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That's one of the greatest comments I've read on here.

100% gringo here, UK-born Australian. About 10 years ago I started meeting latin americans online (also filipinos), I liked them so much I learnt spanish and was soon chatting online 95% with latin american friends. Played Clash of Clans in a colombian clan hehe, love watching online chess tournament commentary in spanish etc. Am starting to love Portuguese too.

I've come to hate the word "American" meaning estadounidense, its arrogance and effrontery; I try not to ever use it. (It was hard not to respond below to the many astoundingly ignorant, half-coherent comments on that subject.) I love the 'underdog' feeling of the online latin community. It's largely from the language barrier I guess, non-english speakers being 2nd-class netizens. And the people are happier, nicer, friendlier than those in the West.. I really got to disliking white culture. I noticed that in latin america, the darker the skin and less European the people, the more I liked them. The only really ignorant, ugly, self-deluded people I came across in the world, meeting people in many countries, were White/anglo people - UK, Australia, especially the USA. There seem to be whole towns there full of white people bigoted and ignorant way below anything I've experienced in other countries. (I can never stand this site very long, with its own superior brand of those same qualities. It's not an air I want to spend my life breathing.) I started warning latin americans who wanted to learn english to be careful, that it's poison. I didn't want them to lose their....total non-anglo-ness.

I'm not sure why it's like this. Maybe the Catholicism, the history etc. Maybe just that white people are crazier.[0] I'm not into "Proud to be nationality X", but maybe some latin pride wouldn't go astray here, or, you know, pride not being white anglos. Also, I saw in some movie someone saying that the greatest latin american contribution to the world is the latina; there's something to that. :-) I feel fortunate to have been able to make latin americans and latin culture a huge part of life, to learn that it's superior in many ways to the one I grew up in.

[0] See how cruel the whites look. Their lips are thin, their noses sharp, their faces furrowed and distorted by folds. Their eyes have a staring expression; they are always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something; they are always uneasy and restless. We do not know what they want. We do not understand them. We think they are mad. - a New Mexican Indian chief, to Jung

EDIT: Would the downvoters care to explain why? It's not a surprise :-) but hearing why would be....enlightening. Thanks.
I think what we'll really see in practice is this being used for political purposes, with pressure groups getting ISPs to block so-called "hate" or "extremist" sites.

The stuff about service tiers seems less likely and less concerning.
> Using a font developed by Google doesn't help Google track you
Oh you bet it does, if you load it from googlefonts.com
Here are a few kids getting shut down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3171665

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/08/03/the-inexpli...
Don't worry, but here you will get feedback anyway (if enough users like your submission). I'd have added some feedback, but I don't own cryptocoins.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with vendors offering different QoS for different scenarios.

Why would no not what a specialized network option for 'super low latency' for things like games?

Or if you don't use any kind of streaming, then why not get cheaper rates for 'super high latency'?

This is good, it's their job.

Where it gets ugly is if they start discriminating between customers, i.e. Netflix has to pay $X while their parent companies other asset, HBO only has to pay $Y.

Or if you have a 'Facebook package' that optimizes for FB or something like that.

So QoS, yes, content discrimination, no.
netflix came to be a multibillion dollar business without these laws. more likely, we'll get more consumer friendly options over diverse, specialized 'types' of ISPs, thanks to caching, as we have seen like free music streaming on t-mobile or free netflix on flights. or more vital/cool things like guaranteed rates for remote medical monitoring through partnerships
States have room to pass whatever regulation they want by default. It only becomes a problem when it conflicts with federal law, in which case federal law always takes precedence.
This is how I feel living as a foreigner in Germany. It's not Japan specific. Most of the migrants share similar feelings, especially those who come from developing countries.
Engineering degrees or Engineering?
It was always Fumbles.
The NN policy wasn't stopping any ISPs from lobbying anybody. If you're saying we need to incentivize politicians against taking corporate money, I agree.
> Thanks to a flaw in the Kindle platform, namely that the platform knows your location in a book but not how many pages you have actually read, the scammers can get paid for a user having “read” a book in Kindle Unlimited by getting the user to jump to the last page.

Seems an obvious thing that would have been taken advantage of. Is there a rational behind why they didn't want to track something like time per page or time spent within one book? People don't like tracking I guess but statistics like those can be interesting to readers as well.
> If ISPs were able to charge for this (they want to), Netflix would have to pay a lot more for this sort of premium placement, giving smaller players much more room to compete financially.

This sounds like you're claiming that greater barriers to entry make it easier for smaller firms. In economics I think the opposite is generally accepted as true.
I see you have little experience with Suburbia...

Your chances of living next to one of those people are pretty low, but it's a big country, and there are a lot of busybodies just waiting to trounce someones fun.
For me, the value I'd get from an investor would be industry contacts. I'm self-taught, haven't worked anywhere big, and grew up in a not-very-techy part of the country. For the side-projects I have brewing that would potentially be businesses, the value of investment capital pales in comparison to getting my feet in the door to show off my work to people who might be interested.

That's a data point of one, and VCs are dealing with . . . uh, everyone but me. So I'm not making a blanket statement about what value should be. But that's what I would find useful.
Nand To Tetris: Building A Modern Computer From First Principles is an accessible, structured, bottom-up course in low-level stuff.

You start out by composing simulated hardware gates to create higher-order gates, eventually creating a CPU and entire computer. Then you move into assembly, and eventually build an OS. All of the homework has automated grading, so it’s very possible to self-study.

http://www.nand2tetris.org/
It's surprising that the per-file Goroutines were so expensive, though. (The original per-line Goroutine, sure, that's excessive if you care about performance.) Just using long-lived workers seems non-idiomatic for Go, but it certainly pays big dividends in this example.
On points 2/3, have you found a community of like-minded people (likely expats)? It pales in comparison, but I moved from somewhere where I had a tight-knit community to one where I was a hermit and found it very demotivating. Talking to other people about our work and interests helped me get out of my slump. This is not a substitute for seeking professional help, but a complement that worked for me. It sounds like the HN Tokyo meetup (if you live in Tokyo) or reaching out to many of the replies here from people living in Japan would be a good place to start.
Maybe the responsibility (and liability) for accidents due to weirdly designed or badly marked lanes would have to fall upon the municipality. You could make an analogy to trains: if a local government commissioned a rail line that included a junction that can't be navigated without derailing 1% of the time, you would not blame the trains for not being able to deal with it.

Another analogy could me made to data entry: you could allow free-form text input and try to process all of the long tail of unexpected inputs, or else set out a format that the data has to follow and enforce validation at the input.
got downvoted, and.... realizing that this may be more of a regional thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweepstakes_parlor

and

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/24/statel...

this is a big thing in north carolina areas.

It's basically nothing to do with internet cafes that you'd find (or have found) in Europe. These are just sweepstakes/gambling places that have the words "internet cafe" on the door.
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The Football World Cup 2018 from the Data Science Perspective
There are also a lot of strange tricks personal perception and familiarity play on you. I found this easier to listen to first and then listen and look at the text together later. I similarly find myself thrown for a loop whenever I see Viennese/Bavarian written. 'Wir sind' - easy to read and hear, 'mia san' easily matches up with the former when heard. 'Mia san' written down and for a moment I have no idea what I'm looking at. Feels weird to even type it out.
The story: I'm a remote dev, it took me a while to get where I am now, working for fun brands on challenging projects, while also working on my own side-projects.

A while ago I watched a James Bond movie, and thought "I want to have access to that kind of luxury, but would be embarrassed to keep it to myself". I came up with the idea to set up a network of talented devs + designers, and to give them access to perk-filled mansions all over the globe, in return for a few hours of fun agency work a day. The idea would be to live a stress-free life, since running a start-up is stressful enough by itself.

I personally love the idea of having a few bases in this world, always surrounding myself with talent.

A few weeks ago I got a fun job in for Red Bull Music Academy, and was wondering if I could shape this into a try-out for the idea. Red Bull gave me permission to post this here, and are excited about it.

I'd love to hear what you guys think + I'd love to involve people I haven't worked with before. What would it take to make this project interesting for you as a potential member?
Why is the ability to imagine something at all relevant?

I can imagine a world where there are no physical laws, everything is entirely random, and by an astonishing coincidence it just so happens to behave exactly like the world we observe in every single way.

Does that mean it's possible that there are no physical laws and everything is completely random? Strictly speaking yes, it is possible, but the odds are indescribably remote, and it's a completely useless hypothesis anyway.

I can imagine a p-zombie which somehow comes up with the idea of consciousness and starts discussing it despite having no experience of it, but it would have to be some bizarre random occurrence, and is not really useful to consider.
Can you provide a citation for this? Curious to see what kinds of arrangements they made.

What’s to say that Netflix won’t strongarm ISPs after the NN repeal? No ISP wants to be the ISP that doesn’t have good Netflix support anymore, given their popularity and clout.
That article, as do so many others, rests its reasoning on a whole bunch of premises that are not facts, and there is not the slightest whiff of uncertainty throughout the entire piece. Granted it's an opinion piece so one shouldn't expect too much, but so much of what one reads in the "news" these days is written similarly: some actual facts, but plenty of opinions presented as fact. I believe much of our post-secondary educational institutions are similar. It's no wonder hardly anyone can tell the difference between fact and opinion anymore.

I'd argue this intellectual Achilles heel is one of the fundamental enablers of the political/gender/etc wars going on right now in Western societies, and this large and growing lack of social cohesion may ultimately play a crucial element in the "China vs US battle for #1 superpower". Anyone who projects into the future based on the premise that Western Liberal democracies are simply unbeatable (Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others) would benefit from even mild reading of history.
Uber can tell whether you are drunk by the way you hold your phone
Thanks. A quick to the point summary like this is why I usually go to the comments section first for semi-interestingly seeming posts.
The Netflix Binge Factory
Let’s Send Facebook Some Election Observers
If ISP's weren't a near monopoly, complaining might actually accomplish something. Realistically, those complaints are just going to fall on deaf ears.
> I took a class with Scott Aaronson once where he mentioned the idea that the natural enemy of machine learning is cryptography.

He cites Rivest for that one: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/Riv91.pdf
I spent around 30 minutes reading "Rust for functional programmers" [1] to get overall perspective and then around 3 hours more reading selected chapters from "The Book" [2] about borrowing, lifetimes etc.

Then I managed to write a simple program which reads a password from stdin, applies scrypt KDF to it and prints the result in hex encoding. It took me less than 2 hours. Mostly I just tried to do something, and when it didn't work, I'd find a solution for my problem on stackoverflow or r/rust. Compiler error messages were also quite helpful.

So I managed to write a useful (for me) simple CLI application in 1 day. The next day I added option processing (salt, scrypt parameters), split the code into functions etc. I didn't encounter any problem which I couldn't solve in under 1 hour. The biggest struggle was trying to return a reference to local variable from function, and it was covered in [3].

TLDR: don't try to master the language, just give it a try for a few days, writing a simple program.

[1] http://science.raphael.poss.name/rust-for-functional-program...

[2] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

[3] https://bryce.fisher-fleig.org/blog/strategies-for-returning...
It's worse than conjecture, it's contrary to the available evidence. The actual experience of consciousness clearly influences human behavior, otherwise we wouldn't talk about it.
There's a concept called "preemption" in US law. If a state and the federal government has laws that conflict, federal law wins and the state's law is voided. What this means is that if the federal government wishes to regulate something, it can direct that the states' regulations are circumscribed or voided.

The FCC first tried to regulate net neutrality, but that was struck down by a court as beyond its remit, since ISPs weren't common carriers. So the FCC declared that ISPs were in fact eligible for Title II regulation, which effects preemption of state-level regulations. Except the current administration has had the FCC declare that ISPs are not Title II carriers, and therefore FCC has no right to regulate them... which makes it difficult to argue that the federal regulations (which no longer exist) can preempt state regulations.
Because all I want is a dumb pipe. I don't pay the water company based on how wide their pipes are (backbone bandwith) or how far I am from their treatment center (latency); I pay based on consumption alone, as it should be. Why do you think Internet access needs to be treated any differently?
I personally turn to travel to re-energize the passion. I have terminated a job 2 times to spend time abroad doing something different (learning a language or working as a contractor for a startup). While doing so, you meet up new set of folks, interact with new cultures (I was in Thailand and later in Russia). Works wonders!
I would be very interested to compare the relative success of one man bands like Plenty of Fish and (originally) Minecraft, with VC-funded unicorn-wannabes.

And to ask a different question - can a founder funded by VC money run their startup without giving up their entire life, and a substantial proportion of their potential earnings?
Because in order to sell you onto these bullshit packages they will end up making your regular connection hellish.

So you have an issue connecting to netflix... oh sir for just $14.99/mo you can get our Netflix QoS package added on to your connection and have no further troubles. A few weeks later... oh sir your having issues connecting to youtube, well we have our youtube QoS package for just $9.99/mo extra...

It's content discrimination under disguise.
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Not that I'm expecting any replies given the thread's age, but for future reference of any interested party...

> At sea level it has vurtually no advantage, it’s not until Tye rocket ge s to thin air that the Aerospike efficiency is higher.

There's more to it than this. Almost all practical rocket engines will have nozzle area ratios sized for altitude rather than sea level. That is to say, actual design nozzle area ratios will be significantly higher than the optimal ratio for ground level. This implies overexpansion losses at low altitude. The higher the area ratio, the worse this effect is. Rockets are designed this way because when you consider the mission-average Isp, it's better to reduce the underexpansion losses at altitude through higher area ratio and eat the overexpansion losses at low altitude than to optimize for liftoff conditions.

An ideal aerospike lets you run a very high geometric area ratio with reduced overexpansion penalties. So it's conditional as to whether the aerospike "has an advantage" at sea level. If you are running a large enough area ratio, then compared to an equivalent area ratio bell, the aerospike will minimize the overexpansion losses at lower altitude, and additionally it will have reduced unsteady pressure loads due to avoidance of internal shock-induced separation, the way you would with a bell. The limiting area ratio for a bell nozzle is usually this internal shock separation criterion, whereas that constraint is removed for the aerospike. So at high enough area ratio, the aerospike could indeed have a low altitude benefit over an equivalent area ratio bell.

As you point out, in practice, this effect doesn't tend to buy you a large net difference in mission-averaged Isp, particularly with staged rockets. Also as you correctly indicate, the largest mission-average Isp benefit for an aerospike is when the engine fires over a large enough range of altitude (e.g., SSTO) and when you can maximize the geometric area ratio. Such a case would also include the Shuttle, where an aerospike could have made a meaningful mission-average Isp difference, though for the same cycle parameters as the RS-25/SSME it likely would have increased engine weight.

Also note that assuming you truncate the spike (as all practical aerospike engines would be designed), a high area ratio aerospike configuration would be shorter than the equivalent area ratio bell.
> I am conflating socialism, collectivism and communism because they fall under an umbrella I have dubbed eastern thought, not because they are the same thing.

Your argument required that they were the same thing (and not merely under a common in umbrella) when said that (1) Western means non-Communist, (2) most of the world is collectivist and therefore not Western, and (3) the global “default” is socialist.

Also, socialism and communism are both Western in origin as philosophies, collectivism is more general and doesn't really have a single origin. To call all three “Eastern” thought is to invent novel terminology with no connection to the normal use of terms.

> I could've also said western means non-islamic

And been just as wrong. If you wanted to use a religious distinction and at least be close to being accurate, you could say “Western” means those societies that were on the West side of the Schism of 1054, their direct descendants, and those reshaped by them as a result of falling in war or who have deliberately modeled their societies on them without being compelled.

You'd still probably not quite be right, but you'd be close.
In Italy we use the word "americani" (Americans) but we can also use the word "statunitensi" (that would be Unitedstaters). It's not as common but everybody understands it. IMHO the latter term is more appropriate but I agree that when speaking English one
should use whatever the English speakers use (the same for any other language.) If you guys will change the way to refer to the citizens of the USA, I'll do it too.
That's actually not a bad point, and probably one of the reasons "American" caught on, together with the fact that "United States" is 1) ambiguous (other countries are/were called "United States of X", I believe and 2) very hard to turn into a catchy name for the people.

Doesn't negate the point of how some people feel about this.
Hey HN,

For those of you full-time employees out there, you may have experienced a time when you weren't actually sure whether your title reflected your day-to-day performance. I wanted to build Eng Quiz because more information means more leverage, whether you're negotiating a raise or interviewing for a new role.

There are tons of things to do to make this more useful, so would appreciate any feedback!
> I know that those types of benchmarks are flawed in a lot of ways

If the speed of an HTTP framework impacts your application you have an architecture problem.

Nim CPU, memory and compile time performance are excellent in most benchmark.
Programming was a mistake.
Regardless, privacy or not, the one who own most of the resources will likely win the case.
There have been some other answers, but I’ll add first, people may just want to bet BCH - if it’s possible to do, even with a limited instruction set, why not figure it out? Second, turing completeness is not a panacea, and as we’ve seen now several times, the expressiveness of Eth’s VM actually opens it up to more bugs.
It's like people throwing bricks at cars on the highway.

It is "like" if you think that flying a drone with and ECM pod that jams radar along a highway is "like" throwing bricks. Personally I think that these are not like at all.

Then there is a question of agency, in the brick scenario it is for me personally to handle. If you want me to trust a black box that came with the car to handle sensor being jammed - you'd better come up with a compelling story why I should do so.
When I saw these in films I always imagined the parents had a lemon tree or were just buying lemons for their kids. I also thought it was just a cheesy plot tool rather than an actual thing,

What I didn't imagine was that this involved people purchasing a powdered mix from a multinational and selling that (as seems to be the case according to other comments).
Ah, that's the dream. Being able to work in a silent room. No, noise cancelling headphones aren't really the same. I just want to invite Joe over to talk about X and not have Sandy from Biz Dev overhear and invite herself to the discussion.
> restrictions on laying cable in residential areas.

So its #comcast4Lyfe for me :\?

Also I am wondering whats stopping comcast from increasing the price by 500% tomorrow. How does the pricing work if they are just monopolies.
Got it - thanks for the clarification. Any idea on the price point for the STM32MP?
Many people here are saying that the problem had been in the code base for years, was super obvious, and that just no one looked at the code.

I think that it is much more relevant that the node community does do many micro packages, that it makes so much nose to look at the quality of pulled in packages.

I recently pulled down a web app (Zulip) the packages.json expands to almost 1400 npm packages. How is any human going to look at all that. And apparently it is "normal" for an npm project to have that many dependencies.

Too me this is madness. It is impossible to know the quality of all those packages.