skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I may be really confused here. How is it that Rome being involved in the salt trade disproves the claim that spices, like salt, were the first foods to be subjected to capitalist and imperialist processes of production and distribution?
There is no single resource. Fierce Telecom and (oddly enough) the forums on DSL Reports are good resources if you actually want to know what’s involved in getting from 100 Mbps to gigabit using DOCSIS. These sources definitely have an industry bent, but they also help you understand that “the Internet” is routers and switches and sense amps, not some platonic abstraction.

As for the policy side, you need textbooks and primary sources. Telecom is a highly regulated market with almost a century of regulations, precedent, compromises, etc. Reading an Ars Technica or Tech Crunch article on it is not educational. I recommend Master Switch by Tim Wu, and Telecom Law and Policy by Benjamin and Speta (disclosure: I’m biased because Speta was my professor in law school).
>he didn’t just bless the idea, he practically endorsed it as a “still emerging but very likely positive course of treatment” in his words.

I love it! It's really sad and fucked up watching the federal government flail around trying to say otherwise. Meanwhile, they are getting all of their ducks in a row to ensure they can profit off of full on recreational legalization when that time comes. Between this issue and the healthcare issues it's terribly obvious the citizen's health and best interest is not first or maybe even second in order of importance to these people.
Westjet fly a 767-300 LGW-YYC.
> This vote seems like the best chance of maintaining NN at the national level.

Shame, because this vote is incredibly predictable by anyone who has been paying any attention at all. Republicans are on the bullet train to dismantle and sell off the government to the highest bidders. This vote goes straight down party lines.

But, it'll be an easy banner for Dems to hoist in November to rally voters, since it's categorical that Americans do not want this madness from the FCC to continue.
In my experience, it's usually 24-48 hours after the snowfall ends so there's plenty of time to get it done. Also in my experience, it is very rarely enforced. In many places, the sidewalk is the only safe place to walk the street so it's a real drag when someone doesn't clear their sidewalk. You either trudge through the snow or risk life and limb walking in the street. If you own property, you're responsible for keeping the sidewalk clear and it's your duty to the community to do it.
The company I interviewed at was Phoria. They're more of a VR digital agency than a company that specifically deals with architecture.

I think that VR is one of those things where the best way to sell it is to do live demos. Most people have never tried VR, and it's an entirely new paradigm, people can't even conceptualise it before they try it.

I never seriously considered buying a VR headset until I tried an HTC Vive for the first time. I didn't end up buying one, for financial reasons, but I considered it.
Measuring paper wealth in such an exceptionally massive, highly liquid market with such a long track-record, is extremely easy in fact. It requires few assumptions.

There's absolutely nothing fragile about what's protecting his property rights.

Quite the opposite. It has endured for hundreds of years while the most of the rest of the world has constantly failed and been remade by war, famine, poverty, social collapse, political upheaval and shifting borders.

What political structure or arrangement would you name from the last thousand years or so that has endured better or longer exactly? There are few.
> I would be curious to know what your thoughts on gambling are? Irrespective of any solution, do you feel that leaving the gambling industry unrestrained would not be damaging for society?

I don't think it should be unrestrained. But then again, I don't think in game purchases should be marketed to children either.

Basically, if they are an adult, I don't think restraining them is practical but providing them with opportunities for education and requiring the gambling industry to be a part of that process (by providing the materials and the odds of their games in very visible ways) is really all the "restraint" required.
Theres plenty of good cryptocurrencies now, it doesn't seem like theirs is going to be that useful. Tons of them have thousands of people looking to spend it on too.
what about food products that were brewed / distilled / processed locally? Still a bad idea? BTW thanks for the new perspective.
It's amazing for me to watch the tech community go from the hands off libertarian attitude to full socialist over this issue.
Aspirin and many other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), (eg, ibuprofen, naproxen, indomethacin, and ketorolac) are carboxylic acids. Their pKa values range from 3.50 (aspirin) to 4.85 (ibuprofen). As such, they are not ionized at the acidic pH found in the gastric lumen and thus can be absorbed across the gastric mucosa. Once these drugs move from the acidic environment of the gastric lumen into the pH–neutral mucosa, the drugs ionize and are trapped temporarily in epithelial cells where it may damage these cells. How important is this effect? Calcium carbsalasate does not have this epithelium damaging topical effect, but causes the same ulcerative outcome[1].

This "topical" epithelial injury by many NSAIDs does not appear to be of prime importance in the pathogenesis of clinically important endpoints (symptomatic ulcers). The pathogenesis of symptomatic peptic ulcer disease caused by repeated exposure to NSAIDs is mainly a consequence of systemic (post-absorptive) inhibition of gastrointestinal mucosal cyclo-oxygenase (COX) activity. Even intravenous or intramuscular administration of aspirin or NSAIDs can cause gastric or duodenal ulcers in animals and humans [2].

PMIDs:
1 - 18242146 (“The incidence rate of peptic ulcer disease is similar in patients using low-dose effervescent calcium carbasalate compared with regular low-dose acetylsalicylic acid. This implicates that peptic ulcers seem to be related to systemic rather than to local effects of low-dose acetylsalicylic acid.”)
2 - 631484 (“These studies show that when the stomach is acidified by giving histamine intravenously or HCl intragastrically, intravenous aspirin produces large deep gastric ulcers.”)

The above is a partial paraphrase from UpToDate.
So are you saying she eat high carb and random or are you saying she eats random? Not sure I understand your point.

Carbs are proven to make most people fatter. There are people with high metabolism who can eat anything but most people cannot eat too many carbs without gaining weight.
> only give me 40mbit

In most of the US you'd be lucky to break 5Mbit with DSL even in close proximity to the CO.
How will this last forever? Browsers seem like a relatively competitive and performance-oriented space.
I might be misunderstanding your comment. If so, please suggest apps!

It's not so much a function of knowledge as it is a function of doing it. I know that I'm highly biased, but my kid is flat out cool. She loves figuring things out and has a wonderful mischievous attitude to boot. Simply, when she's awake and I'm not working, I'd rather spend time with her (rather than stay active which would keep me alive longer, thus meaning more time with her).

For me, it was the sound that got me hooked on this particular app. It's the kind of godawful noise that would wake the dead just long enough so they can do their pushups and shut the damned thing up...:)
"callable" essentially just means you can put a "()" after the name in the code and it works.

You can "call" a class. Doing so allocates an instance of that class (Or calls the __new__ function if one is defined) and returns it, first calling the __init__ function of that class if necessary.

You can also "call" an object if its class has a __call__ function defined.
What's happening is that the news outlet here is keying in on the word abilities and not the word preferences.

I think many women have preferences that steer them away from engineering, this may be societal or genetic in nature but that's something that is being debated at this point.

I think saying his use of the word abilities is what gets him in a lot of trouble here.
Agreed. However, I hope they will work on their adaptor for VR to increase quality and release Skyrim for PC soon. It's some of the most fun I've had in VR so far honestly.
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If you get in the situation where you think you might need a lawyer/attorney, talk to one, they are generally approachable sorts, if you don't trust one, talk to a few, as others have pointed out, this is the first and only step to take if you are considering action.
From the post: "all PV instances in EC2 are
using this"
Data caps and zero-rating are not illegal under Title II regulations.
How would the IRS know the exact number? What about people who lumped their bitcoin gains with their other capital gains?
If I'm not mistaken this is found only in the book by the apostole who was a tax collector for Caesar. :-)
Just wait until I'm in charge. I'll define your beliefs as the lunatic fringe, and use the censorship apparatus you created to enforce it.
There might be things that can't be undone at this point (maybe, I dunno, I'm no doctor), but I don't think it's ever too late. Here's a story I don't feel like retyping: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11941206. Summary: guy I sorta know weighs 400 lbs., doc says it's going to kill him, goes out and gets rid of almost 200 lbs., starts running 5Ks. I don't know his exact age, but he has to be pushing middle age. Neighbor that used to live next to me was a pretty chunky gal in her mid-late 30s, started running, worked up to half marathons. Pounds fell off, she said she felt immensely better. I have other examples I've personally witnessed.

Now I won't say it's easy. I know plenty of "failures", too. It's gotta be hard (if you read the linked story, it's a hardship I've never known). But plenty of others in this thread have good advice on where to start. I'm just here for moral support to tell that I've seen others do it at all ages, and it's never too late. Like in the story I linked, come back in a few years and give me something to cry about. :-)
Always love reading HN and wondering how utterly lost you need to be in life to come to the conclusion that programming is being 'gentrified' by some people trying to be inclusive.

Please read up on the definition of gentrification, you clearly don't understand the connotation of that word.
The U.S. Senate voted on an older version of net neutrality in 2011 with a resolution introduced by former republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (a resolution of disapproval of the FCC's Open Internet Order of 2010). It was a party line vote, 48-52, with republicans (the minority caucus in the Senate at that time) voting against the order and democrats voting in support of the order.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-joint-re...

Also in 2011, the U.S. House of Representatives had a disapproval vote which passed 240-179, since republicans were in the majority at that time. All but 2 republicans voted to disapprove the FCC order, while all but 6 democrats voted in support of the order.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-joint-res...
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16098676

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...still canon.
Pedantic: it's a tree so it doesn't bite? But yeah, the gympie gympie [0] sounds horrible - potentially too horrible/long-lasting effects for a rite of passage? Luckily, it's in Australia!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides
Title II doesn't prevent zero-rating either.
Where the idea that FCC latest ruling is opposed by majority of conservatives comes from?

Moreover, if you think issue as obscure and technical as NN would be important enough for a senator to break with their own party, you are deluding yourself. The only way to make it so is to wage blatantly false campaign like "without NN you'd be paying 100x for Internet tomorrow and all your favorite sites would be blocked" - which is also kinda too late anyway, because we already know it's not true. Hoping that the average voter can appreciate the fine points of the tug of war between backbone providers and content generators is, as I said, delusional.
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I thought that was the point the article was positing; it's a symbolic vote to get Republicans on the record for their support of an unpopular position.
Alarm sound is at https://pushupalarm.com/missile.mp3 (curl/wget the URL)
I just got in from shoveling a lot of snow and I sure as hell won't be doing a marathon, ever. Shovelling snow is far, far easier.
>It might even explain why so many cultures had rites to male adulthood involving extreme pain.

Unless you believe that the rites were created to address the problem of "one day, there will be analgesics with antiandrogen effects, so we'll have a few centuries of practice at enduring extreme pain", then I don't see how there could be any connection.
> My point is that Jules is wrong that capitalists will permit you to set up a communist society.

The non-communist countries tried to sabotage the communist ones, true. (And vice versa - a cold war is like that.) That is not at all the same as saying that, within a capitalist countries, the capitalists will not permit you to set up a commune. Your argument (and link) therefore do not actually address jules' point at all.

> In addition, a commune within a capitalist society would still be reliant on the labor of an external, exploited proletarian class.

How does that address jules' point (or even mine)?

> Communism is internationalist. Ultimately this is the failure of first world social democratic programs that provide decent gains for their working classes but do so at the expense of oppressed peoples in the global south.

How does that address jules' point (or even mine)? Starting a commune in the US doesn't exploit the oppressed in the global south whatsoever.

This is why I say it looks like you're just looking to spew talking points. You're saying a lot, but it's not relevant to the subject.
The plough sidewalks in Quebec, it can be done.
Cryptocurrencies Are Selling Off
That's when you pulled out your trusty slide-rule. I never used one but my EE teachers always talked about them.
They'll attempt to find a mis-statement, a slip up of any kind that doesn't jive with any part of the rest of the picture / claim in question. They may look at the post for anything negative directed at a given person or the company, or slander generally (eg second line from end). Even if it's a stretch. From there it's a short hop to tossing around a few legal threats to end or substantially complicate the entire thing for most people on the other side.
Cool website. I sometimes miss searching for a topic and finding personal sites like this, with interesting content and to the point.
You can wonder if that is good or bad. Well it is kind of bad but it is happening anyway and at least these guys won't just disappear with the pot overnight. I put some smallish amounts (like $100 per ICO) and in bunch of ICOs to see what would happen in the summer. At first all the negative stuff here on HN did seem to happen, now, more than half a year later, with some buy/sell actions at the right times, this only ICO portfolio is all black with a profit of over 30k. I took 50% to fiat and left the rest. The negativity is interesting on here: there are enough like me who know it's a gamble, who put experiments out with money they can miss if it is gone and who continue playing with profits only. Ofcourse we win only because your 'fools' lose, but we are on HN, you would think the people here would be in the former category. For now it is simply free money and where I live, legal and very low taxed. Besides some bad ICOs, which you can very easily recognize by the way, there are actual strong believers who fight for their company and reap the benefits. It is a bubble but not all is a fraud and ponzi in the blockchain space. Many are seeing it as a good way to run a real startup with real plans and products.
Azure is growing quickly.
I'm confused -- if it's something you can do with both hands holding a shovel, why is it described as holding your nose?
So put another way, whichever party in power is against net neutrality, and whichever isn’t is for it?
> since it's categorical that Americans do not want this madness

As an outsider it is kind of amusing when I see lines like "Americans do not want" said by both Democrats and Republicans.
And what, specifically, would those differences be?

The balance of the evidence, is that there are some biological differences in preferences. Both biological and cultural factors are at play. As groups, women and men are about the same in terms of average IQ, however, men tend to have a higher population of the extreme outliers. (Both extremely smart men and extremely stupid men.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n691pLhQBkw

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTWSoM1_6KM
I intend to prove you wrong... next week
Heh. Reminds me of this joke project of mine, written in response to aphyr's ridiculous and awesome fake interview blog posts. Solving the 8-queens problem using a fuzzer:

https://github.com/zellyn/fuzzyqueens/blob/master/fuzzyqueen...
A ghanam of the famous “Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya” of the ancient brihadaranyaka.
Did you read the linked article?

More than that, I even quoted from the linked article. :-) But I think you're just restating what this IANAL said: I dunno, seems like a horrible oversight (to put it mildly), and I'm as mystified as you are. But I, too, would like an answer as to how this doesn't get you fired on the spot. I'm not a lawyer, but the law is not a complete mystery to me, and it sounds like this prosecutor is either massively incompetent (you mean to tell me you had no clue that this might get a case thrown out?), or willfully obstructing justice.
If you invest in something called "SpankCoin", I think getting occasionally spooked by titles is going to be the least of your worries...
Higher thought and functioning is a scarce resource. The trivialities may seem dumb or unnecessary, but it’s inhumane to expect none of them.

The real problem is getting people to balance fun/play and “work”.

Open question as to how to get people to balance those. Maybe the freemium/Facebook stuff need to be discussed like cigarettes/sex Ed.
Thanks to weakening of the state, Mexico became in my eyes largest real world implementation of libertarian paradise where in the absence of state people are left to decide what's ok and what's not. Apparently plenty of weapons used on daily basis to resolve disputes about who has the right to what is two thumbs up ok.
The innovative and battery preserving e-ink screens, such as those used in the Yotaphone, would help with this problem massively. In fact, I bet it would fix it. There are many undiscovered problems we're all suffering from when we use these bright, colorful screens. E-ink technology fixes most of them.
The problem isn't net neutrality, it's lack of competition among ISPs. Normally, I would agree with them - regulating the internet is not the way to spur innovation. But with an ISP monopoly or duopoly in most markets, either more competition (my preferred solution) or regulation is needed. As we've seen with phone service (if you're old enough to remember), regulation will give us reliable but expensive service, and competition will give us cheap, reliable, and feature-filled service.
Err, I don't quite agree with your description. The takeaway from your post was that low-n is worthless and high-n is ineffable, full stop. The size of the trial has very little to do with whether or not we are to believe the results insofar as it affects its statistical power. The fact that p-hacking and selection bias exist doesn't immediately imply that low-n studies are wrong. Those aren't problems unique to small sample size studies. For sure, statistical power isn't the catch-all thing to examine either--rather, pre-registration of studies would alleviate a great deal of falsities, but none of any of this has to do strictly with low sample size trials as your post implies.

Let's say the drug studied was a guaranteed 100% limb regenerative drug for amputees. Would you really require a 200 person study to prove that Examplinol successfully regenerates limbs? I hope the answer to that is "obviously not; it will be very clear whether or not it works with a low sample size." Of course, how would we change the study if it wasn't supposed to work in 100% of people? What if Sample Pharmaceuticals indicated that it only worked for 50% of people? Or 10%? Or 1%? Would it suffice to use 200 people each trial?
My point wasn't so much about addiction, it's that if someone is determined to kill time, they'll find a way to do it.
No - republicans in both chambers voted against net neutrality, and democrats in both chambers voted for net neutrality. The resolution of disapproval of net neutrality only passed in the House because there was a republican majority in the House at that time. It failed in the Senate because there was a democrat majority in the Senate at that time.
Did they really "break away"?

I skimmed through the article so I may have missed something, but what I read was about how the municipal authorities took over many of the state / federal responsibilities. The last one is engaged in a turf war with the state police.

What about the federal taxes? Infrastructure projects? Salaries of the state employees?
And Win10 now has (what many consider) ads: https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/17/14956540/microsoft-window...
Also scant mention of the role herbs and spices have played in folk medicine since the dawn of our species. One glance at Rodale's Encyclopedia of Herbs is enough to see that two or three generations ago, most American households would have employed some form of home remedy such as crushed barberries to alleviate the scratchiness of a sore throat ;)

Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs

https://books.google.com/books?id=htGD3Y7WNxwC
Comcast profit margin is 12%: https://ycharts.com/companies/CMCSA/profit_margin
That's on the high side, usually it's around 10%. For comparison, profit margins for Internet/IT companies are around 25%, Google's 24%. Facebook's a whopping 45%. Microsoft's a remarkable 26%.

Is 12% "insane"? Which one would be the "sane" one?
And don't go witch-hunting.

Sometimes old cultural artifacts go away in the "mother country" but persist in "the colonies." Seems like the witch-hunting mentality is something that's stuck around in the US, infecting both the political Right and Left.
Bernie did it right. There is no reason for the government to force net neutrality if instead the government focused on maintaining a competitive ISP landscape.
Is there any evidence that this is biological, as opposed to cultural?
There are areas where Sonic is dependent on ATT for service. Sure, it is not a great solution, but they (sonic) at least answer calls, have a decent portal, and not trying to upsell you anything or steal your dns queries.
Net Neutrality and competition are two completely separate issues.