skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the one hand, I believe it's definitively a good thing that these services will be allowing for creation of niche content. I have long believed that your broadcast networks / USA / TNT just straight up cannot make good content because their expectations viewers wise are so high they end up trying to please everyone and make really, really generic television.

So yeah. I like that. But what's the endgame? Is this high profile Battlestar reboot supposed to generate enough subscriptions to cover the cost or is it just getting people involved in the NBC / Peacock ecosystem? Like, this is the same company that routinely cancels (nearly) every good show on SyFy (where, you know, I would kind of expect a Battlestar reboot to actually be) because they aren't getting enough viewers.

Now that it's a streaming service and their collecting the money directly from the viewer rather than going through Comcast does it make that much of a difference?
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Maybe remove history books, they also remind people about this.
I lived in Fort Collins and had Comcast from 2005 through 2016. Over that time, Comcast did improve its download speeds from 3 to 25 Mbit/sec over that period, for the same tier of service, "Performance Internet".

Since then I've lived on a farm outside Boulder, Colorado, with internet from Comcast. Here, the download speed of their "Performance Pro" tier has increased from 60 to 150 Mbit/sec, and will increase again to 175 soon. Also, Comcast has been good about fixing service problems, replacing the coax from their utility poles to the premises when I experienced loss of signal issues.

> I'm sure this is entirely a coincidence and has nothing to do with the fact that they suddenly have some competition now.

Yes, between Century Link putting in Gigabit fiber and Boulder's moves toward their own municipal internet, Comcast is likely feeling enough competition to keep making technical improvements.
People evolve. So do their opinions and beliefs.

Just because Universal Healthcare didn't catch on the first time doesn't mean it's dead forever.

It'll happen eventually. Maybe in 4 years, maybe in 40.
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Absolutely agree. The idea that competition will drive up wages rests on the assumption of a labor market with enough liquidity for employees to jump freely between roles. I do not understand the purpose of pinning health care to employers beyond giving them greater leverage over employees.
Yeah it would be great if Bank of America just worked with Safari and uBlock Origin on with my username and password, and it didn't have these moronic "patterns."
Is this what you had in mind?

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dnscrypt-proxy#Local_DN...

• https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Linux_Router_with_VPN_on_a...
I'll never understand how an individual can be so weak as to commit crimes because they were "told" to.

>then society has no standing to call them "disgusting" for not willingly sacrificing their lives for the sake of truth.

A tad over dramatic. We aren't talking about Snowden here; hundreds of HN users work for the major companies doing morally ambiguous things. They aren't going to be blacklisted for spilling the beans on Facebook. In fact, in this political climate they might even benefit greatly.

If you're willing to harm other people in order to avoid potential harm to yourself, it's disgusting, and no amount of "but what about me?" will convince me otherwise.
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I somehow doubt that streaming platforms will finally be the ones to end piracy once and for all via lawsuits.
Dupe: the other one is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21005650
Yes, here in Seattle the cheapest plan on the Obamacare market is $14K/year with a $15K deductible for a family. However low income families can qualify for subsidies.
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You mean like popcorntime used to be ?
Good point.
Though, I didn’t mean to say that there was a clear connotation, just, like, a possible/weak one.
Maybe the insertion of the word “entirely” is what creates the weak connotation?
And that word wasn’t used in the comment I was replying to, so my comment is probably moot.
That's a dupe. The other one posted by me is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21005707
whatever you want to call it, it’s spammy and more than a little desperate.
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On it, Sam.
I was coming here to say the same thing. This might explain why every time I try and login to and manage our Costco Citi card (which is in the wife's name) I constantly run into issues with the password in our shared 1Password vault not working. It's gotten so obnoxious she manages it entirely now via the mobile app, because every time I would try and make payments it would lock the stupid thing.
"Amazon has the right to do whatever they want to increase Shareholder value"

No they don't, they still have to follow relevant laws.

You have a point about universal healthcare, there's a few other things that could help in this situation though. In the EU I believe this would fall foul of anti discrimination laws (this affects only part time workers, part time works are more likely to be women). There are also protections against an employer unilaterally lowering peoples compensation.
The term "waterfall" is a straw man, software development methodologies have always required iterations. Just look at the Rational Unified Process (the industry standard before agile): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_Unified_Process#Four_...

Every phase of the project has iterations, but iterations stress different things (requirements in the beginning, construction and handover in the latter phases).
> RMS gave no real provable basis for his statement

I'm not sure what specific statement you have in mind.

However what I wrote before, i.e. that someone below the official age of consent may be able to give informed consent is simply the reality.

Reality is not black and white and does not conform to a specific world-view. Accusing about someone of "vomitting a baseless opinion" is not very inducive to discussion.
In the case described above, the topography is "completely flat", and the internet provider in question already provides electrical service to the premises.
Egypt has plenty of "free" land to generate more projects like this one. Very interesting way to generate power.
Hey, author here. You might remember me from posts such as "No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers".

I've made a job board for people without CS degrees. Since I am going to be applying for jobs soon and I am career-changer I figured I would make a solution for myself. It's really annoying to get to the end of a great looking job ad only to find they insist on a CS degree.

All of the job positions are fine with applicants being either self-taught with a good portfolio or having done a coding bootcamp. Let me know what you think!
I wonder if it is a well established knowledge that ISPs are a profitable business model, why is it that local governments take the cudgels of offering their constituents? Are there legal restrictions in place that would prevent government organizations from doing so? Or is it more on the technical perspective on why this is not being explored?

I see that public services at some point would include providing internet access as something vital alongside use of technology for services.
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The only major problem I had was the pdf conversion cutting off the styled container. I fixed it by adding an excessive top margin. So just be aware and check the formatting before you ship. :D
There are so many knee jerk/emotional rants in this opinion piece that I don’t even know where to begin.(PS: I like Sarah Taber and follow her on Twitter, fwiw)

I will just say this: I don’t think the particular example of Food computer at MIT Media Lav isn’t about ‘sugar daddy science’..but rather just a garden variety university level investors relationship.

Another issue is with more federal funding for research. I doubt it will actually fund research in public universities. It will likely be used for the care and feeding of tenured staff and less on research.
Well, Romania is known for cheap internet prices, but for reference, here the largest _private_ operator is offering 1Gbps for $9.33/mo, taxes included (19% VAT).

I kinda' doubt that $50/mo is really unsustainable, especially once the infrastructure is already built.
Because state owned prisons do not sign contracts with the state requiring % full or penalties. Only private prisons sign contracts with governments requiring 90%+ capacity or penalties. Thus only private prisons truly incentivize local governments to incarcerate more people to avoid extra costs, while if that facility is run by the taxpayer, they enjoy the savings of hiring less guards and incarcerating less people.
There's a difference between pirating something, and distributing pirated content, both ethically and legally.
I feel like an "Architect" should not be a standalone role. The architect for a project should be an engineer working on the project that can make decisions about the underlying architecture when a decision is needed.
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Get a neighbor and a few dollars and broadcast that connection as a wisp via ubnt equipment.
This is great. To anyone playing around with it: if you decrease your font size, it zooms you out!
This is also a good point.

Though the topic is beginning to cause me more discomfort than it was. Guess I wore through my “discuss uncomfortable topics without feeling uncomfortable” reserves.

Edit: That isn’t a complaint about what anyone else is doing though. I am merely noting my own limitations, and no one needs to do anything to accommodate them in this instance. Continue on as if I hadn’t mentioned them?
Reminds me of my 9th grade teacher who was refusing to call it USSR like everyone else and was insisting on saying "usre" (pronounced like a word).
To this day still wondering if it was militant, or if she just read that on a map and thought it was a word.
I was honestly just curious if there were. I totally agree that health coverage is a major issue for entrepreneurs.
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I think they are going to be for an - unpleasant - surprise if this hits mainstream. And not on account of having too little bandwidth but because people will most likely think it is fun to expose themselves.
> All that can be changed as well but at some point it gets complicated!

Not everything has to be changed, that's just a strawman.

But not every detail has to be nailed down at the beginning either.

The idea behind Agile is to reduce risk. If there is no risk of the bus system changing on you, there's no harm in fixing it right at the beginning.

But if there is a chance it might, you'd do well to have systems in place which enable you to react to changes with a minimum (though non-zero, of course) amount of pain.
looked at using airsim a few months ago to replace a product we'd been using for some time, problem was the actual vehicle dynamics simulation capabilities were subpar
Ok I gotta upgrade now :o
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I end up doing this organically with HBO. When Westworld/Silicon Valley/Game of Thrones comes out I'll subscribe. But after that, there's usually only 1 new movie on there that I'm interested in so I cancel it.

Considering the actual compression quality of HBO is much worse than Netflix or Amazon and the app sucks to use, it seems like they don't have the resources at HBO to actually do streaming well.

Overall, it doesn't really seem like an efficient way to buy content for either them or me. It's like if a studio made their own DVD player.
There's also the retirement that are funded through taxes on salaries and all the social safety nets and the public transportation networks
I'm out in the countryside, with wireless 4g lte data through a mvno. It's actually pretty decent compared to my other option, which was 4mbps max DSL. Multiplayer games are out, but streaming video at a decent quality isn't bad at all, certainly better than satellite internet.

On the flip side, our local provider got a grant to update their network to fiber (and a threat to lose exclusivity if they didn't improve the network). Oddly enough, they'll be charging $200 for gigabit, and offering lower speeds for more reasonable prices, even though they're installing fiber directly to our home next spring.

It is kinda shitty, but then again, it's just another tradeoff to make when living out here. Personally, I wouldn't give it up for anything compared to living in the city.
"I really disliked their checkin process" doesn't really explain the situation
Running on water is incredible.
Xfig is open source and has barely changed since 1991, but I don't think that's a feature.

Learning to use updates to a UI is relatively cheap. Having a bunch of tools that are outdated is expensive.

Inkscape is great for what it is, but it could definitely use a well thought out interface refresh.
UI specifications are inherently incomplete and often require feedback from stakeholders. You're developing software for consumption by regular humans with feelings and emotions instead of for another computer or developer. Then there's the "implied" specifications which could be anything from current design fads, to legacy support, accessibility, usability, and plain old opinion.

Maybe a bad example, but it's basically mandatory to include a manpage for a cli utility, but do you always include drag & drop for a file uploader?
What's the actual bandwidth like? Where's the closest big exchange?
This is kinda funny. I was able to get a .su domain earlier this year.
yes, but the point of my post is that the unwarranted enthusiasm for "home ownership because rent is a waste" leads to political destabilization of sectors of the finance markets. In terms of the point you raise, the "rent is a waste" belief means that your leveraged investment in housing just keeps you on the escalator because, while your investment has appreciated, you would need to roll it over into your next house, i.e. you rarely/never get to treat it as disposible income.

and all the bankruptcies and home foreclosures in an economic downturn shows the cost of high leveraged investing. A better way to achieve leverage is high beta stocks. Beta behaves just like leverage, except it automatically rebalances debt/equity on the way up and down. And the base rate of growth of the stock market is substantially higher, so you are leveraging a higher rate, even though you can't lever as much as a home.

and don't forget, owning a home and living in it as real estate prices rise means that you are "throwing away" higher and higher virtual rents that you would be entitled to collect and which factor into the value of your home.
I'm a dev and I have Office installed. You have a lot of assumptions going on, apparently.
Healthcare needs to be decoupled from employment and guaranteed to everyone. It’s time for Medicare for All.
Something else that is really annoying is how the various services have different controls. It is really necessary to change how fast forward / rewind work in each app?
Amazon really understands what security means. When it does 2FA, sends you a unique code by email, it disables the option to paste that code back into the login form, you have to type it. You know you are dealing with really competent people when you see that!
I still wouldn't call them design patterns. At least in haskell, they are not used like design patterns in OOP languages. They are more inherent properties of certain types (Maybe a "is" a monad etc.) and the instances are provided regardless of whether they are needed to solve a problem or not.

In OOP design patterns not only solve a specific problem, they are only used to solve the problem (no need to sprinkle the visitor-pattern all over your classes just because it's possible). Monad/Functor etc. instances are defined where they are possible. I view them as making inherent properties visible and explicit ("this action obeys these laws").

They are used to solve problems, but mainly by making abstract properties directly visible and reminding the programmer that he can just view them as this abstract concept and reuse existing machinery.
Amazed this was downvoted. The willingness to ignore history because it doesn’t fit in with some folks’ perception of the world is fully on display here.
Not exactly - classified information is already effectively "owned" by the USG from a stewardship perspective (not ownership). USG is supposed to protect and safeguard said info - said info is still technically public domain (owned) - it is just restricted due to national security implications.

SF-312 clearly specifies to the person receiving classified information that they have unique requirements for handling and disclosure.

That said, given SF-312, I think Chelsea Manning had a lot more downside exposure than Edward Snowden does. Ms. Manning shared the classified information in a very vindictive and dangerous way. Mr. Snowden was very careful in what and how he leaked with regards to the data in question.

Both acts are still technically violations of SF-312 (among other stuff, like criminal law), but the extent of risk and damage done to the USG interests is always evaluated.

(Have signed SF-312 multiple times in my life.)
> or it's available on prime but only in _foreign language_

or it's only available in a dub.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncing_bomb
It's that assumption, literally: if the attacker had managed to steal your session information from the browser, then they would not be able to use it since they would also need to share my IP.

In real life if the attacker is capable of stealing my session credentials the chance of them _not_ being able to tunnel through my local network is infinitesimal.
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It worked great for Bundy, I doubt the government would have backed down without the threat of violence. It works great in Afghanistan, and it worked great in Vietnam. It didn't work out great in Waco.
> if you can already read OCaml code you already understand these concepts.

This is a mistake. There are plenty of functional programmers who aren't familiar with these concepts. It's hardly a topic in introductory OCaml...
> Why am I supposed to believe that?

Because it's required by law, at least in the US, UK, and most of the EU. The quality varies somewhat, but the main goal is less to prevent fraud than to detect it after the fact. Basically every single bit of information your computer is willing to send will be recorded. That includes request headers at a minimum (if you've disabled JS) and quite a bit more if you do have it enabled. Try a packet capture when you open your bank account next time to see just how much they transfer out of your computer.

Source: used to work on one such product
I don't think Netflix and Disney will be too happy to hear that one customer is watching 100000 videos per day.
which means what?

nothing, people who pirate stuff will always have an excuse to do so. don't kid yourself into believing they are paying for content out of the goodness of their heart. they are paying only because they don't have a consistent free means to get the same content.

so the next big fight will probably be someone trying to sell a service combining/bundling feeds and running into copy right issues and such. it might lead to an association of services but that depends on how fragmented the industry becomes.

if anything with many players it should drive sub costs down especially for players who have little to offer themselves. if not there will be a lot of industry suffering until they sort it out. consumers will likely stick with one or two providers at most
I would say it comes down to two things:

1 - Is it a domain where "user story" means something?
2 - Is it a domain where you can iterate fast?

Usually for UI these two conditions are met. From my experience, when talking about big infrastructure projects, they aren't
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In the first article, fitting that data with a parabola+trigonometric is a very big red flag. The error interval for the quadratic coefficient must be huge, but I can't find it.

It may be fit with a line+trigonometric to get some approximation for the next few years (10? 100?). With a line you get 50000 years to the 0 oxygen level, that is less alarmist than 3600 years.

Also, without a good model it's a bad idea to extend these projections too much. There are a lot of natural process that depend on the concentration of oxygen and will change. For example, under 15%-10% concentration of oxygen you can't burn wood so you solve the problem of forest fires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limiting_oxygen_concentration
It's fully buzzword-compliant.
I think both are great books, but the book you choose is secondary in importance to the amount of time you spend just bashing your head against it until it starts to make sense.
First you would have to remove weapons from law-abiding citizens and criminals. The first one might be easier (with occasional resistance). The second might be much harder since criminals don't really care about laws in the first place.
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Lots of mechanical linkages interacting with each other. Move one and everything else moves as well. Gears, shafts, levers, chains (modeled as independent links), that sort of thing.
Consider what the community is already investing in these people. The street along which those lines were strung probably cost a lot more than 70k to construct and maintain; why would the municipality draw the line at Internet?
It's an internal domain. The user-facing stuff uses vanity domains (google, youtube, etc) but the servers' "true" hostnames reside in 1e100.net.

https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/174717?hl=en

For example, here's the IP I get for "google.com":

$ dig google.com +short
172.217.10.238

A reverse lookup on that IP resolves to...

$ dig -x 172.217.10.238 +short
lga25s59-in-f14.1e100.net.

So, you're most certainly connecting to things in that domain, which is just a roundabout way of saying you're connecting to some Google property.
Sounds kind of like what's described in Neural Networks, Types, and Functional Programming: http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-NN-Types-FP/
Germany does outlaw requesting photos on a job application, so they clearly see some kind of problem with it. But attitudes today are not the ones to look at when trying to figure out why it became a common practice in the past.
I hope a minor annoyance in the UI which has been nagging me has been fixed in the recent versions:

To draw lines with arrows, one needs to draw a line then select the arrow style, where as a the natural flow would be to set the style before drawing the line. Imagine if you have 20 lines of the same style, it is painful to draw 20 standard lines and then go back to change each of their appearance individually. It would be better if one could define a style of line, then create lines of that style as many number of times as required.

Having such stylesheets will for example change the width of all lines of the given style easily later.
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Most everything is available on the streaming services now people are just going back to piracy again because they don't want to pay the aggregate cost of all the streaming services combined. Again it all just comes down to folks wanting unlimited everything from everywhere for $12.99/month.
In my family it basically led to everyone subscribing to the services that interests them the most and sharing accounts. I subscribe to Youtube TV, Netflix and sometimes Shudder. I use HBO and Hulu from my family members.