skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I want to learn more about the internet and what it would take to bypass the ISPs. Can I do this?

Fwiw, a group called Toronto Meshnet [1] was investigating the opportunity for a community mesh project (which lacks incorporation and know-how of how to run an ISP) to partner with a non-profit ISP [2] (that lacks capacity, constantly gets shut out of the last-mile to new condo developments, but understands the ISP side) to have mesh accommodate the last-mile into homes.[3]

I think they're in a slow-down phase right now as they didn't get funding, but I imagine there's legs in this approach, and they'll ramp up again :)

[1] https://tomesh.net/
[2] http://www.torfree.net/
[3] https://github.com/tomeshnet/documents/tree/master/meeting_n...
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I can't legitimately care about 20 people living in 20 different parts of the world?
This might be what gets me to finally abandon my Facebook account for good. They couldn't find a more aggravating way to squeeze the last drop of blood from this stone.
Yes!! Is there a solution like that?
yet that is one big example that even the ACLU has been spreading around.

No wonder people have been confused.
You mean like what happened with Ethereum Coin?
I'm assuming all my electronics fries, papers burn and memory goes away. (to be safe)

Bank vault might be a good idea (assuming they id me fine)
Can't believe we've lost the copyright battle so hard.
1. What reelection campaign are you talking about? The chairman of the FCC is appointed, not elected.

2. Second, these two issues aren't mutually exclusive. Let's get some of the money out of politics? Sure, great, fine! But the Republicans still just disagree with you on net neutrality.
I wonder how terrifying it would be to get a notification every time a single underlying storage device on something like Dropbox or S3 failed. We all know there is some kind of redundant system but how often does your data get moved around because of failures?
How Net Neutrality could still be saved
A lot of people think you have to watch what you say in China, and they almost always are people who have never been there. There are very specific political things you can't do, but otherwise literally not one gives a shit about you. You can say what you want, and unless you specifically go organize a large group of people and screaming in public something politically sensitive, no one cares. Ideally in a society we don't want those people anyways.
That's a misleading title if there is any.

TL,DR: "I have this theory, that some poor black girl in Children’s Hospital has the cure for cancer right now, or at least the potentiality to discover it, but she will never get the opportunity to, because someone won’t hire her since they can’t get past the fact that her fucking name is LaQuita."
I feel the same way. I find it hard to get started even with truffle. I wish there were more blog posts and examples
SYNQ: Upload, Store, Transcode and Deliver Videos with Simple API Calls
Two big savings opportunities:

* elastic demand, either in the sense that your global traffic has peaks and troughs, or your global traffic is steady but its global distribution changes such that the balance of where you're deployed would ideally change over time; in either case you can benefit enormously from automatic scaling

* workloads that can take advantage of the spot market (or whatever GCP's equivalent is)
If we carried our children until they were sufficiently physically developed to stand, they'd kill the mothers in childbirth 19 times out of 20.

As our brains became more advanced, our crania became larger and more dangerous to birth at full term. But as our intelligence increased, so did our ability to care for infants that were essentially born premature.

So now even our full term babies are born so early that they need another 3 months (sometimes referred to as the "fourth trimester") just to be mature enough to sleep properly, among other things. But as intelligent humans, we're able to care for them and devise ways to carry them with us and protect and nurture them despite their extreme helplessness.

FWIW, the offspring of carnivorous mammals, though not born quite as "premature" as humans, are often as underdeveloped at birth as a 3-month-old baby. I mean, have you ever seen a newborn kitten or puppy? Eyes closed, barely able to crawl to its mother's teats?

The need for a prey animal - especially one that depends on speed for self-preservation - to be able to escape from within minutes of its birth is very different from the survival requirements for a carnivore or even a prey animal that gives birth in a hidden den (like many rodents).
I suppose CA could set net neutrality regulations for web users in CA connecting to web services in CA. I guess you could implement this if CA got their own internet country code; I think .ca is already taken though.
You think? I bought the normal Pixelmator for a few dollars years ago and still receive updates and features. I don't mind them branching out and trying something new, the normal pixelmator is still top notch
Very well thought out answer and agree with the consistency part, don't target popularity, target consistency
If you really need to read a CD-ROM then getting your hands on a SATA DVD-Drive, which usually are able to read CD-ROM, shouldn't be that big of a problem. Without looking hard I'd probably come up with 3 spare ones in my basement alone.

Tho I don't think that many of the self-burned CD's from 2 decades ago are still any good, I know mine usually ain't.
Chrome only (recently switched to Firefox). But it looks awesome. It's incredible to me how effective the post at the top of the timeline tends to be. They know exactly how to suck you into scrolling.
Amen -- treat it as a utility and just focus on maintaining dumb pipes.
At that scale it's probably like a slow rain.

You could be made to feel better if the alert only came when it concerned your data. But even then, and going by the NAS sitting under my desk you could be months without any activity and then suddenly two drives fail in two weeks. It's a nice little random data generator.
Supporting R or Typescript/JavaScript would be great and probably closer to the Microsoft ethos (R is already very well supported in SQL server and PowerBI).
Honestly I can't imagine having to use anything else now. I look at every other language and it seems like a giant step back, syntactically.
Honestly at this point it's half philosphical. I want to limit my interactions with companies that makes software like that.
As a Canadian, I find it fascinating to watch this develops.

I'd like to say three things:

1. It may be a bad move. Reasons are many and rehashed to death. Let me skip this one.

2. It may be a good thing. Especially if it pushes people away from FB, Google, Instagram, etc. All of which are top supporters of it, have made billions off user free content, and have stifled all inovation by various means (patents, buying or suiting competition, etc). Maybe it will push people away from monocultures and bring diversity to this stabilized ecosystem. Heck I'm already seeing bunch of geeks starting their own ISPs in USA today.

3. Most likely none of the above, whoever paid for this will try to milk it in ways unimaginable. Trump+Aji appear to be great distraction so far.
During the bubble homeownership rates deviated from the 50-year average by a whopping 5%, more-or-less.[1] And for that entire time taking out a mortgage was also the norm.[2]

The bubble wasn't so much in ownership rates but in prices.

I appreciate your link to college enrollment. I never realized it was so high. But at the same time it's been relatively high--at least, much higher than I believed--since long before there was a so-called bubble in college enrollment.

I appreciate your points but I feel like you're trying too hard to affirm the current narrative among millennials that eschew both home ownership and college. Whatever the merit of that argument, the premise that there's a recent bubble in the numbers of people pursing those things is belied by the evidence. The only concrete thing we can say in both cases relates to price inflation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home-ownership_in_the_United_S...

[2] I couldn't find historical numbers on the percentage of first-time home buyers taking out a mortgage. I feel like this point is uncontroversial, but I could very well be wrong.
> early html development was poor,

what you got against <blink>?
I made a prototype programming environment that is more like a spreadsheet interface into Python called Flowsheets that y'all might be interested in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Ca5czOY7Q

Flowsheets has become my preferred data manipulation environment.
I know plenty of skilled programmers who would recommend Python for projects at any scale, and just as many who do it every day.

No true scottsman etc.
As a mildly plausible example, a debt-powered "business" that made and then gave away high-quality vehicles for free would probably get people lining up but would also not be worth anything.
Not every company is a WhatsApp, in fact, the reason you are quoting this is because WhatsApp was exceptional.
I found that to be the case in Cuba. It actually felt more liberating than a typical American city, in that I could walk down the street alone drinking a beer at night in the middle of the city without fear. However, I also know that, like most totalitarian regimes, they'll allow a good bit of flex until they decide not to anymore, and then the crackdown is swift.
redundancy is not helpful if your system consistently fails after some regular interval
It is easy for some of us to remember what it was like back in the '60's when SF rose to become the US center of non-capitalism at the time.

The Grateful Dead were local musicians who gained more widespread popularity whether every one of them wanted it or not, especially once they got a record deal with a capitalist outfit that could advertise and promote in ways that the musicians could not or would not do on their own.

As the purported "leader" of the band, Jerry Garcia for one indicated that he was soon earning more income than he really needed, and having a strong balance toward benevolence over greed, set out to give $1000 each to numerous individuals who without a doubt were truly in need of the funds.

$1000 really would go a lot further then compared to a short 10 years later once the devastating devaluation of the US dollar was set into motion after it was unlinked to a universally appreciated natural resource (gold).

Anyway, turns out that before too long it was determined that it was costing $1200 to give away each $1000, and the program ended up grinding to a halt.
Not much has changed since recorded human history.
Nice! Using IRT for clothes sizing is indeed innovative.

One factor that is difficult to account for is users not telling you the truth. Users may feel embarrassed to say something is too small, as that may have negative connotations for some. It’s difficult of course to control for that, but I wonder how honest people might be in their feedback.
Ah yeah I was unclear there, I meant notifications of the devices under your own data.

e: Also, is it so surprising that your drives failed around the same time? It’s likely they were purchased together!
> and at least we don't have people shooting at each other because of road rage

Sorry, but yeah, you do. no major city is immune from crime, sadly.

> but at least we can drive ten minutes and be in well-preserved, well-maintained open space preserves

We can do that here too. I'm not in Houston, though, but Houston isn't representative of Texas. Neither is Dallas, though.

I found that I had more internet options when I moved away from San Jose and landed here. I had FIOS, Cox, Charter, wireless ISPs, even had that Clear service for a while. Now I live out in the cow fields and have Suddenlink for cable. My other internet options would be DSL or wireless. 200/20 down for $140/mo, business package with a static IP.
Even Hacker News doesn't know what the fuck they are talking about? You people too huh? Can't be bothered to read the regulations that you supposedly give a shit about, you too?? Fuck man, the amount global social media companies can brainwash people is STUNNING!! READ THE FUCKING DOCUMENTS!

The Net Neutrality regulation passed on Feb 26 2015:
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2015...
The 2015 regulation that allows global tech companies to monopolize all information on the internet, strips the FCC of its power to prevent censorship and monopolization, and hands control of the internet to the EU.

The Net Neutrality repeal set to be decided on Dec 14 2017:
https://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/201...
The 2017 repeal of the 2015 NN regulation reverts all the bullshit from the 2015 regulation, eliminates global tech companies control of internet, prevents censorship, and returns the FCC its previous powers(the powers they had for the 20 years before 2015 and never once abused or censored or blocked or throttled with, just like theyve done with radio & phone for 83 years and tv for 50 years).

TLDR: READ PAGES 82-87 IN 2017 NN REPEAL.
Say whatever you want about Eugène McCarthy[1], he seems to be right about hybridization being an overlooked evolutionary force.

1. http://www.macroevolution.net/
Huh, I don't think I've seen a reference to that story in years, but just emailed it to a coworker a couple hours ago.
My favorite is all the financial complexity in order to take advantage of the debt-based economy. I even did a blog post on Google and Mozilla that shows some of the other problems: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2017/12/google-mozilla-and-deb...
How do humans recognise objects from different angles?
The title has been changed since I posted, and unfortunately I didn’t think ahead to save a copy of the original HN title. The current title is much more what I would have been expecting.
robots.txt is more like a sign that asks certain people not to look at a bunch of other publicly visible signs.

One can't post a sign in public that tells people not to look at other publicly visible signs and expect the government to arrest or fine them for ignoring it.
The Ultimate Game Boy Talk (33c3)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyzD8pNlpwI
AlphaGo Teach – Find new and creative ways of playing Go
Low-cost embeddable SDR occupies a mini-PCIe card
Perhaps cheaper and more widespread gene sequencing should be considered before pursuing something which could affect entire populations of X species. I can imagine something like this wiping out some kind of pollinating insect, for example. Any such population would have to be monitored regardless of local isolation by design. For that we need very cheap sequencing.
One of my all time favorites. Though it took me a while to remember the source of the quote. I thought it had been used in the context of global warming so google didn’t turn up much. Then I remembered it’s actually from a story about universal cooling.
Surely an insurance company would prefer that the patient go elsewhere rather than have to pay $100,000+ every year on treatment. Even if they lose a customer, at least they don’t have that enormous expense.
it almost sounds like the move to Google Cloud is being driven by someone's career goals
It's not so specific as alienating a few users, it's removing an intuitive UX feature in exchange for the ability to control the order of the content you see, which can increase engagement.
Debt. GM was worth zero a few years ago before bankruptcy.

Tesla owes over$1.8B with negative billions in earnings each year.

That’s how.

I actually believe that they will pull out and eventually turn a profit. But not all do.
Mother Nature is a complex system. Grab the balloon at one end and it pops out in some other unintended place. Perhaps it's time we fix the gene that prevents us from recognizing this?
AIM will be discontinued today
The first chapter of Marx' capital directly sets up this inherency by means of his labor theory of value, along these lines.
http://www.theweek.co.uk/ is the closest I know of, though you need to know the political leanings of each publication mentioned, whereas allsides.com really spells it out.
Hello Abalone have you seen The Smoking Gun, the film based on Mortal Error (book)?
Pigoons and rakunks here we come.
Google's marketing engine just remembered earlier this year that they have a cloud product that they kind of forgot to push for the last 3-4 years and decided to cut the DevOps poster child a better deal in exchange for a high-profile migration to the exclusion of the other cloud providers.
A big part of how <insert startup here> got where they are was to do unscalable things, and then they did things that scaled. This is the parent's point - the strategies and behaviors companies exemplify when they are in the early stages is very different from the ones they utilized when they hit scale.
Funny that you would mention Einstein.

He is often described as being a very average student, even bad at math while the opposite is of course true.

You just can't revolution physics the way he did if you suck at math.
This is called the rope trick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_trick_effect
And not enough people saying their position before commenting (i.e: "THIS IS AMAZING TECH BUY IT!"), and on that note Disclosure: I own a large position in IOTA (it's 89% of my crypto portfolio). and yet I still really want the technology to succeed, there's a few problems such as

A) the founders act very childish and lash out at any criticism, while at the same time in audio interviews saying "criticism is good these things need to be discussed at length" but if you put it in text they'll basically troll you.

B) they hype up their own technology too much "THIS IS GOING TO CHANGE EVERYTHING", "JUST WAIT UNTIL THIS PART IS DONE".

they need to hire a PR team that will professionally handle releases of information in a non-hyperbolic way and the founders need to keep their mouths shut in public when representing their technology because running around acting cocky and trolling people does not help your cause it actually causes people to want to flee as fast as they can because it makes it seem like you have no clue what you're doing. in a nutshell this is beginning to feel a lot like dogecoin. kids hyping kids, spamming people, and acting foolish as can be.
This story bothers me, but I'm struggling to put my finger on why.

It's a terrible user experience to expect to go to a car website but instead get a website for a dinky computer services shop in a small town in Virginia. There's maybe 1000 people who would use this website, it's just a glorified business card. Now I have to go search on Google to find what Nissan's actual website is.

On the other hand, Nissan is mega corp, and the internet is ideally a level playing field for all, not just those with deep pockets. It kind of feels like the computer shop is fighting the good fight against corporate hegemony.

But it's so incredibly damaging to Nissan's brand to have to local computer shop using the nissan.com domain. Nobody outside of this small town gives a crap about the shop. It's a damn waste of a domain name, it could see much more utility under Nisaan's (car maker) control. Nissan will never drop their case because of this, I could see them lobbying to change domain ownership laws to wrestle control away from this guy. In which case, give up the damn domain buddy, or else the lawmakers will put something on the books and we all lose.

That, and the internet has moved on from what it was in its formative years. It's truly at a global scale now. When I type in a global company's name into the address bar and add .com, I expect to see their home page. This theory holds true for every global brand. Toyota, BMW, Pepsi, Apple, Ikea, etc. etc. It thwarts the usefulness of domain names if I can't do this.
They can be read with any standard DVD or Blu-ray drive. Not that anyone has one of those any more.
> I don't know the metrics for European countries but my anecdotal experience in Japan is that the Singapore system is not even worthy of discussion.

That's strange, while I liked the Tokyo JR system, I think Singapore's overcrowding is better managed. No people pushing passengers into trains.

I know it was considered an issue and every single Singaporean complains about it. Which is really, really puzzling. You guys should be sent to New York or Boston for a tour.
I don't know what to tell you. They do disagree with you. Setting everything else aside -- money and influence in politics, etc -- you really need to start by accepting that there are people who disagree with you in good faith. Not just on this issue, but in general.

If you can't even do that, then I'm not sure there's really any conversation that's likely to be fruitful.
Based on this article, it seems that the model would say that we could use CRISPR to wipe out disease carrying mosquitoes even in the face of evolutionary adaptations. This would seem to be a good thing.
> Apple only briefly had any barriers to allowing the seamless transfer/sharing of entire iPod collections of copyrighted music, before concluding it would be much more lucritive to embrace the prevelance of 'pirated' music collections by investing in software to clean & organize it, and simple to use hardware that makes it portable.

True enough, and you most certainly have a point about the iPod also helping, that's something I haven't really factored in that much.

To me, iTunes was mostly a great example how usability, pricing, and ease of legal access to content matters. Much earlier versions of iTunes UI was very reminiscent of mp3 sharing clients popular at that time (Limewire/Napster/Whatnot) by sorting titles in long lists and making getting them as easy as pressing a "download" button right next to it.

The choice of pricing, single songs for $.99 [0], also felt like it contributed a lot to a paradigm shift how music is sold and consumed, acknowledging established trends in priacy by allowing legitimate customers more freedom in paying for only those songs they want.

[0] https://apple.slashdot.org/story/03/04/28/1723226/apple-intr...
https://logmyhours.com - Time Tracking & Invoicing. Hoping this one will replace my full-time job in 2018.
Absolutely helps. Separation from a screen for 20~ hours can cause an episode for me. Left my PC at home to read a book and ended up having a panic attack and hallucinating a skull out of a blanket. Panicked and left my grandmothers house at the time. Only about a month and a half ago.

Mostly under control otherwise.
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/using-local-history.html
Haha, I love the little jab at Microsoft's NIH syndrome by suggesting bing search results - seems though that by looking at Python they're slowly getting over that.
Here is a direct link to the page in the preview of the book where the matrix-product-is-the-same-as-linear-transformation idea first appears: https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSguide2LA_previ...

I can't quite tell if the book passes the test, since the entry-point is the definition of matrix-vector product which is very close to a "complicated formula with a couple of nested sigmas" but the book also mentions the notion of matrix representations, so hard to tell overall.
You're referring to this part?

>>It may not be technically illegal to bring a bear into a maternity ward, but we have, I think, started to live our lives with the expectation that nobody will do this. So if we put forth a rule saying, just so we’re clear, No Bears in the Maternity Ward, I would not expect anyone to complain that this was stifling innovation. In fact, if someone said “Hey, let’s get rid of that rule about not bringing bears into hospitals so we can restore the wonderful, competitive environment we had before,” I would wonder, “What exactly are you PLANNING that you need us to get rid of this relatively basic protection?”