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I don't know what Google's contracts and agreements are with local municipality, so the short version of my answer is that I don't know how i'd classify Google Fiber myself.

For a more general point of view, i'd take into account a lot of factors such as:

- who "owns" the service, both from an "on paper" POV and who builds and maintains it

- what does the contracts between the entity and the government say

- did the government pay for a service to be built by the entity, vs the entity asked for permission to build the service, vs the entity built the service using non-government-permission-required resources

- what was the spirit of the relationship between the entity and the government

- who will be using the service

- is the service a government-allowed monopoly

- etc.

Facebook does pass some of those tests (eg. the "public at large" is the target userbase for it), but fail a lot of the other tests at least in how they operate in the United States. Comcast's general laying out of wire + offering services over that wire passes a lot more of those tests and puts the service into public infrastructure in most folks' eyes.

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That's property infringement, not violating speech.
I think a better retort would be "tell that to 4chan".
> Most of the things we currently use were invented by businesses, or by someone who then started a business to sell it.

Yes. I don't say business is useless when it comes to research. Business is great at researching how to tune the production process so that the thing they went to produce is affordable for as many people as possible.

Every invention goes through business to reach you. But it usually starts at the university on in military research.

> Again, you're assuming the conclusion.

I don't think I do.

1. Companies fund research with selling drugs they invent.

2. Inventing drugs gets more expensive.

1 & 2 => drugs get more expensive.
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> Watterson resisted the urge to talk about politics

Mostly, but he did let some snide remarks pass: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1994/03/20
I don't know if it could really help in your case, but the "Private session mode" available in Spotify's menu could help. In my limited understanding on how things work, I would expect songs listened in that mode not to be used by their awesome recommendation engine.
Wait a second...

I thought Java was supposed to do this with the JVM...

I thought .Net was supposed to do this with the CLR...

What's different now?
I would never become sympathetic to the ideas of white nationalism if it wasnt for the exposure to them on mainstream media platforms. This makes me mad as hell. How am I supposed to call this a democracy? Might as well live in communist china.
You're also diverting from the point to argue that Signal is worse than Keybase for server trust. Releasing server-side code comes from the open-source philosophy that Keybase claims to be a part of on its website. Several people in that Github issue would like to self-host Keybase servers - open source is all about that kind of accessibility. No one's making the claim that publishing the code would make them trust Keybase more, though Signal arguably has benefited from releasing its code for public audit. What would be the cost of publishing your server-side code?
In addition, there's no uniform certification process. EAC.gov made things a wee bit better, but it's an advisory role.
How do you transparently protect those in Christchurch NZ or at one of the sites of nationalist, extremist violence? Transparency does nothing to deter the mentally ill and psychotic individuals who perpetrate mass murder.
RSS-to-email once a week, maybe with some other kind of filter (quality, popularity, keywords) in the middle for sites with too much noise (HN qualifies, lots of stories in a week). I think there are a couple sites that do that for HN, but aggregating everything would probably be a DIY job.
It's not conveniently placed but there is a way.

https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/the_basics/how-...

Then there's the Daily Mix playlists that partly addresses this issue. Ideally you would find that there's one Daily Mix with your gym type songs and up to five others with other genres you listen to. But it's as much for discovery of new music so it doesn't fully fix the problem when that's the goal.
This can be applied to pretty much any security-focused product, or product claiming to be secure/encrypted. If it relies on an unknown number of proprietary/closed-source components, it can't be trusted. Keybase, WhatsApp, Telegram, and iMessage are all good examples of this. If your code can't stand up to public scrutiny it might not be able to withstand attack. I'm not willing to blindly chuck messages into a black box and hope what comes out the other end is exactly what I put into it. (This complaint is not specifically about Keybase; in fact the linked article and a few comments say their client doesn't trust the server at all, which is really cool. Point still stands.)

Keybase looks really really cool, and I would love to use it, but I can't in good conscience recommend something that is cagey about the half-open nature of their product, especially when the server. It is by definition "man-in-the-middle"-ing all your data, and if you can't inspect it you can't reasonably trust it.
One can have a general set of principles behind moderation decisions without making them available to the public.
Fair enough - I don't want to dilute my point by coming across as too hostile, even though my point is that it seems like a well-crafted diversion. Let me edit it down and your quote of the original can stand.
Do you believe there is a difference between being proud and supporting white supremacy?
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Yup. It's not like installing Ubuntu on a laptop but I don't think that's to be expected. IBM does have zPDT which is a lot easier.
This people do not understand the math of startup comp. If you get equity instead of cash, you could have taken that cash and just put it into as high a risk investment as you want. As such, startups are really offering access to an illiquid investment (but how sure are you it's better than other options), and forced risk-taking with some short-term tax benenfits (most people wouldn't put 10-20% of their income into one stock and you pay tax up front). You could go to google, put 30% of your income into crypto, and have some thing a lot like a startup risk/reward profile w/ a lot more liquidity. It's just that that feels riskier to people. Startup is only a great deal financial for the founders.
Uh, Trump invited Steve Bannon into his cabinet. They did not part ways because of Bannon's extreme white nationalist views...
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Can you give a quick synopsis so we know why we should read it? What did you get out of it that you liked, and how does it relate to UBI?
I think it's a pretty reasonable way to combat FUD.

It's tough to compete on security because users struggly to know what's actually better (on top of needing convincing security is a worthwhile differentiator in the first place). A client that doesn't trust a server is a great improvement and "show us the server" is a terrible response.
Scott Adams (Dilbert) coined a term that applies to the voting machine vendor certification procurement racket: confusopoly.
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Considering how Chinese treat non-Han Chinese, this racist fascist government should be resisted with armed resistance if necessary in Arunachal Pradesh. India should put some nukes there for good measure. In fact the US should help India guard the sovereignty of this province as it would be of great strategic use to the US to build bases.

edit: To the mods, the Chinese government is a racist fascist government and should be called out for their racist fascism against the people of Tibet as well as the Uigur people.
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Getting closer to Jim and Pam bluetooth earpiece?
> we've seen the definition of white supremacy slide from "people who espouse views that whites are better than nonwhites" to "people who espouse views that are not in line with progressive orthodoxy".

No we haven't. We've seen white supremacy being legitimized at the highest levels, and as a result white supremacists claiming to be "victims" openly because they feel emboldened by the election of white supremacist politicians.
If the theorists and proponents have such a difficult time separating an ideology from attempts at violent implementation of a program based on that ideology, then perhaps the violence is in fact part of the ideology after all?

If it quacks like a violent duck ...
Imagine how much harder it would be for your dastardly competitors to "distract" and "divert", if you or someone else from your project actually addressed the obviously legitimate question of keeping the server closed-source?

I mean other than coquettishly dropping a tantalizing hint by saying 'yet?'. That's nice, but insufficient.
The better question is, why do they keep buying them?
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And if you ever get to a point where you are financially secure yet want a non-stressful job, you could always teach something like Yearbook at a HS. I know a guy who did this. He cashed out of his IT job after making almost a million. He wife is a nurse. He got tired of the burnout, on-call rotation, and got his teaching certificate, got hired at a high school teaching Yearbook creation and media. He's off 3 months of the year, gets paid for 12, and is living the easy life. He works from 0730-1530 daily, no nights, no weekends, no tests to grade, no stupid standardization tests, nothing. Literally easy street.
You don't need to apologize IMO ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Making websites with vanilla JavaScript in 2019?
We have a myriad of JavaScript frameworks these days - React, Vue, and Angular being some of the most prominent ones. Are there any front-end developer in HN using vanilla JS to make websites and if so, why are you not using the said frameworks? What's your experience of making website with vanilla JavaScript like these days?
This degree of hostility and the borderline doxing is offputting, to such a point that my trust in your organization is degraded.
It makes it more expensive via three avenues.

1. It incentivizes owners to convert rental stock to housing stock.

2. It disincentivizes developers from building new rental stock.

3. It concentrates demand and removes supply driving up the price of non-rent controlled apartments.*

* Every rent controlled place that is lived in my a person who can't afford market rent displaces an individual who can afford market rent who then competes for the remaining rental stock driving up the prices of the non-rent controlled apartments.
yeah that seems like an untenable demand...
I get what you're saying but if they're going to curate what content that they put forth, then they cease to be a platform and they become a publisher. Publishers are liable for much more under the eyes of the law. They can't cherry pick the advantages from the two systems without any of the drawbacks.
No, free speech has to do with being able to speak freely. If you are prevented from doing that by private means, it's in no way better than if you are prevented by the government, and for exactly the same reasons. If free speech has any value and not just an empty slogan, then it should have value in the face of privatized censorship too. If your freedom has value, would you feel better if you'd be in a private prison than in a government one? Probably not. Why should it be different with speech?

Imagine your ISP blocked your every message that disagrees with their political stance. Would it console you they're doing it as a private company, or would you demand regulators to come and stop it?
If Spotify is becoming for musicians what GitHub became for programmers, I say that’s pretty damn cool.
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Any example for real world application?
I'd argue that there are lots of alternatives. But the smaller and less exclusive ones which tolerate extreme content often have reputations like Mos Eisley spaceport, so while people can gather and organize there relatively freely it seriously limits their fundraising and recruitment outreach.
The formula for Coke is supposedly a trade-secret, for which there are no protections other than keeping it secret, and I guess maybe not acquiring it illegally.

So, on what basis would Coca-Cola or PepsiCo have for a suit?
You understand that Christian Indians have been killed for eating beef and pork right? And the current party in power is the BJP, a party that has allied itself with people like Bal Thackeray, a politician who suggested suicide bombings as a viable means of protecting Hindu interests, as well as links to actual murders of politicians he disagreed with [1] as well as instigating the Mumbai riots [2].

And that's just in the one state I'm familiar with. The party itself has many links to actual Hindu militias. Pull your head out of the ground. The United States problems (if there really even is one) are nothing compared to those of certain other countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna_Desai
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay_riots
I have to say that when I worked with MUMPS (and even then MUMPS was older than anyone who thought up Mongo) we've never lost any data.

Too bad GlobalsDB went nowhere...
SV CEOs go on interview shows and talk about getting advice from each other. We're not only going by results here, but by self testimony. They also demonstrate the same idiosyncratic biases -- which very often involve the mislabeling of beliefs they don't like. They behave in concert, often taking similar actions on the same target, all on the same day.
I think the terminology we have here for publisher and platform don't exactly fit this scenario. I think it'd be wise to find a new label and set of rules that better fits this type of company.
There are open source and non-Oracle Java virtual machines you can buy support from if Oracle isn't your cup of tea.

It's not really a legal liability either. Lawyers for companies who use Java go over those agreements with a fine tooth comb and approve them before they're signed. There are no surprises (if your attorneys aren't frauds.)
I just published my first blog piece about memory and engineering! It took me a few years to get the systems in place, but I came out as a much better engineer. Spaced repetition is my savior.

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Aphex Twin as a top thread... this is why I love hacker news.
It disgusts you that people would pay for something they derive pleasure from?
Targeting the JVM (or the CLR) requires that your language work nicely in the Java (or C#) memory model.

This basically means your language needs to work nicely with stop the world garbage collection.

(And yes, I know that modern garbage collectors aren't really stop the world, but the tradeoffs are still there.)
I wonder if the $10/mo price of Spotify has anchored listeners to a low price that Spotify can't get out of. Spotify will need to pull more money in to be able to give musicians more money per stream. Even if they were able to increase revenues, musicians will need to be able to claim a bigger part of that pie.
It sounds like they could have done some research on Boring to know what their current capabilities are, in which case they would not have been surprised when they got there.
> White nationalists and their ideology have penetrated the Senate, the White House

Wait, this means Trump is now banned on Facebook? Or who in the White House is the white nationalist that will be banned on Facebook starting next week?
Well, equally, GP could've disclosed their conflict of interests instead of just using a hit&run one-line red herring. OP makes a post advocating not having to trust a server, and most upvoted comment is someone asking them to open their server so they can trust it? Doesn't make much sense..
Thanks for sharing your experience! A couple of questions:

1. What was the reason for leaving US? I'm guessing you must be on EB1/EB2 track to the Green Card?

2. How was the process like for the Canadian PR? Had you already secured a job in Canada before leaving US and then applied for the PR from India (Express-entry program)?
Given the potential for the company to absolutely control discourse within a community, it looks very portable to me.
>Only banning white nationalism is giving fuel to the white nationalist belief that whites are being unfairly targeted. That's not something we should encourage IMO.

Well its easy to believe in something that is simply true.
The new keyboard made the computer 0.12" thinner than the 2015, and the new computer is less than half pound lighter with less battery capacity. To me, these are huge sacrifices in usability for what, another 0.12" and half pound in my bag? Great! Now I've saved enough space to upgrade my 70 sheet spiral notebook to a 100 sheet monster.
The supreme court heard a court case in 2014 in which a business refused to serve people because they were gay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...

A large number of people are still alive back from when Jim Crow laws were still actively in effect. In 1957 the president had to send the 101st airborne to Arkansas to escort black children to school and seized control of the state's national guard because they were being used to block desegregation of schools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine

A non-trivial percentage of Americans would love to have these signs up and are kept from doing so by the law. The women's movement, LGBT rights, and minority rights are actually a fairly new thing, and are still not without controversy in the US.
It's a shame that it's not open source from the perspective of people being able to self-host, but if you don't need to trust the server (as Keybase clients don't), then the security of the system is not weakened one bit.

That's a very useful property, because even if the server is open source, that doesn't guarantee that what the Keybase team is actually running in production matches the source they've released.

So I would say a system where the clients don't (and don't need to) trust the server, even if no server source is publicly available, is still strictly better from a security standpoint than a system where the clients do need to trust the server, and source is available. (Assuming, of course, that the design of the system as a whole is sound, and that clients have been audited to ensure that they follow the design of the system correctly.)
Well there's this (sorry for the quick source): https://www.thedailybeast.com/doj-trumps-early-businesses-bl...

And then of course Stephen Miller who really needs no explanation.

Central Park 5 ...

"Good people on both sides"

The list goes on - how many examples do you need?
> showing Taiwan as a separate country

Fun fact: the government of Taiwan would also object to these maps. Both the RoC and the PRoC claim that all of China (mainland + the island of Taiwan) is actually one country, but disagree on who's rightfully in charge of it. This is also what both governments use to justify allowing civilian travel between them, with a polite legal fiction along the lines of 'that's still China over there so you can go there, even though that territory is controlled by those people we don't like'.
Not cheap this is over $3/unit vs 25 cents.
I don't mean to exclude you from such discussions! But it's important not to have accounts that are used only for that. The value of HN is intellectual curiosity. Every account should clearly be using the site for that purpose, and some purposes—like political battle, or promotional marketing—go against it.

The other thing is just that it's necessary to follow the guidelines even more scrupulously as a topic becomes more divisive. Things like "Assume good faith" are our lines of defense against the forum destroying itself.
When are they going to ban Wakanda? Black Nationalism? Chinese Nationalism? Indian Nationalism? They aren't because "anti white nationlist" is code for anti-white. People are being attacked for having tshirts that say "Its OK to be white".

How about applying rules evenly for everyone instead of pushing a certain political agenda?
You would need to show that Trump invited Bannon into the White House because of his white nationalist views, and not because of his abilities in other areas. Which I don't think you can do.

Also, if Steve Bannon is a white nationalist, it seems weird that Trump would support him, considering that presumably makes him want to get rid of parts of Trump's own family(Ivanka/Jared and their kids).
I would argue that the people who are concerned about "what future lines will be drawn" when the first line being drawn is banning white supremacists are the ones who should be making more elegant points.
The Soviets did have the Landau book for physics, though I do not know if it was made available in India.

I should put a word for an Indian publishing house named Narosa which put out cheap editions of text books(mostly western) like the Feynman Lectures, Fermi's Thermodynamics, etc.
That's fine most of the time but Google etc. are going to want a few PhD's in graph theory, AI, number theory, etc
Well, unfortunately this will probably never be the case. I actually don't mind the new keyboard at all. It's not my favorite, but I actually would rather have the extra thinness than extra action, and believe it or not I prefer it over the 2015 macbook keys (overall I mostly use desktop keyboard though). And it seems the market is mostly in agreement.

High action keyboards will continue to be phased out by thinner devices and more touch. Many will lament it, but I don't see moving back.
In my experience, the buyers (election administrators) at the state and local levels know exactly what's going on. Like every where else, there's a revolving door between govt election administrators and the private vendors & consultants.
Well, read the top comment in this dicussion: They're not saying "if FB wants to kick arbitrary people including me I'm fine with that", they use "bigots" and "anti-vaxxers" as examples. Another important element is a constant refrain of "but platforms with no restrictions end up as a cesspool".

> We can see what definition is

"seeing the definition" just means seeing some flowery language which may or may not be the full truth when it comes to individual cases. If people don't pay attention to the fact that they don't actually know, and don't seem to care, who exactly is booted off these platforms and why, exactly and on a case by case basis, and just take the word of platforms like FB or Twitter for it, they're in for a rude awakening when they end up on the wrong end of it themselves.

The amazing achievement of not being a racist or an anti-vaxxer doesn't make up for the failure to clearly speak out against the hypocrisy of a company that on the hand hand fights democracies that want to protect citizens against tracking [0], to mention just one color in the spectrum of shit they're up to, while on the other hand bragging about how they're not evil. Facebook can do what they want, people and use their "services" all they want, and roll their eyes about "outrage over FB" all they want, but then they also need to own it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19499598