skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Direct peering increases the capacity of the ISP's "edge" but only for the services available on the peer. Co-location puts those services on the internal side of the bottleneck, again increasing effective capacity, but only for the services that are co-located in the ISPs datacenters. Almost all major providers (google, akamai, netflix, facebook) offer some form of co-locatable server however, those cost money to deploy and maintain.

This is a textbook lobbyist argument -- something which is technically true without doing the math.

A 10Gbps port on a switch is maybe $100. Say it can service a hundred customers, so $1/customer, and has a lifetime of two years. So $0.04/customer/month.

These are very conservative numbers. In reality it doesn't even cost that much.

The fact that the ports go to different places is irrelevant in the aggregate, because there is no need to add a port when the existing links to that peer aren't at capacity. And it's not as though the fact that Netflix and Google have separate ports would allow a 100Mbps customer to get 100Mbps from each of them at the same time.

Colocation is independent of this. If anyone with traffic could get peering at cost (i.e. ~free), they might still do it or might not, but then the ISP would have to charge market rates for space and power instead of monopoly prices because they're really charging for gatekeeper access to customers.
Oh man I’d definitely pay cash monies to attend a banquet under that rocket, even if it’s space food from silvery packets. :o)
I see the appeal of the principle, but I think life of the author should not be a consideration in calculating copyright term, as it brings several problems:

1) In order to determine whether a work is under copyright, one needs to know not only about the publication history of the work itself (which is typically printed on copies of the work or accompanying material), but also whether and when the author died. For works by obscure authors, this can involve significant cost.

2) Works published late in an author's life or by an author who dies young receive a shorter term, even though there's no reason to think that they're less valuable.

3) It theoretically creates an incentive to kill the author to shorten the term. Although I suppose that this is quite unlikely to actually happen, why build such a perverse (in both the economic and moral senses of the word) incentive into the system if we don't need to?

Furthermore, it's not at all clear that term lengths on the order of a lifetime create any productive incentive compared to shorter term lengths. For the vast majority of works, revenue rapidly decays to a trickle within a few years of publication (for fast-paced markets like video games, this can happen in a few months). So starting from a term that's already decades long, an extra decade or two on a new work has a vanishingly small net present value [1].

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/01-618.ZD1.html ; See Part II—C
Corporations exist only to increase profits and serve the shareholders. Any decisions made are made without thought given to human rights or what is fair, only what is legal and most profitable.

Governments (in theory) exist to serve the people. They do things that are not profitable, and are objectively bad business decisions sometimes.. because what is most profitable is not always what is best for the people.

What we have now is a government run like a corporation, with no checks in place to preserve what is best for the people.. only what is best for those at the very top.
"As long as I can download Netscape, having IE pre-installed is fine with me."

Sure it is. If I buy a operation system and it comes bundled with a browser ... why should that be a problem?

(the problem I see somewhere else...that you have sometimes no choice except to use that OS because of market dominance)
> Three letter agency abilities were expanded

As well as politicized and weaponized.
Thanks, didn't know the distinction!
Cryptocurrency is useful. Bitcoin allows me to be my own bank. The rules of consensus define characteristics of money I believe are important. It allows me to save my money outside of the global financial system, a system I believe is corrupt and manipulated. It allows me to program my money, something never before possible. It allows me to transact freely, with whomever I please.

Money is whatever people believe it to be. You may value the USD, and that's entirely your right to do so. I choose value Bitcoin. Everyone is free to use whatever medium of exchange they believe in.
If you are looking for a modern language with a pragmatic syntax and uses lightweight processes and message passing why not Elixir? It's an expressive, productive language that can leverage The power and scope of the Erlang/OTP ecosystem.

https://www.elixir-lang.com
Creating good demos for wearable technology is hard. You certainly can make fancy simulations like Microsoft for their Hololens, but the devil is in the details. It's mainly about how it feels and you need to experience the technology to figure it out.

I don't see much to be gained from demoing prototypes to general public. If it's main blowing - great, but does not really make a difference if you can't buy it. If it's less than mind blowing, then you will just ruin everything. Even if you then later improve the product to the mind blowing level, most have already made their minds.
>"I will not hesitate to terminate the employee immediately and take appropriate legal action."

What possible legal action can he take? Breach of contract, maybe?

There's no laws regarding cryptocurrency insider trading or manipulation as far as I know.
And I used IE to download Netscape. Didn't stop that being anti-competitive.

It's about what the average user is aware of. Google just decided to have the majority of computer and smartphone users be opted in to an ad blocker that, of course, won't block Google ads.
Where I live, starting a service like uber requires an appropriate drivers license and insurance. No licenses, nothing. (But you can't pick people up off the streets, that is something else, and licensed).

As result, there's many services like uber — but uber themselves is banned, because while the German government was willing to ignore the commercial drivers license requirement, they couldn't ignore the insurance requirements that Uber refused to fulfill.
I like it. It's got kind-of a Snapchat Spectacles vibe.
"In 2018", not "1/1/18".
> If ISPs can go faster, and they choose not to unless you pay more, that is a form of degradation.

You've missed my point. There are some ways an ISP can go faster that are not neutral AND not malicious/extortive. If google puts a GGC on your ISPs network, youtube now has an advantage over hulu. There is no equivalent internal-deployment that can give a truly neutral increase in capacity.

To conflate this with active degradation (throttling or blocking) means that you would have an ISP be unable to host any service until they can guarantee _all services_ equivalent access (presumably at the ISPs expense otherwise they would price out everyone but the big players).

Before you immediately chose "neutral hosting" realize that it is untenable for every random small website to be able to legally demand any ISPs host their services for free in order to guarantee a level playing field with Google and Netflix. The only tenable solution is to make it illegal to collocate services which will be a far worse hit to the experience you have on the web than any throttling or blocking has ever been.

This is not as simple as you would like it to be.

> If ISPs can go faster, and they choose not to unless you pay more, that is a form of degradation

This is assuming intent and over-simplifying. Is a small regional ISP without the capital or credit necessary to expand now anti-NN by default? Are they extorting their customers by default? Not all ISPs are Comcast and Verizon. If you cannot escape your circumstance and see the bigger picture of how and what the internet is and who "ISPs" are then you are just being selfish.
Here is my advice: Don't try to please every random person on the internet, because you never will.
The Summerfield Drive address is the one I noticed that is wrong. I have no idea how they determined there was a restaurant at that location.
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Your last sentence kinda struck home for me.

3 years ago I was able to get news from reddit that was faster and sometimes more reliable than, say, CNN. It now takes hours for a relevant story to siphon to the top because of certain vested interests downvoting it.

It's made me miss CNN and NYT. I've started drifting back to conventional news outlets because bad actors destroyed the ones I loved.
> Seems like ...

No the exceptions are huge. Netflix is throttled based on network they slow everything on that network down so this explicitly allows one of the known examples of throttling that actually occurred.
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So why does AR even exist? Is it too expensive to just have an outward facing camera (or 2 or 5) and re-render everything on the eye screens in real-time?
The company is definitely at fault if it achieved that $10 rate by misclassifying the individual as a contractor.
Typical Linux community response:

"Normal users don't need that."
"I've never seen it, therefore it isn't a problem."

You want to talk up a system for being stable, malleable, and under the user's control, then you pull out lame excuses like that. It's no wonder Windows still kicks the Linux Desktop's ass in the market even with all its crap and having to pay for it.
I think this is what people don't fully understand. Bitcoin is not the exception, it's just the first to hit this wall. Even if Bitcoin Cash were to take over with larger block sizes, we'll see the same problem just further down the line.
Sure, they are evil in different ways, with money at the root of both sides. We've all seen how they (Dems) handled the primaries last year. If what they did doesn't scream fraud to you, what will?
might want to check if your potential offshore vpn is hosted in a country with an intelligence data sharing agreement with the united states or any of its intelligence partners
Yeah, but the society calculated and decided that it is worth some extra cost to have clean food places and personnel then have to pay with lives or medical care.
As a society we decided that this rules are better globally, even if some individuals would risk eating expired food because is cheaper.
We hailed a black cab there and then, so it was quicker than Uber and a fraction of the price. (Just to clarify, the cheaper private hire cabs where you book in advance were all busy. Usually I avoid black cabs - the ones you hail on the street, as they cost way more. These expensive back cabs were still less than half of the price of Uber).
This happens for a reason. If no licenses are required, the market will be flooded with more offer than demand. Also the environmental impact, traffic jams, etc.
email includes all sorts of low priority or informational only messages that don't need to be addressed quickly. Chat is things that are high priority but not urgent. They can be safely ignored for a few hours. Urgent is a phone call or sneaker net. When I get people that think chat is for urgent I educate them but most people in the city I live already understand that urgent requires a voice or face to face to reduce any ambiguity. This is nothing like filtering email. You'd never use email if you expect a reply quickly unless it were paired with a visit.
> competed on unfair terms

Albeit the taxi companies created the unfair terms. Obviously it is not necessary to have a medallion to drive someone around. HN is generally anti-lobbying to protect corporate interest, but now that Uber is big there is some regret...

> I would love for the taxi industry to be liberalised but just not for the benefit of a few Silicon Valley billionaires

And the consumer...
If you take the time to learn what's trustworthy, principled, and safe...you won't have any of these issues.

Except (2), but that's being worked out right now.

Furthermore, it's way too early to compare crypto to established finance. Just because crypto awareness has gone mainstream, doesn't mean it's ready to compete just yet.

It's still technology for early-adopters. Those who don't understand that will get screwed...as it happens with every other early technology.
Hard to fathom why everyone is optimistic about this. Hasn't recent history overwhelmingly demonstrated that adding AR tech to out current culture will result in exactly the situation from the video?
Obama expanded the program, yes. He did not create it. And also, many other groups I donate to are just swamping me with non-NSA stuff related to Trump and the GOP, so that's also what I meant.

But still, yes, I feel democrats have a better chance of at least listening to constituent concerns about privacy. The GOP wallies about small government, except for the military and they view the NSA/FBI/CIA as the same.

But even if not--I don't see it improving with another R in power either. Or do you?
Depends on where you live. In some large cities there is a maximum number of taxis allowed. They have get permits/medallions to operate. In these cities where Uber is not considered a "taxi" they can operate as many cars as they want.
I think it's more accurate to say, people have signaled that they understand the immediate benefits of convenience, but have trouble evaluating the harms of privacy loss. (At least, I know this is true for me.)
I don't think thats entirely fair. They vary a lot, some places good some places bad.
How about you say blockchain then. Crypto is a much larger and older field.
Computer asks you to enter your name, you enter your name, name gets used as user name. Seems quite reasonable all around.
Thanks for this project! If not for this, I probably wouldn't have read The Communist Manifesto.

I wonder, if the translation of a book is in the US public domain, does that imply that the original is also in the US public domain? I'm curious because as a native French speaker, I would love to see the original French books there too.
Stephen Frye did a nature series a few years ago called "last chance to see" in which he expressed the notion that environmentalists are so dismayed and tired that they are ready to give up and accept the future. I'm starting to feel that way about US democracy. I used to work in the US (lawyer) but have returned to Canada. I feel like I am sitting on a hill watching Rome burn. Why bother trying to help when the Romans are setting fire to their own houses?
It is possible to regulate the output of a nuclear reactor. In case the pool boils off in some freak accident, the chain reaction also stops, because water is acting as a neutron moderator in these designs. So you only have to ensure that the residual heat from normal decay doesn't melt the reactor. That doesn't sound too hard.
Just as bad on my iPad. The in-app browser hung and froze for a good twenty seconds. After it unfroze all the images were in a fuzzy low resolution and it took me an embarrassingly long amount of time (a couple of minutes, at least) to figure out what the heck it was all about.
6.5 is pretty respectable. Not quite like Windows or general purpose Linux which can be upgraded almost indefinitely. I have Vista laptops released mid-2009 (>8yrs old) that run Windows 10 rather well considering their age. Of course, no one would have guaranteed 8yrs on those devices. I'd wonder what experiences people with EOL Chrome devices out there are having with upgrades.
I have managed to take taxis in plenty of countries where I don't speak the language. Don't pretend that its something difficult.
Bitcoin is as real as the USD. At least with Bitcoin you know what the properties of your currency are.

The Federal Reserve doesn't even publish the amount of M3 money anymore: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/discm3.htm

If that doesn't give you pause, I don't know what will.
This kind of thing drives me crazy! But, for a small project that’s not obvious to anyone - this makes sense.

Look at Apple’s full iPhone landing page. It’d be silly to explain at the top “iPhone is a wireless digital communication device.” It’s obvious that dude is wearing glasses that look like AR/VR headset. You ain’t gotta spell it out for people.
I don't think that means it is a monopoly.
Much of this discussion is missing the point that the stated goal of this change is actually to _help_ sites that use lots of tracking scripts, not to penalize them.

It has become common to use so many tracking scripts that the perceived page load time (time to display/interactivity) is actually significantly slowed down. I actually first installed an ad-blocker myself when I realized some sites were taking like 5+ seconds to load, and loaded quicker with the ad-blocker. (But this change isn't a _blocker_ of scripts, it's trying to change order and timing of execution to speed up page load while _keeping_ the scripts).

The intent of this change is to delay load of those scripts (which are already being loaded with code that loads them async, that is, without spec guarantees of load order or timing) until after the page UI is loaded and operative, to _improve_ perceived load time.

I'm not sure if people are missing this point, or don't believe the stated goal and think it's secretly a plan to hurt these sites instead. I believe the stated goal. (whether they like or hate that idea!) As the OP says though, there are certain pages that _may_ be unintentionally harmed by the change, if they were relying on quick load of scripts that they should not have been relying on because they were already being loaded async (that is, with no guarantees of load order or timing, already).

If this ends up being a non-trivial number of pages, and those pages/tracking frameworks don't fix themselves to accomodate, then I predict the change will be considered unsuccessful and unfortunately rolled back.

It is meant to _help_ pages that use a lot of tracking scripts, not hurt them. Although I guess the assumption is that actual load time of interactivity is prioritized over making sure your tracking scripts are in immediately. If site owners actually prefer to slow down their pages non-trivially in order to guarantee tracking scripts immediately, then I guess they wouldn't see it as help. shrug.

I think the OP author is probably regretting his post title. It maybe should have been "Firefox 57 speeds up load time to interactivity of pages with lots of tracking scripts", heh.
I’d say the major dip in drunk drivers has benefited humanity at large.
Well, as I write in the article, Django 2.0 was a turning point to me. I was always using Python 2.7.x and was really happy with it but, since Djano 2.0 does not support python 2.x anymore I have been forced to move to Python 3.x in order to be able to write Django 2.0 apps.

Yes I know that Django 1.11 (which works with Python 2.7.x) will be supported until 2020 but, out of principle, I don't want tostart a new project with the previous Django version. Upgrading my old Django projects to 2.7.x is another (rather painful) story of course ...
The projector is just a means of getting dynamic media. You could imagine future technologies involving e-ink paper that's as cheap as wood-pulp paper. What if we had e-ink embedded in paint? What if all physical objects could be embedded with computability?
If they damaged his business, he might be able to sue for losses?
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Yeah I think there's a similar "loophole" in France but since everybody has a smartphone these days many taxis feel like it's unfair competition anyway. I'm kind of torn on this issue frankly, on one hand the taxis have had a de-facto monopoly for decades and as such ended up with a rather high price for a sub-par service so I'm glad uber shook them up a bit. On the other Uber is clearly playing dirty and we might end up being worse off in the end if taxi drivers don't manage to earn their life decently while most of our fare money ends up in some tax heaven never to be seen again.
As I understand it, meat (non-fish meat) was considered a luxury, not the other way around. But I'm not 100% sure of the context.
> "in ways that threaten the meaningful availability of broadband internet access service"

"availability" here does not cover performance. Specialized services will likely subtract from the performance of communication with the rest of the internet, but this clause only cares if the impact would be a more thorough loss of connectivity. As long as the ISP continues to offer a neutral tier of service at some level of performance and price, they can devote the bulk of their bandwidth to providing non-neutral service.
Take a deep breath, you're being extreme.

Just because the Republican party is traditionally associated with states' rights doesn't mean they should always have to give precedence to states.

Allowing states to enact their own regulations in this case would be incredibly burdensome to internet businesses, there's a good reason for net neutrality laws to be uniform across the whole country.
Very interesting anecdote, perhaps something wrong with the build?

I know that my python3 saltstack returners return before the python2 ones.

I have not done probing as to the exact performance profile of py2 vs py3 though- I would be surprised if python3 was actually slower though- unless it's to do with the UTF-8 everywhereness or something.
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The centre provided various networking-related services for all the universities in croatia, and by extension the high school network as well (these are somewhat linked in Croatia).

So anyone having any connection to any university or highschool in croatia could get an account on a public server (there was just one opened to the general public and had a dozen thousand users or so) and access the termiinals.
You could always check the SHA256 from a separate device on separate network, ie your smartphone.
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Having lived through windows 8 and the .net frameworks, I really hope Apple can do better.
Demand meets need naturally. That’s how all other businesses works.
I have been using LibreOffice for three years on my Mac (retina MacBook Pro 13", ssd and all) and it usually takes more than 20 seconds to start. It has been happening ever since the change to the new GUI. Is it just me?

I've since installed and reinstalled macOS X from scratch at least two times, and it always takes lots of time to start.
Btw. with my mobile Chrome I couldn't see much more than a large gradient on the first screen (before scrolling down) and the mobile view in my normal chrome looks much more impressive (similar to the desktop version) than the page I saw on my phone (via wifi). To me I looks like my phone triggered some bug while loading the page.
Just because the Republican party is traditionally associated with states' rights doesn't mean they should always have to give precedence to states.

The sway of ideologies should be balanced with a willingness to judge issues on their own merit.

Allowing states to enact their own regulations in this case would be incredibly burdensome to internet businesses looking to operate in multiple states (so all of them), there's a good reason for net neutrality laws to be uniform across the whole country.