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> If you set up regulation in a way that can be easily repealed on a power switch

I've been sending emails like the one I sent today for more than a decade.

The FCC power grab complaint is rhetoric. If the FTC had enforced, we'd be talking about claims of an FTC power grab. If Congress had stepped up to the plate, we'd be hearing about how we need to "repeal and replace Obamanet".

If you think diddling with jurisdictional setup means I won't be sending these emails for another decade, you're naive. That's not how democracy works.
That's all well and good, but it's impossible to argue that point when people are awarded patents where previous work exists that the patent office failed to investigate enough.
He also "predicted" that a basket of five common commodities would become more scarce in the face of increased demand contrary to classical economic theory[1]. He was thoroughly defeated.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager
Unfortunately, in an attempt to do something about this, the people got conned.
I'd vote for DNS-over-HTTPS or similar tech. Encrypting domain name resolution should help mitigate a gateway or proxy (Comcast) from knowing or blocking sites you visit.
Actually the solution is simple: email your concerns about specific cases to hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into them, but don't make posts to HN insinuating astroturfing or shillage unless you have evidence, and remember that someone happening to hold a different view than you doesn't count as evidence. If we all follow that approach I'm pretty sure the community will be ok. Believe me, we take great pleasure on behalf of the community in clubbing actual manipulation when we find it.

The problem with what you're saying above is that you don't have any way to distinguish "such things" from what merely look like "such things". There are many more of the latter, and there are plenty of HN users who feel the same way as you but who see a completely different set of posts as "such things". If we take the union of all those sets it amounts to most of what gets posted to HN. Just imagine everybody with such perceptions doing a j'accuse on everybody else with such perceptions; this would destroy the community much more quickly than astroturfing ever could. So we all have to be disciplined about this—vigilant, sure, but also disciplined in how we react to what we think we see. I like a thing that Rilke said: Doubt, but turn your doubt also upon itself.
do you mind me providing a bit personal suggestion? When you've began resorting to play of words like 'barbed fences, trip-wire mines...' instead of providing concrete proof/examples in your post, you've already lost your argument.

> Writing C++ code longer than a few lines without UB is humanly impossible.

Do you want me to provide one for you? Because that will definitely change your definition of 'humanly impossible' tasks and might also bring you back from realms of using comically bad phrases..
The data center doesn't consume the max output of each diesel, that would be an idiotic design.

Also, Visa handles orders of magnitude more transactions per second so the energy difference is staggering. Bitcoin users are like regular people driving around in coal fired steam locomotives.
> Front end development is not easy

While this is true, it's definitely not hard at all. I was a C++ dev for 6 years at the same company working on IOT devices, and it became extremely stressful. I now have a job (for 2 years) working as a front-end developer and my life has become so much easier. You can learn most frameworks in a working day.
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You're argument is absolutely sound: where possible, producers should be able to differentiate products to better suit the consumer demand. However, you overlook the unfortunate fact that there are signicant barriers to entry for ISPs, which means that it is effectively impossible for new producers with the current ones such as AT&T, Verizon, Time Warner, etc. What results is an oligopoly which has significant anti-trust issues and largely causes suboptimal results for the consumer (consider the absurdly high prices Americans pay for shitty Internet service). Open the doors to a new marketplace of service for these ISPs and all hell will break loose. Add to this the political leanings of these companies and it's hard to imagine a worse outcome.
Its related to the dynamism of the economy. More startups/new businesses == more jobs, more competition, more creativity etc.
> 1) I imagine a hospital that performs surgery via telepresence. This seems a pretty clear area where I would really want the opportunity to pay more, to ensure that the connection between the surgeon and his robot never even suffers the slightest amount of jitter. This is life-and-death, and I can't see why people would object to a right to pay more for higher-priority for this traffic.

Just how would that work across multiple ISPs? The application begs for a circuit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog - that's you mate.
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Most people still don't understand computers, but they're easy to use and relatively predictable, although security is still a big problem.

The thing about currency is that if people lose their money they might suffer and die. So it should be easy enough to understand that they can't easily be ripped off, and transparent enough that nobody can accumulate system-changing quantities without that being pretty obvious to everyone else. I've been interested in Bitcoin for years but understanding the Bitcoin ecosystem seems like a full-time job. You can't have an economy entirely based on financialization and trading, and if the people who specialize in handling the currency are sure to end up with the largest amounts of it then it's hardly better than what it's replacing.

I'm not saying there should be no rewards for specializing in currency work, but I'd like to see some sort of self-limiting mechanism. I'm reminded of a humorous Stanislaw Lem story in which a wicked king is tricked into replacing all the currency in the kingdom with uranium coins, so that his insatiable desire to accumulate as much as possible in the royal treasury eventually leads to criticality and his subsequent destruction.
It's not security related, but: Accessibility.
I've spent enough time writing C to know that I want to minimize my time spent writing C. It's been an important language to know for dealing with foreign function interfaces, but I work almost exclusively in high-level, memory safe languages now. I'm much happier and my programs are much less vulnerable to exploitation.
Is sexism really prevalent in Silicon Valley?
Granted disguising things as a bug is also one of the sneakier and better ways to implement the feature if that was the intent to begin with ;-)
I struggle to imagine how you could be more wrong. C offers minimal if any possibilities for writing safe code, while C++ offers many.

Anybody who has the faintest clue about both languages should know that.
Agreed, but I'd add ipv6
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JavaScript Standard Library created that every browser has "installed" and updated automatically.
Well, why is today different from all other days? :)
Do you not think that mining metal, the minting process etc... is not waste?
Take the power to create districts away from the legislature. Give it to a non-partisan commission. 1/3 Democrats, 1/3 Republicans, and 1/3 other/no party. We did that in California, and almost none of the legislators were happy with it, which means it probably did a good job. The state still wound up with mostly Democratic representation, but that's more a product of California being heavily Democrat. I'd imagine that if you did the same thing in Texas, even if the districts were much less gerrymandered, you'd still have mostly Republicans.
If the process to make this kind of solar cell can be lowered enough through scale then they should communicate this process to Chinese solar companies. I am sorry for my poor understanding of chemical process; if the materials of the solar cell are roughly the same then it would be quite easy for the existing manufacturers to actually switch to this solar cell production.

I cannot wait for the era of super cheap electricity!
Receive ATSC or QAM TV.
So a group with Innovation in its name says that decreasing innovation is the "core economic problem America faces today." Hmmm. Color me skeptical.
Dropping TLS in favor of IPSec. Now every protocol is transparently secure by default and there's no chance of developers accidentally messing it up.
Whats to prevent ISPs from starving out the whole internet package to force people into buying additions?
If that mine wasn't there, the energy would just be shipped off onto the grid, never to be seen again.

That town does look depressing, but that's what like 90% of little western Chinese towns look like.
By the way I have tried to use promises in PHP (they are almost the same as JS promises) and had the same problem with promises catching all exceptions and reporting nothing. I am thinking now about writing my own version of promises because nobody seems to understand how to handle exceptions and unhandled rejections correctly.

> Catching unhandled errors is by design and it works great.

I don't think that it's great because by default I would prefer to terminate the application if there is an unhandled error or rejection. This is called "fail fast" principle. What promises developers suggest is to continue running the application even if it's broken.
Zoho has been constantly blowing me away with their SaaS products.
Are Google, FB, Amazon, and others actually supporting this and if so, how? I don't see anything on their sites about this. As far as I'm concerned, they're not doing anything to support this. And of course, why would they?
Yes! I have a Samsung Vizio. So it's not just mine. When I turn on the screen, there is an 80% chance that the TV can't connect to the internet. I have to switch from the most-recently used app to another and back (say, Netflix to Amazon to Netflix) to force the TV to kick start its internet connection. It seems like the TV or its apps get stuck in some idle mode when the screen is off.
> How much of the standard library works without GC enabled? How many community libraries do?

Enough to be usable on virtually all platforms that rust is going to target in next 2 years. I hope I'll get proven wrong but that's it for now. And maybe along the time we'll see some decoupling of stdlib from GC too.

OTOH some people like GC too :)
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Well the Example ARKit app is based off of scenekit, which is a wrapper for Metal. Scenekit is a more natural choice to people who have background with Three.js or want to develop more with code.

Ive been developing ARKit stuff solely with scenekit, and I enjoy it. I would like to learn unity, but I dont see a point now cause of the high learning curve to learn unity and since ARKit is iOS only, no point in using something thats cross platform. But would love to hear of any feedback on using Scenekit vs Unity!
Blaming the lack of business dynamism on environmental regulation is both wrong and dangerous. Tt encourages people not to take you and the problem seriously, because they (quite reasonably) write you off as just another crony capitalist upset that he can't poison the world without consequence.
> This ship sailed a long time ago

You may be right, but I hope not. The fact Mozilla negotiated stricter privacy in their contracts is a step in the right direction, so this shows some desire to improve. It needn't be the final step.

Beyond that, there are other areas where there's been similar change. The Mozilla Stumbler project, for example, is explicitly designed to improve user choice in a privacy-sensitive area dominated by a Google service; a service that was embedded in Safari, Firefox and Opera 12 (Presto) for a long time without users being aware their browser was phoning home to Google.

I would hope this GA fiasco could someday be similarly resolved with enough user pressure.
What hoops have you had to jump through?
Consumer choice between ISPs solves most of these problems.
Totally! That's far different than "no major package manager accepting or even ready to accept programs written in Rust yet", though.

Oh, I thought of something better than just the compiler: https://github.com/burntsushi/ripgrep#installation

* homebrew

* chocolatey

* arch

* gentoo

* fedora

* RHEL/CentOS

* Nix

All have at least one Rust program packaged :)
I often find that when I try something in practice I become aware misunderstandings i have, and details that I might have missed. Of course, if you implement enough algorithms you will learn which mistakes you commonly make and start making fewer of them.
The startup scene now is more capital dominant, than innovation. Therefore regulation is more important than other things.

IMHO, this is a reflection of the stagnant of fundamental new technology breakthrough since the internet era started. Internet itself hardly brings anything new, it merely make things marginally more efficient.

Maybe AI is the true innovation we have been waiting for. But I doubt it plays nice with startups either.
Isn't the point of HDCP to close the analog hole?
Or just stable JS APIs that you can specify on your scripts.

<script vers="3.1">
</script>

<script vers="4.2">
</script>
Tofumatt wrote "we will not be removing analytics support entirely. It is extremely useful to us and we have already weighed the cost/benefit of using tracking."

Which reads a lot like "they are giving us a pile of money to breach your privacy, so to hell with you."
check out bitshares, steemit and eventually EOS. Their DPoS model uses exactly that -- users vote on the witnesses that will produce blocks. Every witness gets a shot at producing the next block. If the witness fails to produce a block, they will be voted out by the users.

Scales to 100k tx/sec, supposedly.
> It seems like C++ developers either don't give a shit about code quality or they do, and don't make many mistakes anymore. Either way there is little demand for a static analyzer

Well, this is like claiming that authors writing in English don't care about grammar. There's too many people doing too many different things with the language -- from texting LOLs to writing academic research -- to generalize. But speaking from experience with one ~5M line industrial C++ codebase continually developed since the 90's, we care enough about quality to have a whole set of measures, automated and cultural, to support it.

We've looked at static analyzers several times but none of the evals have found issues worth the price. It turned up things like a static expression to compute a bitmask where the same flag was being listed multiple times. Which is nice, but made it feel more like a lint tool in terms of differential value added for us. If we didn't have things like valgrind memcheck on continuous integration, it might be a different story.
It's a pointless comparison. Fuzzers don't catch everything. What's important is the type of issue that the fuzzers do reveal, because that gives a hint as to how severe the uncaught issues may be.
the same can be said for anything related to promotion. new comers can not afford to play their ads on TV, they don't have money to show their name during super bowl.
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Probably not the only factor, but I imagine inequality and the reduction in the middle class' purchasing power plays a big role in this, too.

More money goes to a handful few = less money for everyone else to buy stuff = weaker economy = fewer companies that can be successful.

http://www.oecd.org/newsroom/inequality-hurts-economic-growt...
Engineering is fundamentally about tradeoffs because you have multiple objectives (e.g. high performance and loose coupling) and it's not possible to be optimal in all of them simultaneously. However, it is easily possible for a poor design to be way, way off the Pareto frontier and not particularly good at anything. So everything is a tradeoff, but things can still be bad or good.

That's not even meant to be a comment one way or the other on Javascript, although I will not voluntarily adopt node.js for server side application development.
What are some specific examples of regulations that made it too burdensome for you?

In my experience, losing employer provided healthcare has been the number one thing preventing people from starting a small business.
Any proof of this happening? And does it utilize the user-provided relationship data or just group people?
A simple way to block third party trackers/beacons that's on by default, with a simple one-click to disable it on that page load.
I feel 100% special now :)
That's not really fair. The data should speak for itself, and I for one found the argument cogent. Did you find any errors or bias?

Otherwise you might as well say the CDC saying something about Disease is invalid.
Just, picking my jaw back up off the floor. The conditions there are shockingly unsafe (pun intended) -- all that standing water on the floor? And it's a firetrap -- all that trash lying around, no fire supression. In fact the opposite -- those box fans that will very effectively oxygenate the flames. Disaster there is almost certain.
I think it's better for the Internet to remain open, especially with the tendency of this sort of "choice" to become more a dictate that works out against the customer's favor, especially when a small number of players (ISPs) are involved. But I'm with you in feeling like I could probably drop my usage of it to a tiny fraction of what it is now, with little or no harm to my overall quality of life.

That may have to do with remembering life pre-Web. It was basically fine. Really. Impulsive consumption was harder and we were comfortable not having constant, instant, total access to all the world's trivia. So it was kinda better.
Nah, as is evident by the amount of Firefox users that still have Google as their search engine.

It's a false equivalence. There is a difference between trusting Google not to abuse data they legally guaranteed not to abuse (Firefox), versus, well, pretty much plainly saying your data will be used, and knowing that the product has many features which make the tracking more pervasive and invasive (Chrome, Google Accounts, etc).

I'd love for Mozilla to not use any Google stuff at all, but I'd also love a pony.
We just need to give more tax cuts to the mega rich, they're surely use it to create new jobs!
Ive been using Xcode so far instead of unity, but only cause I have more experience with Scenekit and Xcode rather than unity. If you have experience using three.js, then xcode should be fun.

The only thing is finding good resources to learn scenekit. Ping me if you are interested and I can send you some links that helped me learn Scenekit!
Or both. I would love this so much..
Oh I am aware. I've considered just building a browser plugin for giggles to do the same thing.
i know its supposed to be a general truth, that regulation raises costs. i mean how can it not, since in the absence of regulation costs would be minimized.

but can you explain why forcing Netflix (just for an example) to negotiate transit with every provider large enough to demand it helps lower any costs? presumably transit competition?

or how turning 'the internet' from a generic access method into a giant menu with a checkbox by every internet address helps lower cost? maybe because we'd be forced to examine all the options and our spending habits and select only the bundles we need?

and what about transitive services...probably need to shift pretty hard away from the whole micro services model, maybe i don't subscribe to the particular oauth channel your application needs.

doesn't this additional server and client side provisioning requirement create a huge barrier to entry? doesn't that weaken the whole competition argument?

i guess what i'd really love to see is some kind of defense for the cable-tv model of the internet beyond 'regulation bad, free markets good'
Small businesses are important:

Small businesses make up:

99.7 percent of U.S. employer firms,

64 percent of net new private-sector
jobs,

49.2 percent of private-sector
employment,

42.9 percent of private-sector payroll,

46 percent of private-sector output,

43 percent of high-tech employment,

98 percent of firms exporting goods,

33 percent of exporting value.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, SUSB, CPS;
International Trade Administration; Bureau
of Labor Statistics, BED; Advocacy-funded
research, Small Business GDP: Update 2002-
2010, www.sba.gov/advocacy/7540/42371.
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>when they are so weak compared to the xul ones

To many, I suspect that is the prime intent.
The Tibetan plateau is huge - 25x bigger than Iceland, and at an average elevation of 14000 feet. The amount of water that comes out of the plateau and needs to make it to sea level is mind boggling. There is a lot of cheap energy to be had there.
You must be using the LIRR. Things are not as consistent on the NJTransit side if the house. I know with about 90% certainty which of two platforms to go to for my train. Sometimes, like Monday, they throw us a curve ball and board us on the other side if the concourse. Occasionally we even board on track 13 in the LIRR area.
Can you better describe what kind of hoops you are talking about in your case, or at least what industry? Other than ordinary incorporation (easy) and a few industry specific licensing requirements I have never felt that to be my limiters in starting a business or the risks that put me off it in most things I looked into.
The ad industry feels like Silicon Valley is killing creativity
The compiler warnings are good, but they are not enough :). Specialized tools for static analysis, such as PVS-Studio will always outpace the compilers in diagnostic capabilities and configuration flexibility working with false positives. That's actually how the analyzer developers make money. Proofs: https://www.viva64.com/en/inspections/#ID0EAPAG
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> (especially so when you don't have to deal with obtaining access to public land and poles)

Why wouldn't a public ISP have to bid for pole access? Is the implication here that a public ISP should have extra privileges that a private ISP doesn't?
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Respectfully, I find this a vague response to a vague post.

I don't know what you mean by "this" in "something about this" because I don't understand what sort of regulations the OP is talking about, and I don't know what you mean by "the people got conned."
That wasn't my intention but I see your point. It's not even the majority of the laws, and was just meant to be part of the joke at the end. However I specifically said we should protect the environment so anyone who feels that way probably doesn't have great reading comprehension
> Bitcoin is a hobby of the .01%.

It's still relatively easily accessible to the middle class. It also allows the middle class in regimes with unstable currencies to more easily transfer and store value.
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