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Hello new user.

> The suckage takes the form of “they don’t show up for the appointment on time” or “they raised my bill by $20” which produces a lot of negative sentiment in the average consumer.

No the suckage comes from only one in many, many areas[1][2]. Data caps, charges on data caps, slow speeds, lack of competition after Google Fiber left many markets due to ISP thuggery. They also dislike the ISP privacy protections being removed and them now able to sell all your data. Say what you want about Google/Facebook but they innovated to get people to share their personal data, they didn't need to bribe congress to further their monopoly.

The vast majority US only has 0 or 1 valid ISP(s) with decent speeds if that at 25-100 Mbps[1][2].

> This whole net neutrality thing is only such a big political issue because of the lobbying of the internet giants

Comcast was throttling Netflix in 2015, they will throttle smaller players without abandon. Netflix had to create fast.com to test speeds because even the speed tests on ISP sites were fixed to report higher than they were to hide the nerfing of Netflix.

ISPs are much more of a threat to open internet than Google, Facebook or any company that has innovated on top of the internet in the market, not trying to control your entry point to the market by bribing Congress.

Nobody HAS to go to Google or Facebook, they HAVE TO use their ISP. They are the threat to open internet not the other way around. This shifting to companies that earned their position in the open market is strongly anti-business in favor of companies that pay off lawmakers.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/us-br...

[2] https://consumerist.com/2014/03/07/heres-what-lack-of-broadb...
This is why during software design the first thing I talk about is not the UX flow or the software architecture, but the user's mental model (or the mental model we want to give them).
Eliot Fisk has done a this relatively recently (~2015) with the Bach cello suites. Although they aren't improvised, they are re-arranged to take advantage of the fact that one can play more notes simultaneously on the guitar — to me they sound like warmer lute arrangements with some modern voicings. Definitely different than the arrangements I play.

WBUR in Boston did a piece on them recently here: http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/11/24/eliot-fisk-rebroadcas...
I have to agree that the questions could have been better. For instance, they asked "Does this interface look trustworthy". What does that even mean?

I believe it's trustworthy because it's open source and backed by Mozilla. The only aspect of the interface that would lead me not to trust it is advertisements.

That being said, with good luck they'll get more useful feedback to the open-ended questions.
IWI – install working inventory
Reminds me of the theoretical model of stored-data encryption - it's the same as encrypting communication, only you're sending data from your past self to your future self :-D
Large flash and boom heard over southeast michigan
Oh, ok. But pardon the ignorance, but how do the investors make a return on their investment, freemium language and premium tools?
Ask HN: How many WPM can you type, and what do you do for work?
I just feel like gaining some perspective on what kinds of typists frequent hacker news.

And, what did you do to improve your speed?

There are various kinds of typing tests online but here is a basic one we can refer to:
https://10fastfingers.com/typing-test/english

I am hovering around 58 WPM on a good run without errors— I'm a web developer.

If this question is not within the rules, let me know. I am, still, sort of new here.
Their motto may as well just be “Be evil” now imo. It seems like they’re on the wrong side of basically every issue.
Ex-CIA Officer Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informants Is Arrested
So you're claiming that if Bitcoin did $1 trillion dollars worth of transactions in a year, and people held it for a year on average, that wouldn't necessarily imply a total value for all bitcoins of $1 trillion?
Watching The Detectorists is a calm and charming experience.
(Apparently) previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14385359
ITER Nuclear Reactor May Be the “Holy Grail” of Limitless Renewable Energy
From the (overly lengthy) Patent Description section:

A challenge-response test may include a type of authentication where one party (e.g., security device 240) presents a question (e.g., a “challenge”) and another party (e.g., attacker device 210) is required to provide a valid solution (e.g., a “response”) to be authenticated. An unsolvable challenge-response test may include a challenge-response test that does not have a correct solution and/or a challenge-response test where attacker device 210 may be incapable of providing the correct solution (e.g., when the correct solution includes a character that may not be typed using a standard keyboard, etc.). In some implementations, security device 240 may generate the unsolvable challenge-response test in the form of an unsolvable CAPTCHA. In some implementations, security device 240 may generate the unsolvable CAPTCHA using one or more construction techniques that are designed to block attacker device 210 from sending a request to server device 230 without making attacker device 210, and/or a user of attacker device 210 (e.g., a hacker), aware that attacker device 210 is being blocked (e.g., by security device 240) from sending the request to server device 230.
Apple is not a monopoly any sense or legal definition. It's false equivalency to come them to cable providers.
Donald Trump’s Physical Exam and the Sorry State of the American Body Politic
Is the Bitcoin market tanking?
Good questions. I know very little about international fiber markets, unfortunately. I do have a fair amount of experience deploying LTE in fixed wireless environments, though. I'll work on adding some of that to the site and feel free to reach out to me with questions.
Post-mortem debugging of Go Programs
Well, a couple millenia worth of the world's best thinkers have seen fit to pass it on. That sounds like a peer review system to me.
Yes if a represents a function that is testing a call condition like isNumber or is less than 4
> Famous Youtubers and other individuals with influence convinced hundreds of people to put their money into BitConnect in order to profit off of referrals

If you lost money in this scheme and are in the United States or Canada, contact your state securities regulator [1]. Mention any such referral sources. Those individuals may be liable for securities fraud under state and federal law.

If you're in the United States, send a copy to the SEC [2]. If you lost more than a token amount, I would also recommend contacting an attorney.

[1] http://www.nasaa.org/about-us/contact-us/contact-your-regula...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/complaint/select.shtml

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.
Cornell Researchers: Bitcoin Not as Decentralized as Assumed
https://www.fema.gov/media-library/#{}
Your local anecdote is nice but the VAST MAJORITY of the US only has 0 or 1 valid ISP with decent speeds if that at 25-100 Mbps[1][2].

Removing NN will also increase revenues for ISPs that currently are already or on their way to monopolies, which will create even more fake ISP competition.

Everyone saw what happened when Google Fiber was threatening, suddenly competition...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/us-br...

[2] https://consumerist.com/2014/03/07/heres-what-lack-of-broadb...
GP might be paying only third-party insurance. I'm not sure about America, but at least in Australia, AU$500 (US$400) per year will get you third-party insurance if you're under 25, and if you're driving a beater car you don't need any other insurance.

I looked at getting comprehensive insurance on my old car, but in the end the excess was greater than the value of the car. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same for GP.
> 1+2+3+4... = -1/12

Only through a derivation which involves some cute but unsound pseudo-algebra on infinite series.

See, in the same page, the remark "Generally speaking, it is incorrect to manipulate infinite series as if they were finite sums".
Seems sensible to say it trains the psyche, and then when inhibitions are lowered the psyche acts out. E.g. Freud's theory of the id, ego and super ego or Plato's multipart soul. Media trains the id and ego with imagery and messaging, and when the super ego loses its control the id and ego take over.
‘Studies in Power’: An Interview with Robert Caro
Thank you for choosing to be a douche canoe instead of being kind or helpful.

Have a nice day.
Really, pedestrians should wait indefinitely until there are no cars coming?
Many non-trivial libs are typed improperly, even when they can be done right. There's massive abuse of "any" type the moment anything gets semi-challenging. Also, a non-trivial amount of type definitions don't work in strict mode, which make things worse.

Anything involving complicated higher order functions (like lodash/ramda's curry), or having a single method that can be used in various ways that don't fit well with TS' overloading mechanisms are often done wrong or poorly. Flow is a bit better at this, but the techniques it provides are not always well known, so the type definitions aren't that much better.
http://about.ag/debate.htm There’s lots of reasons
Guess that's the price of becoming just another Me-Too TV channel. May it succeed just as well form them as Google+ did. And may someone less greedy step in to take over online video.
Ask HN: How do you wake up in the morning
Especially during winter, I have been struggling to wake up in the morning
The client code could run in a browser or in a desktop application.

The juicy backend bits could run just fine in Azure.
mbsync[0] is handy for snapshotting an IMAP account, either for (local) archival or migration to another account.

[0]:http://isync.sourceforge.net/mbsync.html
>> I wish every small business could be paid to create jobs.

>They already do! It's called revenue.

I give you a job. I pay you $500. You generate $100 of revenue.

I'm pretty sure I just lost $400, you gained less than $400 after taxes, and the IRS gets to enjoy the spread.

Edit: changed to reflect that there are more winners than just the IRS
USA.NET is still a thing: https://www.netaddress.com/
> I found it pretty easy to switch ISPs

I've been trying for two years to switch isp. I can't because there's only one choice. Every time I ask the other isp who is even in the general area for how much it would cost to wire my house, I get a "don't know, sorry' answer from them.

With my current isp their local infrastructure craps out (5-10% packet loss all the time) every year or so and I have to file an average of ~3 support tickets and wait a month for them to fix it. I'm 1-2 miles away from downtown Seattle.
You say "your" and yet, this has nothing to do with me. I pointed to the wikipedia article. BTW this result is not exactly new, and it has specific confirmation in physics.

You cannot argue that with high-school math. There is more to it.
YouTube introduces new criteria for creator monetization, Google Preferred
You can spend similar amounts of processing power (or vastly more) modeling a single atom over much shorter time scales from quantum mechanics. Protean folding while important results on fairly stable configurations and you don't need the same granularity after that point.

PS: Also of note protean folding simulations don't even simulate the water surrounding the protean and are again very simplified.
Our copyright laws are ridiculous.
Not really a site, but plenty of MUDs back in the day. Can't find an MMORPG that quite scratches the same itch.
I build a lot of sites and apps for clients. A good number of them tried to cash in on the e-commerce craze, then realized that logistics and competing with Amazon is difficult. So practically all of them have shut down by now.

I've become hardened to it by now. It's sort of like having a goldfish; they all die eventually.
> and vacation using VR

And I can visit China by visiting Chinatown.
Left Behind and the Translation of God
Tether has remained at about $1/coin for a long time. Isn't it liquid if you trade it for BTC then to fiat?
Haha, this is legit. Nice find.
Double digit percentage drops over several days. As to whether that's tanking or normalizing...your call.
No one's linking to pg's famous article about it the dynamic? [1] He makes the point that that kind of thing happens because reporters are pressed for time and good journalism is hard. And generally, a PR person who feeds them such an article won't lie, they'll just selectively include facts.

I'm just impressed it was going on even then.

I agree that this kind of thing should be disclosed, just as same as if it were "here's $500 and remember where it came from". It's something of value being provided by an interested party that taints the publication. Not so much that it shouldn't be printed, but definitely enough that it should be disclosed ("I'm just parroting what GM told me").

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Allow me to suggest that the definition of a bubble is rapid and unsustainable price escalation with no predictable end in sight.
That doesn't solve anything. All you've got is public shaming, and if history has been any guide, the ability to be shamed may be one thing that's anticorrelated with money.
Dan Abramov - React getDerivedStateFromProps()?
We'll run out of donated organs at that point.
Number of users an app has is a horrible way to decide whether to write it in C++ or not, and even if it were a good driver Visual Studio is a $1B business for Microsoft so it’s hardly a little niche app lacking a wide audience.
For an even more recent example see Joey Alexander.
How China Infiltrated U.S. Classrooms
The author repeatedly writes attacks against feminists, but dresses them up as other topics of interest. This article is framed as a defense of Aziz Ansari from the perspective of an aging female baby-boomer detatched from the younger generation. But its core is a laudation of the sexist environment responsible for creating strong women familiar with saying "No" to sexual pressure, and a jumble of insults vilifying various feminists. As another example, she did the same thing in 2004 with a piece ostensibly about nannies. Ms. Magazine has a thorough criticism of the piece and of the author,

"A little reporting would have gone a long way to help Flanagan’s argument that nannies are suffering at the hands of feminists. But there wasn’t much there. ... Barbara Ehrenreich wrote in an email discussion with Flanagan and the writer Sara Mosle in Slate magazine, 'if [Flanagan’s] piece was about how employers should pay their nannies' Social Security taxes, then my reading skills are in serious decline.'"

http://www.msmagazine.com/winter2004/backtothekitchen.asp

Two months ago Flannigan wrote, "In the America of earlier generations, one thing that silenced women who wanted to report unwanted sexual acts was how important it was not to damage a man’s career, his reputation, his family. Was one unpleasant event really enough to cause so much trouble to a respected member of the community, to a breadwinner?" but that was in order to take a jab at feminist Al Franken. Today she presents the other side, "Aziz Ansari was a man whom many people admired and whose work, although very well paid, also performed a social good. ... a man who didn’t deserve it." That kind of selective logic is confusing until it's understood that the only consistency in her writing are the attacks against feminism.
The prisoners dilemma ultimately proves that in the short term, while you win more if everyone works together, you ultimately risk losing less if you don't work together.

Or rather, if you think another govt might blink and screw you, blink first and screw them to avoid being screwed more by them.
+1. I had a similar experience, starting one of the first ISPs back in Brazil, in 94-95. Me and my two co-founders came from an academic background, so we were using BITNET for a few years by then, and saw firsthand when the internet started to open up for commercial access.

Overall it was a great learning experience, but incredibly challenging. There was nothing like OP's guide (or HN, or Google for that matter), so the knowledge had to come from books, Usenet news, and mail lists. It helped that we had experience managing Unix servers and WAN networks at the University, but still had tons of things to figure out, from setting up dial-up lines, to keeping httpd servers up and running (we decided to use Linux 0.99 beta from the get-go, but it kept crashing, usually in the middle of the night; later we discovered it was a race condition in the multi-serial port card driver, which manifested only when several ports were under heavy use, hence only happening at night).

Although we could solve most of the technical challenges, we were absolutely clueless on how to run a business: selling, bizdev, billing customers, hiring and building teams, etc. I have fond memories for those (usually bad) decisions, but can't stop thinking how things would be different if I could magically go back and do it all over again :)

We quickly reached a few thousand customers, and realized it was turning into a capital intensive business - phone lines in Brazil in the 90's were crazily expensive, plus Cisco routers, server upgrades, etc. We decided to pivot towards B2B, thus becoming one of the first corporate ISPs: web hosting, security consulting, leased lines, some web development.

We sold the company 5 years later, when the market started consolidating, right before the dotcom crash.
I hate stuff like this. When I fall into the "this guy looks unusual" bucket, I don't want to have to second-guess whether your system is even going to let me in if I put in the effort to jump through its kafkaesque hoops.

I had trouble with Coinbase account verification which I'm almost certain was akin to the linked patent: it asked me for a picture of my passport, and then a picture of my face, and then told me that the pictures didn't match and I must try again. Every single time. I only managed to regain access to my account by emailing a contact that most people wouldn't have.
eh why not this could be fun, did one run with no errors total of 64 wpm.

background: novice/intermediate programmer/It guy, with some data entry experience.

Do not often push myself that fast while programming so, probably half that while doing so??
Considering the DoD's track record on ship and aircraft acquisitions, utility is pretty low on their priority list.
Comparing salaries across borders based on that day's exchange rate is dumb. It's swung between 70 cents and parity in the last decade
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=BitConnect+refe...

Jesus, this is pretty blatant.
This is called static analysis and it's a very active field of research. The main pain is figuring out which analyses to enable in existing code bases, because if you have a hundred diagnostics from legacy code you don't want to deal with, you're going to miss the one or two new warnings in the code you just added.

For greenfield projects it can be a godsend, if you have the experience to know which warnings you should disable and the discipline to keep the entire code base warning-free. I've done this with StyleCop / FxCop in C#.

Here's a list of PHP static analysis tools: https://github.com/exakat/php-static-analysis-tools
Flurry of Lawsuits Fight Repeal of Net Neutrality
The current situation is that you can own land (and pass it on to countless generations), and even if you do nothing to it, the value of the land may increase due to the rest of the economy, or if the people next to you build skyscrapers, etc.

That's doesn't seem fair, or productive, so I think the land itself should be owned collectively to some degree, but
you would still own your improvements, and even 'own' the land in the form of a lease or whatever.
A couple people I follow have called it a complete ponzi scheme for months. I hope those behind this get what they deserve: a lot of bitcoin and a lot of flaming paper bags on their porch.
What is the argument here? There are certain ways of assigning a number to the divergent (by partial sums) sum.
If they are well-defined, they all arrive at the same number. In this case, -1/12. There is nothing to argue here, that shit has been around for 200 years or more.

And, there are some results in physics that actually measure close to the number -1/12, from something that looks like a sum of 1+2+3... and that's kind of telling us that the whole construction is not just some math sleight-of-hand, it actually has some meaning in the real world.

Example: Casimir effect

So my point is... that kind of suggests the smoothness, or continuity, or differentiability, or whatever we want to call it, of the underlying function. The opposite of discrete. Is what my point was.
So now shadow ban has been patented.
> The interface could be better, but a different interface wouldn't necessarily stop someone who's confused from sending the wrong alert. How many times do you see a dialog box and click "yes" without even reading it?

How many times to I test the SMS delivery system? Not very often, so I am going to be more careful with any popups. Maybe you only use your computer once a month?
See the prisoner's dilemma. In the short term, the most likely way to win is to ensure everyone loses.
"Outside of Outlook at work, I can't even remember the last time I used an actual "client" for e-mail. "

I use Claws Mail personally and can find in fractions of a second my entire archive of a dozen accounts starting since 1996 (converted from Eudora until 1998 or 99) where the biggest 5 inboxes sum up to over 42K mails (plus attachements). I have also made few people switch to Claws Mail on Windows too, and none of them wanted to go back. One in particular who needs daily very fast searches on a big database of emails is happy to be able to do that in less than one second instead of Outlook's 10-30 seconds.
If you're used to web mail, upgrading to a (good) client can be from a pleasant experience to a life changer.

For those interested:
http://www.claws-mail.org/index.php
You don't have to be a carpenter to know if a house is built poorly, just if you try to describe the cause. They were right in their criticism of transaction fees, but were off in what was causing it.
I scored 23 wpm, 113 cpm here https://typing-speed-test.aoeu.eu/. I am a programmer.
Any kind of response I would give here would just be regurgitation of junk articles I've read, sorry.
This makes me think of userbinator's comment from yesterday's Google Memory Loss post.

To add insult to injury, if you do try to make complex and slightly varying queries and exhaust its result pages in an effort to find something you know exists, very often it will think you're a robot and present you with a CAPTCHA, or just ban you completely (solving the CAPTCHA just gives you another, and no matter how many you solve it keeps refusing to search; but they probably benefit from all the AI help you just gave them, what bastards...) for a few hours.

Edit: I wonder if Google is using this as a sort of income source for pages that bring little to no ad revenue.