skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not clear how much better than they are than regular media since there haven't been many tests. There are two that I'm aware of, one by the French Archives (who've done this a few times it so happens) and one by the US DoD.

The French found that M-DISC didn't perform much better than regular DVDs and that a weird kind of glass DVD beat everything else hands down.

The Americans found no errors at all in their tests of M-DISC while all other disks encountered them.

I suspect the important differences were:

- The Americans' tested the discs after light exposure, the French did not. It may be that the light caused the regular DVDs to fail but not the M-DISC.

- The French tests were far longer (1000h) than the Americans' (24h). It may be that M-DISC can't survive the adverse conditions past a certain point that the Americans didn't reach.

Also as far as I'm aware, there are no tests of the Blu-Ray variant of M-DISC.

Personally, given the cost of M-DISC, I'd buy a few cheap terrible Blu-Rays instead and just make sure they're not exposed to too much light.

French test: https://documents.lne.fr/publications/guides-documents-techn...

American: http://www.esystor.com/images/China_Lake_Full_Report.pdf
You’re missing the fact that telecom is less profitable (compared to ads/sub streaming) and when new cool ISP will try to return some investments by charging more or throttling, you’ll throw them over a dick exactly as you did with an old one. ISPs are no fools and will not jump into this trap.

It is your bandwidth that is increasing, not theirs.
Maybe. It's an odd phrasing. Why not just say "will not run"? How do you run 32bit apps "WITH compromise"? In a VM window?
The DHS as an organization should be disbanded. It barely made sense when it was founded after 9/11, but now it's actively working against America's interests. Our borders and immigration rules are so unpleasant, people would rather work in other countries than deal with them even a few times a year.
One fun thing about photos of early nuclear tests is that the US accidentally published enough info that revealed the top-secret yield of the Trinity test bomb in photographs in Life Magazine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_yield#Calculati... -- all you need is dimensional analysis. Whoops.
The argument of NN being a preemptive regulation on hypothetical future problems and thus could lead to unintentionally hurting "good" entities got me thinking why there can't be a new regulation scheme.

I'd call it "conditional enactment".

Basically, let us assume we want to regulate A because of a, b, and c reasons. We'll create a "conditional enactment" where it states the regulation proposal with reasons for regulating and the penalty for not abiding by the regulation. This basically acts as a save point where if some entity eventually does do A and qualifies one of those a,b,and c reasons, we'll continue on from that "save point". Now that we'll have more info, we can talk about what the pros and cons of regulating A are, adjust the regulation terms, adjust the punishment, and vote on the revised proposal. If the regulation passes, that entity is now subject to punishment even if the regulation passed after the entity's action was done. Any other entities that did A before the regulation passed is not subject to punishment.

This would potentially prevent the unintended side effects of the regulation and allow us to evaluate the state of the regulation while still putting the entities that could create harm in check.
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For everyone else reading this, here's more context. I once tried creating durable physical storage that spanned multiple external hard-disks with a single logical schema, but then discovered Camlistore and git-annex and decided to let more competent people build it.

The idea is that we should be able to own and manage our personal data - which runs into terabytes across one lifetime - without having to trust and/or pay the big cloud companies. So Camlistore from its earliest days had integrated photo gallery since multimedia is where most of the bytes are consumed.

The whole thing once had the label the IndieWeb movement (which we should revive), and Wired wrote about it here - https://www.wired.com/2013/08/indie-web/

Brad Fitzpatrick is also the creator of LiveJournal where he wrote the original version of Memcached in Perl. He also wrote OpenID, and then went on to work with Rob Pike and team on the Go Programming language. Camlistore was one of the earliest projects written in Go (before Hashicorp made it cool) and I imagine that had something to do with him getting into the language itself, but that's for Brad to clarify :)
Isn't there war going on in the Middle East?
In the AMA we had with the New York State attorney, he said that the title II regulation came about because the courts struck down the usage of title I for the same thing. So we haven't actually had much experience with unregulated ISPs at this point.
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Non-negligible competition in the form of building out new fibre is basically never going to happen because of how inefficient it is in real economic terms.

Forget about all the political and business aspects -- the actual effort required to lay out new wiring, then run it to the home, is from an economic standpoint just pure deadweight loss.

1 cable is necessary. 2 cables is redundant.

Unfortunately, the ISPs have a point here that 'competition' in the form of multiple companies laying wiring to the same home is sheer folly.

Now what's the value proposition to an investor to fund direct competition?

If you shake someone down, there's more than one way to get paid off. It can come in the form of protection money, or you can just get them to buy you out. I'd imagine that Comcast et al will want to keep the tolls just low enough that it's in nobody's best interest to actually run more wiring.

Plus the ISPs can always buy off cash-starved local and regional governments, like they have been doing to Google Fiber, and delay the laying of new fibre indefinitely. There's no need to outlaw competition, just leverage the legal and administrative process to indefinitely fight over details like utility pole access.
i have the choice of comcast, slow dsl from the phone company, or fiber from the phone company. i choose the slow dsl because that has consumer protections from the state's utility commission. the fiber does not. the phone company is not too happy with me.
What's the point of building the app on Ethereum if the source (the Oracle) is centralized anyway?
Why wouldn't a school have wifi available? I've visited a half dozen schools across multiple districts this year for my son's activities. All of them had unsecured public wifi available. It's just expected in 2017.
Ask HN: Self-hosted bookmarks application
Hello!

I have close to 5000 bookmarks on chrome, and I'm looking to self-host a bookmarking application. Any suggestions?

- It needs to be able to parse chrome bookmarks export (the netscape format which most if not all browsers support).

- Handle large amounts of links.

- Have a decent authentication functionality (login/logout enough).

I know I have a quite too many bookmarks, and a good chance that I may never use most of them. Indulge me nevertheless.

I've already tried using

- Shaarli : https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli

It can't parse my chrome bookmarks. Which I'm assuming is due to some malformed URL, or special characters. I could try to fix it, but I have far too many to check.

- unmark : https://github.com/cdevroe/unmark

I'm constantly hitting database issues, either the sql_mode is incompatible, or something else. I've had to modify some of the php code to get it working (login screen), but I have little to no experience with php, and it needs more fixing to get it working on my machine (doesn't go past login, multiple issues).

- wallabag : https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag

Its more of a replacement for pocket than a bookmarking application.

Thanks!
Do you know what connections those handful of mosquitos have to various aspects of the ecosystem other than transmitting human diseases?
Research Blog: Improving End-To-End Models for Speech Recognition
Billboard.js 1.2.0 release
https://medium.com/@alberto.park/billboard-js-1-2-0-release-b6f6e77c3ef2

A variety of new features was implemented. Bubble type, customized data point, data area fill with patterns, image export functionality and more!

https://github.com/naver/billboard.js
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Sorry. I would rather trust Comcast and ATT than the gentleman(?) called Jerry Brown.

California politicians energies are best wasted on global warming and gender equality than technology.
Couple years(?) back, i stumbled upon this blog post about the origin of <blink>
http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag
First, it's not an issue of "competing with" unless they start their own ISPs or, in the case of Google, restart development on their ISP. Water doesn't compete with the pipe. It just hopes the pipe decides not to squeeze.

Second, I doubt many people are crying over Google, Amazon, or someone like Facebook. They already are working on walled gardens and are happy to pay to eliminate competition. They actually don't rely on a healthy (in the sense of open, competitive, or free) internet at all. Small startups and free speech on the other hand does.
This piece is excellently written. At the same time I find it incredible that so much of the work described is dedicated to recovering from war and hardly any of it is about preventing it.
Another confusing name, it has nothing to do with Truffle - part of Graal Java compiler... https://github.com/graalvm/graal/tree/master/truffle

It's not as bad as "Riot" (at least 3 projects with this name), but seriously, are we running out of words to name projects?
For viewer time and attention I guess. As mentioned by another poster FB stock is up about 50% on the year, the earnings are up a similar amount. I'm skeptical 2017 was that bad for them.
The Origin of the Thesis
Plus, saying "I believe it is wrong for people to do X" is not the same as saying "I hate people who do X". So a lot of the use of the word "hate" in this discussion is unjustified.
This is one of my biggest medium-to-long-term fears with net neutrality. I doubt that is explicitly in many politician's current game plan, but they will catch on to the possibilities sooner or later. It will start with ISP voluntary censorship of some high-profile clearly controversial sites, probably the Pirate Bay will be the first one to go. Then there will be a gradual creep (not sure what time scale to predict here), and eventually politicians will start reasoning that if ISPs are blocking sites anyway, we might as well order them to block certain others.
EOS.
a lot more discussion here[0], including responses from comcast's own jlivingood[1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15890551

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jlivingood
Okay, how much cost will it cost to run an Oracle for some existing API?
I'm not sure the MRT would be rated at the top. HK's MTR and Japan's rail operators handle higher volumes so if we take that into account it's more likely they'll come out ahead. But I agree that there is anger because lowering our standards is not in our national consciousness since everyone has been brainwashed to expect only the best from Singaporean Exceptionalism™.
Well, just in case you might need this soon ... Switzerland ist beautiful!

https://www.jobs.ch/en/vacancies/information-technology-tele...
More descriptive title, e.g. ‘Tiny Titan, a $1,000 classroom supercomputer’ would be helpful.
There is also a video of it in action here:

https://level1techs.com/video/new-tech-iommu-users-looking-g...
Not sure I'm getting you… An extension to view old pages? This is the worst idea I've heard in a long time. The web is awesome partly because it's backwards compatible.
So were basically at the point now with genetic engineering that we were at with nuclear weapons in The Sum of All Fears. It still amazes me that no-one's built a successful non-state-aligned nuclear weapon yet.
An Alarm Clock for people who rely on snooze too much
You mean fraud and deception?
vscode + some plugin.
FWIW, I liked this format. It reads like a presentation and digresses and regroups back to the main thread throughout. It may make it less widely read but I think it may also make it more memorable and loved.

The value for the reader is in the act of chewing over a familiar problem along with your guidance. If the main points were made more obvious, then perhaps it also becomes more boring.

If you want to propose a more tangible recommendation/guide/process then yeah, give people hooky, easy to remember bits.
In case you were wondering like what "motte and bailey" means:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey
No, savant simply means "a learned person".
Perhaps you are thinking of "idiot savant", which refers to someone with a mental disability and is gifted in a particular way.
You would think that wouldn't you. But for that to happen, the system designer would have had to plan it that way probably 20 years ago.
What's the startup time like with fargate? Is it in the region of a few seconds, or is it more like minutes?
Camlistore & Brad Fitzpatrick's original writings are what initially got me into decentralized web advocacy. Since then, I've moved on from this project, since it seems to move at a very slow place and the authors do not seem very interested in widespread user adoption.

With this name change, I'm slightly more interested again. We'll have to see in the coming months whether they become ready to displace actual large social media platforms or whether it remains a toy project.
It's easy to boycott Comcast: just don't watch NBC or other Comcast content.
WordPress depends heavily on a relational database, so hosting just on lambda would be hard.
> And unless something changes, our calamity is going to become America’s.

Yes, there is one thing which Millennials can change. It is very easy and should take less than 1 hr (on average) per year. Go and VOTE in the elections.

The reason why policies favor Boomers is because Boomers go and vote. Politicians are scared to touch social security and medicare for anyone over 55 because those folks turn out and vote. There is simply no excuse for Millennials to have a huge turnout disparity when compared against Boomers[1].

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/05/16/millennials-...
That's not how any of this works.

Boeing makes a profit, but how much money will it cost to design and make a plane from scratch?
This isn't anti-competitive because you're not required to sell your competitors products. I can't fathom requiring the Apple store to carry Amazon Fire Tablets and Android phones.
1. voters did not elect a Republican government. Gerrymandering has given Republicans wins in many places where Democrats would have won in any other universe. Likely rigged electronic voting machines that have no audit trail have given Republicans votes they would not have had. *Targeted voter suppression campaigns have prevented people from voting who would have tipped the scales in favor of Democrats.

2. Republicans (and many Democrats) do not "under-regulate". They regulate in favor of paying corporations. Those regulations are not all typical visible regulations; many are special provisions or loopholes. That is not laissez-faire.

3. Since you re-iterate, I re-iterate. Republicans are not a party of deregulation. They are a party that supports monopolistic, bully-capitalist behaviors.

The only real solution for the US is that it suffer a slow decline in global and economic relevance until it becomes desperate for a change in behavior. Only then will the shit be flushed out of the government and campaign finance rules put in place to prevent another corrupt government that serves a very limited few people at the cost of 330million others.
Probably not. Humans have eliminated many species and the niches they occupied haven't been always been filled by other species. Megafauna on many continents is a good example.
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Born in the late 60s, so teenager in the 80s in the UK. I recall that exact same fear of every passing aeroplane. In our case the cultural equivalents of OTB and DS were Threads and The Day After, and the Protect and Survive announcements that Frankie Goes To Hollywood sampled in Two Tribes.

I find it interesting that the terror of the global thermonuclear war seems to have disappeared from the popular psyche, even though exactly the same weapons are still there ready.
Net neutrality is dead. It’s time to fear Mickey Mouse
"The Jungle" ?
Except the fact that a lot of Europe is covered by net neutrality laws that are EU-wide..
We don't know yet. You might have almost no change, you might find half the internet censored by default.

If ISPs wanted to make it cheaper for you to access a simpler level of services, they could have already done so by offering you lower internet speeds and small data caps. They kept prices high because you were willing to pay them and there wasn't (much) competition. They're not going to give up those profits willingly unless the new pricing plan can make them more money overall. So I wouldn't get too optimistic.
It can be good for very bursty things too, particularly in the background. I process 'lots' of json on S3 using it. With no setup or anything complex I can churn through a a TB of json in a few minutes. Not sure on total time, but it's less time than it take me to sync the resulting files to my local machine. Running a thousand things at once for a few minutes is great.
Out of curiosity, why did you have it installed in the first place instead of just using your browser?
yup, they should NOT be connecting them, but because everyone is going cloud and remote service support.... they got to let "people" in.

Also the PLC administrators refuse to let proper network and systems admins go near their shit. They think their stuff is better left alone from the "geeks".
honestly don't know how they are going to integrate python for me to think about how it could affect my workflow.

it could be entirely possible that you could create both VB modules and Python modules in alt-f11 and functions and subs from either could be called from the spreadsheet. this would be great. if python had to be run in a separate app, not so great.

will python in excel rely on the environment(s) installed independently in the system or the excel python environment? if the former, how to standardize runtime across different machines?

support for the scipy libs and matplotlib would be nice. maybe matplotlib will generate plots in its own window - 6/10 if so. if matplotlib can generate plots as its own object within excel sheets - 7/10. if the plot is reactive to changes along its dependency chain - 9/10. if you can right-click format shape and adjust colors, lines, scales, axes - 10/10

support for python exception handling - well... ANY exception handling besides "ON" ERROR GO TO" / "RESUME NEXT" - 11/10

python with alt-f11's immediate and locals window + breakpoints + steps - 10/10.

what about windows api? office interop? internally built xlls? guessing these will remain with VB and will remain compatible. guessing excel/office object models will also remain the same structure in python for excel.

don't really care about output into jupyter. excel has "cells" too so you could technically output into a protected sheet if you wanted a read only report. we used to generate publications out of excel - chuck in some data into the sheets, matlab takes over the computation and spits it back into excel and a full report with cover sheet / table of contents / page numbers etc will be generated and we'd print and bind it professionally and send it back to the client.

just a philosophical musing... excel is very "functional". from each cell/cse-array in your raw data to each cell/cse-array in final output there really ought to be a single chain of functions. i see a few comments here and on reddit where people are looking forward to happily blasting for loops on each cell in book-wide subroutines. that breaks the "functional"-like quality of excel. that makes excel a million times harder to audit. excel at its best should look a lot like f#.
Given how relaxed their SLAs are (S3 starts at 99% availability, and that's defined only by returned errors, excluding timeouts), does it even matter?
This was predictable 20 years ago too though.
There are lots of branches. If you don't understand go strategy then you're not going to get much out of this
That does not change the fact that life for the average human today is, on the whole, more peaceful than at any point in recorded history. It is all too easy to lose track of this when you hear about all the horrific happening around the world every day
My guess is that streaming isn't a key feature for Bandcamp users/listeners. They use the platform to actually purchase, download and own music, to add it to their offline collections and libraries that will still be there when a streaming service shuts down (rip rdio) or licensing deals change and your favorite albums disappear from Spotify and Co. (It happens).

At least that's how I, as a frequent music buyer and collector, use Bandcamp.

Concerning the artists that prioritize Bandcamp: Don't forget that most artists don't make any money via streaming - of course they push the channel that actually provides revenue and actual, meaningful sales.
How does this cost $1,000? The budget is clearly not being used efficiently. The only computing part, the 9 RPi's are 315$ all together. So what, 685$ of plastic and accessories. Hmm....
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Yes, it doesn't test the "type system" (whatever that even means).

However, it tests values for correctness. Values have types. So if you are testing whether something has the correct value, you are also testing implicitly that it has the correct type, because for the values to match, the types must also match.
When an airline charges you extra to check bags, they are charging you for a service they provide. This is annoying, but we as a society agree that people generally have the right to do this and it is in society's interest that they have that right.

When an ISP charges a service provider to get access to their customers, they are leveraging their monopoly on those customers to extract rents from other service providers. What is the social value of this behavior?

The main problem with this line of argument is that is can be applied to anything an ISP does, because there is of course no functioning market for last-mile connectivity in most areas. A real fix would be unbundling or something else that split allowed there to be a functioning market over shared infrastructure. That doesn't mean we can't stop them from rent-seeking from other firms in the "short" term. Doing so is in line with Republicans' claimed pro-business stance.
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robot != UA

What if I user curl to pipe web content to my mail so that I can read it in a quirky way? What if I write a Chrome extension to crawl a site? Where does w3m stands?

This is not a question of the tool (UA) but of the intent (mass crawling, indexing, mass-replicating stuff). robots.txt is made as hints for crawlers and the like, not optimistically ACL whether something is public or not.
If you can speak German that is ...
We're still working on FoldingText :)! However, a lot of that has been behind the scenes as we're working on a new version from the ground up. We're hoping to start private beta in a couple of months.
Net neutrality rules are dead. Will my Internet bills go up?
What did you like better about embark?