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> >US Internet Speed Has Gone From 12th To 6th Fastest Since End Of Net Neutrality

> I see this being tossed around as a counter to the main point of NN being slow down of speed.

It's been nowhere near long enough to see the effects of investment in infrastructure for improving Internet speed since the net neutrality rules were repealed. Any change in speeds since November would be due to work that has been in progress for a while.
Pretty much, this.

My own dotfiles are installable with only a couple of commands - I just clone the repo and run a simple shell script that symlinks some things to a central location. The only thing that isn't included is the installation of binary dependencies (like neovim and its plugins), but that differs between OSes and didn't seem worthwhile to automate.
Recently I began reading the glorious P.G. Wodehouse (his books with the inimitable Jeeves and other characters) as a breather from the non-fiction work I read. After a serious day with dry technical work, it's incredibly pleasant to read Wodehouse and retire into the night.

As the back cover of my current book, Thank You, Jeeves, says: "Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already."
yes this reminds me of the 70s when marginal tax rates on short term income was as high as 90%. But the problem here is that the money from tax goes to worthless, fat, lazy, stupid, ancient, corrupt, ineffective politicians.And the trickle down to the people is as weak as the urinary stream from those decrepit politicians with prodigious prostates.
You can use SubstrateVM to do that for free, if you don't use too much dynamic coding.
Well, you buy title insurance so that even if the process wasn't thorough enough you don't lose a whole bunch of money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_insurance
Ruby on Rails – Should I still use it?
The parent comment is substantive, civil, and on-topic. Why is it grey?
I have a question about web design from a complete idiot: how do you do it? I mean, really, from scratch, how is it done?

I have heard that people used to design in a graphics program (Photoshop, Gimp) what the website should look like and then tried to translate that to CSS, html, and js, or maybe just to React these days. Is that how it's done?

Right now when I want something to look a particular way, I go into a CSS file, guess at what a good value might be for a colour or a size or a font, reload the page in the browser, see how it looks, and iterate a few times. Sometimes I use the web browser's webdev tools to try to see the changes in these numbers a bit more live.

What is it that people actually do? How do you even begin to do something as crazy as CSS painting?

http://diana-adrianne.com/purecss-vignes/

I would love to see an intro to web design that starts like those intros to programming that begin with, this is how you install a text editor, this is how you use git, a programming language has variables and functions, and so forth, e.g.

http://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-inflammation/setu...
As the Geekwire article mentions, it's a scare tactic: don't try to leave for a direct competitor, or a business we particularly dislike - or you might end up spending the next several years in courts and out of a job.

Who knows how many employees were discouraged from taking a job with such direct competitors due to this substantial threat?

Just being told by HR that you'd be sued would rationally discourage most people.

It also selectively prevents some of Amazon's best employees from pursuing some of their best career alternatives. Would you like to get into this twisted paradoxical game, in which the better you perform at your job, and the more lucrative your alternative opportunity is (i.e. the more they underpay you), the more likely you are to get sued for taking it?

This is depressing wages and hurting all employees, not just the few chosen for a lawsuit.
I don't know, looking at this obesity map[1] I don't see much of a difference between northern/southern states. If anything there are more southern states with extreme (35%+) obesity. Doesn't mean it doesn't contribute partially though. It's also very crude data.

[1]: https://stateofobesity.org/adult-obesity/
The system's not broken. If that many people in that many states really want net neutrality legislation, then they should advocate for that within the House of Representatives, who are our direct representatives at the federal level. The Presidency is designed to have broad national appeal---across rural and urban states, large and small states---so it's not enough that a minority of attorneys-general want regulatory change.
Out of curiosity, what is the socio-economic level, education level, and relative health of your parents? That is statistically a stronger contributor to a child's health than the desire to simply lose weight.
I would only ask someone being so harsh, what they have personally contributed as a project directly or indirectly (supporting an existing project) before being as harsh or judge mental as this, especially toward a product like docker, that probably revolutionalized an industry. To clarify, I mean popularized an entire paradigm of running software, not necessarily the first.
"more willing to make a personal sacrifice on behalf of cooperation"

The problem is that a lack of checks and balances means a single bad egg is all it takes. It doesn't just take some people being good people - or even most - it takes everyone being a good person to make that work. Humans as a species just aren't like that.
With a 7b valuation, I'm pretty sure they can hire some talented people, don't you?

I agree it will take longer, but Slack owes it to their customers to hire people and put out a better product.
I hate the "identity politics" meme. What is policy that effects humans but "identity politics". From privacy oriented individuals concerned with data collection to social minorities concerned about prosecution any administration is going effect you based on identity.

For racial and sexual minorities, in the current US climate especially, it's hard to avoid "identity politics" when you have literal mobs with torches yelling for your head. And likewise it's hard to not feel a bit betrayed (even if that's completely irrational) when corporations ignore this for the sake of maintaining good relations for profit.
Either you are not keeping up or have a lot of bias because the government makes a lot of changes every year and you will presumably agree with many of them.

EX: While many people hate it, Obama Care got rid of the preexisting condition exception on health insurance. Which was a major issue for many people.

Now you personally might not like that change, but that suggests you should like it when it's removed.
> Prodigal Technologies wants to improve the ways that lenders collect money from borrowers... If a payor misses a payment, lenders can now reach out on any messaging platform and enable lenders to find borrowers where they are

This sounds like it could be bad for consumers. I hope it doesn't lead to people getting shamed on social media for failing to answer bill collector's phone calls - their site is pretty vague about how it works so I'm not sure.

Just another reason to delete your social media accounts.

I think it's a good business idea though.
Like I say at the top, I am not talking about this occurence specifically, but in general when this kind of hacking is mentioned. It is always and only Russians. Like no one else might have an interest.

I am honestly wondering if this is the case.

Also it would be theoretically possible (and easy?) for someone from outside Russia to e.g. hire some Russian hackers, would it not?
Interesting to see that more companies targeting women's health are going through YC. I definitely think there is a gap there.. living with my girlfriend has opened my eyes to what sorts of things women have to go through from a health perspective that men never notice.
It is not mind-boggling because your logic is oriented toward things like law or service to the public. The logic is Greed. Price caps would interfere with price gouging prisoners. Net neutrality would interfere with price gouging both content providers and their own customers stuck in monopolies or duopolies. Both are "follow the money" cases. The Party will always argue in favor of greed and whatever suits the rich and powerful. They will invent whatever motive suits the goal of greed.
> Rather infamously at this point, Backpage is accused not only of running ads for child sex traffickers..

Care to provide the reference. Can't find that in the citations section.

They seem to be cited for prostituion and out of the many ads for which they are cited, none seem to be obviously about children. They are cited for profiting from prostitution and the rest of the charges are related to the finances around that.
What makes FPY an important factor seperate from manufacturing rate? (if we assume a car is manufactured once it is ready to ship)

Of course it impacts your manufacturing rate, since anything not passing on first pass needs rework and possibly additional parts, making logistics more difficult etc. But all of that just influences manufacturing rate and cost per vehicle.
Is Insider an especially important source? Why is the title editorialized to include it?
Yeah because that worked so well in the last decades /s
Hi, I know you're probably just being facetious, but I think it's important to be clear that most Right channels on Youtube aren't fascist or white-supremacist. Calling anyone with a right leaning viewpoint a fascist ultimately dilutes the meaning of the word until people are okay with it. We've already seen this happen with racist, where even normal people nowadays will joke that they're probably being 'racist' by it's modern overblown definition.
True. My point is that the most common drugs are often the cheapest, so this 25% number quoted in the article isn't a surprise at all. I actually would have guessed that it would be higher.
> every process must require more people to execute than can conspire without being detected

Step 1 - let users report posts that are false

Step 2 - human fact checkers investigate user reports

Step 3 - rely more on users who report posts as false that really are false, and less on users who report posts as false that really are true

Step 4 - repeat step 3 but for the fact checkers themselves

Step 5 - train an ML model to automate more of the fact checking work
>Here you describe NATO as a hostile force but it's clear that the countries joining NATO were wise to do so as a defense against a hostile Russia.

The cause and the effect. 'hostile Russia' is a result of NATO expansion (among other things), not vice versa. From Russia's perspective it was not wise from NATO to accept those wise countries, expecially considering NATO had an aggrement with Russia on this part.

>Perhaps the Russian state should focus on addressing those issues instead of invading and trying to destabilise other countries.

Usually you have to deal with both internal and external issues at the same time.
Sure, I get what you're saying. But aren't you making it worse by trying this particular intervention? Chances are wealthier, better connected people have better access to whatever the workaround is. Just like with tax.
There's always Heroku too.
> But you're missing out on a person's voice. Prose can be as beautiful as any piece of visual art in a gallery. Not only are you depriving yourself of an aesthetic experience...

Sure, but people who enjoy art don't write high-and-mighty articles titled "Just Go to MOMA Already." "Readers" act like these aesthetic experiences are something that are universally important.

> Reading will boost your vocabulary and help your writing and give you more cultural references to pull from

But this is only valuable if you're writing for other "readers" (which typically you're not).
Toxic environments and abuse in academia causes science to lose. How many great minds have quit science because they decided the pathetic salary isn't worth being harassed at work?
Federal courts now accepting cryptocurrency
I cook with coconut oil all of the time because it has a high heat capacity. My wife also bakes with it frequently. I am curious what other's know about the health affects of coconut oil. I am no health expert.
"Ogg, we shouldn't have weapons that can hurt people. Hurting people is bad."

"Good idea, let's get rid of them all. We wouldn't want to justify crappy things by appealing to our own personal interest."

...

"Oh no we're all dead now. Someone else decided to have weapons even though they're bad and they hurt people. Looks like our shitty ideas are dying with us...wait I think I hear something coming from HN..."
Show HN: Sushi recognition with machine learning
I think it is highly dependent on the work you do.

If your two lifestyles are developer (work), and gamer (leisure), then purchasing 2 workstations to accommodate that could be prohibitively expensive.

However, if you're a developer by day, and say, love to work on your house at night, having a decent development workstation, and a simpler pc for browsing ideas and sketching things out, I would imagine that could be beneficial.

It's all about reviewing the situation that you're in, and seeing what fits your income and organizational needs.

Personally, I switched to a single laptop for everything. I purchased a laptop powerful enough to run WoW in the most vigorous situations, and something that maintains a semi-regular keyboard layout and proper specs to build small to medium sized applications.
It's run by The College Board, which is essentially a not-for-profit testing and (more recently) data analytics service.
Absolutely, which was why I fought the urge and didn't say it. But if I was getting these requests all the time, all throughout my career, yeah, my guard would get worn down and some harsh words would slip out.
> To me, this looks like a FUD campaign by Intel.

I've heard people suggest Intel might be acting like this due to (HP?) patent issues? (Edit: to be clear this was just interesting musing by an outside observer like the rest of us, not some source with any authority.)
What do poverty rates or liberal democracy have to do with NATO expansion?

Russians will be sensitive to what happens in their frontier regardless of who sits in the Kremlin, or which party dominates the Duma. They don't want to see an alien military alliance straddle their borderlands. That's the story. That's the WHOLE story. And it won't change even if Putin drops dead today, and Navalny is elected president tomorrow.
The first-generation GAE Standard Environment felt a lot like† programming in a port of the given language's runtime to a "cluster OS" like Mesos or Plan9—except it went even further: rather than the "GAE OS" just exposing things like "the cluster's KV storage" as a character device, and then making language runtimes implement a userland protocol library to speak to it over that device, the GAE OS's ABI just has system calls for things like key-value storage or job-queuing (calls which aren't even parameterized by a handle, since there's only one possible kvstore you could mean—the cluster's.) The language runtime ports are, then, essentially just exposing those system-calls, 1:1.

It reminds me a lot of being back in the 80s, when you could write raw assembly that simply called BIOS interrupts to read and write from a disk (by logical disk number!), rather than there being this whole edifice of an OS kernel in between, mapping high-level conceits like logical disk requests to low-level SCSI/ATA/etc. wire protocol messages. That mapping was instead happening at a firmware level, such that the hardware (the CPU) could expose intrinsics that would look like any other ISA instruction, but which would turn around and use the firmware (the BIOS) to execute the instruction.

That BIOS-interrupt style really feels, to me, like how computers should be: rather than everything compiling down to RISC code that inevitably gets bogged down in kernel context switches as it attempts to express its intent through thousands of low-level system calls, why not have an ultra-high-level CISC ISA that can just express its intent to the hardware [and firmware] directly, with no impedance mismatch? All the "expansion" of intent to RISC would happen in ring 0, with no switching back and forth. (A good example of this kind of CISC-expression-of-intent: kernel packet filtering.)

Or, if you don't want to go that far: why not an abstract machine, like the JVM, with these hyper-CISC semantics? I know there's already one example of this approach in the way Erlang's BEAM VM implements its "send" instruction. In the expensive cases—when a module is not loaded in the local VM, or when you need to send the message to a remote node over the distribution protocol with a custom transport—the "send" op can bounce back down into calling other Erlang modules (essentially "firmware"!) to get its job done. I'd love an abstract machine that had that approach... but for everything.

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† I say "felt a lot like", but from my understanding, this is how it actually was/is! GAE Standard Environment v1's interpreters are compiled as Portable Native Client [PNaCl] binaries, with extensions to the "ABI side" of the PPAPI for the specific services the Native Client VM host provided to its guest. The language runtimes then 1:1 expose these PNaCl instruction-set extensions as the functions of modules like ndb, taskqueue, etc.
The practice is called "single-sourcing".

It's pretty clearly an example of corruption; the entire purpose of single-sourcing a contract is to defeat the RFP, or bidding-out, process. A decision is being made by someone who isn't supposed to have the authority to make it.
One could argue that the alt-right rally from last year was very eventful, hence the huge number of reporters present at the current one.

And I didn't read full details about the rally, but I do know out about the skirmish between antifa and the alt-right. Also Fox news reported about it extensively. So what's your point? Are you saying that there's a liberal/progressive bias in media?
Everything I have read implies that there is a significant paperwork burden with this visa, and the number of people you can get via the program are very limited.
Seems that a lot of people think that car making begins and ends with the production line. The bit you see on TV - 'final assembly' - is not the whole car making process, it is just the coming together of the many parts that have been assembled elsewhere into bigger parts that then get put together in this 'final assembly'.

Sounds as if Tesla's 'final assembly' is not that final with a little bit of work being picked up in quality control. The spin of the story is that Tesla are cheating their figures by just repairing a few extra cars to get them out the door, but there is probably a happier story than this - at least those defects were not shipped to customers.

It is okay for a new company to take time to re-learn what has gone on before. I jokingly imagine Tesla to be actually catching up to 1970's British Leyland quality control 'circles' with the next step being a relearning of the 'Toyota Way'. It takes time to build a culture of quality control, efficiency and all these good things. The only thing is that soon our friends in China are going to be offering plenty of very nice electric cars to customers who just want electric rather than dinosaur power. Will Tesla be able to compete once China have enough EVs for their own market?
All languages can benefit from a good IDE. It's not related to the language. However very few languages actually have good IDEs, either because they are designed in ways that are hostile to static analysis (scripting langs) or because they just don't invest in tooling (Go, Rust).

Kotlin is unusual because JetBrains invested heavily in their IDE support from the start and developed it hand in hand with their plugin, so there's nothing in the language that is hard to statically analyse in a fast way.

As a Kotlin user it makes it a very pleasant language to develop in. You should try it.

As for IDE agnostic language servers, I think you'll find they find it hard to compete with IntelliJ or similar advanced IDEs simply because the "protocol" for classical IDEs is very fast, high throughput and complex object APIs. The featureset of something like IntelliJ is enormous and they can iterate very quickly. It'll be a long time until there is strong competition to it especially with a standards based out of process server-type design.
ThinkPad x270 can go a long time. Check the platform specifications.
It's the flip side to preventing what they called "Tyranny of the Majority", if my freshman polisci memory from many moons ago is accurate.

Imagine a scenario where the states wanted to make abortion illegal. We would want that decision scrutinized vs making a change to the law simply because a majority wanted it.
> all of that just influences manufacturing rate and cost per vehicle.

It seems like you answered your own question? These are really important for a company that's trying to make money.
> I honestly think we're past the point as a species where superpowers duke it out in such a literal fashion. It's just bad for business.

It's bad for business until it's not. Isolationist economic policies will over time make war more likely.

> Between the spread of the companies it effectively owns, and the deals being made with the rest of the world's most powerful tech companies, China will soon wield more influence than the U.S. I don't think it'll be long before surveillance-states are the norm.

I'm not sure about China wielding more influence than the U.S. That sort of thing is really hard to predict accurately, especially from the perspective of someone who isn't a world leader privy to all available information.

I do agree that surveillance states will be the norm, though, at least everywhere that doesn't currently have a democracy functioning well enough to prevent it.
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Agreed. The US is supposedly a democracy, in which people will respect the election made by others. They were proud of its System. Now it looks they have forgotten the principles of democracy as they take it for granted.

The US has become bipolar, the Media has become hysterical, using war propaganda to infer the worst intentions and personal qualities to the adversaries, instead of using Truth using prejudices, condemning people without evidence or counsel for the defense.
I’ve learned that massive injury is actually less scary than mild or moderate injury because your body is overwhelmed, and you don’t really feel anything.
Found that to be true as well, which is the reason I got a semicolon tattooed on my forearm. The semicolon represents `Just breathe` for me. I got the idea from an instagram post I saw and after researching a bit I found Project Semicolon which is a mental health and suicide prevention project.

projectsemicolon[dot]com
I dream of a bright Future where my PC will have no ram, hdd or ssd but only memristor memory.
No need for booting or shutdown, I just add power and everything will be the same as it was when last used.

Since I first read about them years ago this is still what I am waiting for even if it does not seem to be at grasp.
It's more accurate to say PureScript has Haskell-like (or category-theoretic, if you prefer) abstractions.

All high-level programming languages are on board with abstractions, pretty much by definition!
I find this kind of dispassionate feedback both condescending and nauseating tbqh.

A few f-bombs let me know you care.
My thinking is it's easier to start out with a solid foundation that I think the "sensible" and oh-my-zsh projects give you.

Take tmux-sensible for example, https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-sensible. Each configuration item is explained in detail.

So the goal here is to give new users a starting point that is well documented and explained, instead of finding joeschmo's dotfiles that has "set -g default-command "reattach-to-user-namespace -l $SHELL"" with no explanation on what that does.