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a weird side-effect of living in SF is cities in movies start to look fake: where is all the feces and shattered glass and tent cities?

i've always assumed the city govt was just disfunctional, but the speed with which they removed the menace of convenient, ecofriendly scooters makes me wonder if they're actually malevolent, somehow.
You can get out of paying the license fee by not watching live television or BBC iPlayer. I know a lot of people that do this without any problems.
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Hello, I also had a company where I was in over my head, that stressed me massively and I had to liquidate once. Before I happened to come to Osaka, where I am for 8 years now with many ups and downs.

Oh, I also have an organization here, that I am not sure what to do about. But in my case I learned from previous experience to stay cool about it and focus on the tasks ahead.

What you experience here is the weight of your own expectations. A lot of work has accumulated. You are here and you feel like it is not enough: you are not enough. I would like you to know: you are enough. Your work is sufficient and tomorrow will be another day to grow a little more.

As part of dealing with my deficits I help organize the local community here. When I arrived I didn't notice that the isolation in Japan can quickly reach dangerous levels and without social contact one can easily get sucked down a vortex.

There are many people here trying to reach out to you. Count me in as one of them. Next step is to open up - in person - to someone in a position to help you. You might not think that
this person exist (even with the offers here), but I think
you could be in for a positive surprise.
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> I'm not sure how ML will alter this

The feedback loop between Jury and ML algorithm can continue beyond the duration of the trial.

Without privacy controls, we will commodify the targeted manipulation of all human action and human choicemaking architectures.

Who benefits from an arms race on choice and decision manipulation?
I do not look forward to having to pay for a "performance gaming" or "performance VPN" or "awesome streaming video" package...

I have one ISP in my area that offers speeds above 5m consistently :(
Can you clarify this? A RNG is generating n bytes of output per cycle. An AEAD is consuming n bytes of input per cycle. And an AEAD doesn’t need to have uniformly random-looking output to be secure.
"why shouldn't a vendor be allowed to charge more for tiered service?"

Vendors should be able to charge whatever they want for aspects of 'Quality of Service'.

However, they should not be able to arbitrarily single out customers.

If there is a lack of competition then this can create a systematic collusion problem among vendors, i.e. they all know to charge really high for specific scenarios because it's better to do that then get in a price war with competitors.

This is why aspects of critical infrastructure in many nations are nationalized or heavily regulated: the 'power lines' in Ontario are managed by the government (single point of access) but power generation is 'privatized' and 'competitive'. (Not really, but it's supposed to be.

To really play the devil's advocate, one might argue that there is really no 'net neutrality' in things like social and search because of the incredible incumbency that Google and FB has, and that they are in almost unassailable positions, moreover, they have considerably more power to leverage their de-facto monopolies into other ares.

It's Google's strategy to basically commoditize everything around them (browser, maps, email, mobile OS) to protect their core business.

I worked for BlackBerry and left just before the deluge - one could make the argument that Google's giveaway of Android is a massive subsidy from one layer of the business to another that ultimately hurt competition by putting many other vendors out of business. It's not unfeasible they may knock out Apple some day. This would be viewed as anti-competitive were it to be done in any other industry really.

As a historical note: remember that Standard Oil did not get it's power from making great deals - they bought up railroads and charged competitors a tiny bit more for moving their own, which caused competitors to struggle. Then Standard bought them up one by one. So it was a railroad monopoly (single point of access for transport) that enabled a much bigger monopoly in Oil, a commodity.

So yes, we should Net Neutrality for sure, but we should be equally as vigilant in looking at 'monopolies' in other parts of the value chain, specifically those that use that power to creep into other parts of the value chain.
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That's fine for a startup when everything is being built from the ground up. A company that's been around for 20,30,40+ years the old folks have a lot of domain knowledge that has been built up that no amount of documentation and technical savvy is going to overcome.
An example:

So suppose you have the following pseudo code:

x = f()

In other languages you start using 'x' straight away. You can call member functions on it, compare it, etc.
In Rust if x happens to be of type Option or Result (which are wrapper types i.e. they wrap the value), then you need to understand these first very well to write idiomatic Rust code. These types have combinator functions like 'map', 'and', 'and_then', 'or', 'or_else', 'unwrap_else', etc. if unwrap() is not suitable for your use case. If you are coming from a non-functional language, one cannot help get a feeling that all you wanted was to use the value and you have to learn so much upfront. At the end of it you are mentally exhausted.

My productivity increased a lot, once I realized that there is a pattern to these and knowledge gain with Option & Result is transferrable to using Future's combinators as well. It is very hard to explain it to someone as to how to get to this state. There lies the challenge with teaching Rust and I think Steve Klabnik and team has done really good job with documentation.
In Tennessee v. FCC, [1] the FCC, under the authority of §706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, attempted to preempt state laws that prohibit municipalities from building their own broadband networks under certain circumstances (these laws were obviously lobbied and passed by ISPs in the state legislatures). This was struck down by courts because, although the supremacy clause means that federal law supplants state law, the federal law at hand was so far removed from what the FCC was doing in this particular case, that the FCC was essentially creating "directives" which overruled state law in pursuit of a vague goal that was defined in federal law. In essence, federal administrators/bureaucrats had the power to overrule state law. Although the ISPs "won" in that decision, it cuts both ways -- which means that any attempt by the FCC to preempt net neutrality regulations under §706 is likely to fail as well.

Sorry if my take is a little confusing, here is some more coverage: [2], [3].

[1] http://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/16a0189p-06.pdf

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2016/08/10/fcc-los...

[3] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/in-blow-to-muni-...
In response to NewYorker and Why do you care so much about privacy?
About https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/18/why-do-we-care-so-much-about-privacy

No people don't care about privacy, if they do facebook, google, ... all other privacy rapper style corporate should not exist.

And the point is that people should not have to care about their privacy because UN should protect them .. just like their government.
> and has no say in the matter apart from finding a new ISP

And that has nothing to do with NetNeutrality™. In fact NetNeutrality™ put in place an expensive regulatory process that often priced out small competitors.
Country time lemonade is a lemonade mix brand. In the US anyone constructing a stand on their own property to sell/attempt to sell lemonade (or anything) without permission from the government is illegal. So, an 8 year old is bored, puts out a table and tries to make a couple bucks off his neighbors, he is technically breaking the law. They frequently get shut down (or even ticketed). Country Time is attempting to get some good press by saying they will help people avoid legal fees
It's a tradition that goes way back => https://goo.gl/eFuf6M
Is that really true in the case of BCH vs. ETH? I find that hard to believe given the number of ICOs / developers working on the Ethereum blockchain.
The system is made to make everyone a criminal, so that the full power of the Law can be used at any moment's notice against you if needed. We are literally producing dozens of thick volumes of new laws every year that citizens are not supposed to ignore, so there's that as well.
I meant uClinux running on Cortex-M3/M4, but I really hope to run real Linux on STM32MP recently added to the Linux kernel - the actual hardware is not released yet though.
Yeah, could have, sometimes do.

Still, a good stretch is my reason number one for standing at end of flight.
They are already tiering their service based on customer bandwidth requirements (gamer internet, casual occasional streaming, or super slow).
Is this really a lawyer specific thing?

I round billed time to 20 minute blocks. But I’m also unlikely to bill someone specifically for a 2 minute email reply.
Well I do appreciate the feedback and valid questions. I will be putting some thought into it.
Well, that's why so many people were against the FCC removing these rules in the first place: it doesn't solve any problem (and will probably create more).

ISP's spend a lot of money lobbying congress to make sure that problem never gets tackled.
Well, since you asked.

What you have wrong: First, it's Country Time Lemonade. Second, they are far from a gig economy company or a startup - they're a Kraft brand since 1975, selling powdered lemonade. Third, they don't get a workforce of child labor for free - kids have enjoyed setting up lemonade stands to learn about business for many, many years, so it's by far more fun and education than work.

What you have right: They are offering refunds on the ridiculous permits that buck tradition and only serve bureaucratic government overreach, not the community.
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I recall when I was a kid we had a sort of circus event, we as kids created different events on our own. One event toss a coin onto a small saucer. Another I recall was a 2x4, nail, elastic and clothespin "gun" to shoot at cans (this was Canada so no gun culture).

You would have to pay to toss the coin or shoot a can. I think there were various prizes to win such as comic books and candy. None of it for charity this was pure capitalism.

What's funny is we were all little bastards we'd rub the plate with butter to make it slippery and nail down a can or two so it wouldn't move.
The point is precisely that FANG-style companies are in a position to pay for the faster tiers, leaving their would-be competitors stuck with the slow lanes — this is one of the arguments for why removing net neutrality stifles competition.
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Using Go doesn’t mean you have to use many goroutines or must not do some manual memory management where it is the right thing to do.

This article nicely shows how optimizing your program yields more speed than randomly throwing goroutines at it. Finally it does use goroutines for a good effect, but after proper consideration.
I’d argue that we shouldn’t be so quick to say what isn’t in OSMs scope.

To me, OSM should be the open Source Of Truth for all worldwide GIS data, a way to refer to our entire cartographic world in a digital format. Perhaps now it’s restricted to mapping data, but I would love to see the steering committee bring additional products out (temporal layers, the mapping you mention, and so on).

If OSM is important to you, there’s an open executive position advertised on the last HN Who’s Hiring post.
Sure, I can code an app in my bedroom after work in a year, but what about all of the prerequisite customer development (ie talking to your target market and making sure your app solves real problems and has reasonable usability etc)? What about marketing and sales? Support? Accounting? Hiring people (fulltime, part time or contract) who have skills you do not have yourself? Legal advice?

There’s a lot more to running a business than the coding part and these things take time (and sometimes money). The 50k to 1M estimate is greatly inflated by those other concerns.

Plus, while I can save, say, 250k, that would take me years and then I wouldn’t want to risk all of my savings into one gamble (I obviously wouldn’t take the startup risk if I didn’t believe in what I was building but even if I thought it was a sure thing, I’ve founded two failed startups already, it would be prudent to allow for a high chance of failure even if certain that the business is perfect)

Also, let’s assume everything above is irrelevant and I decide to save up my earnings and go all in on a startup. Let’s say I put 250k in and it takes me five years to save (in reality, I don’t think I could do it in that time, but let’s inagine I can). Let’s also assume that I do as much as work during those five years as possible so that when I have the money, I’m ready to launch. That means that five years from now, I can launch my startup, spend the money on whatever is needed that I couldn’t do previously and hopefully not lose it all (assuming the market still exists, 5 years is a long time in tech land). OR I could give up 5–40% of the company, put up with some hassle of having an investor and launch in a year (assuming development takes a year regardless). That gives me four years to make sure that the remaining % is worth more than -250k (which is where I’m at with the first scenario after that time). The investment route seems like a no brainier to me in this case.

Obviously it is possible to bootstrap a company and it should be the preferred route imho if you can pull it off. For many people, this isn’t an option though and that’s why VCs are becessary.
Users should just assume that every business will absorb all available information.

Users don't know what "available information" is. And frankly, not even the browser developers do - we keep discovering new ways to track people (e.g. using ETags) with features that weren't intended for that. So it's quite hard to claim the user can simply decide what to share.
> amount of incumbent regulatory protectionism

Call it what it is: Crony Capitalism. Lobby all you can to cement your market position and prevent competition. Works pretty well, because politicians are corrupt and like to be showered with lobby money.
Are you sure you just don't disagree with people and can't imagine that they'd disagree with you because you're so obviously right, so they must secretly agree you're correct, but continue with a charade? Otherwise you need to provide some clear citations to how millions of people could know they are wrong but continue with their positions out of spite.
I wonder if it's also a case of there being too much of the wrong kinds of retail space.

If there's a retail store within a mile of our house, I'll happily walk to it and do my shopping there. Especially when it's a pleasant day outside, that's an enjoyable way to get out of the house and get a little light exercise.

If the only kind of store left that sells what I need is one of the big box stores, so that going there means having to get in the car and deal with traffic and haul myself halfway across town and, seriously, ugh, that is enough of a chore that I'm already feeling vaguely annoyed just thinking about it. No thanks; I'll happily order online.

And I would rather starve in the woods than drive all the way out to the nearest shopping mall.
If the "new world" involves anti free speech laws which get you a visit from the police for nonviolent facebook posts, bans on porn, the regressive gdpr law, useless cookie laws, tragic lack of startups, etc. I'll take the American system please and thank you.
Think about how many households subscribe to Netflix and/or Amazon. Imagine how John Q. Public can be persuaded to complain to his ISP when Netflix puts a big banner in the app that says "your internet provider is stopping us from streaming Thor Ragnarok in HD."
That's why everyone prefers the 25 year old doctor, said no one ever.
No, I didn't forget or ignore the fact that a lot of software products fail to make money. I went through several failed software product attempts before building one that stuck, and it's part of the process of getting to know what one's forte is, as well as getting good at running a software company and making money from it.

But, I would seriously argue the proposition that open sourcing one's software does not harm your ability to make money from it. Exhibit A is how often you see a mass of "They want money ? We're switching/forking !!!" type of posts and comments whenever the inevitable "we need to start making money from this project" point hits with an open source project.

As for your example, you're kind of making my point for me. ;-) It's a serious issue, and one that I'm trying to make as much as possible: as software developers, we're seriously harming our own economic well-being as a group by being overly-altruistic and conditioning (what would normally be paying) customers into thinking that our work is without value. It doesn't matter what the reality is, but free=no value in the eyes of consumers.
I don't usually cry for a source in casual conversation, but if you are going to suggest that discriminating against the majority of people,people in their 30s+, then you are going to have to back that up with more than pretty graphs
I’m officially a “bird” hunter. Get this bird crap off the sidewalks. For those opposed like I, crap on these scooters like they crap on you
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I know for the advanced database course the students end up writing a new feature for an existing database called Peloton, which is a research project at CMU[0]. You obviously aren't writing the whole thing from scratch though.

[0]: https://github.com/cmu-db/peloton
Finally you can set a hard-limit on your spend on GCP! The blog posting is big on about notifications etc (I can understand that they dont want you to actually stop spending...!) but it also has examples of using the Pubsub integration with the other APIs available to stop the overspending services
I've very much experienced both sides of it. Older engineers who have so much valuable wisdom, and older engineers who are stuck in tech 10 years ago, getting pretty upset about why we are bothering to use ES6 features at all.

I'd hate to lose the former.
Just out of curiosity, what do you find to be long running? Five minutes, five days? Depends on the volume of other transactions happening simultaneously?
I don't think the debate is over whether to allow Netflix to survive, Netflix will be OK and has a good bargaining position with regard to ISPs because they have content everyone wants. The more interesting question is are we creating a system that allows independent bloggers, vloggers, and other content creators to get discovered and be compensated either through ads or subscriptions or some other model.
this hardly seems fair, sonce everyone gets to leave their cars lying around everywhere.

also, believe me when i tell you that for SF at least, scooters are the least of your aesthetic concerns on the streets and sidewalks...
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Are you accounting for help, in the area they're supposed to be good at? Finding further investment, recruiting senior people (eg a CFO), finding exit options, finding acquisition targets, legal, accounting... Thoses aren't things you need everyday, but outside of most founder's expertise on the days they do.

I mean it's great if they can help with product strategy, or technical stuff but.... they're finance people. I feel like setting this expectation might lead to no good.
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Ok - probably right for BCH.. my rush on posting, so my bad.

Not the best indicator but..
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/
vs
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-cash/

But for BTC I'd say yes.
Sorry if my comments rubbed you the wrong way, but it's a bit frustrating when these threads pop up weekly, and people feel like it's open license to attack me and my company. We really are doing our best to make SourceForge a trusted destination, but still get the flack as if we were the previous ownership.
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So the issue is, in this context, to be able to experiment with psychedelic substances without hassle. Why do I have to explain it to people in the first place? Maybe because lack of information of knowledge about psychedelic substances ? More transparency and openness can help.

Another example, Why I do I feel the need to close the bathroom door when I take a dump ? Because it considered taboo or weird. But if more and more people take a dump with the door open, it will be less weird.

Its a hassle too to have to keep things private.
It's not irrelevant if you're looking for new classes of predictions and new kinds of experiments - which is one of the motivations for quantum gravity.
>the FCC is now trying to claw back their argument

How so?

Based on what I've read, I've gotten the impression that the Internet will be primarily regulated by the FTC, instead of the FCC. That would mean that ISPs aren't able to engage in anticompetitive practices, but are pretty free otherwise.

I haven't heard anything about states' standing on the issue. Unless there are explicit federal laws saying that the government can't regulate the Internet (which seems unlikely), it's pretty cut-and-dried that states would be able to pass legislation to affect ISPs in their jurisdiction.
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Have you compared performance of the DB running in Linux on a property sized Intel/Xeon server?

I've seen several mainframe companies dogmatically believing their sales rep their workload is special and needs a high-end system. But none of them I've talked to have actually tested for themselves.
That article is currently on the front page, why don't you comment there?