skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are doing that, but the tinkerers are interfering with more important frequencies like RADAR used by weather providers and ATC... Locking down the frequencies so they can't possibly interfere isn't at all at odds with opening up new ranges for better service. I know a few people over at Mimosa (GBPS wireless backhaul providers) so I've seen a lot of progress in advocacy for new spectrum.

http://mimosa.co/news/36/75/Mimosa-Advocates-Expansion-of-23...
Newest version of RPM 4.13 will implemented logical dependencies, e.g. Require: foo IF bar , Require: foo OR bar OR baz, which are far more usable than soft dependencies.
And so I ask the same to you that I asked to 'PhasmaFelis, who seems to have been the first poster of that link in this discussion: what is the actual legal status of that document (which unlike others linked here does mention DD-WRT by name), and to which devices does/would it apply?
You did conflate the two.

Me: "I feel more free here in China than the US/UK" [doesn't include economy]

You: "It seems a bit hyperbolic to write something like this right when the Chinese economy has been in a tail spin, and the Chinese government has been censoring the press coverage of declining value of public companies (many of which have significant government ownership stakes)." [includes economy]

That's called conflating two issues.

While you are correct that China censors the press, the western press is also deeply controlled and manipulated for political purpose. For example, the UK has more concurrent gag orders in operation than anywhere else on earth. US and Australian media ownership is ridiculously centralized, worse if you include viewership.
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That's my point. I believe (and this is only my opinion, I could be wrong) that Obama truly believed the employees of GM and associated suppliers/entities were his stakeholders, and he acted to protect them (as well as the much larger economy surrounding GM as a whole).

How do you ensure "decent people" are always at the top? I don't know. I'm not a terribly big fan of Obama (drone strikes, supporting the NSA), but he's done an OK job. Now Elizabeth Warren and Rich Cordway (director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)? They're kicking all sorts of ass for the general public.

Find good people. Put them in charge. Get out of their way.
> Numerous tutorials and blog posts would never have been written if only functor was named mappable and monad was named computation builder.

If that were so, monad and functor tutorials would be as follows:

Functor tutorial: imagine it's called "mappable". End of tutorial.

Monad tutoral: imagine it's called "computation builder". End of tutorial
Out of interest, can you name any botnets that have exploited mcu's with locked firmware, like mobile basebands?
The rules do nothing of the sort. The guidelines state that the hardware manufacturer must make certain that reasonable efforts have been made to keep the device from trampling over radar systems, etc. The guidelines state that one route to do so is to have the firmware locked down in its entirety, but there are other ways to do so. Atheros chips, for example, do not expose the functionality that would require the chips to be locked down. Wireless researchers will almost certainly have the licensing in place to do investigation and modification. Device makers choosing not to update their devices should honestly be handled through tort; a few lawsuits against companies making defective routers will get makers to shape up. Buggy devices can and should be handled similarly. Finally, with your point regarding secure wifi vendors and the like, those would be the manufacturers and would by definition have access to all of those settings.

This campaign reminds a lot of the bad old days of Microsoft and spreading Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. This is not an evil policy that has nefarious purposes, it's about making sure people don't intentionally use their devices that will cause damage to the neighbors on the bandwidth spectrum. Also, keep in mind that the unlicensed regions were not created for communications, but rather so that medical and industrial heating devices have some range of frequencies to operate magnetrons, etc, without disrupting sensitive communications. Wifi uses them mostly because they do go unused the majority of the time.
Most math reads like very bad code to me: insufficiently commented, bad variable names, excessive (and wildly, ah, creative) operator overloading, no explicit types. Plus the debugging and analysis tools blow, forcing you to keep way too much in your head at any given time.

The documentation is extensive, but unfortunately too much of it takes the form of the same garbage code.
I'm blown away by how much of modern American (urban and suburban) culture can be attributed to the rise of gangsta rap. I work as a software engineer at a large tech company, and I can regularly hear (and am certainly guilty of) people greeting in the hallways: "what's going on homeboy!"

I have been listening to "Straight Outta Compton" for about 9 years, and what surprises me is how simultaneously dated the album sounds along with how ahead of its time it is. As Dr. Dre says in the linked article...the choruses are mostly him scratching the record. At the same time, the lyrics are so unapologetically violent and degrading towards women, that it influenced literally every major rap record that came after. Even the conscious rap movement was a concerted effort to distinguish itself from some of the more ignorant, hardcore stuff.

"Fuck the Police" is somehow MORE relevant 27 years after it was released, and I'm not convinced a popular rap artist would release a song today with a warning about a "bloodbath of cops dying in LA." Even Eminem had lyrics about Columbine censored on the explicit version of his album.
Dude, have you seen Postgrest?
https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest
> What is the legal status of that document?

It's on fcc.gov, so it's probably legit. It dates back to March, so it's conceivable that it's been modified or superseded since then; I haven't been able to find anything to indicate so, but I'd be happy to be wrong.

Basically, there seems to be a lot of confusion stemming from blogs that heard about the document that I posted, but only linked to the document that thejosh posted. I found this doc via the CNXSoft post that appeared on HN yesterday [1], which mentioned the "protected from flashing" line and linked to Etherpad notes from a presentation, which linked to the U-NII Device Security v01r02 document that I posted above. It's kind of a ridiculous chain, so I can see why people were confused. You're right that none of the documents directly linked in this thread talk about blocking custom firmware; when people are talking about that, they're thinking of the U-NII Device Security document, not the "Equipment Authorization and Electronic Labeling for Wireless Devices" proposed rule.

> Is this a case of some documents describing preliminary consultations and others a final situation that differed from what was contemplated originally?

Possibly. They may also be describing different aspects of the FCC's evolving wireless policy. I haven't followed the rabbit hole deeply enough to determine for sure whether the FCC is still currently on track to block custom firmware, but it appears that they were as recently as March.

> For that matter, is it actually the case that some routers don't fully isolate the radio control software as intended by the regulations, in which case installing custom firmware like DD-WRT or OpenWRT really would be a risk

Oh, yes, certainly. Most of these firmwares are designed to be useful for users all over the world; IIRC, the one I use (Tomato) lets you select your region from a pull-down, and then enables the channels appropriate to your claimed region. (You can achieve the same thing by downloading the manufacturer's firmware intended for a different region; custom firmware is not required.)

I think this was well-meant on their part, but I agree that it is a problem, and it makes sense for new routers to block access to block access to unauthorized channels on a level that custom firmware can't touch. I just think that blocking custom firmware entirely is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10137470
What would be?
I use Menlo in both the terminal and my editor, and am sure A good portion of of my coworkers use Monaco.
> The only good question you can ask about a law:

> "What are its consequences?"

Also, what are the consequences of not having the law?

Which I suspect was the intended meaning of:

> what was the justification for imposing such a restrictive rule?
I've never thought about fonts in coding environments before; you guys must be very experienced if you're thinking of stuff like that.

This is what my editor(Kate) looks like, is this a good font or a bad font? http://i.imgur.com/QtP1csu.jpg
Bitcoin's entire raison d'etre is that its transaction clearing mechanism is decentralized among untrusted parties. The best known way to enforce honest participation in this mechanism is by requiring workers (miners) to prove that they've expended resources (incurred a cost) in order to to be eligible to publish the next block and claim the block reward + transactions fees.

When a miner Finds a valid hash for a block, they prove that they've consumed a certain amount of electricity in a way they everyone can easily verify. In order for someone to perform a 51% attack, they have to use more electricity than everyone else, which is probably more expensive than just participating honestly. The security of the network is proportional to the amount of money it costs to attack it.

Mining is therefore neither wasteful nor inefficient, if it is understood that the goal is to have a decentralized, censorship-free currency that disincentivizes attacks.
localStorage works quite well for this - the main difference being that data is not sent to the server when you make a request, as cookies are.
Once it becomes a requirement, though, it'll be a reasonable line item in a grant budget, and so a much less financially daunting proposition.
Judge’s Order to Shut Down NSA Surveillance Reversed by Federal Appeals Court
I will double down on your anecdata, since that is my story as well.
Mixed Martial Arts Fighting and the Stories That Shape Our Sport
Nobody could make a UWB system that runs effectively over coax for cable companies. That isn't FCC getting in the way.

More interesting is the question of whether there are other forces involved. Cringely postulates the NSA, but I do think incumbents more likely:

http://www.cringely.com/2014/05/15/nsa-help-kill-uwb/
The shareholder meeting minutes are confidential. I can show them to my lawyer, accountant etc. But not to random people in the street, asking: "pst, 'want some shares?".
NEWSFLASH: ESR is a tool.
The big not-so-secret secret is that you don't have to understand much of Monad theory to enjoy Haskell. If you want to use Haskell as a nice functional language with a great typesystem.

As spopejoy says, Monad is a typeclass, that means every Monad is a type on itself. So you you can get by just learning every monad for its use without ever needing to know the theory that binds them.

The Maybe Monad is just an option type, the list monad is just a list and the IO monad is just a sequence of operations that gets returned to the runtime from the main function. Who cares that they all share a typeclass?
I hope you're not implying from that reference that Linux is managed better.

Who knows how much test coverage they even have for odd architectures in Linux. Just because they say it's "supported" means nothing.
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I've heard good things about the opening sections of the WikiBook - and if it is hard to understand, ask questions and then improve it! :)

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell
> Money has one important purpose :
1) Efficient allocation of labor for society's benefit.

The real numbers show that maybe around a billion are obtaining much more benefit than they other 5/6 billion, and often because of the have-nots' labor.

So on that basis you are wrong. But also, tevhnology is rapidly making labor irrelevant, as more and more work is automated.

> Since by definition society requires centralization to direct its purpose.

Bitcoin is an example of a decentralized system with a common purpose. So is bittorrent.
Or see any technology for distributing work or decision making.

Centralization in economics or politics leads to stagnation, authoritarianism, inequality. It is the primary problem that technology allows us to solve. Ordinary money was the first technology for solving over-centralization. We can do much better.
Exactly...we hear "free market economy" "advantage in efficient resource allocation" talk when Wall Street demanded deregulation, and that Glass-Steagall be repealed. Then when the rentiers start going broke it becomes "too big to fail" and President Bush signing TARP into law. The same thing happened in the 1980s - Reagan deregulated the banks, rentiers made money, then the S&Ls went bankrupt and the taxpayer was on the hook for the bill.

Then we have the 1979 government bailout of Chrysler...the 2009 government bailout of Chrysler...this company seems to need a bailout every thirty years...with some of the same talking heads shouting how the banks need to be bailed out denouncing the "socialism" of bailing out Chrysler.

Of course there was the 1971 government bailout of Lockheed as well.

Every year the US government sends $500 million to Iowa in direct farm subsidies...Senators Jodi Ernst and Chuck Grassley are against "socialist" measures that tend to go more to big cities in other states, but of course hypocritically demand the government give corporate welfare to the farmers in their state. Texas gets $400 million a year in direct farm subsidies, with the same hypocrisy surrounding it. At least Democrats are honest about what they're doing.

Then of course we have the net neutrality debates, with the backers of the AT&T/Verizon monopolists saying "get the government hands off the Internet". This is a laugh to people like me (and some others here I'm sure), who remember the days of ARPAnet and NSFnet and sri-nic.arpa and nic.ddn.mil and so forth.

Some people act like Red Guard students are still marching through Peking, throwing portraits of the Buddha in bonfires during a Smash the Four Olds campaign. In the modern day, the economy of the PRC does not operate all that differently than that of the US or Germany or some other country in terms of a "free market". The only different for the PRC is its economy has been booming since the 1980s much more than these other economies. Since 1990, every year the PRC's economy has grown 7% or more. That this might slow down for this quarter is what is eliciting surprise. Looking at the US economic downturns after 2000, and after 2008, it seems incredible that so many American pundits point to a slow quarter in the PRC's growth as signs of how they've been heading in the wrong direction all along etc. 7-14% economic growth every year since 1990 looks pretty good to me.
In Search of the Perfect Image Gallery
The article lead me to this comment by Rob Eisenberg who is skeptical about Web Components being ready. He states that currently, Web Components are not robust for more complicated uses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDtpXhMQeew&lc=z13zzzabckb1j...
I've already covered a lot of this in my response to Silhouette, so I won't repeat it here, but:

> We even have a few posters in this discussion talking about how they hate these new requirements because it means they can't run their routers illegally anymore.

Are you under the impression that the sole purpose of custom router firmware is to access restricted channels? Custom firmwares contain many very useful, legitimate tools, and also happen to enable region-shifting for users who want to keep their old router when they move, which unfortunately lets malicious or ignorant users access locally unauthorized channels.

As for the rest, the U-NII Device Security document I posted above is pretty clear about prohibiting all unsigned firmware, explicitly including DD-WRT.
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Did you watch the video?

"a template isn't for you. A facebook page isn't for you." ... "you could build one yourself, but designing, developing, dragging and dropping, these are all full time jobs." ... "Wouldn't it be better if websites just made themselves?" "Now they do. It's called The Grid. No templates, no coding" ... and the kicker ...

"Just tell The Grid what you want and it uses artificial intelligence to build a tailor-made home for your content."

"And tell The Grid what you want to do. Looking for more customers, more followers, higher sales, just make your selection."

The point is that the people who really understand what some silly automated website engine could do wouldn't be interested in it (they can actually make their own website as they like) and people who fund this thing don't have any idea how limited it will be, given this super slick video, which has smoothly animated layout evolution on well composed and lit three dimensional planes, and stuff like an old image of a girl playing being analyzed, points found, objects identified and then titled "Childhood", which suggests to people that The Grid will literally do that.

Of course we understand that's figurative, it won't really do any of those things... but that doesn't excuse the success of its false marketing with the wider population.
Your font is fine. Use whatever you like. Main thing I look for is fonts that differentiate between things like 0Oo and lI1. I prefer open source fonts too. Just don't use a non-monospaced font.
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Philosophers work well too: leibniz, spinoza, kant, russell, quine, nietzsche.

At various times I have used European capitals, characters from Futurama, characters from Dr Who (although everyone fought over who got 'k9').

Naming machines can be a lot of fun, and helps building a friendly organizational culture. It also ascribes some personality to what would otherwise be a deployment of 'lobotomized Unices.'
Receiving is not illegal. Sending on a restricted band, it is.
Священник+на+похоронах+-+цена+подразумевает+желательную+жертву
See also the “Sniglets” by Rich Hall, collected in a series of books.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniglet
Mine was pre-ordered, so it's from an early batch. By any chance are you using an alternate to the bundled AC-USB adapter? (Maybe it's a voltage issue.)
I really want a citation for that.
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Using DTrace to measure Erlang dirty scheduler overhead
It was your idea, thank you. :-D
It all comes down to crippling autism coupled with narcissism.
Having some experience with AI, I would also be suspicious of The Grid as it is described in this article. The most inconsistent part is the natural language interpretation stated by the author, which is both very hard to achieve successfully (see Siri, Cortana and Google Now) but also never directly promised by The Grid.

There is some ambiguity of what they mean by "Throw pictures at your website and it creates a gallery" (vaguely paraphrasing) but it is a leap to say this implies language processing.
User Data Manifesto 2.0
You grab a bunch of fonts, try all the monospace ones, find one you like, and go with it.

I use Liberation Mono everywhere. You might want to give Oxygen-Mono a shot just for kicks since its the "kde" font, but having used both I still like my Liberation.
You can get used to any font, and it is after all a matter of taste. I have preference but it's totally personal and might just be a habit. Whatever works, you know.
Well, to be fair, he's right. 32-bit is only interesting in the embedded space. If you're running a "real" operating system, there is almost zero cost to running a 64-bit processor instead nowadays.

I'd go further than him, though. OpenBSD has limited resources. Those resources are better deployed on security enhancements which filter out to other operating systems that support less common architectures.
I disagree.

There are some major benefits to the Haskell community's approach of naming abstractions after the math (where a suitable mathematical abstraction exists).

First, as has been mentioned, there are existing treatments of the objects in question, some interesting results there can be ported over to programming, and intuitions there lead new and sometimes useful places. Some newcomers will even be familiar with the concepts already - this is very few people for monad, but far more for monoid and semigroup.
It avoids erecting an unnecessary wall between programming knowledge and mathematical knowledge.

Second, it changes the character of a particular kind of discussion: there is never ambiguity about whether a newly considered operation on a type "really" is "appending" - is it associative? does it have an identity? you've got a monoid. This means it's very clear what you can and cannot assume around a particular interface. Questions about whether "functors" are well thought of as "containers" or "mappable" or whatnot are clearly only questions of pedagogy.
I wouldn't expect much love from OpenBSD for a CPU with a PowerVR GPU.
The history of SA was all very interesting. There was a culture of very long decent posts I always wondered how to replicate - you still have the user base with too much free time these days, but they might have too many demands on their attention span.

In 2000 or so, SA was set up as a sea of quality in an internet whose users really weren't ready to be good forum posters. (Like: children, racists, perverts, really angry teenagers, people with signatures of anime characters holding huge swords, furries) The anime forum was opened because nobody else wanted to read the threads, but they mostly left it alone.

As the years went on quality went down as the user base got too large, so the admins started effectively a left-wing death squad called Helldump dedicated to finding reasons to ban everyone. It was pretty puritanical in the American sense, so nearly all the long time anime posters got banned for being "probably a pedophile". One person I knew was banned for a slightly too sexy image posted 10 years before and had since become the pilot of Marine One. It's a little surprising they were never sued for libel.

SA inspired the rarely-used "user was banned for this post" label, but mostly showed the importance of not having a post history.
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It would be great to create an animation with the different movements you just described!
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But it's so much easier to get your mixed tabs and spaces aligned correctly with a non-monospaced font!
I worked with founder Brian Axe at Google. Unless he got a head transplant, he's zero bullshit.
From what I can gather this font is almost identical to Ubuntu Mono.
Top of the lowercase 't'.
More accurately, users are constantly angry because of conspiracy theories about website operation which they themselves made up. It can't be helped.
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I am partial to Luxi Mono myself:

http://frammish.org/luxi.png
I was first and foremost thinking about the style of communication and the friendly attitude.

I just thought it was worthy of comparison.
It's hard to say and would probably vary significantly depending on the workload. 64-bit pointers could theoretically take twice as much space, whereas TLB management, since the MIPS has a software TLB, is also expensive because the TLB interrupt handler needs to run, which means more icache usage (and also has effects on the instruction pipeline, comparable to any other interrupt.)
Wait, you believe bitcoin is declining in popularity because... "meanies"?