skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fraud yes, because they're underprovisioned if everyone asks for 1 Gb, but the ponzi scheme continues to work okay because many households will find that median 72 Mbps is enough for several vid streams so they're good to go.

The bigger problem is the industry which can do horrible, abusive things to its customers and communities. They'll try anything except delighting their customers. If any of the upcoming WISP solutions like Starlink take off, you might imagine a serious disruption.
In India..

~$20 for 100Mbps (data capped at 400GB)

~$85 for 1Gbps (data capped at 2.5TB)
It is unfortunate. I hope that what Stallman brought to the world due to his personality is not overshadowed by this. I think that the people who, for lack of a better term, are frothing at the mouth with the opportunity to attack him don't have a true understanding of the degree to which free software has changed the world, powering companies and huge parts of the economy. It baffles me. Maybe they just don't care. I'm not sure, but I feel that he is being wildly misrepresented.
>Most normal middle class people aren’t going to go through the trouble of pirating movies and setting up a Plex server and then worry about setting up their router to get a good connection while they are away from home and even then deal with the abysmally slow upload speed of the typical home network instead of spending $8 a month to just have the convenience of Disney+ to be a glorified babysitter.

Depending on the country, you'd be surprised.

I'm not sure why Disney has the hold it has in the US, but in most of Europe I know it's nothing special (to the point of being a "must have" brand). Kids can just sit in front of regular kids TV channels. And normal middle class families can and do pirate all the time...
> All judges will use gavels - regardless that in the UK, only an auctioneer uses a gavel, no court possesses one.

Not true - for example Inner London Crown Court.
FreeOffice seems to be based on OpenOffice. There are keyboard shortcuts in PlanMaker that are very un-Excel like and that I think I recognise from OpenOffice.

I wonder what is their business model. There doesn't seem to be a paid option.
Apple Music pirated recordings by many big-name artists, claims lawsuit
I went to "according to tripadvisor" the best activity in Tenerife, a zoo called Loro Parque. I described the poor situation of the animals with photos and my comment got censored by tripadvisior, probably due to the great amount of money that they get from the park.
From that day I stopped using Tripadvisor after making 100s of reviews.
It doesn’t need to be any better to satisfy this user. I also pull it out 2-4 times a year and am happy that everything has more or less stayed the same for 8+ years.
romania?
Well we got close untill the heads of the intelligence agencies lied to Congress.. Drat, I guess they were too slippery for us this time!
Really?

https://www.judiciary.uk/about-the-judiciary/the-justice-sys...

Edit: LOL. According to "Inappropriate Gavels" @ Twitter, they do indeed, but they're not used at all by the judge. They're the one court where clerks use a gavel to signal the judge's arrival. Still, I stand (partially) corrected. :)
Hey folks, here is our blog post with the launch announcement which contains some more details about ACH uptake in the US and its benefits:
https://gocardless.com/blog/introducing-us-payments-with-goc...
On ocasions it might be an ice breaker. I have started to use a few scenes from movies (not quite reaction gifs) as boundaries on some presentations to make the audience laugh (a bit of relief from very technical topics) and also add a clear boundary where I can ask them "did you all get that? let's move on to another topic then".
Whenever you hear "deregulation", think "choosing winners".

The form of "deregulation" we get from Ajit Pai's FCC selectively advantages the incumbent oligopoly of telcos, leaving in place the most grotesque market-distorting regulations and removing controls on vertical integration which allow for the expansion of telco power into other industries.

Market failure can take myriad forms. The ISP situation in the US is a particularly maddening variant.
The only ethical pay-per-view system I can think of would be to stream directly from the production source (production house, artist), some sort of a paid RSS-like feed.
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Big ISPs (and any big company really) can afford to lobby (legal bribery) to get laws exclusively in their favor. This basically guarantees that the bar for any new player is ridiculously high if it's even possible to pass, and that customers have no real choice.
That is literally not how electing prosecutors is playing out in the US. They have the highest incarceration rate in the world. Jailing innocents is rarely even an election issue.
Im letzten deutschen Satz fehlt ein Komma.
Innovation in the IP Industry – We're on TV
how does a link like this gets to the front page of hn?
Finding the sites themselves is easy with a VPN, reverse SSH shell or proxy. Make sure all of your torrents are encrypted and it'll be more difficult for them to actively block packets (which is the way it will eventually go).
If I recall, they are very new to OCaml too.
Agreed. I think the war on drugs and especially more recently the war on opiates is a travesty. I sometimes wonder if the amount of suffering caused by the lack of access to proper treatment due to the fear among doctors of legal issues for prescribing is comparable to the suffering on the other end of the spectrum.
For me yes, I wouldn't want it all the time, but after so many years in Germany, feels natural, given that I understand it as good as I do English. I wouldn't say the same if you had written in Kaixana or any other language I neither speak nor can use an online translator with. I however don't think that there should be written rules, unless this becomes a problem.
Pirating shows and putting them on an external drive that you plug on any TV and can take with you on trips works fine and most normal middle class people can manage it though.
Can you clarify what you believe is being "dickish" in this case?
Looking at the kind of kick back services like Netflix get I can see why you would want to be so sensitive. In my opinion, empathy is a good approach. Business customers will understand with a brief but direct communication but some home users might respond better to empathy. I’m sure there is a balance to be found there somewhere.
Ops typo 1.4 billion / 7.7 billion = 18%.
Faliciously Purporting that Federal Regulatory Agencies are intended to be something because that's how they currently function doesn't lend you any credibility. Instead it makes untrustworthy and manipulative.

It's completely possible to corrupt an agency and for the FCC to behave the way you described through political interference but that is not their intended purpose.
If anyone is interested, registering a domain is $29.99/year and requires the submission of an identity document (passport, driver's license, etc).
AFAIK Brandur uses Monodraw [1]. It's so cool, I even purchased a license for myself, although the author of the app stopped its active development [2].

[1] https://monodraw.helftone.com/

[2] https://blog.helftone.com/monodraw-maintenance-mode/
It didn't get off quickly.
It's over day old and has 1665 points. HN news gradually get lower in the rank as they get older.
It changes. When you don't understand the problem, yes, simplicity is your best bet. Keep the code clean, clear, because you are going to have to change it a lot. As the understanding of the problem increases, and this does not always happen since sometimes the problem changes too quickly to be understood, then a good architecture can make an enormous difference.
It's interesting because it's still in use, even though the Soviet Union doesn't exist. ICANN hasn't been successful in forcing the retirement.

Compare to the .cs TLD for Czechoslovakia which was phased out and replaced with new TLDs.
That the funny thing I have HBO, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime but sometimes it's easier to watch something on a pirate site than searching for which service has what.
While I really like the idea of a feature phone that can has some smarts, can function as a WiFi hotspot, and has battery life to allow charging only once a week, if there's no ability to write apps that are compiled to binary code then I have to wonder how much the JavaScript VM powering aps is going to drain the battery compared to an app that was written in C/C++.
By the way, Honduras has the ".hn" toplevel domain name.
WeWork postpones long-awaited IPO, sending its bonds falling
Hi Pedro, Brad from GoCardless here. So glad to hear you're enjoying the product. The US (well, North America, really) definitely has a penchant for credit cards relative to the rest of the world, but Direct Debit is sizeable (and growing)!

Last year, the ACH network (the US's equivalent of Europe's SEPA network, or the UK's Bacs network) added more than a billion new transactions for the 4th year in a row. The system saw 23 billion transactions, of which 13.4 billion were debits.

The org that oversees ACH - Nacha - has indicated 80% of US businesses prefer to receive B2B payments via ACH debit, and 53% of consumers share this preference for recurring bills. (That said, there's still a lot of opportunity - a Goldman Sachs report found that 60% of B2B payments are still done by check.)
Handshake is a blockchain protocol that aims to solve the issue of trusting hundreds of CAs. It's a protocol that's similar to Bitcoin, except instead of using coins as money, you use Handshake coins to register names on the Handshake blockchain. These names are top-level domains (TLDs) like .com, .org, .net. Handshake decentralizes the root zone file, which is the ICANN-controlled file that determines who owns what TLD. Anyone can register their own TLD on the Handshake blockchain.

We need some form of DNS decentralization not only for security but also to improve availability.
The operating system of the PlayStation 4 is a fork of FreeBSD
Bell?
What inherently requires an identity to register a domain name?
Last time I researched the topic, the conclusion was the level of simulation was too low in comparison with a real exercise. It still has its use in physiotherapy and rehabilitation though.

My answer to low energy is coffee. Do stupid things faster (c)!
What does visible from space mean?
Lumin PDF left data on open MongoDB
For Disney's kids stuff sure, but they're also pulling Marvel movies and Fox shows from Netflix
It's okay, there are a number of people in this thread who haven't. The interesting part is, legally, how there are two separate parts: intent (I intended to do this action, why car accidents are not murder) and knowledge (I knew, or should have known, this was a crime).

In this case, they could not form mens rea because, to their knowledge, they had permission to "break into" the building. Like when you lock yourself out of your house and hire a locksmith to "break in". The locksmith has intent, but no "criminal knowledge" because you gave them permission.
I remember using a service to get a russian visa hosted on a .su domain. When I found out what .su was, it felt pretty confusing :)
I would say individual, but then again it's a question of what is more fair -- individual bonuses, or team bonuses.
To begin with, it is probably released with a subset of the CI matrix, because I imagine that the full CI matrix takes more than a day.
Second, it is nearly impossible* to cover all possible environments+addons+websites and test them correctly. This isn't a normal desktop app, nor a webapp that always is running relatively sandboxed in a more or less known environment. Browsers are platforms, as OS are. Lots of people doing wacky stuff on it. Very hard to realistically automate all that stuff.

*impossible with a limited constraint of time and/or money.
Not OP but Hungary EU, 9 euro for 1gbps/300mbps (and no contract needed)
I'm in the PH as well and I pay 55 USD (2,899 PHP) per month for 100Mbps. Ok, I am happy most of the time with 10Mbps but I have occasionally a good surprise.
.an also was phased out when the Netherland Antilles dissolved

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.an
I understand your point, however I've come to enjoy the separation between Git concepts (Repository) and GitLab features (Project, Issues, CI/CD).

That said, I still find GitHub's UI and UX more appealing.
I also got the same feeling, there is no way to preserve milk for long if you don't process it. And preserving food was much more important question those days, I suppose
How is this a Ponzi scheme?
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The problem is not to many streaming choices but the increasing fragmentation of which videos are available on which platforms.

IMHO the increasing coupling of video producers and streaming services isn't a good idea at all as it again produces (quasi)monopoles for certain brands/shows (e.g. Disney).

Through then IMHO the trend of tech companies increasingly expanding in a way which couples different kind products together is a worrisome trend (e.g. hardware producer couples with os producer coupled with application producer, or content producer coupled with content delivery services, or "shared" online marked places coupled with them starting to sell their own "featured" products, or coupling of ebook store with ebook reader, etc.).

My guess is that this will lead to increasingly large companies with increasingly less chances for real competition giving this companies more and more (mainly implicit) power over people and economy and with this also influence in politic.

Sure currently for streaming services it looks like it will lead to better competition, but my guess is that this won't be long term and in a view years we will be left with a oligopol of a small number of companies now dominating both production and distribution of high quality video entertainment content, without there being any real chance for any new competition (except if there is some form of interactive video revolution (I don't mean video games) coming from outside the video industry.
Artbreeder
Also see the excellent This American Life podcast:
Running After Antelope
Stories of people engaged in a battle with nature — a battle they don't stand much chance of winning. Most of the show is Scott Carrier's story of trying for twelve years to chase down and catch an antelope by foot.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/80/running-after-antelope
It's even worse when a show is split by season among services
This feature is such a game-changer - I take the occasion to plug my own Slack app Smooz[https://www.smooz.io] which does the same thing, creating shared channels, even if it will probably be replaced by Slack native feature when they extend it to free plans

When it came out, it was really a big deal for our users, so I can understand why Slack worked so hard to add this feature. The engineering description is fascinating. Also, while it's never fun to see your app being taken over by the platform, I must stress that Slack API team was very fair and gave me a heads-up far, far ahead of release
> Fraud yes, because they're underprovisioned if everyone asks for 1 Gb

All residential ISPs overprovision [1] at some point or another - be it at the acccess level (as with shared mediums like DOCSIS and GPON), distribution/aggregation (metro Ethernet switch and (V)DSL DSLAM uplinks) or at peering/upstream level (always).

You cannot expect to have non-overprovisioned 1Gbps at $60/mo, when global transit is currently around $0.6/Mbps/mo. Typical overprovisioning levels range from 1:8 to 1:16.

[1] - From the point of view of offered speeds vs. underprovisioning infrastructure, as you put it.

EDIT: corrected that DSL is not shared medium
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One of the best design decision we come up with for a cluster configuration synchronization feature between nodes of our appliance born during an ad-hoc conversation between 3 senior engineers. We made the decision in like 2 hours. No long and unnecessary meetings with architects or week-long planning. It was made for a 1 million dollar deal and we finished in a couple of months. You could probably guess how the "architecture" looked like; we downloaded the config files from a web server running inside the cluster. That's it.
> But the actual numbers don't lie, Europeans on average pay less for healthcare

That's besides my point, which is that you can't just tax the rich to pay for universal healthcare. It has to come out of everyone's paycheck.

The other side of the coin is that Europeans earn less and that healthcare workers especially earn less. Yet, systems such as the NHS are at the brink of financial collapse.

You couldn't achieve the same "savings" in the US without massive forced wage cuts to health care workers.

> I'd rather pay my taxes...

That's a fair opinion to have. Saying that you'd rather "tax the rich" isn't, it's dishonest (or uninformed).
I was discussing with a friend that in some bizarre alternative universe where things had played out differently, cable would seem like the great alternative to all the streaming services we have now. You only have to pay one monthly fee, and you have thousands of choices available to you! Sure, it's not on demand, but with so many options, and many things on a regular schedule, finding things to watch is easier than ever.
Yo, I've just killed your dog and reformatted your HDD. No big, the sun's going down in 5 billion years.

:D
How Niche Western brands are accidentally gaining China market share
Sadly Disney is a lifestyle choice for a lot of people and the passion they have for the brand can be downright cultish and creepy at times.

Groups like hardcore Disney fans, R. Kelly fans, and Evangelical Christians all share a very similar devotion and loyalty to their idols.
A CRUD social network site which can auto-scale on AWS or on your own server in no time. Get the code here and you can test it for yourself and see what happens. This is just the first prototype. I don't know how long it will last and how many times it will be updated, but for now I am happy with what it has turned out.
I see. I thought it was very strange as no comment & so random.
You don't understand how low-friction piracy is these days. Only techies deal with automation and Plex.

Most people just buy a "fully loaded" android box which lists thumbnails for all the latest movies and TV shows on various file storage sites. They select a thumbnail and the movie plays. Nothing local at all, all streamed.
I'm not seeing how it gonna drive people "back" if one click downloads never ceased to be a prime option even for people in developed countries.

When I was studying in college in Canada in 2010-2012, I never ever saw a single student using a paid download site.
For those who speak Russian here you can find the rules for registration: http://www.fid.su/files/SU_rules.pdf
> 10cm
Basically every telecom network is built as fiber to the node not fiber to the premises. The nasty truth of all communication and transportation systems is that arteries are cheap and capillaries are expensive.

If I am building roads, it is WAY cheaper to just build highways than it is to build the small roads to everyone’s homes. When doing construction for telecom, the payback calculations are based upon “passings” which basically says “if I lay this cable, how many potential subscribers will I get?” which is a function of addressable users and sales modeling. Comcast used to believe that in a new market, competing against att only, they could win more than 50% of customers over just by connecting them to the Comcast network.

Please always remember, telecom, and transportation, are not technology businesses, they are real estate businesses. Telecom’s real estate are exclusive operation licenses, the most important of which being wireless spectrum, and the second most important of which being the places where they can exclusively tear up the earth to lay cable.

Circling back on my point at the beginning, if we laid fiber to every home, we would not need to upgrade the network connection itself for a long, long time. As it stands now, we have a lot of work to do if we want real high speed options in the future.

More fiber to the home, less fiber to distribution nodes!!
a simple "Please confirm this the place where you have been? <pictures>" while posting would prevent many (most?) errors.

You could use a plethora of other information to show this intelligently and not bother everyone (e.g. if you have been in the area, if you looked for the place beforehand etc)
Although I'd prefer to have everything on Netflix, I'm definitely going to get Disney+. Not a fan of Disney the corporation, but if Disney+ contains everything Star Wars, everything Marvel, everything from Jim Henson, and everything from all their other properties, there's no way I'm going to pay for easy access to that.

We don't even watch regular TV anymore at my home. It's either Netflix or Youtube.
Where did you find a price like that?
I own one and I pay like 3$ a year. However ID indeed is required.
Climate gentrification and the role of flood insurance [pdf]
Probably a bad comparison to make, however in construction if something is built according to the plans from the engineering firm, and somehow those plans were not up to snuff and voided a warranty or worst case could be illegal and not up to code, it will NOT fall on the welders and workers who created the project (Unless they didn't perform job i.e. welds not up to par). Failure would be on the engineering firm who was supposed to ensure all plans were created according to the specifications.

If the company these two were working for had a "plan" much like building documents, or a scope of work document/contract then there should be no reason for these guys to get in trouble as physical penetration testing would be listed.

I see two possibilities.

1) Company did not have a good scope of work, which at the end of it all this should fall on them and not the employees in charge of performing their work. These guys should be let go, compensation to them paid from the employer for their error, and said employer has to pay everything, including fees and having their reputation tarnished.

2) There was bad miscommunication. There was physical penetration listed in the scope of work, however the police were not informed and acted as they would with anyone breaking into a courthouse. This would then fall on the department who hired them, which should pay the employees for their time/trauma and make an apology exonerating the company who was hired to pen test.
Given the target devices for KaiOS, wouldn't AOT compiled apps have the problem of not being sure which CPU will be supported? It's probably not as big of an issue today but at the inexpensive, low-power side of the spectrum there might be a diversity of CPUs within a year or two... is KaiOS going to host compiler services in the cloud to dynamically compile apps for the myriad possible CPUs out there? While consuming more battery, using JavaScript to power the apps not only lowers the barrier to entry for app developers but creates a common target for all hardware vendors to support. That said, I do like the idea of these devices having the ability to run native code as that would get more like from the battery.
It sometimes depends on the printing. Books printed for the US market will use hood, trunk etc. Books printed for the UK and Australian markets will use bonnet, boot etc.

If you buy online there's a good chance you'll get the US printing because it's usually the cheapest.
It all comes down to how easy the Roberts Court has made it for corporate entities to buy favorable treatment, giving corporations every possible advantage and loosening all restraints.
The unlimited plan also has free phone calls...