skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"lets say the ISP does not have a business relationship with either Netflix (because its illegal under net-neutrality)"

That is not illegal under net neutrality, and it is basically irrelevant. Netflix, like any Internet user (yes, that is what Netflix is) must contract with some ISP (probably many ISPs given their scale). Net neutrality does not prevent ISPs from selling rack space in their data centers and allowing companies to colocate their servers with the ISP's routers.

Net neutrality is really about the logic ISPs use for routing, and the basic requirement is that routing decisions should not be based on the sender address or the application. There is plenty of room for argument about how strictly that should be enforced e.g. some experts support different priority classes for different application types while others believe in a stricter form of net neutrality. The general idea is that the performance of Internet applications should depend solely on technical details and that ISPs should not be allowed to impose artificial or arbitrary restrictions. There are plenty of legitimate questions over what is truly a technical reality and what is artificially imposed by an ISP (e.g. if an ISP uses the same physical infrastructure for Internet and non-Internet services, is it artificially constraining the Internet users by denying them capacity that is not being used for the non-Internet services?) but for colocation there is no real debate and nobody is claiming that is a NN violation.
If, instead of sending 12 people to the moon, we took that money, and worked on sending hundreds of robots to the moon...

We'd probably have more then zero people on the moon today. And better robots. Or, at least, more than six people in space.
In case anyone is not aware of the current situation of Venezuela. Here is a recent explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17408792
This article really captures the risks of a rebuild. I’ve been through a number of them, all but 1 abject failures. The one success was driven by the executive understanding that the company would fail without a rebounds, and it was still 6 months late, resulted in one of the cofounders being fired, an extremely painful rollout, and the company still failed, due to other problems.

My firm belief is that when you need a rebuild, you are already well into a fail state as a company. Not to stay there can be no recovery, but it is an indication of some deep problems for the company, beyond anything the engineering department alone can resolve... and if the rebuild is not coming from the executive leadership, it is an even bigger issue as it will more likely lead to bigger problems than it will solve.
Your page says "text that need to be translated" but it would read more correctly as "text that needs to be translated". Just saying! Good luck.
Thank you so much for this. I loathe the pardon the interruption window.
Nordstrom and Nordstrom Rack are usually good places to find good brands and deals inc Reyn Spooner and Tommy Bahamas
Hi, sent you an email. Hopefully we can help each other out!
After checking myself, some ruby skills, and a lot of social agitation skills.
It's unfortunate so many people come out of the woodwork to tell people their ideas are terrible or won't work.

I think it's far more interesting to ask how a thing might work, which uses cases might be dramatically underserved today and serve as a beachhead, or the tradeoffs being made rather than just say something is a "bad idea."

Dropbox launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

Coinbase launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4703443

A 2012 thread discussing comment negativity where, coincidentally, the top comment is from @iamwil who posted this link and is on the DIRT team: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4363717

A classic thread from 2012 where PG talks about negative comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4396747

To me, the most interesting ideas in the world are the ones that at first blush look like they can't possibly work. But upon thinking through how they might, you learn something.

Props to everyone in the thread who is asking genuine questions and actually trying to understand what the team is building.
Its called living under a dictatorship.
Stickyness, as well as tracking & ads.
Similar enough that it's possible to run some Chrome extensions in Firefox.
I've been using Foxified [1] to do this for a while, and while it's not always perfect, it worth a try in most cases.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-...
I thought holding USD was outlawed in Venezuela now?
And thanks in return for this great article that helped me understand better the problem I had faced with the chevrons!
No, I’m assuming they must be deployed on an IP network of some sort, not necessarily the Internet. A microservice by definition is a networked service. The whole REASON the term was coined was to differentiate from services which often were developed and deployed monolithically, as opposed to truly autonomous runtime processes (aka. bounded contexts).

Services, whether SOA, web services, messaging services, or network services etc, as in SOA, describe a client/server architecture with an API. Usually these APIs are designed by the principles of Domain Driven Design, where different teams map to bounded contexts that have their own published API.

Microservices are a form of SOA where each API also runs in its own process and thus has independent deployment lifecycle. Many in the SOA world advocated for this 10-15 years ago (and often ignored), and now the industry has gone back and coined a term for this practice.

In an organization that does microservices properly at scale, like Amazon, you have teams that build and run and upgrade their service autonomously from others. Read the Steve Yegge rant about Amazon and Platforms to understand this. It allows tremendous parallelisation of effort and allows for thousands of deploys to production daily without breakage. This is hard to pull off though, and a new initiative doesn’t generally won’t more than a small handful of services.

If it’s a shared library, then call it a shared library. It has a completely different lifecycle from a microservice. In your Android example, shared libraries by definition are controlled by whomever can dictate OS updates, not the app developer.
Yes, incredibly difficult to get a Venezuelan passport now, these restrictions prevents nationals from leaving en masse. Thousands of Venezuelans have illegally walked out of their country, and making their way to my home country Ecuador on foot.
Typically religious book. I am reading "Pray, Hope, Don't Worry" for the 3rd time. It's a compilation of stories of people who've met and interacted with St. Padre Pio -- one of the only few saints who bore the wound of Christ, stigmata. As I tend too focused on work, this book is a great reminder that there are much more about live than just work, work, and work...
> Try "The principles relating to or inherent in a sphere or activity, especially when concerned with power and status."

The definition I cited is the one that fit the clear upthread use; yes, the are other senses of “political”, but to configure them is equivocation.
I've re-read The Belgariad series, by David Eddings, so many times I've lost count. Easily once a year, every year, since I was in my mid-teens (I'm in my late thirties). It is most firmly in the territory of "comfort reading" for me these days.

Dune, by Frank Herbert, comes a close second. I've read that at least a dozen times or more. It took me ages to get it. My dad had a copy, and I'd tried to read it probably 4 or 5 times, never getting far. Then I watched the David Lynch movie, went back to it and just devoured the book in a couple of days. Even though the two are wildly different, something about the movie gave me that kick I needed to get me in to the book.

I'm really not one for re-reading books all that much. Most books I read once. The ones I do re-read, I've read maybe 2 or 3 times.
The problem with this line of thinking is that the people most strongly interested in keeping financial transactions away from the prying eyes of government are criminals. Criminality is strongly correlated with negative-sum interactions with society, and that tends to provoke a response.

So if the best cryptocurrency early-adopter audience is people who are harming society, then you've pretty much guaranteed that cryptocurrencies will remain societally marginal.
Built a life progress bar app
Seems weird to run a React app for a static content blog. (I think this is React?) and also to run it in development mode in production.
Stuff like this really makes me think the next economic collapse is right around the corner.

America has become the kind of Govt the founding fathers hated for it to become.

The issue is, it’s the lesser of evils compared to other countries. We have a long way to go before we sort out better ways to govern nations of a planet.
I think one major turn off, especially for systems programming, was the lack of multicore threading support (i.e. it had no way to get parallelism using threads). Does anyone know if this has changed?
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Why not exchange bitcoins for stuff, like an actual currency and not just a method of transfer?
PETER ROST ADMITS CRIME WITHIN THE PHARMACEUTICAL PLANT
Speculative Buffer Overflows: Spectre 1.1 and 1.2 [pdf]
malazan book of the fallen or game of thrones (reread each season to remember what happened).
From afar it seems the LAPD has a horrible reputation. So the LAFD must seem like saints by comparison.
Intresting! They strike me as equally includable. It's easy enough to do XML-based persistence, or XML-based messaging between nodes of a distributed system.

Indeed, Jabber, an XML-based protocol, is seeing new life as a big IOT protocol. My cheap robot vacuum spends its day hanging out in a chatroom and communicating via XML, for example.
It's not sneaky just because you're not looking. I have found the CoreOS group to be guarded in their responses to future directions but never sneaky. There have been multiple times where an API/design/etc change in a WWDC session didn't make sense. I would follow up in the labs and be told the reason is because X is happening in the future. Granted I'm not always told. In that case a diff of kernel sources between releases along with some years working in the XNU kernel is enough to figure it out. Sometimes you're just lucky and hint it in the actual session. For example the 2013 WWDC Session titled "What's New in Kext Development" (https://asciiwwdc.com/2013/sessions/707) leaked SIP well before it was officially announced. They key line was:

So in the future, we are going to tighten down access to the system hierarchy, the whole hierarchy down from /System and everything in there.

Another example of them sharing future plans was user space networking. I forgot what year it was but in the session they noted something about network kernel extensions (NKE) going away and to use Network Extensions instead. NKEs weren't the best but for Apple to send all the effort to recreate the 'same' thing in a new framework was odd. A visit to the labs and you were instantly told of the move to user space networking.

One last example. Apple ships in the default OS a number of third party mass storage kernel drivers. Take a look at /Library/Extensions on a new install. This ensure when you try to install that new OS or boot that new OS, you can see you're drives. Apple likely needs to work with those third-parties to make that happen.

I understand why it might appear sneaky but I don't think that's the case.
I don't know if the mobile version of uBlock Origin has it, but there's an eye dropper button if you click the uBlock button on the toolbar. You can use that to build block rules automagically. It reminds me of the API spies people used to make for Visual Basic 6.
Not in our timeline [0]:

Although Bush stated at the time "Our mission continues" and "We have difficult work to do in Iraq," he also stated that it was the end to major combat operations in Iraq. Bush never uttered the phrase "Mission Accomplished";[2] a banner stating "Mission Accomplished" was used as a backdrop to the speech.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished_speech
That video was awesome.

I'm guessing that the types of ladders SFFD are using aren’t going to be anywhere near power lines of that high a voltage.
That’s correct, everybody is hungry so corruption is everywhere. To get a passport you need to give the officer an iPhone 7 or a few thousand dollars. I read this today, it’s pretty bad.
In addition to this they can get solid data on engagement times, app usage, where uses spend time on the page
"but with most patients not being responsible for paying" -- right there lays the answer and the problem. I thought about this a lot while doing my 1st healthcare startup in silicon valley and connected with many startups "disrupting healthcare through price transparency". 5 years later... None succeeded.

If one could incentivize every patient to upload their bills to an open source service that would crunch the data and spit it out anonymously online showcasing hospitals & services rendered + insurers et al.. then I think we might be on our way to true price transparency and a potential disruption in US healthcare.
I’ve submitted his web form requesting it.
Are the transaction fees still ridiculous and is it any faster? I thought it's generally too expensive or slow for most normal transactions
If it costs tokens to submit information, what incentive is there to submit information?
Yup. So much of the time the system starts out at one thing and morphs to another. That can easily lead to core problems with your architecture
> Contrary to popular perception and much of the transgender movement’s own rhetoric, transgender activism is not about compassion and dignity

Oh dear.

Ah. Quillette. I knew the name sounded familiar.
You don’t exchange them. You transact in bitcoin.
Lightning networkng has been a thing for over 6 months now. Transactions are instant.
An alternative is ... to install onlyone extension that tracks allyour activity everywhere (Stylus), and write or apply CSS stylesheets to fix annoyances.

The set I use.

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/hFzKwoir...

Firefox's Reader mode also works well. (It's among the targets I've restyled.)
Do you know of a mirror of the video not in that weird scroll form?
Only come to the US if you really have to do so. I also think conferences should move elsewhere in more neutral and accepting places.

US under the name of nationalism has become quite a racist country. I have a common surname and I always get stopped and questioned because I have a certain surname. Half an hour extra for every international flight even though I am a permanent resident here.

It’s just stupid. Traveling to/from US is a menace.
Cryptocurrency derivatives, on-chain lending, and Stablecoins
Create a paging assistant with JavaScript program
Introducing a useful image editor implemented as a JavaScript canvas
In the full adder level, shouldn't the input/output table in the specification read 01 for the h/l on row 3? Had me a little confused trying to get my head around how the adder works.

I'm really enjoying the whole thing though, great work!
$12,000/week, minimum one week per engagement, no half weeks.
co-pay example: a friend broke his collar bone few months back in Tahoe and had surgery to fix it. Full cost ~$60K. Out of pocket: ~$7K on Gold (80/20) insurance. You can read about the metal categories (ie. Gold) and other things I wrote about the US healthcare here: https://medium.com/the-road-to-silicon-valley/us-healthcare-...
The End of Sprawl
What’s the Deal with Cookie Consent Notices?
There is actually a foolproof way to shut off Liked tweets (and retweets) forever. You can only do it on desktop - but go to Twitter/Settings/Muted Words. In there, make sure "From people you don't follow" is selected along with "Timeline", then individually add the list of common stopwords to your muted words. I listed the ones I use below, you can add more but I've not seen a retweet or liked tweet since doing this.
muted: [a, about, an, and, are, as, at, be, by, for, from, has, he, her, him, his, how, i, in, is, it, its, of, on, one, or, she, that, the, to, was, were, what, where, when, will, with]
Counterfeit goods are made and sold at a scale unseen in the West in China. There are markets the size of football fields hawking these rip offs. How is it racist to suggest the Chinese have a laissez faire attitude about copying others' work?
3 levels 2D Space Shooter Game creates with pure JavaScript
I know people have concerns with altcoin longevity/soundness/security but in a situation where every cent matters maybe an additional crypto to accept would be NANO? Though it seems to be less bartered locally. I read this a few days ago https://www.reddit.com/r/nanocurrency/comments/8wfl2r/venezu...

edit: Oh never mind, moments after I posted this i realized that with altcoins you could end up even less crypto worth vs BTC than you'd save on tx cost. :)
Average human IQ has been dropping over the last few decades
https://knifesteelnerds.com/

Sounds cool, I'll check it out. Thanks.
Shh. Lest they fix that bug.
Any post that suggests humans should not explore space will be the recipient of my derision. We can't and shouldn't sit on this rock for the next 100 years. And we as a world can afford both manned and unmanned exploration.
Plugin is probably not the best word. But since iOS supports content blockers, I was imagining it’s possible to have dedicated apps block reddit pop-ups.
They keep the engines shiny for multiple reasons. First, what else are you going to make the rookies do? ;-) Actually, keeping them shinny requires someone to pretty much go over every inch of the truck which is also a great time to do an inspection of the truck. Finding out something needs attention while sitting idle in the station is much better than finding out while out on response.
How we study the microbes living in your gut (Video, 10min)
Have you considered accepting Nano instead of BTC? Nano is perfect for this since there are zero transaction fees. Also, transactions are instant with Nano. A lot of people in the Nano subreddit are trying to get Venezuelans to start accepting and using Nano. You should definitely post in the Nano subreddit if you start accepting payments via Nano. More info at Nano.org and reddit.com/r/nanocurrency
If you use Safari there is no need for an app or extension.

Just right click (macOS) / long press (iOS) on the "Reader" symbol and activate "Use Reader Automatically on 'medium.com'". Same procedure for any branded domain that uses Medium.
Teaching Computers Art History
Honey is making a comeback for problematic wounds. The most researched kind is from New Zealand, Mānuka honey [0], but really any kind of honey will do. I've [also] read that [white] sugar works too - from a search now, [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81nuka_honey

[1] https://advancedtissue.com/2016/06/role-sugar-proper-wound-c... -- random search link with some links to papers

My favorite quote from the book review: "Unfortunately, nobody – least of all a scientist – likes to be publicly corrected. Infection was still considered by many to be inevitable, and best left to play out as Providence determined – a version, in fact, of the ‘therapeutic nihilism’ to which most Quakers, Lister’s father included, adhered. To argue the contrary was tacitly to condemn surgical practices that had been in use for decades."

Even today, many doctors are still biased towards treatments that don't actually work very well. On HN this morning there was a link about Melatonin, with some tips on how to use this substance most effectively to aid in sleep... ("Uhm... it was on slatestarcodex..." Ah, [2]). I didn't comment there, but I thought about quipping about how Ambien (and all other FDA-approved sleep medications) do not actually work very well. In recent months, I think I've figured out my own sleep issues. This has taken me 20+ years, and the FDA-approved palliative drugs aren't part of the process. Millions of people are suffering from poor sleep, but not-very-effective drugs are a first-line treatment. Why is that?

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17505380 (HN discussion of SSC article on Melatonin)

[Edit2: the quest for Manuka honey is causing some problems for New Zealanders [3]. if you have a wound that might benefit from honey, try buying local honey first. You'll save a lot of money, and probably get just as good a result.

[3] https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-news/news/article.cfm?c_id=15... ]
China has suggested this https://futurism.com/building-big-forget-great-wall-china-wa...
Would you say it's particularly hard to work in Google X, or just a smaller part of the company with fewer headcount requirements?
That's what I am getting at. To pervert the old saying, you can't eat a Bitcoin. Presumably what this person wants is some instrument that can be exchanged for, say, 50 kilos of rice. Are Bitcoin and Ethereum really the best such instruments within Venezuela?
It's disappointing (to me, at least) that you're being downvoted. Maduro is bad. Worse than Chavez bad. And, yes, mass starvation in Venezuela is very real.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/17/world/america...
No, at the moment the fees are quite low.

Maybe you could trust the person asking for crypto instead of showing an anti-crypto bias?
P1105R0 Leaving no room for a lower-level language: A C++ Subset
There was an episode of Silicon Valley this year where they blackball a guy for being Christian. Haha funny.

A guy I know taught himself a new framework by writing an app that gives you biblical footnotes. He was super proud of it and planned to put it on his resume. I smiled and congratulated him for doing such a good job, and kept my fucking mouth shut. I wanted to warn him that some people would pass him over from it. I hated that feeling.

When I was a kid I belonged to a weird religion people liked to make fun of. I was always on the outside and tried to make space for people, as best I could. I was best friends with the new kid (the only one with divorced parents), and ate lunch every day with smartest girl in my grade school (even though I wasn’t quite sure yet that girls weren’t gross) and the only black boy. We colluded to protect the new girl from being bullied for having the audacity to transfer into our busybody district in the sixth grade, and for being a little erratic.

Then I was an atheist in a place where people weren’t. My college roommate and most of his friends were Family, in a time and place where that wasn’t safe. Our neighbor came out to us after he pledged at a fraternity. We were horrified, worried for his welfare.

My ex wife was bi, half of our friends went to Pride every year. Some of them were poly. My SO has transgendered friends and we know three transgender kids.

And this year? This year I’m starting to feel like I have to make safe space for Republicans (I’d be terrible at that, trust me) and Christians. It feels weird. I haven’t even figured out how to process this yet. I don’t think it’s a good feeling though. This doesn’t feel like better. It feels like the bullied becoming the bully.
Every time I see a headline like this it makes me think that I should work on some personal DIY projects related to solar to really appreciate the advances. Does anyone have experience or suggestions for cool projects to try?
Agreed. Basically, it is akin to having a second fulltime job. Except you don’t get paid anything.