+ city in SoCal) pay for the buildout, own the fiber infrastructure that should be good for at least 3-5 decades, while someone like Cox, GFiber or whomever provides billing/maintenance/operations.... that way it's a win win and the city doesn't have to get involved in becoming a full blown ISP.

In his response he said the topic's been brought up before. If I get his and the council's blessing, the next thing is to hit the ground and get probably 3000-5000 signatures and put this up on a ballot in 2018 November to see how the city feels. I'm optimistic however cause I've been hearing multiple complaints, on-goingly about bad service from ISPs (and we have Cox here, and I don't think they're that bad as opposed to Comcast) and probably a pet peeve is data caps... Sure, we've 1TB caps which is plenty, but w/advent of 4k TV and IPTV ... that may be very low.

Here's to hope that in a few years we all have FTTH where I live (crossing my fingers!)
Which is why ObamaCare was passed? If they had total control of our country, don't you think that politics would fit their side a little bit better?
What parts of the article drove this comment? I admittedly skimmed it, but the whole thing seemed to be about why millenials aren't just "doing it with money," and that reason wasn't that they wanted life to be like school.
Yeah, I've seen that story played out so many times.

Best example I've seen was from a couple of Java devs transitioning to python, they re-wrote a system 3 times:
1st time: 35k loc
2nd time: 10k
3rd: 2k

The third rewrite was also significantly faster than the first two :)
> What the heck are you getting at?

Please don't, but rather post civil, substantive comments only.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
AOL Instant Messenger closes its doors
Probably your can't. Why are you doing that? You need to stop.
In terms of social media, yes, it's the only place that will tell me that my high school friend is getting married. And to a large extent it's the only thing I will ever find that out from, depending on who we are talking about. In other words, the social updates that I go to Facebook for are updates that I cannot get elsewhere.
The OP said "I believe" so obviously we can neither empirically prove or disprove the statement. We can say with absolute certainty that static typing is not required for large codebases, because there are large codebases that are not statically typed.
No, watch them pump out some horribly supported python library .
Again, per OP's suggestion, if everybody got one vote, instead of the current formula "<effective votes> = f(<net worth>)" with f' > 1, we would not be in this situation.
Great guide but I run into a question almost immediately when it says "This line always intersects the elliptic curve at a 3rd point" and then subsequently "This line always intersects the elliptic curve at a 2nd point."

Both of those statements seem false, since it's possible to pick points such that you get a vertical line near the left, like by putting the point on the X-axis (0 on the Y-Axis) in the second interactive example. Sure enough, doing so crashes the page.

Is there just, like, limitations to where you can place the points? As in, you can place them anywhere so long as you're not creating a vertical line?
This breaks the HN guidelines badly. Please read them and don't do this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
It's quite expensive to start a fiber network. You might want to consider using wireless with a mesh network. In Detroit there's an organization that has become the leader:

https://www.alliedmedia.org/dctp

In Detroit it's not real high speed because they're using foundation money to provide basic access, but there's no reason I know of that it couldn't be.

Here's more information on the mesh network in Detroit:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kz3xyz/detroit-me...
First thing what I do if it is my spacecraft i will not send anything until I'll far away enough to not be detected and probably won't point transmitter to planet which are investigated (I know that signal can be reflected back from cosmic debris, but who can send rock to other solar system won't have problem to calculate signal path which doesn't point to us)
Symmetric gigabit at $85/mo is oversubscribed by a factor of 10
Unfortunately, there are several companies and hundreds of divisions of companies run entirely out of excel spreadsheets.
You've described modern Journalism in America quite succinctly.
TechShop is an incredible important and valuable resource in the communities it serves. Please find a way to allow it to continue.
Sorry; I (and presumably your original comment) meant the designation of Internet service providers as common carriers under Title II. This designation was applied in 2015.
I’d argue that’s a totally reasonable margin on high end hardware.

By the way, who’s gonna pay all those engineers who fit all those components in such a nice box?
As well as agreeing to this, I would add the following:

* I would support both Python 2 and Python 3. Yes I know that the push to Python 3 is ongoing but there are a lot more libraries to be found for 2. Don't bother with IronPython.

* I would integrate pip or whatever package manager Python uses these days so that people can download their own modules and use them in the Excel sheets. Not only that, the packages should be restored automatically when the Excel sheet is loaded.

* It goes without saying that Python should be sandboxed.

* VS Code integration in Excel with full syntax highlighting and autocomplete - again a no-brainer.
Wireless won't solve this problem.
There are similar electric car-sharing programs in Beijing and it is quite popular. But it is not as popular as the Bike-sharing programs. Gosh, Mobike (orange) or OFO (yellow) bikes everywhere!
I believe this is a good thing if the price is fair and there are enough cars.
therefore, modern journalism is....????
It's a one way protocol. Pure broadcast. No session.

Note that anyone with a hundred bucks can buy a used aviation voice radio and do all the spoofing they want. It just isn't a problem because people don't like jail. The problem of getting acceptable reliability in an aviation electronics environment is tough enough that deliberate attacks fall below the noise.
> https://www.python-excel.org/

The https link doesn't seem to work, try this:

http://www.python-excel.org/
I'm in the same boat for the first part. I'll be thumbing through my feed and see some quasi-interesting video but no matter how great it is, when I see that "about to start ad" text, I just scroll on. Like on YouTube, I could watch a pre-roll if I really, really want to watch it.
What is interesting is also the implications of them now considering python.

First if it is python, it is not javascript, which seemed to have been their previous favorite candidate until now (not sure if it really picked up).

Second, the writing on the wall for VB as a language starts to look like a time square billboard. They basically put VB.net in maintenance / compatibility mode like webforms and winforms. I think it is clear that a new scripting language would be meant to ultimately replace VBA (which has been on maintenance / compatibility mode for 20 years!).
Western Digital to Use RISC-V for Controllers, Processors
Not much meat for the technically interested here unfortunately. The respective business departments were clearly in charge of this press release. Which was a business mistake in my opinion: these press releases are primarily interesting for the CTOs and similar - the fluff presented here would serve to remind them of how they are kept at arms length i many board rooms even in their areas of expertise, more than anything. My guess is both Google Cloud and Etsy would dip in their opinion as result of it.
I lived in Beijing for 9 years and I never once felt threat for my ideas, those of which I spoke to pretty much anyone. And I'm definitely anti-authoritarian. You really are only gonna get busted if you hold up signs or organize protests. The topic of this post is not about public protests.

Don't get me wrong. I don't agree with China's treatment of public protests, and think it's despicable. And I find that free speech in the US is one of the only things that we are right about when it comes to exceptionalism. It's maybe the last thing that is special about the US, and that's why I don't like attacks against it. Only a few weeks ago during "free speech week" at Berkeley and the South Carolina protests I had leftist friends and acquaintances advocate for limitations on speech, and violence towards those who use hate speech, despite the fact that the first amendment protects hate speech. It's ass backwards, and exactly what China's faux-leftist policies advocate. In any case, that is not the topic of this post, which is topics of daily conversation.
No. A query takes place and the network is either working or not at that instant, and the system reacts accordingly. CP means it might not be available, but if it is then you'll get the latest data. AP means you'll always get an answer, but it might not be the latest data.

You can make your network reliable in the sense that better infrastructure lowers failures, but nothing is 100% so CAP is about what happens in the inevitable failure scenario. Whether you have 0 failures or 1 per hour doesn't affect CAP at all and has nothing to do with magically making something CA.
I’m an atheist. I’ve worked with people who thought I’m going to hell. What am I going to do, get them all fired?

No. Just be polite and respectful to your colleagues. Not every stone needs to be turned.
Mesh networks do not work at scale.
Are there large codebases that are not statically typed? Yes? Then empirically it is false.

> big boon

But they argued ‘essential’. You’ve watered that down to nice-to-have.
It's not entirely clear whether they blocked it from being installed on their carrier locked phones, or if they blocked it from communicating with Google servers at the network level. Back in 2011 it was relatively uncommon to buy unlocked phones, particularly for use on CDMA networks. It sounds to me like they just blocked the phone from installing the application, rather than anything that net neutrality would prevent.

There's no legal reason that a carrier has to allow you to use an unlocked phone on their networks. My cable ISP doesn't allow me to bring my own modem, for example. From what I can tell, the net neutrality rules wouldn't have changed this situation at all.

edit: This article[1] is extremely informative; Verizon was not blocking anything at a network level, they were disabling the OS from accessing the necessary "secure element" (TrustZone) in some of their carrier locked phones, which made the Android APIs that Google Wallet relied on cease to function. Due to this, Google chose to not show the app on the Play Store to customers on Verizon because they didn't want people to try the app and have it fail.

So in conclusion, this "blocking" (if you can even call it that) is completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand about net neutrality.

[1]: http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/05/01/a-brief-history-of-v...
Really?? How surprising, I always found it the opposite. Possibly because my math background is sufficiently underdeveloped that the method of addition for the two points on the curve seems absurdly arbitrary, as if someone made it up on the spot.

If you put 2 and 2 together, you get 4, a toddler can see that, but how on earth did anyone arrive at the conclusions that (-2.0, 1.4) + (1.9, 2.3) = (0.1, -1.9) via drawing a line, finding a third point, then reflecting across the X-axis? Makes no sense to me at all.

If you could explain that it'd be great. Likewise I'm sure you can ask almost anything about RSA here and myself or someone else has a decent chance of knowing the answer.
Maybe someday I can persuade you that it's a harder problem than it seems. But my point was that the things people post on HN no more represent YC, let alone Sam, than YouTube comments represent Larry and Sergey.
Is there a version in regular, normal text available to read? Shitting all over your content with useless animations that do nothing but take my time, force me to scroll excessively and annoy me is a fantastic way of having me move on to some other, better presented content.
Javascript would be another example of language that many people has been exposed to.

I would even say it would fit better, not because the language is better, but because indentation wouldn't go in the way for quick & dirty one-offs.
The opposite is true: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/how-kansas-city-.... Google got tons of concessions from Fiber cities that other providers don't get, such as free power and free use of public property. There was nothing special about Kansas City--cities were falling over themselves to offer Google concessions in return for getting Fiber.
I'm not "falling to American exceptionalism" - I just don't think that because something happened once, in another country, in a particular way, means that it'll happen exactly the same way, in every other country, forever.

I'll take my chances.
To be completely fair, and by my own experience, it doesn't get any better for a caucasian foreigner.
Got it! Thank you.
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Essential Internet Writing, Now Between Two Covers
Linux is already running on more personal computers than Windows. We call them tablets, phones, and think of Android as it's own OS but the reality is it all came from just one guy at the beginning.
3G may be faster but it is rarely better - with a T1 you are going to get very low latency and very very very low jitter.
So I recommend: just present the idea of an abstract group and its relevant properties, then continue on with the high level algebra. For most people this would be a lot more informative.

Are there any treatments like this that you'd recommend?
...Which is why the large incumbents and aging boomers without sufficient retirement savings are currently bleeding off as much money and future earnings as they can in an audacious eleventh-hour raid.

Y'know, if it's too audacious, the reprisals are gonna be financially brutal once the pendulum swings back. Two can play at the game of literal and baldly-stated wealth redistribution, if that becomes the norm. But by then most of the current decision makers will be dead, so who cares?
ego blow, we're not even probe worth
Willful copyright infringement[1] doesn't go away if you cannot contact the recipient of the unauthorized copy by "phone letter, email". Comcast is infringing the copyright of every webpage they modify without permission.

[1] Modifying an HTML file[2] (or any other protected work) creates a "derivative work"[3\. Without permission from the original author, distributing a copy of a derivative work is copyright infringement.

[2] Any "original work of authorship"[4] gains copyright protection when "fixed in any tangible medium of expression ... from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device."[4].

[3] "A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is a 'derivative work'."[5]

[4] 17 U.S. Code § 102 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/102

[5] 17 U.S. Code § 101 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/101
You forgot to make some asinine comment about participation trophies.
Lobbying and money can do anything? American policy makers are more messed-up than I thought. How worst could it get?

Interesting to watch it's impact in US in the long run. At least the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India listened [0]. If not the situation in India would be really bad.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_in_India