skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you find an example of this that isn't a phone company? Common carrier only applies to phone companies, it doesn't apply to CDNs, content providers in general, or websites.

I'll point out too that Verizon or AT&T can terminate services for other things. If your line is used to harass people or make prank phone calls then it can be shut down. Common carrier doesn't mean that they have to allow everyone to use their service.
As somebody that lives in a "shit area", can you find a new adjective?

I love the Midwest, my money goes WAY further here working remote for a California company, not to mention all of the other benefits.

Not bashing LA/NY or those who choose to live there, but stop bashing us.
That's if you have a standard radio. I have a Ford Focus and to replace the radio with a 2DIN unit, i need to buy a new frame and a bunch of adapters.
This is the work of Tom7, well known for other projects like Learnfun & Playfun, ARST ARSW and running a marathon in hockey skates.
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The web is a good platform for mass global surveillance and control. If that still counts as "pretty damn cool", then yeah, you got me!
If they were such a great army how'd they all end up in a grave?

Too soon?
They are likely related, but it sure would have been interesting if the market went down 2000+ points at the same time Bitcoin was surging upwards.
Words don't belong to anyone unless you register a trademark or some equivalent. People refer to cryptocurrency far more frequently than cryptographic algorithms lately; it's inevitable that they would start appropriating the shorthand word.
rvo: I want more immigrants, full stop. I want us to invest in identifying high-value immigrants and supporting their naturalization [I think Tyler Cowen argues in favor of many many more creative / non-service space immigrants, ie non-doctors/lawyers, and that seems right to me].

Don't make democrats choose between Latinx and Indian immigrants - we want both. We don't have any power in this country right now. Thus, democrats in Congress are trying to keep provisions that support Latinx immigrants - "Dreamers".
From an economic perspective, that makes sense: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-13/-dreamer-...

Ideally, we would have better-design systems for immigration, but we don't. We have to be practical and work with what we've got. [and yes, in the distant future if the current form of the Democratic party controls Congress, hopefully it will remember its current desires to help immigrants (and refugees) from all countries]
Why? In my experience English-speaking learners of Chinese do better than learners of Korean, and learners of Japanese do about the same if not better.

I speak four and have studied several languages, including Korean and Japanese, Korean in a hardcore way, and found it about as hard as they come despite some things like hangul. Indeed hangul doesn't always help because reading Chinese words in Korean (meaning the majority), the sounds are clear but the information in the characters is lost. Since characters usually come in pairs or triples, knowing at least one will give insight to the others, and they commonly carry hints about pronunciation, whereas in Korean the purely phonetic approach of modern hangul relies on context. If you can't see what a sentence is about and don't instantly recognize some important words, you'll have a hard way in. That said, the Japanese multiple pronunciations for Chinese characters (native words using Chinese characters plus regular loan words) is maddening.

Korean grammar gets confusing quickly, it's "backwards" or kind of inside out to English-speakers, kind of like the Lisp of natural languages. Written sentences grow into complex labyrinths.

Japanese is another natural language Lisp but more streamlined in grammar and far simpler on pronunciation if outlandish in writing systems.

Listening and pronunciation is also sometimes perilous. I'm not talking about the way that vowels can drift, but actually hearing what someone has said. This problem doesn't really come up you when people learn their hotel and taxi Korean and then claim to speak it.

Anyway of course Korean can be learned but to engage in true discussion about a complex and subtle issue takes several years of focused study and practical experience, and I mean for most people more than five years, though experience in Chinese or Japanese will help almost as much as studying/practicing Korean itself. A year at the foreign service institute is just like a coat of priming paint when it comes to the more difficult languages.
>ultimately you're always relying on the current working population to pay for your retirement, no matter what investments you put into your pension fund. What happens if that goes pop?

Exactly. The corn you eat needs to be grown today.
Even with an online-shop attached (WooCommerce) + bigger product catalog it shouldn't take more than 1.5 to 3 seconds to load without optimization from my experience. Putting some caching in front of it further reduces loadtime. Cloudways is nice to manage WP, they just use a Digitalocean droplet and give you caching/Letsencrypt/updating pre-configured via a simple interface.
No, it isn't. Inflation hasn't event hit 2% (Fed goal) yet.

https://www.thebalance.com/current-u-s-inflation-rate-statis...
In market conditions like this maybe you've heard that some subscribe to the financial maxim that "cash is king".
Reading the article, yes, you're leaving more information than you think (but maybe not more than you're willing to share).

Video monitoring is mentioned in the article together with timestamping. A store had a "customer satisfaction" problem in the morning, so together with video footage, they could determine there was slow-starting employee who was at fault.

> One client discovered that customer satisfaction in a particular store plummeted at ten o’clock every morning. Video from a closed-circuit security camera revealed that the drop was caused by an employee who began work at that hour and took a long time to get going. She was retrained, and the frowns went away.
Where did I say the author was trashing Ultima IV?
On some level, though, all of retirement is a little ponzi-like; ultimately you're always relying on the current working population to pay for your retirement, no matter what investments you put into your pension fund.

Well, no, not really. You're relying on the fact that you own some assets, which you can sell to someone else who wants to own those assets. That's very much not "ponzi-like".
What's with the 600 pt 3pm sell-off and recovery within 5 minutes? Algorithms? I thought massive swing effects are supposed to be under control now?
I have long wondered how much Mozart could have composed with a modern synthesizer and garageband. And similarly, Shakespeare with an electric typewriter, or (more incredible yet) a word processing rather than a quill and ink!

But then my cynicism kicks in and I imagine them each spending days on facebook and watching cat videos.
That's actually not a fud.

Government/whatever party has to compensate a common carrier a reasonable amount of money for determining and filtering content. Not having tools to do it means a company gets to say "this would cost X, write us a check". If X is too big, government/other party tends to walk away. In my previous life, we have used this argument successfully to quash several court orders. The reason why we were successful is because a very smart attorney that happened to be a relative of a founder convinced him one day that under no circumstances should we develop such tools ahead of time.

One of our competitors had these tools developed. They had a similar court order served on them. They attempted to use the same argument we used. They failed because the government offered court the evidence that those tools already existed and were used by our competitor and hence there was no undue burden.

[Edit: Responding here due to rate limiting]

> It's FUD because it does not apply, at all, to the existing scenario. Common Carriers have specific legal meanings, and internet companies don't fall under that.

This is also unclear. Common carrier is reasonably well defined based on what was known about certain technologies at the time.

NSPs/webhosting providers/CDNs/etc have never litigated their common carrier status to my knowledge as in most of the cases it does not appear that being a common carrier is beneficial to them. This does not, however, mean that there cannot be a situation where being a common carrier would not be advantageous to a NSP/CDN/webhoster. This is why most of them would prefer to behave like common carriers even if they are not - it is optionality and having more options is typically better.
My (possibly un-educated) guess is that these particular infected devices are insecure out of the factory, with these ports open and debugging enabled.

It's not unheard of for certain shoddy Chinese electronics to have glaring security holes out-of-the-box, and a lot of these types of botnets go after insecure IoT devices. A decent section of the IoT market uses Android, and it wouldn't surprise me if these ports are left open with the debugging installed.
> Inflation is higher than 2.885%

Official BLS has had it at a 2.0% annual rate for the first half of 2017 and a 1.7% for the second; some citation would be welcome on the claim that it's jumped to something above a 2.885% annual rate since...
I think most people stopped caring a month ago, this stupid name is going to stay.
People dumping stocks for bonds would increase the price of bonds, pushing yields lower.
you really wont be, it's like a couple of weeks and you'll be up and running in kotlin.
This is really fantastic, thank you very much.
I highly recommend you search about that on stackexchange and ask question if not already present. Seem easily doable but HN comment are not a goo place to get specific feedback.
How long until WordPress themes are all AMP-enabled as a part of WP core and the option is enabled by default?
Because people might think this is (close to) the bottom.
I figured out most these old games between the ages of 8-12. If you can't figure out how to use arrow keys or read the quick start guide, I'm not sure you're in for a future of even flipping patties, much less doing anything other than mashing buttons on your console controller. I know Ultima using the entire keyboard is seemingly too much for a modern "gamer".
Hopefully just a couple of simple global search and replaces?
Anyways I think the current support library structure is confusing and it's a good thing that they will refactor it.
Short Overstock. It moves very closely in align with crypto.
choojs – (very) small browser tools. Choo choo
So long as we accept the idea of being the product that is sold, yes, that is the case. I expect the market to stratify though, as some not-insignificant percentage realizes their life/time is too valuable to be wasted on someone else's marketing spend.
> Their land is only theirs if recognized by a government, and if property rights are respected.

Their land is only theirs if they can secure it from foreign aggression through a functional nuclear deterrent. However, operating a nuclear deterrent is a significant Big Government endeavor that is unlikely attainable by those chasing the so-called libertarian paradise.

That is the consequence of tearing down the government, if you tear down enough of it, you're not a patriot, you're literally handing it over to those you would call our enemies.
I'm not too happy with DreamHost's base level VPS. It makes the upsell to their own WordPress hosting solution feel rather suspicious.

Then again not having root on my own VPS, and having multi-week outages of the managed apps that supposedly are the reason for me not having root, also contribute to my lack of overall happiness.

That said, super nice support reps. Just wish they would actually fix my issues. :/
Friday before last I moved 70% out of stocks and bought PUTs in July as insurance on the rest. However, as my history has shown me - one doesnt assume this makes them smart. Could just have been lucky, this time.
OT does not depend on a central server. The particular implementation in Google Docs does. Take a look at the GOTO algorithm and TP2 property.
Most are speculating a large asset manager getting hit with margin calls. The buy back was likely algos with limits getting hit.
I agree that this effort is in the right place. Having the opportunity to change Realtime networks like Pusher, PubNub and Firebase would be great for apps.

I'm surprised those apps haven't made a bigger effort to implement this logic for production. It would certainly make them unique and hard to leave.
> are supposed to be under control now

Why would you think that? Massive swing effects are often caused or exacerbated by algorithms trading on momentum.

They do that because trading on momentum usually pays, and doing the hard work of fundamental value investing is difficult and also hard to scale.

Momentum trading is fine if only a few people are doing it, but if enough of the market transitions to having 'no opinion except following the crowd', then you get instability just like this. And many factors since 2010 have made flash crash-like events easier to cause, not harder.
Sorry, inflation in the price of things people actually want to buy. The government has every incentive to lie about real inflation.
This is correlated with a Harvard study of Booth MBA graduates:

>The presence of children is associated with less accumulated job experience, more career interruptions, shorter work hours, and substantial earnings declines for female but not for male MBAs.

http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/goldin/files/dynamics_of_th...
Why is that? Do they have exposure to crypto?
Sure, the maxim exists. What I'm interested in is the reasoning beyond the suggestion that the 14th is a magic date on which money that has moved to from stocks (and, in point of fact, cryptocurrency!) to cash for stability will suddenly decide, en masse, to move into cryptocurrency because “quality”.
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I had the idea of Google selfie Art a few years ago and did it with a small team for a museum in Hamburg (open data). I would love to do it for the MET museum as well. I tried some real time face tracking in opencv aswell. The app is called zeitblick. It’s more or less a prototype, maybe some of you will have a joy for interacting with art data creatively :)
Bitcoin down almost 70% since high
The author doesn't trash Ultima IV, there's a section (pg 24-25) where a group of students attempt to play the game and get stuck. None of them thought to read the materials that came with the game
Well I'm coming from a FP background.
But if you're String needs to have a toUri() method, things are already wrong.
Uri.parse is just fine, even in scala.
>And because of that move

Why not because of their countless previous similar moves?
There was actually a tool "com2txt" back in the DOS days. So you could convert an executable and put it into an email....

Update: I have my data well sorted enough that I found it :-) It even comes with code and is under a vague free license: https://github.com/hannob/com2txt
Hello HP, Let's work out the bugs with the 2D printers before we move on to 3D. Thx.
Yes, they have been accepting crypto in payments for awhile and famously held a bunch. CEO is invested into it.
Yeah, they've made it a point to emphasize that they're working on crypto / bitcoin related things[1].

1: https://www.investopedia.com/news/overstock-goes-all-bitcoin...
It's also has a single Board of Directors, meaning there is still a single point of failure.

It's not like putting all of your money on Tesla, but it's still riskier than a mutual fund.
> Mac sales are down 5%.

Mac sales are down 5% in Q1 2018, after being up 25% in Q4 2017. Its hardly a convinceable narrative that market share is steadily decreasing, because it isn't (incidentally, Apple moved up the ranks to #4 PC maker because the whole PC market took a dive).
> Sorry, inflation in the price of things people actually want to buy

And still, actual evidence that the rate of inflation “in the price of things people want to buy” is 2.885% or higher is missing.

Trying to blur the topic is not a substitute for supporting your fact claims.
The only reason I'd report property crime to the cops is because my insurance company makes me do it as part of the claims process.

The cops don't work for us; they work for the Them with a capital 'T'. The only thing that reliably works is best-effort individual defense plus insurance for when that fails. Keep your doors locked and your backups offsite, because chances are good that if anyone breaks in, police investigators won't produce any useful results, ever.

The Warren vs. D.C. decision just confirmed what was already fact.

If you live in the U.S., it is likely that you have lived your entire life such that the number of police encounters you might rate as positive are vastly outweighed by those you saw as negative. That is certainly true for me. At least my encounters have ranged from "unhelpful" to "annoying", rather than from "useless" to "deadly".

What they need is better systems to ensure that they are actually acting in the public interest, instead of like a hostile occupying army.
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WordPress by itself is pretty fast, but some 3rd party plugins really add up to load times by making lots of queries to database and loading unoptimized or unnecessary assets. In mean time most online WP tutorials "solve" issues by suggesting to install yet another plugin.
Only when things become ambiguous semantically. E.g. if they had `toUri` and `asUri` and `parseUri` etc then sure.

But even then it's far more discoverable / less overwhelming than "I have a String. I want a Uri. Do I use a UriBuilder, UriParser, Uri, StringConverterFactory, etc?". Not only do you have all classes to choose from, you need to pick the one with the right methods (usually not visible when choosing the class) for the data you have.

Some IDEs can and do improve the helper-classes case a bit by letting you type e.g. `myString.uri` and showing you "uri" methods both on string and static methods anywhere which accept strings... but it's not widespread, sometimes unhelpful (there are far too many "parse" methods), and you're still missing out on the class context which sometimes has important info.
It's FUD because it does not apply, at all, to the existing scenario. Common Carriers have specific legal meanings, and internet companies don't fall under that.

This comes up all the time. During the Obama administration there was talk about reclassifying network services so that this would apply (it would make things like home internet far more competitive if it was). That never happened.
My 'great' business idea failed before I got a sale, and here is why
Why mandatory? Why not let people do as they want?
It’s important to qualify that BTC’s “daily low of $6600” is actually only an 80 day low, and a price that was an all-time high on Nov 1st. The DJIA ”bottoming out" is so far just a return to prices from just over a month ago.

There’s a lot more room to go down.
> Cloudflare refuses to stop serving the phishing site.

You name cloudflare and a provider of the phishing site in a lawsuit. It makes it through courts. Cloudflare is unlikely to attempt to defend it. Your attorneys figure out how as a part of the redress get an order for cloudflare to disconnect the phishing site. You hire appropriate parties to service Cloudflare. Cloudflare disconnect the phishing site.

That's exactly how it is supposed to work.
We found out that a neighbor we were friendly with for years had sexually abused their kids.

I would not advise anyone to trust someone because of where they chose to live / they wave when you're mowing your lawn.
I'm currently running 0 containers in production, but...

containers abstract the 'anywhere in filesystem' away. There's no need to worry about conflicting file/directory names, K8 or mesos take care of that with zero effort.

K8 and mesos offer both failure management and deployments / updates out of the box. For example, chef, salt and ansible offer ways to manage rolling updates and I do know some monit or runit or systemd to keep a crashing service going, but that's all centered on single nodes. With marathon, you define how many nodes you want, and how many nodes should be available during an update. If you push an update, Marathon does the rest for you.

Even more, in a sufficiently sized Mesos / K8 cluster, you can ignore physical nodes over a short timestamp. A physical node dies? As long as there's capacity, your services recover. Technically, while reckless, to decomission a physical host, you can just pull the plug on that box. Your orchestration should recover within minutes.

I am critical about containers, especially looking at relational databases, memcaches, rather static elasticsearch instances and such. But if you have many and/or rapidly deploying applications, good container orchestration systems to safe time and effort.
> BMW

Oh, BMW certainly has had its fair share of lemons and... unconventional cars, as well as involvement in shady dealings.

The difference to other carmakers (e.g. VW!) is that their overall quality both in build and in service is extremely high and that, while BMW was involved in shady stuff, they didn't get remotely as low as VW did with gassing apes with diesel fumes...
Equifax has had a terrible rep as a service long before the hack. Even john oliver had a segment on it before the hack happened, on how an egregious number of reports are grossly innacurate (like 40%, i cant remember). That has to be bad even for the banks: bad credit reports equals bad loans.

Regulation tends to decrease the number of players and increase the size of the incumbents, particularly because it puts requirements that can only be done with big bucks.
Lots of those solutions already exist, and I looked into them.

Getting a full WordPress site up and running meant signing up for hosting, clicking a "enable WordPress button", agreeing to the (selected by default) auto-update WordPress check-box, and then going into the WYSIWYG editor.

A few hours later I had a site up and running that looks equally good on Desktop and Mobile.

The # of tools I had to learn was approx 0. The number of hosting options I had to choose from was enormous, pretty much everyone offers WordPress hosting, or one click WordPress installs. WordPress has the advantage of having an incredibly low barrier to entry.

Of course, once it gets complex, it can get really complex.
I was just reading:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5581f17ee4b01f59c2b15...

tldr;
* The Global Short Volatility trade now represents an estimated $2+ trillion in financial engineering strategies that simultaneously exert influence over, and are influenced by, stock market volatility

* Since 2009 Global Central Banks have pumped in $15 trillion in stimulus creating an imbalance in the investment demand for and supply of quality assets

* Last month Austria issued a 100-year bond with a coupon of only 2.1%(6) that will lose close to half its value if interest rates rise 1% or more.

* Amid this mania for investment, the stock market has begun self-cannibalizing... literally. Since 2009, US companies have spent a record $3.8 trillion on share buy-backs financed by historic levels of debt issuance.

* Every decline in markets is aggressively bought by the market itself, further lowing volatility.

* Volatility is now at multi-generational lows...
Volatility is now the only undervalued asset class in the world. Equity and fixed income volatility are now at the lowest levels in financial history.