skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Americans tend to freak out at EU style regulation, becuase they have a pathological relationship to their own regulators.

Here's a UK case where a large chain was serving beer using glasses that were too small.

That chain hasn't been shut down, nor fined huge amounts. They weren't even prosecuted. They recalled all the glasses nationwide and replaced them with the correct size.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/03/pint-scam-major-...

This kind of regulation is not unusual.

EDIT just for clarification: I think this is a lousy law, and I hope it doesn't pass in its current form.
As Italian, I feel like this is gone completely out of hand.

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There's no way their content could not be linked elsewhere.

Wikipedia also rises the question of the content they link, as, for example in the footnotes

In Italy it can be admitted under the "right to inform" (diritto di cronaca), it applies to everyone, not only to the press

Most of all the law only applies to content sharing providers, not to individuals

This is similar to what Xanadu envisioned, and could start a real fight back to fake news and the spreading of lies and online violence towards minorities

EU has a long history of being with the people of EU, not the corporations and I trust them

Besides, the law in Italy is being opposed by the worst kind of net abusers around, some of them are in charge thanks to the wave of fake news that started with Cambridge Analytica and some of them have been called out by CA itself (even though they didn't explicitly said the names, there are evidences that Matteo Salvini, leader of Lega, have been working with them)
This article really shows up the insanity of the cryptocurrency situation for me -

> digital token its founders created *six years ago*
> almost no transactions are happening
> Ripple still owns *$30 billion* worth of XRP
> “It’s still really, really early days..."

Six years, massive valuations, little real use.
"Pure nonsense" based on my daily experience living in the Amsterdam region for the past 10 years. And by the way, I include myself and many other white richy type immigrants living in the country in the issue of not identifying with the culture. You cannot fix that by physically mixing everyone in (I already live around mostly native Dutch).

Most people are here because the economic environment is good. Immigrants like us are good for the capitalistic system and what it creates as a consequence, but not always good for the country and its culture.

Also, here are some facts for what you call "pure nonsense" https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/06/dutch-muslims-are-beco...

I had read this article before finding this thread, didn't go out looking for something that matched my vision.

As stated in the article:

‘Young Muslims, who are the least likely to describe themselves as strict Muslims, are most negative about the Netherlands and almost half do not feel at home.’

But you may go ahead and continue do downvote me to oblivion.
Parents live in a smaller town with two awful ISP selections. They had a bunch of WiFi devices on an ISP router and the connection quality and latency was just terrible when more than one device was in use and any bandwidth intensive services were being used. (Low quality Netflix is intensive on small-town monopoly internet.)

I purchased them a Netgear R7800 and installed hnyman's LEDE build [1] to enable SQM. Night and day difference in latency response. No more staring at a white screen for 3 seconds per URL click.

The build has been stable for several months. I wouldn't recommend this for non-technical users or anyone not willing to spend time troubleshooting, but it has been a great improvement. I couldn't find any other device capable of doing this without running x86 hardware or something else silly.

A few other people mention it, but yes, this is only going to work on slower connections on current SOHO hardware. I think the R7800 can do software SQM at up to 150mbps or so. Plus, if you have a gigabit symmetric connection, hopefully you aren't having bufferbloat issues.

Just wish a popular manufacturer would release an easy-to-use router with SQM so I could install it for non-technical users and forget. Ubiquiti is somewhat close to that, but I believe their prosumer hardware (USG) is running a slow processor at the moment and doesn't even support SQM without installing custom kernels.

[1] https://forum.lede-project.org/t/build-for-netgear-r7800/316
That's a misunderstanding.

They want you to show growth at Google, and if you are hired as an entry-level engineer. It isn't about what you did up to that point.

Source: did a lot of hiring at Google.
Can I ask which brand you went with? I'm currently looking and have already tossed out several models I otherwise really wanted.
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By asking for permissions to the authors...

It doesn't sound so bad.
Christians taking Christianity seriously in 2018? This is just unacceptable, they must be stopped.

/s
Gesundheit.
WTF is a “Platform”?
Yes, but if you can turn the water into steam you don't have to pump it back as much. So you leverage gravity in, density out. I have no idea if that evens out though.
If anyone is intrigued by constructed scripts like shorthand, there are some more approachable, practical ones that don't need years of study.

The poet George Bernard Shaw was famously irritated by English orthography, especially spelling, and pushed for reform. To that end he first invented a phonetic transcription of English which he called Shavian [1] and published book written in it as a fun demonstration [2].

Starting with Shavian, Kingsley Read then improved the alphabet into a more practical form called Quikscript [3], a little more cursive and designed for handwriting. I've used it for journalling and there's a few users out there [4] if you search.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet

2. https://www.amazon.com/Shaw-Alphabet-Androcles-Lion/dp/B0000...

3. http://www.omniglot.com/writing/quikscript.htm

4. https://www.reddit.com/r/Quickscript
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The founders are probably living in castles, though.
How did that work out for Eastern Europe when the Soviet Union was in power?
Isn't it a common knowledge? People were massively switching to Stylus long time ago.
That looks interesting, but I don't understand how to play. I click a letter, then click a box to slide into in order to get it closer to my target space but after sliding once the game stops.
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Of course, you can use or invent whatever measure system you like, if you provide a translation. But why translate? Why not use what the rest of the world uses?

When you come from the outside, it feels like a trip to middle ages reading about 'furlongs', 'hogsheads' and 'pennyweights'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units
> I love the ER-X because it's cheap

I love my ER-X, but once I got my gigabit connection it can't quite keep up compared to plugging directly into the modem. It's close enough that I'm not looking to replace it, but the next time I need a router I may go the NUC build your own route.
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This is not about API vs. not API. It's about hiding critical APIs among benign APIs and training users to click "Accept" on a regular basis. This is a dark pattern if there ever was one, perhaps the darkest of all. It's about the company formerly led by Eric "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" Schmidt.

It's about an ecosystem that requires you to hand out a copy of the key to your apartment to strangers in exchange of minor services on a regular basis, and makes it really easy to do so.

I haven't used Android in a while, but here's a quick search that fits my Android experience of yesteryear. Almost every app I installed asked for this overreaching kind of permissions. Transcript with a little easter egg.

Glympse
needs access to
* Identity
* Calendar
* Contacts
* Location
* SMS
* Phone
* Photos/Media/Files
* First Born
* Wi-fi connection
information
ACCEPT

http://openattitude.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/m-permiss...

https://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1865181-A-Massiv...
Have you tried ear plugs? You can even combine them with headphones for ultimate cancelling.
Just some trivia, and I'm sorry if I get any details wrong;

a former colleague (who is now a PhD student at Northwestern, in the US) made a Chrome extension that used publicly available data to transform every mention of a politician or political party into a 'link'. By hovering the mouse, the extension showed you exactly who/what companies donated how much to that politican/party.

It was eye opening to read the news with that on. He even made national headlines here (not EU).

Eventually the project was canned because the public source was discontinued by the government.
There are plenty of examples of incumbent players being disrupted by new technology. Besides better interop, what do you reckon would a competitor need to offer for it to be compelling offering to banks?
Does anyone else find it unsatisfying that it's not computed from the outset but switches to it later after a trigger?
The Third Reich? Ah no, it was just their rocket scientists wasn't it.
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If your network is all Linux hosts, configure BBR TCP congestion control and you won't ever have to worry about bufferbloat again (unless you use a lot of UDP) . There's a ton of research in this area, but to summarize, there's two main ways of controlling outgoing packet rate.

Measuring RTT(round trip time) or packet loss rate. Unfortunately all the early (and still common) TCP protocols control their send rate by measuring packet drop. Sending faster and faster until upstream routers somewhere start dropping traffic. This has the effect of completely filling the outbound buffers of the slowest link in the chain.

To combat this, most bufferbloat fighting algorithms focus on dropping traffic before buffers fill, namely RED (random early drop) and CODEL.

Newer algorithms like TCP Vegas and BBR measure RTT and lower transmit rate when they detect buffers down the line filling, preventing bloat.

In most cases, you still need a router configured to prevent bufferbloat because even a single naughty protocol on your network can fill outgoing buffers.

The most important thing to know about controlling bufferbloat with QoS is that you MUST have an accurate estimation of your max upload/download rate. This is because you can only control bloat if you are in control of the slowest link where it will build first. All effective bufferbloat solutions rely on artificially making your router the slowest link, usually by limiting bandwitdh through them to ~90% actual.

Once you have control of the slowest link you can pick which packets get dropped as the buffers fill. And using something like FQ_CODEL you can assign equal bandwitdh to all IP's on the network. The nice thing about controlling bandwidth this way vs hard speed limits per user is that it allows users to use as much bandwith as they want until staying below line rate requires sharing

Also notice I keep saying outbound. You actually have far less control of bufferbloat on the inbound end. Best you can hope for is that dropping inbound packets coming in over the configured rate will stop whatever server from sending you more as quickly, but this isn't always the case. Luckily, in my experience, the vast majority of "lag" is due to outbound buffers filling, not inbound. So setting up bufferbloat fighting bandwidth sharing is usually extremely effective
Or maybe keeping a global atomic counter, and reading a unique (to the process) value out of it every time you create a mutex?
Author here. A detailed blog post about this project can be found here https://medium.com/@sfhrizvi/writing-lispex-a-lisp-interpret...
"the UK government could have done something within the EU framework but chose not to "

Probably didn't help that they sent useless do-nothing no-show UKIPers like Nigel to the European Parliament.
The situational awareness of an ROV operator (who can only get visual feedback (in very low visibility conditions) is far lower than a diver (Who can feel their way along). Way too easy for an ROV (which has to tow along a tether) to get itself tangled somewhere.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to reply.

How do you and yours look for jobs? In other words, where would I need to advertise to have you find me and apply?

Here I posted an ad for a principal engineer, and it drew zero responses [1]. What could I do differently to get attention of (someone like) you and your friends?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16055897
Probably wouldn’t have left low Earth orbit [0].

For better or worse more effective organizations generally present themselves as a unit with aligned interests. Organizations with misaligned internal interests get as far as the lowest common denominator among their interests weighted by the relative power of members. That’s a far more significant factor than choice of measurement standards.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station
Swift has high fees, approx $30 per transaction, and 6% of those transactions require some sort of human intervention down the line, the last time I checked.

If you believe Ripple's marketing [1], a remittance company sending $12b of payments a year stands to save 33% on operational costs using their xCurrent software. It would also take seconds to send payments instead of days.

[1] https://ripple.com/files/xrp_cost_model_paper.pdf
That's never going to happen for the same reason there aren't any photosynthesizing animals : you just don't get the required power output.

A human walking uses about 80 Watts [1]. Assuming no losses that requires a 1/3 m2 solar panel (a perfect one, constantly in full sunlight) to just move during the day. So count on needing 2/3 m2 at the very least.

And while robotics have advanced, there is no robot I know of that uses less than 300 or so watts.

I think you're right though that there is a market for very large, very heavy vehicles with legs, for where slopes are either too steep, or the region just doesn't have roads. Such vehicles exist, but humans just can't control 4 legged vehicles. It quickly ends in disaster.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_power

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=solar+power+output+per+squar...
I'm a little confused, are you saying that there should be no copyright? It's a little hard to discern your position because if you are for copyright it would seem like you are against policing it.
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> This law has definitely added at least friction to competing startups, and a barrier to entry at worst.

That's a bit of an understatement especially if you consider how bad the law looks from a PR standpoint, how unlikely it is to actually benefit any of the big content producers and so on. I've actually been on the record saying the law will never happen because of how stupid and useless it is but obviously I've been wrong.

Anyway as far as ambiguity goes I think they do that on purpose to ensure a judge has the last word. I'm pretty sure this is supposed to stop trolls from suing little companies into oblivion rather than the other way around.
> I've enjoyed the political chaos that ensues

The "accelerationist" approach motivated Dominic Cummings, as well. It's surprising in that with the names filed off you could present it as orthodox Marxism. The key question is "does the Conservative party (and media) collapse before we get into the situation where flights are grounded and we're running out of food, or afterwards". History suggests that we'll have to end up in a full Winter of Discontent situation before they back down.
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A related issue is that most crypto currencies are deflationary. This makes people not want to spend them and they become poor currencies because they stifle economic activity.

You can easily prove me wrong, too; use your crypto currencies to invest in something that increases economic activity (such as shares in companies).
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And they're right. Sugar highly addictive.
How is priority distinguished between two TCP streams? I thought that QoS basically didnt exist at the internet level of the network.
Generic response and not this law in particular - things have changed. Internet protocols were not defined with security in mind and look where it has led to. Cryptocurrencies were created in similar naive fashion, and look what kind of pathetic amoral shit they evolved into.
We didn't have PRISM, Guantanamo, war on terror creating and seeding terror, war on drugs creating whole drug empires and cartels, extroverty sociopath with most power in the world and so on.

some things are not possible anymore, some new are. I'll take at least some attempt to protect end user data over outright lying to my face and "we're above the law" any day.
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That was a really interesting piece. All I can think of after reading it is Grandpa's quote from the Simpsons:

I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV0wTtiJygY
It's not really surprising that people communicate less when half of them feel compelled to put on headphones
Partially yes and /w Epoch.
Funny how American dominated websites care more of American politics over European ones.

To be glib about it, it also goes to show the demographics at work here. Even now, GDPR resulted in more of a pain for Europeans than Americans; it's quite common now to see comments about how this site is blocked in Europe or some bypass method to get to an article. This copyright law will very likely amount to the same deal, being a thorn in the side of Europeans but Americans couldn't care less.
The stat showing that overweight people > under nourished people (although sad there are that many under nourished) is astounding.

Not any time in our history have more people been "over nourished" (i.e. overweight), than under nourished. Although, probably more unhealthy, it's still amazing how the majority of the world now doesn't have to worry about food on a daily basis (as opposed to most of human history).
Caves are quite permeable. It's not air pressure holding back the water, it's just a matter of how much water there is (the cave goes into the side of a mountain, it doesn't just go down into the ground).
"It turns out that regulations are made largely by old lawyers, who are more connected and charismatic than smart and practical, and haven't operated in the real-world for decades."

Maybe that's the career path for aging programmers. Get a law degree.
Such a simplistic view. No one is bombing Mexico, for example.
Illegal immigration in Europe has been often attributed to economic migrants, not refugees.
Yelling "fire!" in a crowded theatre is not protected free speech, which is exactly what this kid did in the video. I think this is a pretty clear cut case where someone does deserve jail time.
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I've been in all kinds of office setups. The one office I had the most collaboration between developers had cubes with a high side wall and the wall between the cube behind you was lower.

The cubes were very similar to these: https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.sZX3B6yJTUoJHOJ-t_3-TQHaF...

At the time, we had a fairly small group. Four front-end devs, three back-end devs, and a two designers. The devs all sat together on one side in a row and the designers on the other side. When the back-end guys had a JS or styling issue, they could just stand up and walk around the desk. If they needed a PM or a designer, they would use the interoffice IM system. We had a ton of back-end and front-end collaboration since we had several large whiteboards on the wall next to our cubes. A lot of time, you would be working and hear two devs talking about a problem. It was easy to just swivel in your chair and see if you had any input or ideas. We solved a lot of issues just with devs overhearing something and chiming in.

In the open space I'm in now, people won't even look at you when you're sitting next to them. Everything is done over IM. It's like there's invisible walls around everybody, even though we're all working shoulder to shoulder and on the same team. Our team is scattered throughout the building we're in so in person collaboration is really rare. It's practically the exact opposite of what they were hoping for.
I don't have a definitive memory of this by any means, and searching old websites in 2018 is like pulling teeth now that Google "unlaunched" custom date ranges (yet another step on the long journey toward making Google search the pinnacle of vapid "relevance"). However, I seem to remember first seeing it on left-leaning political blogs in the early '00s as mockery of the pattern of complaining about "the gays", "the Jews", "the blacks", etc.. So when pundits complained about welfare, it was paraphrased as ranting about "the poors", when they railed against pensions or Medicare they were angry with "the olds", and so on. It's a very short hop from there to people posting comments that start like "As a poor, [...]".
I'm looking forward to it! It's the only thing I need to achieve an acceptable WAF, and finally get her to actually use it rather than keep using GMail.
As a counterexample, I felt "The Information" could have easily been three times its size.