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>On December 14, the FCC will vote on Chairman Pai's plan to repeal President Obama's heavy-handed Internet regulations and restore Internet freedom.

I love how these laws are veiled with patriotic sentiments, e.g. "Internet Freedom". Just like the "Patriot Act", it is reasonable to assume anything with these sort of labels will likely be an encroachment on your freedoms.

Also

>"The job of the FCC is to represent the consumer," he said in an interview. "If you like your cable company, you'll love what this does for the Internet, because it gives Internet service providers the same kind of control over content and price as cable operators have today."

I am confident there is not a single person who "likes their cable company". Who in their right mind would want their internet controlled like their cable is controlled? This image[0] is exactly what we get to look forward to.

I have called my reps, sent emails, faxes, and just feel so helpless about all of this.

[0]: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4252153/wh...

edit: It appears the article altered the above quote, and the second half is no longer the same.
A board specific Linux build is smaller than a board specific EFI build. Yes, it's that bad.

Also, Linux in firmware is either the final OS, or - more likely - a kexec step into the actual OS. In the latter case, there's no persistent firmware since the old Linux is gone.
Another key factor is that a lot of baby boomers are reaching retirement age. With every kid being told college is the only path to become "successful," there's going to be a lack of talent in the trades at least in the near term that's going to continue driving wages higher.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_percent_of_the_brain_myth

There's no evidence that we don't use all of our brain.
>Maybe add a source map if you really need to, or put the original svg right next to a `.min.svg` file which the user sees.

I just assumed this would be part of the build process?
If you can't pass a drug test it's a sign you can't get your shit together, abstain from weed, and pass a drug test.
> Again, people are flaky. Suddenly paying someone more isn't going to make them start showing up on time.

It seems to work for the highly paid developers who have had zero no-shows on your watch.

Otherwise, it appears that you're implying that developers are less flaky than other people.
Hyperledger Fabric and couchdb, fantastic queries and where to find them
Yeah, but a non-pot smoking worker (vs the pot smoker), both sober while on the job, are equally as likely to make a mistake.
Seems like in the 70's this guy, his wife, and six other people pulled off a daring robbery of an FBI office. They broke in by picking the lock, then stole a bunch of files. They relied on the people in the office being distracted by a boxing match, and they were.

The burglars then went over their files, and found what seem to me to be pretty silly things, like FBI agents being instructed to create the perception that the organizations they were investigating had many FBI informers and agents in them.

They passed on the files to a reporter anonymously. Reporters and later investigations by Congress revealed more details about the FBI's cointelpro project, wherein the FBI committed illegal sabotage against groups they were investigating.

Who are the good and bad people? Well, the FBI is bad for committing illegal sabotage. The burglars are good for getting important information, but bad for doing it by stealing random boxes of files - which might've hindered legitimate investigations. The reporter is good for publishing her story. Congress is good for investigating further but bad for doing nothing effective to curtail abuses by American federal intelligence agencies.
To put Greyhound into context for you, the driver sits in a box made out of bullet proof glass.

So no matter how unpleasant Flixbus may be, I doubt that it's a life or death situation.
This is what's known as a collective action problem. I don't have the answers, and the few people who've actually tried solving it haven't had much luck.
I donate to planned parenthood, I do back it up. I raise the point in internet discussion, I do back it up.
Basecoin: Stable cryptocurrency with algo central bank
If they want me commuting during both morning and evening rush hour, they better pay a premium over companies that let me work around commuting. The extra 30+ minutes per day stuck in traffic or on trains does not come for free.
Hyperledger Fabric: Concurrency… really?
Willow Garage and the Making of the Robot Operating System
Yup, kinda like how the Speed Limit on the highway is 65 so nobody ever goes faster than that.

Oh wait...
Replace with _any_ keyboard manufacture.. Similarly, while your keyboard may advertise USB2 or even USB3, the actual key-press USB interface is always running at USB 1 low speed (1.5Mbit).

I spent a fair amount of time trying to find a keyboard to work on a device that I have that only works with high speed devices, 30 or 40 keyboards later I gave up... If someone actually knows of such a thing I would be interested. Same basic problem with mice.. I guess the thought-process is that hey USB2 supports split transactions, and the keyboard/mouse won't actually generate even 1.5M bit of data, so we are going to continue to sell the same basic mouse/keyboard interfaces we were selling 20 years ago wrapped in styling variations.

PS: Some of the physical button keyboards I found with configurable colors/etc, usb hubs, do support USB3... For the color controls, or hub. The keyboard endpoint is still at low speed...
Right. But there is an apparent balance at the moment where because no government has demanded and received back doors, no country mandates it. It's a precarious spot to be sure. But it would be bad for the US to step off the line first.
Ah, so people just yank money out by sending it to some wallet. Makes sense.

Are there any ways to make coinbase safer other than a very secure password?
But how would this be solved if they allowed side-loading but you’d have to go to a website that is mostly like behind a firewall.
I think you're right to an extent, but it doesn't explain how he aligned himself with one major US political party at the expense of another. For example it's widely hypothesized (and I concede this isn't substantial evidence) that Wikileaks could have released the Republican leaks too if they had wanted. I suppose he could have been hoping that a friendly presidential administration would get the US off his back, but as of right now I see no signs of that
Why do users need at least two copies of various drivers, i.e. an "Intel" copy in EFI and a "user" copy in the user-loaded kernel?

I still cannot understand how "EFI" is not a second "kernel" that is off-limits to users. The BIOS was limited in ways that EFI is not. Hence booting from BIOS to a kernel with access to more memory made sense. But when the "BIOS" becomes "EFI" then what is the point of the second kernel?

Before you answer, think about all the uses of a computer that only need a command line, not a GUI. Needless to say, there are many, including serving web pages, retrieving web pages, remote configuration, etc. What is the point of using a "second kernel" for those uses?

We know the limitations of the BIOS. What are the limitations of EFI? How flexible is it? How much can someone, e.g. Intel, stuff into EFI? It seems capable of doing quite a lot of important things.

I naively see pre-installed EFI implementations as an "OS-grab" by Intel and their vendors. They get their own "kernel" on every computer in the form of EFI. Users are free to boot into their own kernels but they have to boot the "Intel kernel" first.

Nothing wrong with having a new standard for something better than BIOS. But there is something very wrong about computers being sold with pre-installed kernels that are not controlled by users.
Are the same standards applied for alcohol?
In the end, especially on HN, it comes down to a discussion regarding money and who is allowed to make it and who is not. You'll find startups opposed because it hinders their opportunity to disrupt an established business, and you'll find entrenched business opposed to not making money as they see fit. There is nothing political about this discussion, it's just about money and which side of the coin you are trying to make it on.
1. Net neutrality places severe binding restrictions on how internet service is provided, and by extension who can provide it. (It's expensive to serve up Netflix if you're banned from offering Netflix privileged pipeline status. It's harder to start a new ISP when any internet service has to follow strict neutrality regulation.)

2. Once it is cheaper and easier to provide internet service, you can expect to see costs fall as the market becomes more competitive as new players enter the market and established players invest in optimizing their infrastructure.

This is the basic argument offered by Pai and other deregulation proponents. And the market doesn't have to be perfectly competitive for this to work out. I have three cable ISP options where I live so I'm not worried.
Creativity rarely happens on a schedule. Therefore, to plan for optimal creativity means to plan for the ability to engage it whenever it happens.

Practically speaking, this means a few things:

- You need enough slack in your to-do list to allow you to delay or put off tasks if you suddenly get an idea that you want to explore.

- You need a way to capture and explore ideas at any time. This is why a lot of people carry little notebooks in their pocket. I prefer to use my mobile phone.

- You need a way to reference previous ideas, as creativity often takes the form of updates, modifications, or combinations of previous thoughts. Again, the notebook or mobile phone can do this for you.

- You need a way to take action on ideas--to start making them real. A lot of creative ideas sound great at first but fall apart when you try to actually build them.

To the extent GTD can help you do those things, it can help you be creative. But there is nothing inherently creative about a particular system of organization.
I could not disagree more with this view on designing for usability, but to each their own.
Reminds me of the “Department of Love”
Thanks for the kind words :) But that was an artificial benchmarking mode that turned off any synchronization. It couldn't actually show the picture at hundreds of FPS, because the physical hardware can only update at 60.
I don't think Scott Adams is really accurate there. What is going on is that Trump and the Republican Congress have been stupendously ineffective on the legislative level, to the point where this tax reform may be their first major legislative accomplishment.

If the tax reform blows everything up, inflates a bubble, whatever, then they'll take a major electoral hit. If they're not bloody-stupid, they'll let "Obamanomics" slide in the background, and allow the long-awaited comeback from the Great Recession to buoy their approval ratings into continued electoral dominance.

Even 2016 was seeing slight increases in wages. We may now be seeing a period in which investment capital is so cheap, but infrastructure and industries so rotted out and wages so low, that it becomes feasible to re-develop whole areas of the country nearly from scratch.
Based on a fair bit of experience in these types of things (unskilled individual doing skilled trade work around various homes/rentals etc), anyone who's capable of doing these types of things while supervised via facetime is probably just as capable of and willing to do them with a youtube or web tutorial.
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> So you trade a frame of latency for lots of overdraw, which is a tradeoff I'm not really comfortable making.

I would jump at the chance to make that trade. My 8 year old CPU is rarely taxed by normal usage. What's the point in having a faster computer if it feels slower?
I'd be curious to see message traces and UMAPC (user mode asynchronous procedure calls) traces of this between the two. My hypothesis is that Win10 does quite a bit more in UMAPCs than win7 does in the interests of keeping the system 'responsive' even at the costs of latency. For those not aware UMAPCs only run when a thread is available in an 'alertable' state (see MSDN as that's not exactly simple to explain https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6... ), as such they tend to wait for input or other runtime idle points unless the application makes very heavy use of windows built in asynchronous methods and alertable waits.

I would also be curious to compare a D2D application versus a GDI application; as the majority of the work has gone to D2D in the last few years. Please note that D2D application in this case means one using a swap chain and device not an ID2DHWNDRenderTarget (this rasterizes and composites on the GPU but has GDI compatibility built in).
I don't know, the Internet got on fine without those rules for a lot longer than we've had those rules, I feel like the gloom-and-doom over this is highly overstated.
Start with putting in an effort with the employer, and your final means would be the justice system. It's the law. But you could start with the manager, move on to HR, move on to the courts if you need to. And don't skip levels. Only elevate as necessary.
Perhaps a sign of broken websites.
like literally every job Ive ever applied they've everify on me.
im illegal in the past - I know how it works.
We are fairly certainly that the ice caps are mostly water ice with a much smaller and more seasonal dry ice layer; what this article means is that the indication of liquid water on the surface seems to have been wrong.
This is a weird thing because you'd be hard pressed to find two languages as similar as Spanish and Portuguese, and whatever this paper has to say on the topic it'd be inevitable that the English translation in the middle would be "lossy".

I sometimes get disappointed when people suggest that machine translation is a substitute for actually learning the languages. It's true that we have limited time in our lives to study languages, and the machine translations can be a quicker way to get the gist, or possibly open some doors. But go much beyond that, like claims I sometimes see that you can wear AR goggles and suddenly communicate like a native, and you set unreasonable expectations. Or perhaps imagine a world where the way to read Shakespeare is to put it through a machine and it tells you, "statistically, Shakespeare meant to say this". Is that really reading it?
It’s more to do with liability/lawsuits and insurance premiums than drug war.
Drug tests don't test for intoxication. They just test test for something that correlates somewhat with having been intoxicated sometime in the recent past.

Better is to use impairment testing. An impairment test is a test of cognitive function, alertness, reaction time, hand-eye coordination and similar objective things that actually correlate well with how well you can do your job now, instead of sometime in the past.

On top of that, impairment testing can catch when you are impaired for reasons OTHER than intoxication. If your aircraft mechanic is not fit to do maintenance on your jet that morning because last night he found his wife sleeping with his best friend, they argued all night, and she announced that morning she is getting a divorce, leaving him a tired, emotional wreck who will make mistakes left and right at work...an impairment test can catch it. A drug test cannot.

In addition, generally there is lag between drug testing and results. Impairment testing can be quick (a few minutes) and cheap so that you can do it to every employee, every day at the start of their shift.
>This has nothing to do with centralisation.

This has everything to do with centralization precisely because decentralization makes it easier to break the law. I thought it went without saying when discussing bypassing censorship in China, but to be clear I am actively advocating for the ability for end users to more easily defy the law in the setting of software performing as expected that they choose to utilize on their own devices.

>(Every (even decentralised) shops need to comply with local laws.*

1: "need" and 2: LOCAL laws. Which in the case of shops based outside of a jurisdiction means only their own jurisdiction, not anyone else's. Apple is a multinational, so it cannot avoid this. But other shops absolutely could, just as they do in the PC market right now.

And again, this applies to every polity, not just China. I (and probably most of Americans on HN) am absolutely a computer law breaker. I have ripped my own DVDs and Blu-rays, which has put me in direct violation of the DMCA. I have utilized open source software like x264 (or, back in the day, gif encoders) without negotiating or paying a license fee, which puts me in violation of software patents.

In the real world, entities like RIAA and the MPAA have had to play whack-a-mole and could do nothing about places based in jurisdictions where evil laws like patenting of ideas/math are not in place, and thus there was freedom to go around them and change the course of public expectations beyond those with central power, which in turn affects the law too (which is an organic entity). If we instead imagine an alternate world where in the 90s Microsoft and Apple and so forth had iOS level hardware full stack control and central stores, would we ever have had anything like DeCSS? Hell, would open source platforms have been possible at all? Law and morality are not the same thing, not even in the most egalitarian and democratic countries. There needs to be some give at the edges for experimentation and evolution over time.
I agree. However, I'd rather get pinged via a quantifiable metric like BAC than someone's opinion regarding my perceived impairment.
What is not political about using public policy to control who gets to make money?
That's a good point, actually, it'd be nicer to keep things separate and alive for only as long as needed.
the author fails to mentions the cryptocurrency total volume is roughly $7B while the dotcom bubble volume was $170B, i.e only 4% (without even removing inflation which would lower is to 3%). It's tiny, not a bubble right now, but it is true things can get out off hands pretty quickly. Sometimes these things can affect the overall mindset of investors signaling them to stop investing for now
Timeline of Internet Conflicts
I'm sorry but the "Indigo" GameCube is much closer to a strict definition of purple than it is darker blue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameCube
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple
This just gave me a case of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. I saw a reddit comment on /r/AskHistorians just yesterday[0]. Many of these "traditions" in Europe were fabricated, mostly in the late 19th century to foster a sense of nationalist unity.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5aocbl/is_th...
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You'd think if the ME truly wasn't nefarious that Intel would offer chips without it and capitalize on the extra features in the enterprise market. I've yet to encounter anyone who actually wants it.
First encrypted contacts manager (Protonmail)
I wrote my congressman and senators about this issue, both "libertarians". Here were their responses:
1) Its not the executive branch's job to legislate.
2) The ISP's know whats best for innovation and serving their customers.

Number one is like saying "I see the iceberg ahead, someone else on board steered the ship away, but its my job to steer the ship so I'm putting it back on course for the iceberg".

Number two is just laughable given the lack of competition in my area.

I do not believe either of them will change their stance, so I asked a friend that works in politics to do. He recommended:
- Write an op-ed in the local papers. These are surprisingly effective because it reaches senior citizens as well as the politician in the form of daily briefings.
- Get involved in voter participation initiatives. In my area turnout is super low, and we need a more diverse viewpoint voting to potentially unseat officials that do not serve the public interest.
I love the bandwagon hatred of anyone who suggests ending net neutrality isn't the end of the world! Check out my comment to Jankiel and respond to that instead of screaming that I'm stupid.
> Maybe I'm wrong but lately it seems every US media outlet needs to mention him this way or another in every topic possible (positive or negative light)

Yap noticed that as well. It's as if they have to say "Trump" or "Russia" and then get on to the main topic just to get the article approved for publication. I mostly noticed that with NYT, WaPo and HuffPo for example.
If BAC tests pinged you as drunk three weeks after having a drink, you really wouldn't.
I'm a little surprised some smartypants hasn't come along and added a check to ld to prevent this from working, probably for "security" reasons.

I've known about this trick for a long time, but I've always thought its days were numbered.

Another way to solve the problem:

scp unfuckedhost:/bin/chmod .
./chmod (stuff)
Thanks. I was looking for that exact quote, but I did not manage to find it when reading/scanning through the article for the second time.
nah - depends. some can - some cant.
I've seen it both ways. I was able to get a job even when my everify checks came back as ineligible.
The purpose of life is efficiency.
I'm talking about my actual GameCube sitting in my game storage drawer, which I checked before making that comment. That image is much brighter and much more purple than the real thing I had in my hands.
I travelled with Flixbus multiple times when the sector was still booming about two years ago. I don't understand the complains. Flixbus has comfortable seats, you can charge your phone and they have very fair prices for snacks and drinks. Of course, you do not have infinite space if you have long legs (but more than in a common bus) and the Wifi could be laggy sometimes. But hey, they had free wifi before the Deutsche Bahn was even thinking about it! And a online media center with quite a variety of films free to watch.
They really made an effort to provide good service and offer a comfortable ride, so my experience.

I switched to ride sharing (not like Uber - but a in a way where someone who is taking a certain route anyway fills up their empty seats) since Flixbus got more expensive when their competition died out.
Normal users can be sold on the idea of devices talking to each other (though in the case of Bluetooth I'd say it may have soured them on the whole thing). But I'd still say that even convincing a non-dev that wake-on-lan would be handy for them is a stretch, let alone more... Also I'm not sure how much evangelism is really appropriate - I may think that shelling into my headless server at home is great, but if you are happy with just cat videos, who am I to say you need to do more?
the mysticism and marketing isn't part of the mindfulness itself, but it is part of the self-help and new-age religion industry which attaches itself to concepts like mindfulness and meditation.
How an LA-based Venmo scammer walked away with $125,000 of Yeezys, iPhones, etc.
"tenured engineering managers"?

http://thestartupconference.com/2017/03/25/the-350k-google-s...
TBF weed will significantly impair you. Driving a car or operating machinery on weed is super dangerous.

Just not weeks after consumption...
Though politics does cater for the lowest common denominator...
And when they don't, a lukewarm middle-of-the-road comment will inevitably rise to the top, contributing nothing to the discussion other than perhaps a milquetoast industry anecdote.
I agree.

Which is why its hilarious whenever I ask around for recommendations, especially on Reddit, everyone tries to peg it as a non issue. As if your head never moves and you only have one monitor.